12.11.2014

President Barak Obama with President Bill
Clinton sharing lighter moments
Take Time to Laugh
Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
Take time to think, it is the source of power.
Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to love and be loved, it is a
God-given privilege. Take time to work, it is
the price of success.
Free from Weaknesses
The normal reaction to negative situations
(situations that hold a threat for me) is
to react with negativity (with my
weakness). But the problem with such a reaction
is that each time I use my weakness it
only gets further strengthened, and becomes a
part of my nature. I need to remind
myself that only when I free myself from my
weaknesses can I bring benefit to myself or to
others. This thought will enable me to
constantly check myself and put in constant
effort to change myself too in overcoming my
weaknesses.
Maintaining Positivity
When we feel ourselves to be surrounded by
violence, suffering and pain, we find it
difficult to sustain hope. We need to understand
the causes of that suffering, to go to the root
that brings it into being, since only thus will
we be able to keep the light of hope on.
Understand that pain is a sign that indicates to
us that something has to change. If your tooth
didn't hurt you wouldn't go to the dentist nor
would you realize that something in your tooth
isn't working. In the same way, emotional and
mental pain suggests to us that something is not
right. Understanding the signs that suffering
brings us helps us to accept the causes of the
pain and to generate the power to transform or
change it. Out of understanding, acceptance and
being willing to change, we relieve the pain and
keep hope alive.
In spite of all the international, national,
local, family and personal conflicts that there
may be, there are many positive things to be
happy about. There are more and more people
becoming aware of the importance of personal
development, and of taking care of oneself on a
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.
There is a list of positive things and
situations to be happy about. Be grateful for
and discover the benefit that there is behind
everything that happens. All of it helps you to
strengthen hope in yourself, in others and in
humanity.
Soul Sustenance
Inculcating
Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation - The Power To
Discriminate
Meditation gives me a discriminating eye - an
ability to discriminate between truth and
falsehood. It does this by helping me maintain a
consciousness that helps me rise above competing
claims to truth - the different ideologies and
opinions, reasons and analyses, justifications
and stories related to a situation - which can
be so confusing.
The image of discrimination is the jeweler, who,
with the help of his eyeglass, sorts out real
diamonds from false. Meditation opens my third
eye, the eye of pure consciousness. When I look
at the world through this eye, truth is not just
an intellectual idea, but an experience of the
heart. When I think and act in ways that
maintain and deepen this experience of truth, I
know I am moving in the right direction.
Conversely, I discover that thoughts and
behaviours that cloud or hide the experience of
truth are coming from falsehood, no matter how
much I or others may try to justify them. So,
meditation gives me a reliable basis for
discriminating the value in different courses of
action: will this help me recover my truth, or
take me further into falsehood? Will it maintain
the flow of love, peace and happiness in my
heart, or will it cause a blockage? Previously,
I may have been easily swayed by other people's
demands and opinions, or by illusory ways of
thinking arising from my own negativity. Like a
good lawyer, the intellect is very clever at
arguing its case, regardless of where the truth
may lie. But, when truth is experienced in and
from the heart, there is no arguing with it.
Deeply experienced truth clears my mind of
irrelevancies created due to possessiveness,
greed, desires and ego. As I learn to create
pure, positive thoughts, and connect with the
divine, it is as though a flow of clear,
fragrant water gradually displaces the mud and
rubbish in my intellect, enabling me to see
reality or truth again.
Message for the day
True royalty
lies in humility.
Projection: The
one who is humble never reacts but responds in
the right way to situations or challenges. Thus
there is royalty visible in all words, actions
and behavior. So there is newness visible in the
way of responding to situations.
Solution: When
I am humble I am able to be beyond the influence
of praise and defamation. This is because I am
stable in the state of my self-respect. Also
because of this I am able to bring about newness
and I am able to be creative in responding to
situations too.