27.04.2015

Beautiful Box of Joseph I of Portugal,
by Jean Ducrollay, 1756...gold, silver
and diamonds
Out of the Box
When we get stuck in
attitudes & habits, we confine ourselves to
living within the 'box'.
'Boxes' can be useful. They can ground our
ideas & imagination. But when the 'box' becomes
rigid & out-dated; that's when fear stays in &
creativity stays out. Dismantle the
'box'; the attitudes & habits that are working
against you. Get out of the 'box'! Be free &
live fully.
Responsibility
When we are
responsible for something or someone, we tend to
feel
burdened. This becomes like a bondage, which
doesn't let us fly. The
feeling is of being trapped like a caged bird.
So the work is not done
in the best way as feel handicapped by the
situation. The true meaning
of responsibility is not just additional duties
to be done, but has
more to do with being honest to the task and
doing everything with a
sense of purpose. When we do it with this
attitude we find things
getting easier and we also receive help at every
step. We are able to
accomplish more work with more lightness and we
enjoy all we do.
Experiencing
Perfection And Success In Role Playing (cont.)
Continuing from yesterday's message, if I'm able
to protect and maintain my inner spiritual
identity in each role that I play in the day,
it's much easier for me to switch roles. I
switch roles so many times even in one
particular day. If I lose myself in a
particular role, my mind and intellect tends to
become limited and restricted to that role and
I'm not able to see beyond the immediate needs
of the role and I find it difficult to adapt to
another role. As a father, for example, I
may also be called upon to play the different
roles of husband or a Managing Director or a
friend or a brother or a son or a son-in-law
etc. Also many a times, for e.g. in the absence
of the mother, I may have to play the role of
the mother or in the absence of the Plant
Manager in my company on a particular day, I may
have to play his role, etc., both being roles
that I do not normally play. I'll have a better
chance of being able to fulfill all these roles
if I don't get too caught up in any of the roles
while playing them and remain in my spiritual
consciousness while playing them. A spiritual
consciousness will keep me detached.
Every role demands different positive
personality traits or sanskaras to be put
into practice. I need to be flexible and possess
the ability to pick those personality traits
from my complete spiritual store house of
personality traits that I the soul possess
inside me, that are best suited to the role
and are required for that role at that
particular moment, so that the role and the act
is played accurately and perfectly to my
satisfaction as well as the other's
satisfaction. In a bodily, limited
consciousness, I will not be able to that.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Qualities,
Virtues And Powers
Innate or basic characteristics are properties
that are unchangeable. It's impossible to take
the heat out of the sun or sweetness out of
sugar. Heat and sweetness are part of the
unchanging make-up of the sun and sugar
respectively; they are the basic properties of
each of them. In the same way, in spite of
whatever I have become as a human individual, my
deep basic characteristics are still the same
ones that have always existed in me. It's my
inner core of qualities that in fact inspires me
to seek the ideal in whatever I do. The impulse
to seek and to dream comes from my own store of
innate attributes that is just waiting to be
found and brought into practical activity.
The innate qualities of the soul are those
that are the most basic: Peace, Truth,
Happiness, Love, Purity, Power and Bliss. They
are so basic that they themselves are the
foundation of all virtues and powers. They
are like primary colors and virtues and powers
are secondary colors. Just as orange (a
secondary color) is made of red and yellow (both
primary colors) and blue is made of yellow and
green, virtues such as patience, tolerance,
courage, generosity etc. and powers, are
obtained by mixing the basic qualities e.g.
Patience - peace, love and, power Humility –
love, peace and truth
Courage - power and truth
The aim of meditation is to emerge and enhance
my qualities so that my behavior becomes
full of virtues and powers.
Message for the
day
To do something altruistic each day is to ensure
happiness.
Expression:
When there is the thought to
do something altruistic for someone every day,
there is the ability to give happiness
unconditionally. Whatever the relationship or
whatever the personality of the other person,
the one who develops the habit of doing this, is
able to remain a source of support for those
around.
Experience:
The best gift I can give is
to give happiness and to finish sorrow. When I
am constantly thinking of this, not for any
reward but just for the sake of it, I am able to
discover and enjoy the fruit of that action. I
am free from expectations and am able to enjoy
the action itself.