26.11.2014

Likes and Dislikes
We all have likes and dislikes.
But do they limit our life experience?
What we like may not always be good for us. Like
medicine, what we don't like, may, in fact, be
just what we need.
We don't have to like everything, but isn't it
good to broaden our minds?
This week, challenge your likes and dislikes.
Can you like the dislikes?
The Relationship Between Anger And
Attachment (cont.)
Attachment is a negative
attraction that we succumb to, inside our
consciousness, regularly and it gives rise to
ego, which in turn is the root cause of all
suffering. Suffering, in turn, is experienced at
an emotional level through the various different
forms of anger. We need to realize this
phenomenon very deeply because this happens many
a times in each day of our lives inside our
consciousness. Then we can see exactly from
where our anger arises and we can correct it.
So if we don't want to
suffer from anger, the solution is simple - we
don't get attached to anything or anyone, to any
expectation, any particular desired result.
Sounds difficult at first, but the same solution
can be put in a way that would seem easier to
achieve, we don't lose our spiritual identity or
individuality in something we are not, in
anything or anyone that is physical. That does
not mean we shouldn't possess any material
objects and not experience joy by using them. It
also does not mean we start remaining aloof from
people that we love. Nor does it mean we don't
have goals and ambitions at the workplace etc.
We do. But our relationship with them changes.
Our relationship becomes one of detachment and
not of attachment. And what is a relationship of
detachment? Detachment means that we possess all
of them but we are no longer dependent on any of
them, for our peace, contentment and happiness.
We choose to be peaceful, content and joyful
irrespective of whether they are there with us
or not. So when cars get banged into (which can
happen at times) and when people close to us are
harmed or insulted or they leave or are
separated from us due to any other reason (which
is also bound to happen) or when jobs are lost
(which is inevitable), we don't react angrily
and suffer as a result. We have realized
everything in life comes and goes; everything is
born and comes to an end. We also realize that
every process taking place in life is
unpredictable and not always controllable, and
must end. Things do and will happen. We know
this is a reality. Every time we get angry it
means we are having an argument with this
reality of life.
Contentment
Sometimes we try to fill the gap in our lives,
by doing something good for others or by serving
others. When we want to do something good for
others, we look for the contentment that service
brings, but this too may not be the solution.
The pre-qualification for serving others, i.e.,
to give others, is to have contentment within.
Only when we have this specialty can we serve
selflessly with whatever resources we have. We
are able to use all resources well for others'
benefit and we are free from expectations too.
Soul Sustenance
The Distinction (Difference) Between Human Souls
And The
Supreme Soul (God) – cont.
Human Souls: They have physical bodies.
Supreme Soul: God's form is incorporeal
(point of spiritual energy).
Human Souls: They cannot liberate humanity.
Supreme Soul: God is the up lifter of all.
Human Souls: They become impure through
body-consciousness.
Supreme Soul: God is the purifier.
Human Souls: They are caught up by the
present, do not have complete knowledge
of the past (since they come in the process of
birth and rebirth) and no accurate knowledge of
the future.
Supreme Soul: God is the knower of the three
aspects of time (past, present and future).
Human Souls: They are takers.
Supreme Soul: God is the giver, He takes
nothing.
Message for the day
An elevated consciousness brings specialty to
the task being done.
Projection: As is the consciousness, so
is the feeling behind the task, and therefore
its quality. Just to perform action and finish
the tasks at hand does not bring specialty and
accuracy as much as it should. When the
consciousness is special, that means before a
task is performed there is a thought given both
to the task and to the self, there is speciality
revealed in the task.
Solution: When I am able to start each
task with a special consciousness, like "I am
victorious", or "I am powerful" or "this task is
for the benefit of all", I am able to experience
the specialty of doing the task. I am also able
to increase my state of self-respect, whatever
the task or however simple it
maybe.