
Free From Expectations
To be peaceful is to be free from expectations
and to want nothing from anyone. Take the
initiative and be generous. Lead the way and do
something. This is the secret to being content
in all circumstances.
Inner Power
We do have a lot of thoughts to bring about a
change in our lives. But
most of the times we find that we are not able
to bring this thought
into practice. As time passes by the thought too
loses its importance
and we find ourselves caught up with waste or
negative thoughts. We
need to keep a chart of our waste and negative
thoughts as well as our
powerful and positive thoughts. Only when we are
consciously aware of
how much we are spending through our negative
and waste thoughts and
how much we are accumulating through our
positive and powerful
thoughts can we be determined. We also are able
to increase our
accumulation and thereby increase inner power.
Discover Your Inner Mentor Or Guide - A
Meditation
If you can become your own mentor (guide), a
mentor that you would always have liked to have,
then you will experience life as an exciting
adventure. What
would happen if you had someone in your life
that walked with you each step of your way,
loved you unconditionally and supported you
without putting conditions, even when you were
wrong? What would happen if you felt absolutely
safe, secure, cared for and loved? Would you be
more willing to accept the challenges that life
brings forth in front of you? Would you take on
your life with greater responsibility and
confidence?
Your internal mentor is a part of you and is
always present, always kind, always loves you,
is always there for you. If
you still haven't met it, take a moment to guide
yourself through this meditation
exercise:
1. Relax your body and allow yourself to be
fully present, here, reading these words,
listening to the sounds around you, feeling what
you feel. Read slowly!
2. Now send love to each part of your body: your
feet, your lungs, your back, your face, your
eyes, your nose, until you feel the love from
your feet to your head.
3. Now send love to each thought that appears on
the screen of your mind, visualize how your
energy is concentrated at the inner part of the
centre of your forehead. See the screen of your
mind, and try to make each thought that you
generate full of the energy of love that is
slowly invading you. The energy of love is
present in each thought that appears in your
mind.
Love what you yourself create: each thought.
4. By
practicing the above exercise, you emerge sanskars inside
yourself of giving unconditional love and
support to your own self. This is a way to
awaken your inner mentor. As
you practice spending time with yourself in this
way, you will start to see that your insecurity
and your fears begin to disappear and new
possibilities open up in front of you.
Soul Sustenance
The Two Close Companions of Peace (A Meditation)
Sit comfortably and relax… Remind yourself of
your spiritual form as a soul - a point of
subtle light (non-physical light), a sparkling
star, situated between the two eyebrows... Now
visualize your star-like form and emerge the
feelings of peace looking at this form
with your mind’s eye… experience stability and
contentment in this inner value of peace,
peace is your own treasure... Fully let go off
all your concerns, tensions and worries and
allow all of yourself to become deeply
peaceful... Now, feel the vibrations (energy
waves) of your peaceful light form radiating
outwards into the world... Be aware that the
vibration of your peaceful form is like a
gift... Consciously transmit this gift of peace with
the pure desire of calming and relieving the
stress and peacelessness of others...
As you radiate the power of your peace into the
world, you do so with great love... As
you give the gift of peace, with love,
you are aware that you are able to serve others,
reach out to others, in this invisible but
extremely significant way... This awareness
brings about a new sense of meaning in your life
and you experience deep feelings of happiness within
your heart... It is a happinesswhich
takes the form of bliss, a bliss or satisfaction
experienced as an invisible fruit received in
return of unconditional serving… You realize
that your peace does not live alone... True
peace is that which is shared with others… it
always has with it its closest companions... an
experience of love and a feeling of pure
happiness…
Our basic spiritual characteristics of peace,
love and happiness are values that can be
compared to the primary colors of the soul.
While the soul can experience these values, it
is only when they are mixed together (to give
different shades) that they emerge though our
attitudes and behaviors as virtue. Virtuous
thoughts, words and actions restore balance and
harmony to our inner life and to our external
relationships.
Message for the day
To be strong is to be free from the influence
of the body.
Expression:
To allow the body to
influence the mind is to be doubly ill. The one
who allows himself to be doubly ill is not able
to deal with the illness of the body. On the
other hand, the one who is powerful in the mind
is able to maintain the inner strength in spite
of the disease and so has the power to put in
effort to finish it.
Experience:
Instead of being conscious of
the disease of the body, all I need to do is to
maintain the consciousness of being powerful
internally. Then I would not be afraid of the
disease of the body but will have the courage to
deal with it. I am able to see the disease as
something temporary and will soon find myself
rid of the illness, as I am powerful within.