10.04.2014

Time and Tide wait for no one
Time
Consider time to be a great treasure. Don't waste a
second.
Tolerance
The one with self-respect never
thinks or feels that he is tolerating. On the other hand,
since he is tolerant, he has the strength and the ability
to tolerate difficult situations and criticism with ease.
If we are constantly feeling that we have to tolerate a
lot, we should check within ourselves if we can use some
strength that is hidden within us for dealing with the
situation.
Self Empowerment
Our internal strengths create the
foundation on which we make our decisions in life, how we
relate to others and how we understand ourselves. For most
people their strengths are understood but never made very
conscious. They lie below the surface and are not openly
talked about. Bringing them into our conscious
understanding improves our process of self-empowerment.
To realize and review your strengths, sit comfortably in a
pleasant atmosphere and answer silently the following
questions:
A. Look back into the past and remember the times when you
experienced your greatest successes. List the unique
talents or strengths, which you made use of at those
times.
B. List the specific features, which you admire in
yourself.
C. If you were to take the opinion of your family, friends
and colleagues, what strengths would they say that you
have?
D. List your most valuable assets.
E. Now examine your answers and summarize. What are your
main strengths?
Soul Sustenance
The Cyclic Functioning Of
The Three Faculties Of The Soul
The soul consists of three faculties – the mind, intellect
and sanskaras. They work together in a cyclic
fashion. How they work together can be illustrated by
looking at how habits or sanskaras are formed e.g. if you
are used to scolding your children to get them to do their
homework, here is what happens when you visit a friend’s
place and watch, for the first time, how your friend is
doing the same to his/her child, you might think (done by
the mind): ‘I should adopt the same method to
discipline my children, they never listen to me '.
Your intellect discriminates and judges whether
that thought is right or not. Seeing others using the same
method, and also seeing that the children are not being
affected in any negative way (at least in the short term,
not realizing the long term harm) and also seeing them get
the desired result, you make a decision to do the same,
which leads to the action of scolding your children. This
creates an impression or memory within the soul, somewhat
like cutting a groove in a piece of wood. This groove in
the soul becomes a characteristic of your personality and
is known as a sanskara.
Within the groove is recorded the memory of, firstly, the
action of scolding the children and, secondly, the desired
result from the action. Now, whenever your child disobeys
you even a little bit, this sanskara is activated
and the memory of the action and result associated with it
emerge in the mind triggering a thought: 'Let me scold my
child, that’s the best way to get him to do things'.
The intellect judges the thought, remembering the proof of
the scolding, based on past experience, and then makes the
decision that it is alright to using anger as a weapon to
discipline the child. In this way, the sanskara keeps
getting deeper and deeper. The cyclic process explained
above, applies to all habits, whether physical or
non-physical
Message for the day
Detachment adds quality to
each and every action.
Projection:
When we are detached, we will
not be bound by the action itself, but will perform the
action in a detached way. This means that we perform the
action, yet we are not dependent on the fruits of the
action. This automatically increases its quality. Then we
would be free and uninfluenced by the bondage of the
action.
Solution:
In any
situation where we find ourselves doing a lot yet with a
feeling of not attaining anything, we should ask ourselves
if we are attached to the task at hand. The more we are
attached, the quantity of work that we put in increases at
the cost of the quality. When we are detached we are able
to give our best in all that we do.