19.08.2014

Let Go and Let Love
Just as the bird has to let
go of the branch in order to fly, in the same way we
also need to let go to experience and express love. The
branches we hold on to are our attachments (people and
objects). When we mentally hold on to something or
someone, we open ourselves to feel fear, pain, anger and
possessiveness Love
is about letting go and letting others be. It's about
appreciating and accepting without dependency and
expectation.
Uniqueness
There is usually a tendency to want to be recognized by
others and we try hard to make our actions such that
others are pleased with whatever we do. Sometimes we do
succeed, but at other times when we do not get any
positive response from the others, we then tend to
become disheartened. We need to recognize our own
uniqueness and remember it consciously in everything
that we do. We need to recognize the fact that there is
no human being without any specialty. We too have a
specialty, which makes us special. Using this unique
quality of ours will bring specialty in our actions too.
Experiencing Freedom In
Relationships
How much are you influenced by what others think of you
and how they see you? The degree to which you act on the
basis of what you think others want and expect of you,
allows them to have power over your inner and outer
world.
Important aspects are how you think others see you,
how you want them to see you and how you see yourself.
The person who is not conditioned by how others see
them, and doesn't even think about how they would like
to be seen, but who rather is comfortable with
themselves, has a presence that generates comfort.
Others feel fine around that person.
Let us learn to free ourselves from the conditionings
that generate the thinking of how we want others to see
us. Let us feel the freedom to let ourselves be how we
want to be.
Try it and you will see that the results are amazing.
That way, as you go along, you will take off the masks
that you wear due to the fears of what others will say
and think.
Soul Sustenance
Inculcating Powers
Through Rajyoga Meditation – The
Power To Pack Up (cont.)
As I progress on my
spiritual journey, even thoughts that waste the precious
resources of the mind come to be seen as a barrier.
Turning a scene over in my mind repeatedly is an example
of waste, that will rob me of the mental concentration
and emotional stability I need to keep moving forward.
Sometimes we do get stuck, like a broken record, in such
mental grooves, without realizing what we are doing.
The power of pack up means I recognize the damage caused
by such waste, and put an end to it. As I renew the
awareness of myself as a soul, in relationship with the
Supreme Soul, the needle of my attention is lifted above
the groove, letting me come fully into the present.
I also learn to be selective in what I choose to
remember or forget from the past. This is not dishonest;
in fact, it is being honest to my task. Human beings in
any case have highly selective memories. We not only see
and understand differently, according to our individual
interests and agendas, but our attitudes and perception
also determine the memories we choose to store.
Meditation enables me to exercise this option quite
deliberately, picking up those scenes from the past that
nourish me and help me move forward, and rejecting
memories that pollute my mind and slow me down.
Message for the day
The one who gives
constantly is a true bestower.
Projection:
We usually find
ourselves giving only to those who give to us. When
someone gives us love or happiness, we too are inspired
to give. So we find that unless we get from others, it
becomes difficult to give.
Solution:
We need to have the aim
of not letting anyone go from us empty handed. That
means we give them an experience of love or happiness or
whatever they need at that time. When we have that aim,
we will be able to give even when we don't get anything.
And then, we find that only when we give do we get.