24.04.2014

Dance in Happiness
The easy way to remain
happy is to remain constantly light. Pure thoughts are
light and waste thoughts are heavy. Therefore, keep your
intellect busy with pure thoughts and you will become
light and continue to dance in happiness.
Look at
Specialties
When you
look at the specialties in each one you can easily
cooperate with others and receive their cooperation.
Each and every individual has something special. If you
make the habit of seeing these specialties, you will
find that others are able to relate to you with these
specialties and you can easily get their cooperation.
You will also be able to cooperate with them easily.
Think of one person you are not able to cooperate with.
Now think of one specialty of that person. Make sure you
relate to this specialty whenever you come into contact
with this person. As you continue this practice you will
find your negativity vanishing away and cooperation
becomes easy.
Meditation To
Experience Being An Impartial Observer
Experience the following thoughts
one after the other:
I sit in a relaxed position, letting all tensions
dissolve... I relax my shoulders and neck and breathe
deeply several times... Now I focus all my attention
inside and observe what is happening in mind... I
observe, and look carefully...
I see myself in different situations; I can identify the
things that affect me most, the dependencies on things
and people, the various circumstances in which I see
myself involved... I observe how these external factors
influence me and change my state of mind. I lack trust
in some people, but with others I can express myself
freely. There are many influences in my life... There
are the influences of these external factors... I
separate myself from them and observe my inner
qualities; I begin to feel that peace, strength and love
are part of my original self... They are so strong that
they cannot be influenced by the changing external
factors...
I create positive thoughts about myself... I am a being
independent of external influences, and in my inner self
there are many qualities. I feel them... I enjoy being
myself in my original peaceful state...
Soul Sustenance
The Spiritual Concept Of Becoming A Trustee (cont.)
While it’s important
to realize that the treasures mentioned in yesterday’s
message are my treasures and they possess immense
potential since they help me grow spiritually by their
right use, it is also important to maintain a
relationship of detachment with them, because we live
with these treasures all the time and it is very easy to
get caught up with them and become attached to them.
Where there is attachment, there develops ego and the
treasures start getting misused. An important
concept in this regard is that of trusteeship.
The Supreme Being while sharing the knowledge of these
treasures and the method of using them, also shares,
that for our benefit, once we realize what these
treasures are, we should surrender these treasures to
Him. This is an invisible or nonphysical surrender,
not a physical or visible one.
Once these treasures are surrendered to Him, unlike
worldly surrenders, the treasures don’t remain with Him,
because being an Unlimited Donor and being Incorporeal
(bodiless), the Supreme doesn’t keep them with Himself
and returns them back to us. Anyways, the surrender is
deep but is on a mental level and not on a physical one.
But, while returning the treasures back, the Supreme
Being presents a condition in front of us. He says that
since these treasures now no longer belong to us, we
need to remove any sense of ownership over them and
become a trustee while taking care of and using these
treasures only for the purpose instructed by Him, the
purpose of bringing the self and others closer to a
state of truth (as explained in yesterday’s message).
The word trustee comes from the word trust. In this case
the Supreme Being says that He wishes and hopes that
we keep His trust and don’t breach it at any cost, at
any point of time, in taking care of and using ‘His’
treasures, because don’t forget, although the treasures
are with us, there are no longer ours.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Message for the day
Self-respect
increases when one learns to converse positively to the
self.
Projection:
The usual way to talk to the self is
to talk to the most superficial aspects of the
personality, those which are related to fears (including
those of the future), complaints and mindless repetition
of things in the past. Such talk to the self only lowers
the self-respect to a great extent.
Solution:
Not only when our mind is going towards waste and
negative, but at all times, it is important that we talk
to the mind with love, as we would talk to a child. Like
a mother would lovingly explain to the child, we need to
teach our mind with love. This creates true happiness
within and our self-respect increases.