18.09.2014

Best of Friends
The best kind of friend is the kind, you can sit on a
porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk
away, feeling like it was the best conversation you've
ever had.
Accommodation
Accommodation is perceived as something to do with
accommodating others' negativity or concealing someone's
negativity. So the consciousness is totally of the
negative aspects and one finds it difficult to hide
negative things for long. So after sometime this is
revealed through one's own words and actions which even
tend to hurt the other person. True accommodation is to
perceive exactly what the person or situation requires.
We are able to recognize what he needs and give
accordingly. For example, we are able to give water to
the thirsty and not diamonds and gold (he has no value
for that at that time). When we are able to give in this
way we remain unaffected with the negativity of the
situation or the people around us.
Churning Spiritual Knowledge (cont.)
We had discussed a few benefits of churning spiritual
knowledge yesterday. Some more are as follows:
3. The knowledge that we have becomes more real:
and so can give more effectively to others. We can use
the jewels of knowledge in serving others. This
knowledge will have much greater power and be of much
greater help to others than any form of scholarly or
bookish knowledge.
4. Our personality changes: Limited views and
thought patterns which give birth to various obstacles
can be finished by churning. Our outlook towards life
becomes very broad and we become completely content
internally so that name, fame, respect, insult, etc.
don't affect us, they seem totally insignificant.
5. Natural bliss: By churning, spiritual
knowledge becomes a source of bliss. Because of the
spiritual happiness and intoxication that comes from
churning, our faces will become radiant and we become
instruments to attract other people towards
spirituality.
6. Our concentration power increases: By
acknowledging and not suppressing impure thoughts we
will easily clear negative thoughts within a short
period of time. Our concentration power will increase.
We will be able to clear and burn impure or waste
thoughts, and easily become an embodiment of positivity.
Soul Sustenance
Self Purification
Each soul has become impure due its own actions during
its various births. We ourselves became impure and
peaceless because of losing our self awareness, so it is
useless to blame anyone else. It is too easy to blame
"so and so." Today, everyone blames someone else: * It's
the religions, * It's the government, * It's the social
pressures, * It's the Devil (Ravana), * It's my wife, *
It's my boss. Few can see that their own unhappiness is
because of their own weaknesses or actions under the
influence of these weaknesses. The Devil is just a
symbolic personification of these negative forces at
work in every soul. The soul itself creates its
accounts, good and bad, so the soul itself must balance
them. No human soul can settle someone else's account of
sins. In this respect many souls are being misled by
those who claim to be able to change or interfere with
the workings of the laws of karma. The ones
claiming this have their own accounts of sins to settle.
While they still remain in a physical body they are
within the boundaries of the same laws that apply to
all. The law of karma, of reaping and sowing,
action and reaction applies to everyone.
The account of impure actions can only be balanced by
pure actions on the part of the doer; the soul. Truly
pure actions can only be performed when one is in a
state of soul-consciousness and in remembrance of the
one who is beyond action; the Supreme Soul (God). In
burning love for the Supreme, sins can be rapidly
burned. The soul need only increase its love for the
Supreme Soul and remember him correctly.
Message for the day
True sweetness is to be peaceful in every thought, word
and deed.
Projection:
The one who is peaceful in thoughts is able to be sweet
in words and positive in actions. Such a person is able
to give others an experience of one's own positive
qualities and those of others too. So there is beauty,
positivity and sweetness perceived in such a person's
life.
Solution:
When I am ever ready I am able to be easy. Because I am
easy, all tasks seem easy for me and effort put in for
the success of the task also becomes easy. So I don't
have to do a lot of effort but give my best. Thus I
experience success every moment in all situations. When
I am totally peaceful, I am able to experience my own
inner beauty. In the silence of the mind, I am able to
see everything in a positive way. So I have nothing that
is a difficult situation, but only situations that bring
out the best from within me. I experience the sweetness
of life and continue to move on towards success.