Cripple Effect
What goes around comes around is not a new
insight. It is something most of us intuitively
know but easily forget, as we attempt to hold on
to most things which come to us. What we don't
realize is the ripple effect can easily become
the cripple effect. Everything we think and do
not only ripples out into the world, it also
creates an impression on our own consciousness
inside. If one day you decide to get really
angry (very unrelaxing) at someone, then you
create a memory of your irritation and carve a
kind of scar or groove on your consciousness
(non-physical of course). Within this scar or
groove is a recording of the image of the person
as you have decided to perceive them, and the
energy of your anger surrounding that image.
Remember, you put it there, not them. Two days
later you see the same person and that triggers
the image and the anger which you have already
recorded within. The emotional turbulence inside
your consciousness makes it very hard for you to
remain positive, connect and communicate
effectively, positively and harmoniously with
them. In effect you are crippled and clouded by
your own emotion. Most of us experience this,
sometimes many times a day, but refuse to see
that we cripple ourselves, preferring to blame
the other person. Which is why we can stay
crippled for a long time and not even realize
it.
Clean and Clear
Normally we feel that only if we have God's love
and mercy can we move forward and progress. But
we are not always sure about what God has in
store for us. So we wait for something to happen
before we can achieve purity and perfection. It
is in fact the other way round, that the more we
come back to our pure form, where we are clean
and clear inside, the more we become worthy of
God's love and blessings. It is these blessings
that further strengthen our own specialties and
help us progress.
The Relationship Between Anger And Attachment
Most of us logically understand that all forms
of anger are worthlessness emotions, but when we
enter into the field of practical actions, we
tend to argue that there are some situations
where the weapon of anger has to be used and
where it is justified or allowable. When someone
tries to harm me personally, like giving sorrow
to a friend or loved one, send a complaint about
my work to the higher ups in the office or
simply insult me or bang into my car at the
street crossing for that matter, it would seem
that our anger is justified, on such occasions.
But the basic principle is the same in all these
cases. We are, in our own mind, trying to
control and change what we cannot change - the
past or other people or events. In all the above
cases above we suffer a lot when these things
that are close to us are changed or lost. So why
does that happen? It is because we keep all
these things 'too' close to us or in other words
we are over attached to them. When someone
tries to bring me down at the workplace, or in
other words tries to harm my position in the
office and I suffer because of the same, it is
because I identify with my role in the office, I
think I am the role. When someone bangs into my
car, the emotion of anger emerges inside me,
because I identify with the car, I think I am
the car! This is the deepest mistake. It is the
deepest cause of the negative suffering called
anger. We are not aware of this of course, but
if we were to take a moment and see what we do
in our minds, we would see we emerge the image
of our role or our car on the screen of our
mind. We have then gone into that image in our
mind, and we have lost our spiritual identity or
individuality in that image. In effect we have
identified completely with the role or the car
or are too attached to them. So if the role or
the car is harmed in any way, it feels like it
is happening to us and, as a result, we become
disturbed or angry.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Soul Sustenance
The Distinction (Difference) Between Human Souls
And The Supreme Soul (God)
Human Souls:
They take human bodies and experience birth,
life and death.
Supreme Soul:
Never comes into the cycle of birth and death.
Human Souls:
They are subject to change and the dualities of
pleasure and pain, growth and decay, happiness
and sorrow.
Supreme Soul:
Changeless. The One beyond the above dualities.
Human Souls:
They remember and then forget their original
pure nature.
Supreme Soul:
God is always the ocean of knowledge; he does
not come in the cycle of remembering and
forgetting.
Human Souls:
They are seekers of peace and happiness.
Supreme Soul:
God is the One whom everyone seeks (longs for).
He is the bestower (giver) of peace and
happiness to everyone.
(To be continued tomorrow ….)
Message for the day
True help is to help people discover their own
specialities.
Projection:
When others' negativities or weaknesses are
perceived, it is essential to look at their
positivity or specialties too. This will
naturally bring love and positivity in the
relationship and there will be an encouragement
of that positivity. So even if that person has
no recognition or has not been using his
specialty, an encouragement of it by others will
naturally enable him to begin to use it.
Solution:
Making others aware of their specialties and
subtly encouraging them to use these specialties
is a great help that I can do for others. When I
am able to give this unique help and
cooperation, I not only find benefit for others,
but I am also able to get the good wishes of
others. Even others naturally become positive
with my positive attitude.