Sincerity
The practice of silently observing life enables me to
understand other people's inner concerns. I become
slower to judge and better able to respond openly and
thoughtfully.
Patience
What one cannot achieve
with pressure on the self can be very easily achieved
with patience. Patience brings a state of calm inside,
which helps in finding the answers that already lie
within. It gives courage to work on the problem in a
cool and relaxed way till the solution is found. It
brings creativity into mundane things.
The Soul Body
Relationship
Human being means the
consciousness, the soul or being (living energy),
experiencing life through the physical body, the human
(non-living). The body is perishable and temporary,
whereas the soul is eternal and without physical
dimension.
* The soul is the driver; the body is the car.
* The soul is the actor; the body is its costume.
* The soul is a diamond; the body is the jewelry box.
* The soul is the musician; the body is the instrument.
* The soul is the guest; the body is the hotel.
* The soul is the deity; the body is the temple.
I can use a knife to chop vegetables. I can use the same
knife to kill someone. The knife neither decides
(outwards) nor experiences (inwards), but can be washed
easily under water. Now look at the fingers which held
the knife. They neither decide nor experience the
actions. They too can be washed under water. It's easy
to realize that the knife is an instrument, but it is
more difficult to realize that the fingers as well as
the arms are instruments too. The legs are instruments
for walking, the eyes for seeing, the ears for hearing,
the mouth for speaking, the tongue for tasting, the
heart for pumping food and oxygen (via blood) around the
body, and so on.
Even the brain is an instrument used like a computer to
express all thought, word and action programs through
the body and to experience the results. If every
physical part of the body is an instrument, who or what
is it that is using this instrument? Very simply it is
I, the self, the soul. The soul uses the word I for
itself and the word my when referring to the body; my
hands, my eyes, my brain, etc. I am different from my
body.
Soul Sustenance
Improving the Quality
of Different Areas of My Karmas (Part 4)
Karmas as spiritual service of others
Service of others can be seen on a very basic
level as physical charity but the real service is to
uplift the souls of others by inspiring them to re-claim
their state of self-respect.
There is the old saying that if I give others chapattis,
I feed them for a day. If I teach them how to cook
chapattis, I feed them for life. In a spiritual way,
this refers to the fact that instead of merely
performing a positive karma like the donation of money,
food, clothes, etc. if one can show others the
understanding of karma and how it works and also teach
them the ultimate, pure karma of coming closer to the
Supreme on a spiritual level, they can make efforts to
change their negative karmic situation and bring
happiness, peace and positivity back in their lives.
When there is a change at the mental and emotional
level, then changes will begin to show at the physical
level too. Over a period of time, due to understanding
spiritual knowledge (as a result of which the soul
starts performing positive actions) and a deep
connection with the Supreme (due to which negative
actions or sins performed in the past are burned up),
the karmic situation of the soul, which has been served,
starts improving.
Message for the day
The one who has the spirit of service is free from
wasteful thinking.
Expression:
It is
usually thought of as an additional burden to think of
serving others. The usual thought is to think of first
serving oneself and when one is content to think of
serving others. But this thought makes one miss out on
the fact that both service to oneself and service to
others are complementary to each other, one helping the
other in a positive way.
Experience:
When we take on the responsibility of bringing benefit
to others, i.e., when we consider ourselves as a humble
server we will be free from wasteful and negative
thinking. We will not waste our thoughts and energy on
something that is not worthwhile, something that is not
going to bring benefit to anyone. So each thought, word
and action of ours becomes elevated.