Determined
Single minded but flexible, like a river forging its
eternal route, I am dedicated to completions and natural
conclusions. There is nothing that cannot be achieved.
There is nothing that remains permanent. I keep on
moving with love and purpose towards my destination. My
resolve is firm, my aims are clear.
Spiritual
Roses Of The Supreme Gardener
The main features of physical flowers are their color,
form and fragrance, by which we judge their beauty. All
these characteristics have their own unique importance.
Introducing oneself to spirituality is like giving
oneself into the hands of the Supreme Spiritual Gardener
or the Supreme Being (God). Like a physical gardener who
possesses qualities of patience, tirelessness, love,
far-sightedness, faith etc. on a limited level, the
Supreme Gardener possesses these qualities on an
unlimited level, which he uses to bring us up. As we
remain under his sustenance and care, over a period of
time, we blossom and are transformed into beautiful
spiritual flowers, and our thorns fall away. When we
look at ourselves as spiritual flowers, our color
symbolizes spiritual knowledge.
Depending on how we imbibe the wisdom shared by the
Spiritual Gardener and bring it in our day-to-day
functioning; in our thoughts, words, actions and
relationships; the more beautiful a color we take. Our
form is shaped depending on the quality of our
connection with the Supreme Being, the Gardener. The
deeper and stronger the connection, the more beautiful
the form. Lastly, our fragrance refers to divine
qualities like sweetness, humility, tolerance,
carefreeness, purity and many more, which we develop.
Physical flowers with a good color, form and fragrance,
attract everyone around them. Seeing and coming close to
them, gives one an experience of joy. The same holds
true for spiritual flowers.
Roses are considered the king of all flowers, with the
best possible color, form and fragrance. Spiritual roses
are those souls which continuously remain in a spiritual
consciousness and spread the fragrance of that
consciousness to others. Their thoughts, words and
actions get shaped according to this consciousness. They
have a deep relationship with the Spiritual Gardener and
are always eager to ensure that others also experience
that relationship and become spiritual roses; which is a
deep wish of the Supreme Gardener, for every spiritual
being. They help him in fulfilling that wish.
Soul Sustenance
Resolving
the Inner Identity Crisis (Part 1)
At the present moment in human history, almost every
individual has lost the awareness of its real or true
self. This has happened very gradually as each
individual has progressed in its journey of
birth-rebirth and has kept on attaching itself to
various different things and as a result losing its
sense of self in things that it is not i.e. identifying
with things that it is not. In a way it can be said that
this took the self far away from itself. This
personal, internal identity crisis has led to a
universal, external identity crisis, which has resulted
in an emotional crisis resulting in peacelessness and
sorrow in our inner world as well as in the outer world.
This inner identity crisis is the root cause of the
multitude of deformed emotions that exist inside us like
anger, ego, lust, fear, comparison with others, greed,
hatred, low self esteem, dependencies etc. all of which
have brought us and keep on bringing us pain.
We explain this with an example – suppose you have
just constructed a new apartment. While making it and
once its ready and you are using it, you have become
excessively attached to it i.e. you have started
identifying with it. Due to this false identification,
the first emotion that gets created inside you is ego.
If someone were to criticize the apartment even
slightly, you would react immediately with anger. You
constantly fear any sort of harm to the apartment. You
even compare it with apartments that others possess. You
also start looking down at people whose apartment is not
as good as yours i.e. you create emotions of hatred for
them. If something negative were to happen it, it
affects your mental state immediately i.e. your
happiness has become dependent on the material
possession. Your temporary success along with the
recognition that it brings you from others leads to the
desire of more success of a similar type i.e. possess
some more things - bigger and better, which is nothing
but greed etc. The seed of all these incorrect emotions
is my over identification with this newly acquired
possession. All of these wouldn’t exist inside me, if my
relationship with was one of detachment with it. In this
way, we identify with various objects and people in the
whole day, which leads to the creation of such emotions
inside us.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
The one who has the power of realization is the one who
can bring transformation.
Projection:
When something goes wrong we immediately begin to look
for excuses why that mistake happened. This finishes our
power of realization and we will not be able to
recognize our own mistake. Then we will not be able to
work at improving ourselves and we will not be able to
bring any transformation.
Solution:
Instead of looking for excuses for what happened, we
need to take the opportunity to check within ourselves
and see our own mistake. When we recognize our mistake,
however small it may be, we will be able to work on it.
Only when we are able to realize our own mistake, will
we be able to bring about transformation in ourselves.
Discipline
Throughout the day I find myself having to give
explanations or corrections to so many people. When I do
this I find that I have to spend a lot of words. In the
process I tend to lose a lot of my energy and find
myself tired. It is not the work but the words that make
me tired. In order to save my energy and to use fewer
words I need to have the balance of love and discipline.
Discipline will enable me to give the right directions
while love will make my directions effective. So I find
that just a few words would be enough to get my message
across. I am able to get the benefit of getting the work
done and also win the good wishes of others.