15.03.2015

Hear No Evil
Don't engage yourself in thinking about others
because of jealousy. If anyone tells you wrong
things about others, then hear but don't hear.
Don't speak about such things and spoil the
hearts of others. Hear no evil, see no evil,
speak no evil, think no evil and do no evil.
God's Love
The world is trapped in the mire of barriers
(politics, language,
caste, gender) and this has distanced us from
each other, and from
what we require for wholesome existence: love,
respect, understanding,
and freedom. We are scared to love for fear of
being taken for
granted but God's love is very liberating, since
God's vision
surpasses all physical and imposed barriers:
every soul is seen for
what it is and what it is capable of; no one is
condemned for their
past; no expectations are kept nor requests for
anything in return but
yet God does know the value of His love. God has
the faith that love
and blessings will transform negativity in His
children eventually.
True love and good wishes for another soul is
the seed that shall bear
fruit in time. God says, you cannot love Me
completely if you dislike
any of My children because God cannot reside in
a heart filled with
hateful feelings.
Practical Positive Response Training To The Mind
Meditation is a process in which I train the
mind to consciously create those right type of
thoughts that I wish to have, inside my mind,
regularly in my daily routine.On the field
of action, I am faced with various different
types of negative and uncomfortable situations,
which have the first and most immediate effect
on my thoughts, before showing on my face in my
expressions or in my words or actions. I do
realize inside, that the thoughts (and as a
result my physical response) created at these
times are not the right ones. I want to
inculcate a habit, whereby my thought patterns
are only which I like or are the right, positive
and powerful ones no matter what happens.
So where do I start? Meditation is the start.
Meditation is the time, when I consciously
create positive thoughts. What benefit do I
achieve from that? In these few moments, I am
changing the deep and very old habit (not
limited only to this birth) of creating the
wrong type of thoughts, whenever I am faced with
a situation which I do not like. How do I do
this? I do this through the intellect. The
intellect takes hold of the reins of the mind
and chooses the direction in which it will
travel. Why is it able to do this? Because, during
meditation, I bring myself back to the knowledge
or belief that I am a soul and my intellect
accepts and absorbs this awareness. This belief
then becomes the key to taking charge of what is
going on in my mind.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
The Journey Of Purpose
All of us, at some point of time, in fact almost
right through our life, keep different types of
long term or short term goals - personal goals,
professional, financial, social, relationship
goals; goals related to physical well being and
health, spiritual goals etc. Sometimes we are
not even aware ourselves, but we are passing
through the journey of life with some purpose or
the other at all times, the purpose may be a
higher purpose or something connected to our
day-to-day living.
Whatever actions we perform then, our aimed at
fulfilling this purpose. Also these actions are
full of lots of expectations, the expectations
of achieving some results. These results which
we desire or expect arrive at times and
sometimes they don't. If they don't, which is a
very common aspect of any such journey of
purpose; they generate emotions of worry inside
us. Even if the results are achieved, the nature
of journey, prior to those results is stressful
as compared to a journey which is purpose filled
but expectation free, which some might argue is
not possible. Worry and stress not only harm the
spiritual and emotional self but even our
physical body and relationships, making the
journey difficult and tiring. It is not
incorrect to be action oriented and having some
clear objectives in progressing towards our
purpose, but we need to be capable of aiming
ourselves at our dreams without becoming date
conscious and the expectation of them being
fulfilled now, or on a specific date, in a
particular way or form. If not, we live in a
tomorrow consciousness and tend to get upset or
discouraged easily and we don't enjoy today. It
is not incorrect to be happy when we achieve
something, but if our happiness is dependent on
our achievements, we will always delay it.
Happiness is not later, it is always now. It is
commonly said - 'Happiness is a journey, not a
destination'. Here we say – ‘Happiness is not
only in reaching your purpose, your destination,
but also in the journey of purpose’. Also, it’s
important to note that a carefree and
detached intellect will always attract positive
circumstances which serve as bridges in reaching
one's purpose, much more, as compared to a
worried intellect.
Message for the day
To be free from attachment of one's own
qualities is to have the ability to work on the
self.
Expression:
The main form of attachment
of the self is the attachment to both one's own specialities and weaknesses. When there is the
ability to free oneself from this kind of
attachment there is the ability to work on both.
There is the awareness of them, but not bound by
them. There is the ability to use specialities
with love and according to the need. There is
also special attention given to finish
weaknesses.
Experience:
When I am free from
attachment, I am aware of them, but there is
neither arrogance of the specialities nor any
inferior feelings for the presence of the
negativity within me. I am able to experience
detachment from them and able to use my
specialities with ease. I am not disturbed with
the presence of the weaknesses but am able to
win over them with ease.