
This National Geographic winning photograph
gives a whole new meaning to being in school (a
large
number of fish or aquatic animals of one kind
swimming together)
Depth of Humility
Humility means to
understand the self and through that to
understand others as well. Humility is the
attitude where a person is not attached to his
or her opinion and feelings. Humility is the
most natural expression of truth. It helps in
better understanding of truth. Humility is the
basis for maintaining self-respect. Humility
does not mean bowing down and being subservient
to others. Humility allows you to see benefit in
everything. Developing humility brings a lot of
comfort and ease into your life.
A New Journey With A New Personality (cont.)
Famous personalities are constantly sought
after, in demand and remembered by many due to
their specialties, may they be actors, gurus,
sportsmen, politicians, founders of religions
etc. Even in our daily lives, we tend to
remember people with more specialties much more
than the rest. God is the most complete and
perfect personality that exists, but not a
physical personality, a spiritual one. There is
no one who is more specialty and virtue-filled
than him. That is the reason he is an entity or
living energy or personality who is remembered
the most by each and everyone all over the
world.
The above types of personalities mentioned are
physical personalities and are remembered by
some or many but not remembered by the rest and
along with their specialties, they definitely
have shortcomings. Also, you might find it
difficult getting to meet them even for a few
minutes. God is one personality without any
weaknesses and he is my constant friend, once I
start my journey. He is one who, although being
the highest personality, can be available to
thousands making a similar journey at the same
time, not because he is omnipresent (present
everywhere) but because he is omnipotent (the
most powerful) and the only being possessing
this capability. So, a specialty of this
journey is that the more I progress on it and
the more time I spend with this new personality
accompanying me in my new journey, I constantly
see new facets of this new personality being
revealed in my life, which keeps the journey
constantly refreshing. This also keeps me
wondering what is going to be revealed next. So,
once this journey of exploration and discovery
has started, there's no reason to stop even for
a second and there is immense amount of
motivation to continue and keep smiling!
Forgive and Forget
Most of the times we are slaves of the past.
Although the situation has become past, we tend
to think of it again and again. We are neither
able to forget the past nor are we able to
forgive. We continue to create the same thoughts
and the same feelings again and again. Thus we
find that we are just caught up in the past, and
we are not able to learn from it. In order to
move forward to the future, we need to free our
mind of the past. If we learn from the past,
with this learning we can move forward. We need
to forgive and forget. We can forget only when
we forgive and we can forgive only when we
learn. When we take the learning from every
situation, we are able to be free from being a
slave of the past.
Soul Sustenance
The Law of Surrender
According to what or whom your mind thinks
consistently of, you will take on the form of
the object or the person to which you have
surrendered. We can see this in children, when
they transfer their minds to actors they see on
television, and then begin to behave like them.
What is the highest form to which we can
surrender our self? There may be several answers
to this question in our mind. Choose the truth
from among them. So what is the truth?
Spirituality gives us answers to questions like:
Who am I? Who is the Supreme Being? What is my
relationship with him? Where do I come from?
Where am I going? What is the purpose of my
existence? What is the importance of the present
time? How can the Supreme Being empower me
at the present time?
The answers to these questions show us the way
to surrendering our mind to the Supreme Being,
which is the highest entity to which we can
surrender. When we do that, gradually we get
colored by his knowledge, virtues and powers.
Message for the day
The habit of thinking positive finishes
negative.
Expression:
Just as it has become a habit of thinking
negative, a positive habit when created will
naturally bring about a change. A little
practice and attention to form a habit of
thinking positive will reveal its result of
creating an influence of positivity. The
situations will not change on their own, but the
habit that has been formed will bring about a
change in the response and will change the
situation too.
Experience:
Usually it becomes very difficult or sometimes
impossible for me to think positive in difficult
situations. At that time, although I want to,
the response that emerges from within is based
on the habit that is formed previously. So when
I make the habit of constantly and consciously
thinking positive, I then become free from the
struggle of having to change my mind to positive
in difficult situations.