18.08.2014
Paint a little Peace
Values are those things, both tangible and intangible,
which we care about the most. Most of us demonstrate by
our actions that our values are mostly tangible or
material. But if we were to reflect for a moment we
might find that what we truly value is very intangible.
Love, peace and happiness are our deepest values whether
we are aware of it or not. So let's experiment. If peace
is something you value, then how will you live
peacefully today. You experience what you live. So if
you want peace in your life...give it and you'll live
it. Or do you prefer a bit of anger and stress? We are
all artists and it's only when we paint our own life
with the innate values of our spirit, which are also our
eternal virtues, that we are truly creative. Paint a
little peace, love and wisdom into your life today. If
you do, and you make it a regular inner activity, the
giving is automatic and the living is...easy!
Understanding The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace
(cont.)
To experience the eternal peace of the soul world, I do
the simple exercise explained yesterday and then go a
step further.
Having created the thought about myself that I am a
sparkling star-like energy at the centre of the
forehead, just above the eyebrows, visualized it and as
a result experienced it, now my objective is visualizing
my star like form in the soul world. With this objective
in mind, I now create a simple thought that I the
star-like energy will make a short journey to the soul
world and back. So I create simple thoughts and
visualize alongside that I, the soul am leaving my
physical body and flying outside. Then I, see my star
like form, slowly fly past the ceiling of the room I am
in and see myself suspended in the sky (night sky makes
the visualization more easy). I see myself as a point of
radiant light high above many many buildings and lights.
This is similar to what one would see from an aeroplane
window while landing or taking off. I then see my light
form going higher, past the atmosphere and going past a
sea of stars and a few planets and the moon. I then take
this visualization further and see myself entering the
soul world, a region of soft orange-red light (this is
similar to how it looks like at dusk). This region is
multidimensional and unlimited in size or expanse. I see
my star-like form suspended in this region, radiating
rays of peace in all directions. I also see other
white/golden star-like souls just like me in the same
region. I spend some time in this region, in this
experience. In this region my thoughts stop completely
and I am only visualizing.
This is the eternal peace experienced whilst visualizing
the spiritual self in the soul world. The peace
experienced in this exercise is greater than in the
exercise mentioned yesterday. Thus the
sanskara
of peace created in the soul in this exercise is deeper.
After a few minutes of this experience, I see myself
descending in the physical body in exactly the same way
as I flew to the soul world.
This is just a visualization exercise or experience and
the soul does not actually leave the body and go
anywhere.
The two practical exercises explained in yesterday's and
today's message can be used to experience the two types
of peace mentioned. At one time, you can choose to
either experience both types or only the first one. You
can start with a few minutes and increase the time
gradually.
Continuous practice will create stronger
sanskaras
of
peace and take you closer to your original state of
peace.
Special
We do pay special attention to perform actions that are
special, but not always can we perform such elevated
actions that we wish to. We tend to get caught up in the
daily mundane things. So in routine life, there is not a
real experience of the specialty that is there within.
The aim is not to perform only actions that are special,
but we also need to pay special attention to make all
our actions special. This can happen when we recognize
our own specialty and allow that specialty to be
revealed even in the simplest action of ours.
Soul Sustenance
Inculcating Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation - The
Power To Pack Up
On the path of meditation, I am a traveler, on a
magnificent journey. I have to make some firm choices
about I what will take with me on this journey. To pack
up means to learn the lessons of the present, then to
move on, letting the past be past. It means not carrying
the baggage of the past into my present and future, but
traveling lightly from one day to the next, keeping only
what is most useful to me. That way, I'll enjoy the
journey more, and move faster in the direction of my
choice.
I'll also be lighter in my relationships. The power to
pack up enables me to fill each exchange I have with
others with freshness and newness, instead of allowing
influences from past encounters with them to affect my
present attitude and behaviour. When I carry emotional
or intellectual baggage from the past into my present
dealings with an individual, I don't give that person
the opportunity to express himself freely: my attitude
colours him with the paint of my previous experience. It
is important to process the past, and learn from
experience, but then finish it, so it does not block my
view of how things are today.
Meditation helps me to acquire that discipline of
finishing negative and wasteful thoughts i.e. inculcate
the power to pack up. As the habit of selfobservation
develops, it doesn't take long to understand how
negative thoughts and feelings literally negate my
central aim, of re-emerging my true nature. Negativity
drains the battery of the soul faster than anything else
does.
(To be continued tomorrow …..)
Message for the day
To be responsible for each thought, word and action is
to be free from questions.
Projection:
When we are faced with challenges we usually put the
blame on others or on situations. We justify our
thoughts, words and actions. We, then, tell ourselves
and others that we have been forced to think that way or
say and do such a thing. Such thinking creates a series
of questions in our mind about others and situations for
which we can never find answers.
Solution:
We need
to recognize the fact that no one or nothing can force
us to do something that we do not want to do. Each and
everything we do is our own choice and we are
responsible for it. When we take up the responsibility
in this way, we will not only be free from waste
questions and doubts but will also be able to mould our
thoughts, words and actions in the right way.