16.03.2015

Live Purposefully
If you don't live life on purpose you live life
by accident. Why do some days feel like a
motorway pile up? It's because you haven't
sorted out your purpose yet. The highest purpose
is always giving, or serving others, without
wanting anything in return. This is why
relaxation is always impossible if we are always
'on the take'. There is an overall purpose for
your life, and each of the many scenes which
fill your day are opportunities to serve your
purpose. Take time to think deeply, listen to
your intuition, and with patience, the reason
why you are here, and what you uniquely have to
give, will occur to you. Then you can live your
life 'on purpose'.
Meditation
Meditation simply means the management of your
thoughts. It is to have
the ability to think of what you want and when
you want, without
interference from other thoughts. Meditation is
to develop the ability
to concentrate on a particular subject without
being attracted and
influenced by the five senses, the five vices
and the five elements.
Yoga, which is associated with meditation,
simply means to have union
or make connection with some object, subject,
person or God. However,
yoga is usually associated with spirituality.
Yoga is to have
connection and to have dialogue or sweet
conversation with the divine
source of inspiration, whom many call God.
Meditation, therefore is a
prerequisite or condition that assists spiritual
seekers to have
unbroken, undisturbed and continuous access with
divinity and this
experience is called yoga, another form of
prayer.
Practical Positive Response Training To The Mind
(cont.)
If I believe that I am just the physical body
and that my thoughts are simply results of
chemical and electrical processes in the brain,
and not something I can consciously control, I
let go of the key of taking charge of what is
going on inside my mind. In meditation, my
intellect recognizes and realizes that my
thoughts are my own creation, of me the soul and
not the body and that I, the soul, using the
intellect, which is also a part of the soul, can
make choices about them.
When I realize that my natural state is to be
the master of my mind and not to be dictated by
it or dictated by the brain, I start taking
charge of what is going on inside. When I
practice being a master of my mind repeatedly by
practicing meditation regularly, the new habit
of creating only positive thoughts settles
inside me and my habit of responding negatively
with a negative state of mind to negative
situations, begins to change over a period of
time. I start responding positively even to
negative situations. So, meditation is a major
transformation process of the habit of thinking
negatively, which then has positive results on
my personality and behavior.
Tomorrow we shall further clarify the process
which has been explained in today's and
yesterday's message, with an example.
Soul Sustenance
Experiencing God’s Presence
I need to understand that God is a person
(although the Supreme Person), like us, and not
some formal or non-personal energy, with whom we
cannot communicate and have a relationship. If I
know God's form, location and sanskars, I
can direct my thoughts towards that One and
immediately start experiencing the connection.
The sentiment expressed in the phrase, ‘O God,
wherever I am, you are with me', indicates the
closeness of the soul and God. It expresses the
experience of the presence of God, in a similar
way to two lovers who carry each other in their
hearts. In this way God's presence is a
spiritual experience that I can have wherever I
am. It doesn't mean literally that the Supreme
Being is present in everything. It's a feeling
and not a fact. The sun is the source of our
physical necessities. It purifies the water,
makes the plants grow to produce food and oxygen
and provides a suitable range of temperatures
for our life here. To give life it doesn't need
to be present in every particle. Its effect in
the form of light and heat is felt throughout
the solar system. In the same manner, for the
effective practice of Raja Yoga meditation (as
taught by the Brahma Kumaris) God is seen as a
sun of perfect sanskars, the source of
spiritual qualities and powers and, as such,
doesn't need to be present in everything. Even
though His residence is the soul world, God can
be with me since the sense of closeness is
beyond physical dimensions. One thought and I
can experience Him in the soul world and be in
His presence!
Message for the day
Concentration on positive thoughts brings power
and growth.
Expression:
Whatever thoughts are
concentrated upon, those thoughts become
powerful. It is like the growth of a seed. When
a thought, a positive thought, is planted in the
mind and it is concentrated upon, it becomes
like sunlight adding energy. The more the
concentration on them these thoughts begin to
grow.
Experience:
When I am able to create a
positive thought, each morning and water it with
attention throughout the day, I am able to find
myself becoming more and more powerful. Negative
circumstances or people with negativity do not
influence me but I become a powerful source for
finishing that negativity. I am able to maintain
this positive thought under all circumstances.