29.04.2015

Travelling Companions
On the journey of
life, we find many travelling companions.
Some are
like-minded, others' are incompatible. Some encourage us
to travel further; others' may hold us back.
Some stay
with us until their own journey steers them on a
different course, and then we say goodbye !
Today, take a moment to appreciate your
travelling companions.
Co-operation
Normally there is a
tendency to do everything alone. We mostly feel
that it is much easier not to involve too many
people in order to
avoid the different kinds of personalities we
have to deal with. We do
expect others' help but not always do we get
that. We then continue to
blame them which only creates negative feelings.
So the responsibility
seems like a burden and we feel heavy. The basis
of the success of any
task is the combined resources of many people.
Each and everyone have
his own specialties and when we are able to
connect to them, we are
able to make use of them for the task. So even
the biggest task seems
easy with the cooperation of all. Secondly, our
positive feelings
combined with the good wishes of all involved
will be for the task
which will add to its success.
Identity Crisis
The primary quality or the original condition of
a pure mind, a pure self, is peace. Initially
there was no confusion about 'who I am'. As time
passed by, and we came in the process of birth
and rebirth, we began to identify with what we
are not, starting with our own physical form,
and then with external things like lands,
positions, material possessions and people.
These multiple identities generated the first
confusions. In those moments, our inner peace
was broken. This is why today many of us suffer
from an identity crisis, but we are so used to
living in this crisis that we are not even aware
that it is a crisis. We are not sure what we
should be. We are constantly comparing ourselves
with others. We regularly aim to be like others.
We even imitate (copy) the lifestyles of others:
all signs that we don't know who or what we are.
And if we think we are sure about who we are,
the stability it brings does not last for long,
as it is almost always based on something
external to the self, something that must
therefore be subject to change. In other words
each and every one of us has learned to identify
with something we are not.
This loss of true self-identity, at the most
deep level, the spiritual level, is what gives
rise to fear. And when what we fear might happen
actually does happen, we get angry and try to
control what we cannot control, so that it
doesn't happen again.
Soul Sustenance
Performing
A Spiritual Audit At The End Of The Day - Part 1
Our normal day at the office or/and at home is
filled with lots of actions and interactions. On
a normal day, without realizing consciously, we
create almost 30,000-40,000 thoughts. So, not
only are we active physically but extremely
active on a subtle or non-physical level also.
Imagine sleeping with all this burden of
thoughts, words and actions which have been
created throughout the day, many of which have
been waste and negative in nature. What would be
the resulting quality of my sleep? So it is
extremely important to perform a
spiritual/emotional audit or evaluation at the
end of each day.
In a lot of professional sectors of life today,
people recognize the need for reflection and
audit, not only of financial records but also a
general evaluation of the respective sector, to
maintain and improve both the service to
customers and the job satisfaction of people
working in the sector. Checking my own
behavior, as a daily exercise; not just
checking, but also bringing about respective
changes for the next day, enables me to continue
to develop and grow, as a human being and in the
quality of my work and personal and professional
relationships. Have gone through the
self-evaluation, it is also advised to become
completely light by submitting the mistakes made
and heaviness accumulated in the day to the
Supreme Being. Doing this helps me put a
full-stop to the same and settle all my
spiritual accounts at the end of the day. I need
to put an end to all commas (when looking at
scenes that caused me to slow down and reduced
the speed of my progress), question marks (when
looking at scenes which caused a why, what, how,
when, etc.... in my consciousness) and
exclamation marks (when looking at negative or
waste scenes, which were unexpected and
surprising) which were created in the day's
activities. Along with remembering what all good
happened during the day, what did I achieve and
what good actions did I perform, there is lots
to forget at the end of the day, which should
not be carried into my sleep at any cost.
Disturbed, thought-filled, unsound sleep, will
result in a not so fresh body and mind the next
morning, which will cause my mood to be
disturbed, adversely affecting the following
day.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Message for the
day
To be clean at
heart is to give happiness to others.
Expression:
The one who has a clean heart
is the one who always tries to do the best for
those with whom he comes in contact. Thus, the
person develops the ability to accept others as
they are and ignore anything wrong done by them.
Instead, he is able to do the right action
without losing the balance. So such a person
brings happiness for himself and for others
through every action he performs.
Experience:
When I have a clean heart I
am able to have an experience of my inner
qualities. I am able to enjoy the beauty of the
different relationships, each relationship and
each person being unique. Thus others are able
to get in touch with their inner beauty too. So
there is happiness experienced by all.