Humility
Humility is rare because to have it you have to want
nothing, yet when you have it you get everything.
Selflessness
When there is selflessness in every action, there is the
ability to express the best that is within. Such a
person is able to be himself, yet discovers something
new and becomes better and better each day. Nothing is
done just to attain something, but it becomes a natural
expression. Then there is a beautiful result too.
What Are Thought Vibrations?
The
word atmosphere has two meanings. One refers to the
physical air around us and the other to the more subtle
effect that thought vibrations create in a particular
space. No one can deny that the atmosphere of a crowded
restaurant is different from that of a temple. This is
mainly because of the effect of different types of
thoughts and feelings in that space. Even someone deaf
and blind would have the ability to pick up the
difference. Sound vibrations are invisible but their
impact isn't. A pneumatic drill or a jet breaking the
sound barrier jolt both our minds (non-physical effect)
and the walls of our houses (physical effect).
Thought vibrations can't be seen but their non-physical
as well as physical impact is even more powerful and
influential. The panic that people generate during a
stampede or an earthquake and the euphoria (absolute
joy) of victory in a World Cup final cricket game are
examples of how thoughts create an atmosphere.
On a subtler level, many of us have the experience of
basic telepathy - ' I was just thinking of you and you
called'. Thoughts connect individuals over large
distances. Doctors inform us that over 90% of the
physical body's illnesses have a psychosomatic (mental)
origin i.e. they are a direct or indirect result of our
state of mind. That makes the human body the prime
example of how thoughts affect matter.
Since the world is made up of the collective,
personal worlds of all individuals, then it's easy to
see how the international political, economic and social
atmosphere is nothing more than the collective effects
of all our thoughts.
Soul Sustenance
Varied (Different)
Concepts About The Supreme Being or God (Part 1)
Various questions
related to the Supreme Being or God for the vast
majority remain unanswered and therefore the experience
of God remains unfulfilled. The concepts about God are
as varied or different as are the sanskars of human
beings. Some common concepts about God:
• Some say God is everywhere.
• Some say He is nowhere.
• Some say He created the whole Universe out of nothing
or out of Himself: others see that as illogical and
impossible.
• Many say God is beyond the understanding of limited
human intellects, others believe that they have
understood Him and are then respected as self-realized
or spiritually knowledgeable humans.
• Still others believe themselves to be God and allow
themselves to be worshiped.
• Some say that God creates only what is good, and
others say that He also creates evil or bad, and that
everything that is happening in the world is just God's
play.
• God is seen by some to be just an expression of human
beings' needs and that they will soon go beyond needing
such a figure-head (someone who is looked up to).
• Some say He makes the grass grow and the wind blow,
others say He is merely the voice of the conscience -
the inner voice.
• Others define God as the higher self who remains
constantly at peace; this concept is called
cosmic-consciousness, since the one with this
characteristic is said to be at one with the whole
universe.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
Where there is honesty there is flexibility.
Expression:
When
someone challenges the truth of what we are saying we
generally tend to argue and prove our point in order to
prove ourselves right. When we argue in this way, it
only shows our own stubbornness and doesn't help in
anyway to reveal the truth. Where silence doesn't help
in revealing the truth, argument never will because the
other person is not in a position to listen to us at
that moment.
Experience:
We need to realize the fact that when the other person
is not able to recognize the truth, our arguing will not
help in any way. When the truth is with us we need not
argue but we only need to wait for the right opportunity
to tell what we have to say. When we try to tell when
the other person is not in a position to listen to us,
it only reveals our lack of flexibility.