16.05.2014

Feeling of Happiness
If I do everything with a
feeling of happiness, there will be no task too
difficult to perform.
Have Faith
The ones who have
faith are able to believe in succeeding even in the most
difficult circumstances. They will never say "I will try
to do it" but their words reflect the confidence, which
make them say, "I will do it". They are able to make
best use of the available resources and also find yet
undiscovered resources. When I am able to work with
faith and believe in the success of a task, I'll
naturally fill it with positive and powerful vibrations.
This naturally ensures that the task is successful. Also
people provide maximum support, as I am totally
committed and confident.
Mind
Empowerment
Meditation is an inner
mental exercise, an exercise not physically visible to
oneself and others. Through this exercise we link
ourselves to the Source of unlimited and complete purity
(the Supreme Being), which not only purifies our mind
but also liberates the mind from the limits or various
different forms of impurity or body consciousness, like
I, my, burdens of the past and negative feelings
for myself and others. During meditation the mind let's
go of the threads of the limits of the physical body and
physical world. Like a bird, the mind, which is impure,
experiences a magnetic pull for this pure Source and
flies upwards and connects with this Source. This
connection is not difficult when the mind is truly in
love. Love for the Source emerges inside when we have
complete knowledge of God as the Ocean of truth and
purity and have an inner spiritual thirst for
experiencing a connection with Him, and not just trying
to demand, flatter, or beg God for something for selfish
reasons. The desire for connection enables the soul to
fly beyond all mental barriers such as I can't, How
do I? and No time!.
Connection fills the mind with a spiritual strength
which we use in our everyday life and keeps it
constantly positive, uninfluenced by any external
negativity. To maintain such strength, we require a
daily connection and recharge every morning; otherwise
the using up of the energy of the mind in actions
throughout the day causes its spiritual strength to get
depleted very soon. In silence, we will find a personal
and very loveful friendship with God, who not only
listens and helps but, most of all, is just there. At
the present moment, a lot of us have completely lost the
simple enjoyment of His presence; we feel we have to ask
for something, say something, or chant something. It is
enough just to be still in the silence of that spiritual
meeting and experience its bliss and enjoy the stage of
spiritual fulfillment.
Soul Sustenance
Shedding Off The Attachment To A Positive Past (Part 2)
Excessive attachment to a glorious past is a subtle
shade of the negative emotion of ego which colors my
present perception of external events and which affects
my present actions and responses, as a result of which
not only present but my future is also affected. As
I hold on to it, my creativity is reduced and I do
everything with a limited perspective, not letting
myself grow and shape up a glorious present and future.
There are some people whose goal is to achieve something
so great in their lives so as to ensure they will gain
recognition and respect by others in time to come. This
is again a subtle shade of attachment and ego.
But shedding off this
type of attachment is not easy and first requires the
realization that this attachment is incorrect and
damaging. The next step is sitting in silence and
becoming aware of how you lose your identity in a story
of past thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes and
actions and then disassociating or detaching yourself
from that story. You do not need to suppress or deny
or fight with this story; otherwise its memory gets
stronger and more overpowering. You just need to
simply see and realize deeply that your past is just a
record of a particular set of actions, which you
committed at a particular point of time, it is a series
of images of previous events that you witnessed and that
you were a part of, all of which have left a record in
your memory, and in the memories of others, but they are
not what you are. This type of practice of
disassociation with spiritual understanding fades the
excessive memory of the story in your consciousness over
a short period of time and these actions then cease to
influence you in any way in the present. Here we are
talking about an influence, which we have for long
deceived ourselves into believing to be a positive one,
but which in reality is not.
Message for the day
True detachment is
to be a master of all things that we use.
Expression:
Detachment is usually mistaken as
being away from things because usually while using the
facilities available we tend to get dependent on them.
Such dependency is troublesome and so we sometimes give
up using these facilities thinking that this is
detachment which helps us to be
free from their control.
Experience:
The solution lies in mentally detaching ourselves from
the facilities we are using. That means we use them but
we are not dependent on them. For this we need to remind
ourselves that we are the creator and whatever
facilities are available to us are the creation. This
enables us to develop mastery and control over
everything.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris