People
If you always understand that the people in your life
are there for a reason, you will never be angry.
True Non-Violence
Normally we pay a lot of attention not to hurt people
physically but sometimes hurt others through our words.
We use words without really thinking of the consequence
and they tend to hurt others. This creates negativity in
others, which in turn affects us negatively too. In
order to bring true non-violence in our life, it is
equally important to pay special attention to what we
speak. The basis of this is to change the pattern of our
thinking. If the words shouldn't hurt others we need to
have positive thoughts-thoughts based on good wishes and
benevolent feelings for others.
The Internal Voice Of Our Conscience
At the heart of our consciousness, we have a conscience.
Our conscience is essentially our basic awareness of
truth. From a spiritual point of view, the truth of who
we are as spiritual beings is core and eternal truth. If
we consider ourselves to be anything other than soul or
spirit then we will be thinking and acting against our
conscience, against our truth, which is like going
against the essence of spirit. We will feel something is
not quite right. If one of the pistons in our car engine
is out of sync with the others, the engine will sound
slightly different from normal. We immediately have it
fixed, because we know that if it continues it may
destroy the engine. If we do something that is out of
sync with the truth, the voice of our conscience speaks
to us. But we tend to ignore or suppress it, especially
if we are having a seemingly pleasurable experience - we
then create the sanskars or habit of ignoring our own
conscience. As a result we keep repeating the negative
karma and the sanskars of the negative karma are
deepened, further ignoring the voice of our conscience.
It is a vicious cycle, to come out of which is extremely
difficult.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Experiencing the Natural Qualities of The Soul
(Meditation)
This meditation commentary will allow you to experience
the natural qualities and nature of the soul. This is
what we call soul consciousness. I sit relaxed and
comfortable… I become aware of my breathing… I become
aware of the thoughts passing in my mind… I bring my
mind towards thoughts of myself… my true nature…
Who am I…
I am a tiny sparkling star of light in the center of the
forehead… energy, concentrated energy…
I radiate light through my body - my costume…
I feel myself different from the body... A point of
light, energy using the body, directing the body…
I am a being of peace… A loveful being…
A being of light… A being of power…. I am light…
I am energy… I am alive, vibrant, sparkling, divine…
Now I use the powers of meditation to serve others:
I am separate from this dense body of matter, my
vehicle… I am peaceful and stable…
I am powerful… I radiate the qualities of peace and love
to other souls around me…
These are my natural qualities… In my real nature I am
tranquil… Radiating light and love into the world…
Message for the day
To become worthy of blessings means to make success
easy.
Projection:
Thinking of benefit for the self increases to such an
extent that it sometimes takes on the form of
selfishness. When we are selfish we stop thinking about
others or the effect that our action is going to have on
them. Then we are not able to move forward with
lightness because the good wishes and blessings of
others are not with us.
Solution:
In each and every action of ours we need to first check
if it is going to be beneficial for us as well as for
others. As much as there is benefit for others, too, in
the task that we are doing, that much the good wishes of
others will be there for the task. With these good
wishes we will be able to move forward much faster and
achieving success will be easy.