25.06.2015

Inspirations
The soul flies, the body plods. If you identify
with your body, you will feel heavy. If you
think you are a soul, you will feel light.
Complaining just wrecks the mood and motivation
for ourselves and others.
So, today, practice the 'No Complaining Rule'.
Even if you're having a really bad day, put
things into perspective. Look for the silver
lining on the cloud. Live in a state of
appreciation.
Appreciate at least one thing about each person
you meet. Appreciate all that life has to offer,
whether it's the chance to breathe in the fresh
air or watch the sunset during your commute
home. Appreciate all the little events you take
for granted.
Shedding Off The Attachment To A Positive Past
(cont.)
Excessive attachment to a glorious past is a
subtle shade of the negative emotion of ego
which colors my present perception of external
events and which affects my present actions and
responses, as a result of which not only present
but my future is also affected. As I hold
on to it, my creativity is reduced and I do
everything with a limited perspective, not
letting myself grow and shape up a glorious
present and future. There are some people whose
goal is to achieve something so great in their
lives so as to ensure they will gain recognition
and respect by others in time to come. This is
again a subtle shade of attachment and ego.
But shedding off this type of attachment is not
easy and first requires the realization that
this attachment is incorrect and damaging. The
next step is sitting in silence and becoming
aware of how you lose your identity in a story
of past thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes
and actions and then disassociating or detaching
yourself from that story. You do not need to
suppress or deny or fight with this story;
otherwise its memory gets stronger and more
overpowering. You just need to simply see
and realize deeply that your past is just a
record of a particular set of actions, which you
committed at a particular point of time, it is a
series of images of previous events that you
witnessed and that you were a part of, all of
which have left a record in your memory, and in
the memories of others, but they are not what
you are. This type of practice of disassociation
with spiritual understanding fades the excessive
memory of the story in your consciousness over a
short period of time and these actions then
cease to influence you in any way in the
present. Here we are talking about an influence,
which we have for long deceived ourselves into
believing to be a positive one, but which in
reality is not.
Soul Sustenance
The Power Of Concentrated Thought (cont.)
One important component that doesn’t let us
remain in the healthy and positive experience of
concentrated thought is the many different types
of influences we are exposed to in our life.
There are two different types of influences –
external and internal. These
influences can also be called voices. Voices
from outside as well as inside speak to us.
External influences or voices are of people whom
we come in contact with at home, at the
workplace, at school or college, at the club, in
the media etc. or elsewhere. These people are
those whom we either see as equals or look upto.
They could be our friends, our parents, our
spouse, our teacher, our guru, our doctor, our
neighbor, our colleagues, our boss, actors or
sportsmen whom we admire, even the daily
newsreaders or writers, etc. We have been
exposed to these influences right from the time
we were born. The influences from all these
people are not necessarily on a physical level,
they can also be on a subtle level of mental
vibrations from others. We interact with all
or some of these people and spend time with them
and whenever we do that they advise us or give
us their opinion on a physical level and we also
listen to their voices on a subtle, emotional
energy level e.g. we spend a lot many hours in
the office. We may not interact with our boss
all the time but his personality is constantly
influencing everyone in the office on a subtle
level, including us. The office environment is
shaped largely by the head of the office. In the
same way, we may be taking care that we listen
only to the positive voices of the media and we
do not listen to the negative ones, but the all
pervading negative atmosphere that exists
everywhere due to everyone being exposed to the
news of violence, sorrow and impurity from the
media, definitely influences us on a subtle
level, even though we might not realize it. As
children, we have been listening to the subtle
voices of our parents, even when we were taking
shape in our mother’s womb.
In
tomorrow’s message, we shall explain what our
different types of internal influences or
voices.
Message for the
day
Success comes to
the one who absorbs only the good and positive
aspects.
Projection:
The one who has the power to
absorb, naturally absorbs only the positive
aspects of everything he comes into contact
with. So the response too is always positive.
Never is there reactions towards difficult
situations or people, but there is the natural
ability to absorb all that is good and respond
positively accordingly.
Solution:
Once I instill the habit of
seeing only the positive aspect in everything, I
find myself getting free from negativity. It is
like filling in fresh water into a pail of dirty
water. When there is a continuous flow of fresh
water into even the most dirty water, gradually
the water getting purified. So too I find myself
getting internally cleansed of all negativity
with a continuous flow of positivity.