The Color
of Flowers
Leave worries aside and you will be surprised by the
beauty of the sky and the color of flowers, of the
freshness of the breeze and the generosity of the sun.
You will feel you are part of creation, and life will
start to make sense. The greatest wealth is to
appreciate what we have and what we are.
Look at
Specialties
The usual reaction to negativity is to be negative too.
The perception of this negativity tends to make me feel
disheartened and I tend to lose my inner happiness. Once
I have perceived the negativity, even if I do try to
forgive the person and forget the harm done, I find it
difficult to do so. When I see someone working with some
negative quality, what I need to do is to look at the
positivity that is hidden behind the perceived
negativity. The more I am able to look at people's
specialties the more I am able to forgive their
weaknesses and this keeps me constantly cheerful.
Transforming The Anger Of The Other
In meditation, when I connect with God, I absorb His
spiritual love and peace, which causes my own original
qualities, which are present in me, the soul, in my pure
state when I begin the playing of roles through physical
bodies on the world stage, to come to the forefront or
to the surface, to emerge in the conscious from the
sub-conscious. As a result, now, where previously
there would have been conflict, I have a greater
capacity to remain peaceful when another person behaves
in an unpleasant way with me. I have the power to stay
mentally and emotionally stable when someone provokes or
insults me. This power is enormously valuable in life,
enabling me to cool heated situations, and even remove
another person's anger altogether.
Instead of focusing on the anger on a person's face,
I focus my attention to the non-physical, star-like
being or soul within the person, which was peaceful and
loveful in its original, pure state. This increases
my tolerance and acceptance power. Also, through my
meditation, I am actively aware of the spiritual bond
all human beings share, as souls who have a common home
of peace, the incorporeal (nonphysical) home, from where
all of souls come and a common connection with the One
Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul. Through this
knowledge, I connect with the goodness in the other soul
and my love for the soul is maintained. I realize that
this goodness is a deeper reality than the anger.
The truth is that if I can hold this soul-conscious
vision steady for long enough, I radiate positive energy
to the other soul, which works like magic and awakens
the goodness within the other person. Then, my
tolerance bears fruit and peace really does prevail
between the two of us.
Soul Sustenance
Resolving
the Inner Identity Crisis (Part 2)
In yesterday’s message we had explained how the
confusions, complications and problems that exist in our
world today and the state of human relationships all
over the world, are simply a reflection of our lack of
inner clarity about who we are, what we are and where we
are heading i.e. a lack of true self-identity. So how do
we resolve this internal and external turmoil?
There is an original, beautiful self, with
characteristics of peace, love and happiness that exists
within each one of us, the self from which we have
been distanced since a very long time. This is a centre
full of the spiritual resources of all virtues and
powers. Reaching it is a journey of only one second and
no distance. By identifying with this inner centre, a
centre which is imperishable, unchangeable, constant and
even eternal, my self identity becomes strong and
stable, as compared to many false identities based
on external realities like position, wealth and material
possessions which are all perishable and subject to
various ups and downs even in one single day, and if we
over identify with them, we are bound to experience
constant pain and discontentment.
This process of true self-identification is not a
renunciation or avoidance of the way the outer world is
but it is a healing process for your inner world. It is
an internal correction process of identification,
whereby you rediscover your true self as a complete
being full of positive emotions that you always were and
you start identifying with it, doing which very easily
helps you let go of the wrong identifications. This
process is commonly called meditation, the foundation of
which is spiritual wisdom. Once this inner work is done,
the outer world starts taking the shape of a reflection
of that. Resolving the identity crisis first changes the
way our internal and external world looks to us, as a
result changing the way it works.
Message for the day
The one who has the balance of flexibility and
discipline is the one who is constantly successful.
Expression:
It is of course necessary to be flexible but if we are
so flexible that others take advantage of us it is not
right. So we need to have a balance of flexibility and
discipline i.e., to be flexible within the rules and
code of conduct.
Experience:
It is necessary to take care that the flexible nature
within us doesn't waste our time or other resources. We
have to be able to say no if the situation demands. But
whatever we say has to be told with love, which comes
when our nature is that of flexibility.