16.02.2015

Walters Group Towers, a wonderful engineering
Going Deep
Just as the highest tower needs a deep
foundation, so too our higher thinking is based
on going deep within.
Happiness
Happiness is the art of living, the purpose of
our existence. Happiness
is the true index of quality of life. Without
happiness, life is dry
and meaningless. With happiness, life
immediately becomes fulfilling
and wonderful. Happiness is an infectious
feeling that immediately
lifts the sagging spirits of people. Happy
people keep themselves happy
because they know the little ways to appreciate
themselves and to see
the humour and magic in each moment.
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.
Soul Sustenance
Do Love And Suffering Go Hand-In-Hand (Part 1)?
There are two things that touch or move us in
life: pain and pleasure. Both
create addiction. We feel pain in the body,
and sometimes it is even emotional. But
suffering arises in the mind. The suffering in
the mind arises from thinking negatively towards
the self, towards others, looking at them with a
vision or attitude that causes grief, sorrow and
suffering. Both extremes, pain and pleasure, can
create addiction. On creating addiction it can
start to form part of someone's identity. Later
if one tries to stop the addiction of pain or
suffering, it can almost feel like a threat
towards the self, and towards one's own identity
as one perceives it, because suffering is
identified with. It is too hard to see oneself
as no longer suffering.
An e.g. in this regard is that of a mother, with
three children, who was undergoing a meditation
course at one of the Brahma Kumaris centers. Her
daughter had learned to meditate and became very
happy and joyful. Seeing her happiness the
mother came to learn to meditate. With a few
sessions she felt much more at peace and had
very good experiences, but all of a sudden she
decided to stop the meditation practice and
leave the course because she was starting
experiencing a positive detachment, which she
perceived as negative. Now, she was no longer
feeling afraid of what might happen to her
children. The meditation was awakening in
her a love free from fears, but it
brought on in her an inner clash of beliefs
between the old and new beliefs. Her old belief
was that to love someone is to suffer about
them or create pain related to them.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
To switch on the power of awareness is to be
free from being mood off.
Expression:
To be mood off means to find excuses and reasons
to feel negative - to have negative thoughts for
the self or for the others. But if there is a
strong powerful awareness in the mind, a
positive thought about the self, there will not
be a chance for a negative thought to enter the
mind. So there will never be any reason to be
mood off.
Experience:
When I am able to maintain a single powerful
thought, I am able to remain happy and content.
I am not dependent on the external situations
for the internal state of mind. Nor do I make
external situations as an excuse to further
weaken my own thoughts. So there is constantly a
feeling of positivity under all circumstances.