
Expand My Heart
To welcome an enemy
is to take the opportunity to expand my heart.
Responsibility
Responsibility
is to honor the role that has been entrusted and
to
perform it to the best of one's ability. Just as
the actor accepts
whatever role he is given and performs to the
best of his ability, in
the same way taking up responsibility for one's
life is to accept and
honor the role so that the performance is the
best under all
circumstances. The result is that time and
resources are utilized to
bring maximum benefit. Each day let us remind
ourselves that we are
good actors who bring out the best of whatever
role we get. Instead
of thinking of what we don't have, we need to
start looking at what we
have and using it in the best possible way.
The Invisible
Impressions That Shape Me
While the mind and intellect are two faculties
of the soul which play their role on the surface
of our consciousness; at a deeper level, hidden
beneath these two faculties, there lies a third
faculty commonly called the sanskaras.
The sanskaras is not only a store house
of personality traits, as we commonly know it to
be, but a store house of millions and millions
of impressions or imprints. Such a large
number of impressions are created by millions of
experiences that I go through my sense organs
not only in this life but in all my lifetimes.
Everything that I hear, see, touch, taste,
etc. I process or analyze or summarize in my own
unique way; basically I give the experiences a
unique form depending on my personality, before
this form gets stored in the form of impressions
inside me. I even process my subtle
experiences, which are in the form of thoughts
and feelings.
This process of experiencing and processing
takes place during each and every second of my
life including the time I sleep, when my mind
may not be experiencing a lot but it is busy
processing the physical and subtle experiences
of the day that has gone by and storing the
processed information in the form of
impressions. From this, one can get an idea of
the magnitude of the database of impressions
stored within me, the being. These imprints
which are unique to me, make up my sanskaras,
and shape up my unique personality in a
cyclic process. My personality shapes
what type of impressions are created out of my
experiences and the impressions in turn shape my
personality, my thoughts, words and actions
e.g. if I constantly keep the company of people
who gossip, a large number of respective
impressions based on the experience of gossiping
keep getting stored inside me, which in turn
influence my personality, the personality
characteristic gets stronger and over a period
of time I do not find anything wrong with it and
indulge in it more and more. As a result more
such impressions get stored. Thus it is a cyclic
process.
Soul Sustenance
Fulfilling
the Criteria of Positivity (cont.)
In yesterday’s message we defined positivity and
negativity from a spiritual perspective. Further
elaborating, negativity hides my truth, and
causes me to take incorrect steps during the
day, without realizing, hurting myself and
others yet not knowing how or why. At the level
of non-physical spiritual vibrations, we are all
connected with each other, as a result of which
if I help others to come close to the
experience of truth, a state in which the other
is an embodiment of the virtues of peace, love,
joy, purity and power (as defined
yesterday), I will also help myself: whereas
if I bring others down into a state of
falsehood, the opposite, that will also bring me
down. Whenever I give another soul an
experience of any of these virtues, the virtue
first flows through me and then touches the
other. As a result there is an increase in the
virtue inside me first and then the other is
benefitted.
In the entire day, my words and actions may be
numbered, but my thoughts are in thousands. My
mind works, even when I sleep, even though I am
not active physically at that time. The quality
of my thoughts at that time is largely
influenced by the quality of my thoughts, words
and actions during the day. So I need to be
aware throughout the day as to how much is each
thought, word and action of mine fulfilling the
criteria of positivity i.e. bringing me and
others closer to a state of truth. The more
my thoughts, words and actions do so; the result
is an increase in an experience of inner and
outer lightness in the self and a similar
experience from me to those who come into my
contact or whom I interact with.
Message for the
day
The language of
silence is more powerful than the sound of
words.
Projection:
When something is expressed
in silence, it is with the power of thoughts.
Such thoughts spread positive vibrations and
reach out to the others, in such a way that even
the words can't. Also when such kind of positive
actions are added to the positive thoughts, the
desired effect of that is seen. Then the words
are not needed to express good intentions and
good wishes.
Solution:
When I am able to express
myself through the language of silence, I am
able to be free from expectations for others to
listen to what I am saying. I will only be
silently communicating whatever I have to
through my good wishes and inspiring others
through my positive actions. So I am able to
remain content and light, even when I have not
yet seen the result of my communication.