
Archduke Joseph diamond
Like the
Diamond
Diamonds are a symbol of endurance;
they're born under intense heat and extreme
pressure.
Just like the diamond, we too become resilient
and radiant thanks to life's pressures.
"The only thing to
fear is fear itself."
As
we move toward different wars and calamities, do
not fear...instead
have Faith that all things are working as they
should. Do not judge
with mortal eyes the tragedies of war, for we do
not know the higher
order of things evolving. Instead, pray for
Wisdom and Swift
resolution of a war...a war we have no control
over. The only thing we
can control however, is our thoughts and what we
focus on in each
Precious Moment of our lives. So as the media
bombards us with fear
and horror; let us focus on Peace, focus on
Love, focus on God's Light
and might.
The Soul Journey
A common question asked by many is - "Do we
go back to the soul world, the incorporeal world
(non-physical world), the home of all souls,
when we die?" When we understand and
experience ourselves as souls, as
un-destroyable, eternal beings, we realize that
death is only a physical phenomenon. At the
death of the body, the soul enters another
physical costume and a new chapter in its
journey of life begins. Depending on the
soul's karma performed through the body,
its new birth is likely to be somewhere in the
company of those souls with whom it has been
close in previous births. It is quite a paradox
that when a soul leaves a body, the relations
which it has left, mourn over the loss of their
loved one, and the new relations which it gets
attached to celebrate with happiness, over an
addition of a new-born entrant in their family.
The soul only leaves the home (the soul
world) once in a unique, personal journey. This
journey of the soul is not linear i.e. a
straight line, with a beginning and an end. But,
on the other hand, it is cyclic i.e. a circle,
with neither a beginning, nor an end - although
both leaving the soul world and going back to
the soul world happen once each in every cycle.
This soul journey can be compared to actors who
leave home to go to the theatre to play their
parts. They change costumes between scenes -
they don't return home at the end of each scene,
they return home when the play is finished, only
to return the next day to repeat their part in
the play. Each birth of the soul that it takes
can be compared to a new scene of the play,
which consists of many different scenes.
Soul Sustenance
Universal
Concepts About The Supreme Being or God - Part 2
Just as a candle flame emerges from a
point source and assumes an oval form, mystics
and saints throughout the passage of time have
had visions of God as a point of self-luminous
light with an oval aura.
Most religions have images, idols or
memorials, having one name or the other to
represent God as light or as an oval shape.
Throughout India there are statues of an
oval-shaped image. They are called
Shivalingas, and are thought to represent
the Creator Himself. The names of the temples of
Shiva confirm this: Somnath, the
Lord of Nectar; Vishwanath, The Lord of
the Universe; Mukteshwara, the Lord of
Liberation, etc..
In the Old Testament of the Bible, it is
mentioned that Moses had a vision of light as a
burning bush in the desert. Jesus also referred
to God as light. In some Christian ceremonies,
during the ceremonies, an ostensorio is held up.
The ostensorio is a golden ball with many rays
radiating from it. Perhaps this is a symbolic
representation of God.
Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism called Him
Ek Omkar, Nirakar, the one non-physical
(bodiless) being or soul.
According to Islamic legend, when Adam left
paradise he came to a low hill upon which he saw
a shining white oval stone. Around this stone he
circled seven times praising God. He then built
the Kaaba. By the time of Abraham it
needed to be rebuilt as a temple to honour the
one God. The town of Mecca grew around this
spot. This oval stone, later called Sang-e-aswad
and now ‘blackened’ by the kisses of millions of
sinners, so they say, is the only object of
worship in the whole of Islam.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the
day
Where there is faith, there is greatness.
Expression:
To have faith means to
recognize the positivity in the self, in others
and in situations. It also means a deep
connection with God. The one who has faith is
able to bring out the greatness in everything
and everyone. So such a person reveals his
greatness wherever he is.
Experience:
When I have unbroken faith, I have the
understanding that everything that happens is
for some good cause. So, I am satisfied with
everything that happens in my life. So I am
creative in my responses to the environment,
which in turn, makes me truly great.