14.05.2014

Less
A rich person is not
someone who has more, but someone who desires less.
Inner
Treasures
The one
who is aware of what he has attained is free from
desires. He is able to recognize what he has and use it
for one's own benefit and the benefit of others too. He
is able to give without expecting from others i.e., he
is able to give unconditionally. When I am constantly in
touch with my own inner treasures I am able to
experience the richness and beauty of life. I experience
contentment and satisfaction for what I have. As I
continue to use these treasures, I find myself getting
richer and richer with these internal treasures.
Tapping Supreme Guidance
(cont.)
In yesterday's message, we had discussed how no human
entity can fulfill all the necessary requirements of
someone who can guide us correctly in any difficult
situation. Thus to proceed in such a situation, it's
good to take the guidance from the intellect of someone
who fulfills all these criteria. That someone is no one
except the Supreme Being or God, who is the entity
possessing the most powerful intellect, and intellect
with the most perfect judgment power. Sometimes my mind
and intellect is absolutely clean and clear and I am
100% sure about my right course of action for the
future, but even in those times its good to verify the
course of action from a higher authority. So, in those
times, it is very important to connect for a few minutes
with the Supreme, who is an Energy of Unlimited Truth.
Then, the question to ask myself at that time is not
what do I want, or what do others want, but most
importantly: What does the Supreme want, what is his
wish, what is his perception of the situation? The
deeper my connection with Him in meditation, the clearer
the answer will come.
When it becomes a
regular practice, it will be as simple as taking
guidance from my physical parent or spouse or friend.
I'll know without wasting time and energy, the right
course of action. Sometimes it may happen that the
answer may not come to me immediately, but by connecting
my intellect with the Supreme's intellect my intellect
will become clear, which will help me take the right
decision. Also, in some cases the Supreme may not
respond immediately but may guide me through some other
medium, whether living or non-living after some time or
even after a day or two.
Soul Sustenance
Do
Love And Suffering Go Hand-In-Hand (Part 2)?
We have the inner belief that love, worry, fear and
suffering go together. It is difficult to transform
(change) fear until we eliminate that belief. You are
love and you need to share that love. Life is a sharing
of love, it is loving the body, loving oneself, loving
others, loving God, loving nature, loving work. That
energy of love in the end purifies us and helps us to go
forward. But while the belief exists that love has to
be linked to fear and suffering, we will be blocked and
will put a brake to the flow of pure love. In the
name of love, we worry, we suffer and we are afraid.
Instead of helping from a place of freedom in love, we
help out of worry and fear, and in doing so we stifle,
control, depend, and the other person feels their inner
freedom restricted. We do not let them be.
If we review our
personal life and see the moments when we have
experienced most pain in our lives, we realize that
it is with the people we have most loved, and that have
most loved us that we have suffered most. We
experience pain in a relationship of love, where there
is possession, control, submission and dependence.
Other times the pain is caused by a loss that generates
an inner emptiness. That person filled me, they gave me
wholeness, they were the reason for my existence and now
they have either left me or they have gone. In the
second case, we wouldn't say that they "have died", but
rather that they have gone to another level of existence
i.e. the soul has taken a new physical costume.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
To make our promise
practical is to benefit at each step.
Expression:
Sometimes we make a lot of promises
to ourselves and to others. At such times we are very
confident of what we are saying but later find that our
promise doesn't come into action. So, that promise gets
wasted as we don't take benefit from the intensity of
that moment.
Experience:
When we make a promise to bring about a change in
ourselves we need to immediately make a practical plan
that will help us make the promise real. We also need to
make sure we understand why fulfilling that promise is
important for us. Along with this we also need to remind
ourselves again and again about it till it becomes
practical.