21.08.2014

Generosity
My heart is full and open, flowing with pure good
feelings and good wishes for everyone. I follow my
spontaneous instinct to give and I am totally happy.
Acceptance
Love makes us free from expectations, which enables us
to accept people as they are. We are then able to
understand others' uniqueness and provide them with
whatever is necessary for their positive growth. Let me
think of one person in whom I am not able to tolerate
some quality. I then need to tell myself that just as a
mother accepts her child even with weaknesses, I will
accept this person as he is. When I change my attitude
towards that person I can be free in my mind and give
them the freedom to express their uniqueness.
God As The Ocean Of Knowledge
It is believed that God knows the details of every atom
and every thought in the universe. It is because of
God's ultimate, pervasive knowledge that He can be
described as an ocean. Understanding this world does not
necessarily mean to be aware of every detail of the
movement of every single leaf or every single molecule.
All that is required is to understand completely the
conditions through which souls and matter pass.
One of the basic beliefs of Christians is that God
created man in His own image. God, being the embodiment
of knowledge, creates with knowledge. Being the wisest
of all, He has the power to change the intellects of
human souls. How? When we, the souls, having come in the
process of birth and rebirth, become impure, God shares
with us the knowledge of the soul and its births; the
knowledge of Himself, the Creator; the knowledge of
meditation i.e. the method of connecting with him and
the beginning, the middle and the end of creation or the
vast world drama, as a result of which we are able
to appreciate this drama, and imbibe our true qualities
of love, peace and bliss. As a result we are liberated
from sorrow and a new world order is created. In order
for him to perform His work as Creator it is not
necessary for Him to listen to our every thought, our
every secret. He is part of an eternal, predestined
drama that He did not create but in which He finds
Himself as the principal actor. Thus He is the only
true philanthropist. Human actions, whether good or bad,
are dictated by self-concern, whereas God has nothing to
gain because He is complete in all respects. He is the
perfect embodiment of spirituality. He alone has the
right to give knowledge regardless of human arguments.
His knowledge is purely spiritual.
Soul Sustenance
Experiencing Spiritual Growth Through Group Interactions
(cont.)
As explained in yesterday's message, if you are
living in isolation you don't become aware of the
dimensions of your ego and, therefore, you cannot
overcome it.
Also, the beauty of group interactions or being a part
of a spiritual community or any other group, is that in
groups, various powers like the power to:
* adapt and mould oneself with people of different
personality traits and as different situations in the
group demand;
* tolerate;
* face negative situations in interactions;
* forgive and forget;
* become a detached observer of situations and people's
actions, not to get over involved, in order to maintain
one's stability and calmness;
* co-operate;
* communicate;
* see and absorb only specialties of each one (inspite
of obvious weaknesses being visible) and spreading the
specialties (not weaknesses) to the others in the group,
by way of praising and not criticizing them;
* listen, understand and empathize;
* discriminate and judge different situations and
people;
* go into inner silence, whenever required, amidst the
actions and interactions of group activity;
* show respect to each one and remain in self-respect;
* remain content or satisfied and make the others
content; etc.
are absolutely necessary to experience success in the
groups, either within the relationships with others or
even with the self. There is a difference between
experiencing success with the self while staying alone
and within a group. By bringing the above powers into
practice in a group, they increase further inside us.
This does not happen in isolation, or if it does, then
the extent is quite limited. So basically, being a part
of a group, brings about greater spiritual growth and
empowerment.
Message for the day
To have true faith in oneself is to attain success.
Projection:
Sometimes false courage is mistaken as faith. When we
take up some task we might be deceived into a feeling of
having a lot of courage which makes us over-confident.
Then instead of putting in effort to give our best we
tend to become careless. Such carelessness will not
enable us to achieve easy success.
Solution:
We need to check within ourselves and see if we have
true faith in ourselves or not. Faith always comes with
the recognition of our own specialities. We also need to
pay special attention to work towards something that we
can achieve. When we do this we will find ourselves
succeeding naturally.