Hemp
SeedsSeeds
What
we see today may not be just the fruit of chance but the
fruit of seeds planted in the past. Plant seeds of peace
now and create a life of peace in the future.
Trust
It
is normally experienced that it is difficult to trust all
the people around us. We do want to but the negative
experiences (when people don't fulfill our expectations)
do not let us do so. We tend to add up to this negative
experience with each incident that happens, which further
breaks our trust for people. The only way to trust and
gain people's trust is by having respect for them. Respect
makes us look at the specialties in everyone and we are
able to relate to these specialties. The more we look at
the positive aspect in others, the more we are able to
encourage others to use these specialties and relate to
our own specialties too. This is the only way that trust
comes.
Understanding
The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace
Each
and every human soul's original trait or characteristic is
peace. Before each soul comes down on the earth to take
its first physical body, the soul is in a state of
complete peace, residing in the soul world. In
the soul world, the two faculties of the soul - the mind
and intellect are complete inactive or dormant and the
third faculty, the sanskara or
spiritual personality is only that of eternal peace and
purity and no other virtue like happiness, love or
knowledge. The
mind is completely silent, not creating a single thought
or emotion or feeling nor possessing an attitude. The
intellect which possesses the power to discriminate right
thoughts, words or actions from the wrong ones does not
exercise its power because there are no thoughts, words or
actions in the soul world, so there is nothing there to
discriminate. The sanskaras (as
mentioned above) are also inactive to a certain extent -
there are no thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes,
words or actions to be created or processed, which would
be based on the sanskaras or
personality.
When the soul first takes a physical body on the world
stage, it creates thoughts and feelings which are few in
number and they are only positive and its words and
actions are also limited and completely positive. Its
discrimination power is active and completely accurate and
its sanskaras or
personality come into an active mode (sanskaras other
than peace also become active) but only for a positive
purpose to create positive thoughts, words or actions. As
a result of this, the soul experiences immense peace, but
the extent of the peace is lesser than that of in the soul
world, where it is completely still and experiences dead
silence or peace. It is never peaceless though at this
stage. As the soul starts coming into the process of birth
and rebirth, its starts losing its energy slowly; its
mind, intellect and sanskaras start
functioning negatively or incorrectly, it begins to
succumb to the vices, leading to the creation of thoughts,
words and actions, which are not only large in number but
they are mostly waste or negative in nature. As a result,
the soul gradually begins to lose its peace, which it
experienced in the soul world (eternal peace) and at the
start of its journey on the physical world and starts
becoming peaceless.
Tomorrow we
shall explain how we can return to our original state of
peace.
Soul
Sustenance
Cooking
And Eating With A Spiritual Touch (cont.)
Having prepared food with attention (which we have
explained over the last two days), the Brahma Kumaris'
practice is then to offer the freshly-prepared meal to the
Supreme Soul. We call it offering bhog (or commonly called
prasad) to the Supreme Father. As a part of this practice,
positive energy or vibrations of love, bliss and peace
taken from the Supreme via meditation for 5-10 minutes, is
given to the food prepared, by keeping a small portion of
the food in a clean vessel kept aside for this purpose
only, on a table in front of you. This practice can be
followed every day for one main meal at least, or more,
depending on how much time you have at hand. It is good to
do this exercise in a special corner in the house or even
a separate small room kept aside for the purpose of
meditation or basically a place where the atmosphere is
spiritually empowering as compared to the rest of the
house. Charging the food with positive spiritual energy
and expressing gratitude to the Supreme in this way serves
to increase the spiritual quality of the food and deepen
the individual's personal relationship with the Supreme,
while also creating a powerful, shared divine experience.
On a very practical level, it will also help the body to
prepare itself to receive and digest food. Of course, the
last step is to eat, and this, too, is best done in a
peaceful, unhurried and harmonious state of mind and
environment: we are what we eat and also how we eat.
It’s good to avoid eating along with the television or
newspaper. Eating with the family in a positive setting is
a good practice. But talking excessively and sharing
negative information at that time with each other should
be avoided. Talking quite less, talking very slowly,
softly and sweetly and talking about positive and
constructive aspects of life, with the rest of the family
members, should be the norm for meal eating time.
Whether you are a new, aspiring or trained cook, we hope
that the information in this and the last two days’
messages, with its emphasis on the soul as well as the
body, will bring an added dimension to your kitchen and
dining table. Cooking, and eating, should be a joyful and
significant experience. So cook and enjoy!
Message
for the day
Where
everything is done according to the right method there is
success.
Projection: When
we don't achieve success we sometimes do get tempted to
opt for a short cut method, which might bring us temporary
success, too. But in the long run we find that it isn't be
so beneficial after all.
Solution: Whenever
we are involved in a task specially if it is a difficult
one we need to make sure that we are following the right
method. Whatever is done according to the right system
will surely be successful.