Relaxed
Your intellect follows your sight. Your mind runs
behind. Teach your eyes to have an elevated vision and
your mind will be relaxed.
Enthusiasm
Whenever problems come my way, I tend to feel heavy with
waste and negative thoughts. At that time I am not able
to feel free and light. When there is heaviness in my
mind, I can't move forward with enthusiasm and thereby
find it difficult to contribute for others' progress
too. Whatever the circumstances I am faced with, I need
to make special effort not to reduce my enthusiasm in
any way. Enthusiasm gives me courage and this courage in
turn helps me use my own specialties for others' benefit
too. I begin to discover new resources within me which
can be used for everyone's benefit.
The
Dynamics Of Greed
Deficiencies inside us bring about a spiritual void
or the lack of wholeness (fullness). As we lay the
foundation of our lives on deficiencies or weaknesses,
the result is suffering, sorrow and peacelessness.
If we act in harmony with spiritual virtues and
qualities, the result is cooperation, happiness, peace,
contentment and finally, wholeness. A spiritual void
leads to selfishness and causes the creation of greed
inside us. We want to have more and possess more,
which generates a state of expectation and stress. We
fill our lives with things and objects to cover up
deeper deficiencies. Then we are afraid of losing them.
We generate expectations of all kinds, and when they are
not fulfilled we react with anger, frustration, fear or
disappointment. The inner emptiness makes us become
greedy. We fill ourselves with objects, properties,
things. We take and consume more than what we can
give to the Universe in the form of positive thoughts,
feelings, vibrations, actions etc. and this brings about
imbalances in the self, in relation to others and with
nature.
Something similar happens on a physical level. The body
has a capacity to recycle and eliminate waste through
different mediums. However, since we consume more toxins
than the body can process, it leads to imbalance and we
are more prone to feeling physically ill and unfit and
developing diseases etc.
Soul Sustenance
The Triangle of Spiritual Energy (Part 4)
Referring to yesterday’s message, in the triangle of
harmonious energy, all three points (the self, the
Supreme and others) need to be equidistant - not too
much one way or the other. The equidistant triangle in
ancient mathematics was the symbol of harmony. Harmony,
peace, order and balance is what is natural in human
life and if we wish to return to that condition, we need
to realize the importance of equidistant relationships.
It requires constant attention to keep the three points
in balance and in working order. Otherwise, when we get
over-focused on any one of the three, we become
inflexible. This inflexibility causes us to go out of
balance and the result is disharmony and disunity, which
can also be called 'violence', an unnatural condition,
or even hell when it reaches an extreme point.
In order to maintain a balance between the three, I need
silence: times of introspection when I can check the
flow of three of my relationships – with the self,
Supreme Source and others. This checking mechanism
protects, sustains and develops the qualities of these
three points.
Message for the day
True help is to give support in such a way that people
become independent.
Checking:
Think of those people we are giving some kind of help or
support. Check if we are helping in such a way to make
them independent or is our help making them dependent on
us.
Practice:
We should remind ourselves that our aim in helping is to
make people independent and strong in such a way that
they are able to support others too. Our help should
never make people weak.