Heart Song
Everyone has a song in their heart. Everyone has a
reason for being here and a season for making their
highest, greatest most auspicious contribution. No one
knows what that is or when that is for anyone else. Only
our own heart knows what and when it is for us. Your
heart wants to sing. Don’t die with your music still
within you.
Non-violence
Non-violence is a very deep philosophy. Not only does it
require us to harm no one physically, but also avoid
harming anyone's self-respect. Such an ethic requires
tremendous awareness and sensitivity. When we have
learned to be gentle with ourselves, we can be the same
with others.
Application
Of The Law Of Karma
We are presently living in a closely connected world
where everyone knows what everyone else is doing, as
they are doing it. Each day brings scenes and images,
through the media, in front of us, of many apparent
injustices and suffering of individuals or groups of
individuals. Whether it's in the office, or in the
market or on the television news, we hear and see
reports of people suffering tremendous pain and sorrow
at the hands of others. At these moments, our sense of
injustice is stimulated and it becomes easy to rise in
outrage against the sinners. In the process we ourselves
suffer from our own self-created anger and perhaps hate.
This process then becomes a habit and an inner pattern
we begin to repeat, not only when we encounter scenes of
global peacelessness, but the moment someone in the
family or at office does something similar. A panic
button is pressed and we react with the same pattern.
What we forget in both global and local contexts, is the
history and geography of karma. Every scene and
situation has a variety of related causes in both time
(history) and space (geography) e.g. emotions of
hatred and revenge amongst various countries and
religions (in different parts of the world) and the
actions connected with these emotions has underlying
hidden causes, related to the Law of Karma (Law of Cause
and Effect) which go back sometimes to hundreds of years
- X is doing something with Y because Y had done
something similar with X sometime in the past, but in
different physical costumes, sometimes quite some time
back in history - this is the reason, we often fail to
take these causes into consideration when viewing these
negative scenes and situations, because we see the
situations with a limited perspective of present
physical costumes and circumstances.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
The Triangle of Spiritual Energy (Part 2)
Today, when human beings seek love, meaning and purpose,
they first connect horizontally (with others) rather
than vertically (with the Supreme Source). This leads to
a greater loss of energy and eventually dissatisfaction
and emptiness. The vertical connection liberates the
self from becoming dependent on someone else and from
having too many expectations.
After the vertical connection, there can then be the
horizontal connection with others, that is, with the
outside or external.
The horizontal movement can be called 'reconnection'.
When we have taken the first two steps (first inwards
i.e. connection with the self and then upwards i.e.
connection with the Supreme), we reconnect with others
on the basis of openness and sharing, rather than
selfishness and need. At this point, there are real
relationships that are respectful and balanced, rather
than a relationship of wanting, taking, or exploiting.
We have come to understand that when we are well with
ourselves, we will be well with others.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
True love is felt by all who receive it.
Expression:
Sometimes we do find ourselves in situations where
others are not responding to the love we are giving. We
are trying to be understanding and accepting as much as
possible but others don't seem to be recognizing it. In
such a situation we begin to blame others and their lack
of feelings and concern.
Experience:
Instead of blaming others when our love and concern is
not being reciprocated, we need to check the quality of
the love that we give. If there is even a trace of
selfishness or if it is mixed with expectations, our
love will not be able to reach out and touch the hearts
of others. So we need to make sure that our love is pure
and unselfish.