
Mind Matters
The most important part of you is your mind (not
your brain - the brain
is the hardware and the mind creates the
software). Care for your
mind, make friends with it, always feed it
healthy food, engage it in
positive activity, exercise it with knowledge
and wisdom. Like a garden
returns fragrance and beauty according to the
care invested, so your
mind will repay you with thoughts, ideas and
visions of great beauty
when tended and invested with care. Your mind is
not made of matter
but it does matter what you give it and what you
create with it. Where
your mind goes, you go. What your mind creates
becomes your
destiny.
Trustworthy
When you have the power to accommodate, you are
mature enough to
merge gossip, rumors, people's weaknesses and
sanskars and not
spread bad vibrations. Just as a mother never
talks ill of her children's
defects or as the ocean accepts the rubbish
rivers bring along, God
teaches us to be sensible and discreet. These
qualities make us
trustworthy and give us the power to build
relationships rather than
walls.
Applying The Law Of Balance To Anger(Cont.)
Yesterday we had explained how the law of
balance can be applied to anger
on a smaller level. The same law can also be
applied on a larger level. Each
time a group of people transmit the negative
energy of anger
physically to another group of people - at that
time, either:
a) one party is disturbing the balance
temporarily, which will be restored
sometime in the future, by the second party
indulging in similar behavior,
or
b) balance is being restored at the present
moment (because negative
energy had been transmitted from the opposite
party to the first party
sometime in the past). This balancing must take
place, because it's an
unbreakable law. This is the law of balance.
This law that does not need to be enforced by
us, the police or
even by God. It is a natural law like other laws
of nature. It gets
enforced itself and cannot be broken by anyone.
Understanding
that this law is embedded in the human state of
affairs at all times makes us
careful and detached so that we don't hurt
ourselves with violent, toxic
thoughts, when someone acts negatively. We
create these kinds of thoughts
because we believe this is revenge that is
justified. Also, knowing that anger
that is radiated comes back doesn't mean we
don't have any laws within
society - they are required, but it helps us not
to take the law into our own
hands. We cannot force justice to take place
before its fixed time. We
cannot force the balancing of energies of anger.
If we trying doing it, it is
being egoistic and we only upset the balance of
our energies as a result.
Even to criticize those who try to take the law
into their own hands is to
take the law into our hands.
Soul Sustenance
Listening To the Voice of the Intellect
The subtle or non-physical sense organ of the
non-physical soul
which we use to judge something as right or
wrong, good or bad
and then make a choice or decision is the
intellect. When we are
body-conscious, we are attached to many things
such as people, our role,
objects, money, even our own ideas and beliefs,
etc. Due to these
attachments, we are constantly creating emotions
of fear and anger in the
energy of our consciousness. It is these two
emotions which then overpower
or influence our intellect and stop us from
judging clearly and correctly
between right and wrong. This constant inner
emotional noise of worry and
irritation (the seeds of fear and anger) do not
allow us to hear the deepest
part of our intellect, which is our intuition.
When we are soul-conscious, we are free from
attachment and therefore
fear and anger. Our consciousness is calm,
focused and keenly aware of the
quiet, but extremely wise voice of our intuition
(inner wisdom). Decision-making
is easier and choices are made out of wisdom
rather than fear. Meditation is the method which helps us rise
above our mental
attachments and allow us to connect with the
wisdom in our
heart, our intuition, our inner voice, which
suggests what the right
response or action in any situation, is. A
practical example of this is when,
after being persuaded by your family members you
decide not to smoke any
more. You let go of the attachment to ‘my’
belief that there is nothing wrong
with smoking, which then allows you to listen to
the heart of the other
(their feelings) and your own heart or
intellect, which suggests to you the
right action for your well-being in the long
run.
Message for the day
To be free from guilt means to ensure quick and
easy progress.
Expression:
Blaming oneself for all that happens and taking
the mind to
extreme levels of guilt takes one to a sense of
unworthiness. Such a person
loses the strength and is unable to look for
solutions in difficult situations.
Hence there is nothing new that can be thought
of, and the situation doesn't
get any better.
Experience:
When I continue to blame myself, I believe that
I deserver
neither happiness nor love and that the sorrow
that I am experiencing is a
deserved punishment. So I lose all enthusiasm to
improve the situation and
have no awareness of the treasures that I have.
So I experience no progress
in my life.