
Expand My Heart
To welcome an enemy is to take the opportunity
to expand my heart.
Criticism
Criticisms are good things. They help us look at
ourselves, to check
and improve. There are situations where you feel
that nothing you say
or do seems right, where there is constant
criticism. How do we satisfy
people at that time? We must first be satisfied
with ourselves before
we can satisfy others. If we do not have the
power to quickly change
the negative attitude of others, we must atleast
start with ourselves.
Change our attitude towards the one who is
constantly criticizing.
Adopt more positive approach. Positive thoughts,
words and actions will
eventually bring positive results. Continue
acting in this Godly
manner. At least God will be pleased with you.
Absorbing Spiritual Light (cont.)
Continuing from yesterday's message, we should
not keep the vices bottled up inside us like
prisoners. Prisoners are always plotting to
escape. If we change them into our friends they
can help us. For example, the energy required to
be stubborn is almost the same as that required
to be determined except that one is positive and
the other negative. The soul learns to
transfer such energy. Anger becomes
tolerance. Greed can be transformed into
contentment. Arrogance, or the respect for false
identity, can become self-respect. Attachment
can be changed into pure love.
The more I inculcate the Supreme Soul or God's
virtues, the closer I feel to Him, but if I
allow inner disturbances due to any vice, my
high stage is grounded. All the power stored up
until that moment will leak away. I must
recognize that I really do not like being
body-conscious. As I wish for higher experiences
I choose to live the life of a meditator with
purity in thought, word and action. Obstructions
come within and without, but through my
connection with God I am drawing so much power
so as to remain unaffected. This needs
soul-consciousness. So in discarding the
rubbish of the vices I have gathered over many
births, I become my original form and maintain
it through my closeness or companionship with
God.
Soul Sustenance
Where Does The Supreme Soul (God) Reside?
Where does the Supreme Soul (God) live? Is there
somewhere I can go to see him, to be with him?
Since he is a tiny star-like soul (energy) it is
obvious that he does not pervade the physical
universe. In fact he is beyond it. He is in one
location and when I discover that location, I
can connect with him with my mind wherever I am
and whatever I am doing.
The home of the soul (from where the soul
has come on the world stage) and the Supreme
Soul is the region of subtle, golden-red light,
the incorporeal world or Shantidham,
which is a world beyond the five elements which
can be visualized during meditation. It doesn't
mean that the Supreme Being is millions of light
years away. I can reach him in one thought, just
as a correctly dialed telephone number connects
me. He is only one thought away from me. In this
region of absolute stillness, silence and
purity, God, the Supreme Soul is able to remain
perfectly stable, constant and unchanging, while
the rest of the universe and the souls are
changing around him, coming in the cycle of
happiness and sorrow. The Father's home is also
that of the children. Some people think that he
dwells (resides) in the heart of human beings.
In a figurative way he does, his love and other
virtues are there in our hearts, but his real
home is the soul world.
Message
for the day
Greatness lies in being humble.
Expression:
A seed grows only when it is
mingled with the mud. In the same way, the one
who is great is naturally humble. He understands
the truth that only when there is humility will
there be success. Humility gives the power to
bow down without reducing one's own
self-respect.
Experience:
When I am humble I am able to
be experience my own inner greatness, which
naturally keeps me set on the seat of my
self-respect. So when the situation demands, I
have no problem bowing down. So I am able to
allow the situations to work on me, so I am able
to strengthen myself from within under all
circumstances.