09.07.2015

Dolphins at Monkey Mia, Australia
Gentleness
Gentleness is not a
lack of strength but a great power that doesn't
force or disturb.
The one who keeps
their destination in focus will be successful.
As we
travel toward our destination, its easy to get
distracted. We sometimes become so busy thinking
about little things that affect our lives that
we lose focus and stop moving forward. First
I need to clarify my goal, then think about how
Im going to work toward it. When situations
arise to distract me I need to remind myself
that they are only sideshows; they are not
important. Instead, to find success, I need to
keep my energies focused on my destination.
Resolving The Inner
Identity Crisis
At the present moment in human history, almost
every individual has lost the awareness of its
real or true self. This has happened very
gradually as each individual has progressed in
its journey of birth-rebirth and has kept on
attaching itself to various different things and
as a result losing its sense of self in things
that it is not i.e. identifying with things that
it is not. In a way it can be said that this
took the self far away from itself. This
personal, internal identity crisis has led to a
universal, external identity crisis, which has
resulted in an emotional crisis resulting in
peacelessness and sorrow in our inner world as
well as in the outer world.
This inner identity crisis is the root cause
of the multitude of deformed emotions that exist
inside us like anger, ego, lust, fear,
comparison with others, greed, hatred, low self
esteem, dependencies etc. all of which have
brought us and keep on bringing us pain. We
explain this with an example - suppose you have
just constructed a new apartment. While making
it and once its ready and you are using it, you
have become excessively attached to it i.e. you
have started identifying with it. Due to this
false identification, the first emotion that
gets created inside you is ego. If someone were
to criticize the apartment even slightly, you
would react immediately with anger. You
constantly fear any sort of harm to the
apartment. You even compare it with apartments
that others possess. You also start looking down
at people whose apartment is not as good as
yours i.e. you create emotions of hatred for
them. If something negative were to happen it,
it affects your mental state immediately i.e.
your happiness has become dependent on the
material possession. Your temporary success
along with the recognition that it brings you
from others leads to the desire of more success
of a similar type i.e. possess some more things
- bigger and better, which is nothing but greed
etc. The seed of all these incorrect emotions is
my over-identification with this newly acquired
possession. All of these wouldn't exist inside
me, if my relationship with was one of
detachment with it. In this way, we identify
with various objects and people in the whole
day, which leads to the creation of such
emotions inside us.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Injustices And
Suffering In The World Applying The Law of
Karma (Part 1)
We are presently living in a closely connected
world where everyone knows what everyone else is
doing, as they are doing it. Each day brings
scenes and images, through the media, in front
of us, of many apparent injustices and suffering
of individuals or groups of individuals. Whether
it's in the office, or in the market or on the
television news, we hear and see reports of
people suffering tremendous pain and sorrow at
the hands of others. At these moments, our sense
of injustice is stimulated and it becomes easy
to rise in outrage against the sinners. In the
process we ourselves suffer from our own
self-created anger and perhaps hate. This
process then becomes a habit and an inner
pattern we begin to repeat, not only when we
encounter scenes of global peacelessness, but
the moment someone in the family or at office
does something similar. A panic button is
pressed and we react with the same pattern.
What we forget in both global and local
contexts, is the history and geography of
karma. Every scene and situation has a
variety of related causes in both time (history)
and space (geography) e.g. emotions of
hatred and revenge amongst various countries and
religions (in different parts of the world) and
the actions connected with these emotions has
underlying hidden causes, related to the Law of
Karma (Law of Cause and Effect) which go
back sometimes to hundreds of years X is doing
something with Y because Y had done something
similar with X sometime in the past, but in
different physical costumes, sometimes quite
some time back in history this is the reason,
we often fail to take these causes into
consideration when viewing these negative scenes
and situations, because we see the situations
with a limited perspective of present physical
costumes and circumstances.
(To be continued tomorrow
)
Message for the
day
The one who is
constantly a giver experiences constant
happiness.
Projection:
Happiness is usually
associated with acquiring. When I get something
I am happy and when I am deprived of something I
lose my happiness. So happiness is always
short-lived depending totally on what I get.
Solution:
True joy lies in recognising
and giving what people want. I constantly need
to have one aim, let no one go away from me
empty-handed. When I have this aim I'll able to
give something which will give me long lasting
happiness.