03.09.2014

Beautiful Turtles, Maldives
Change Skill
There is nothing more certain than that the world will
continue to change. Accepting and not resisting this is
the first and most important inner skill in this
frenetically changing, modern world. Life tests us every
day to see how well we have developed this ability.
Equally, there is nothing more real than the inner space
within each of us that never ever changes. We may change
our thoughts, our feelings, even our sense of who we
are, but we fail to visit the unchanging centre of our
own self. The ability to be in this inner space, where
our peace is found, when all around would prefer chaos
and crisis, is the deepest spiritual change skill. It is
the eye of the storm, it is the oasis in the desert, it
is the place where peace is power. Call in today. You'll
be surprised how much it can influence and change
everything and everyone around you!
Effective Correction
When we find someone making mistakes, we tend to react
to those mistakes and point them out to the person. We
make sure we go on talking about it till the other
person realizes his mistake. But usually there is no
benefit for the other person in any way by talking about
weaknesses. Either the person doesn't want to or doesn't
have the courage to accept. When we recognize someone's
mistake, before we tell him about it, we need to ensure
that he does not lose his courage to move forward
because of our correction. For this we need to point out
his mistake with love, and also before doing so we need
to appreciate something good in him. Then our correction
will be effective.
The Seven Relationships With The Supreme
Every soul has a close relationship with the Supreme
(God), but we simply forget it as we become
over-involved in, attached to and distracted by our life
on the physical plane and our different relationships
with different physical beings during our journey of
births and rebirths. Spirituality makes us realize the
need of restoring our connection with God, which has
either broken or has become loose. It also makes us
realize that this connection needs to be a very deep and
personal one.
God plays many roles, just as a good parent, being
one, but will play many roles while bringing up his or
her child. Each role consists of different spiritual
characteristics and virtues of God, expressed by Him.
Take a few moments to think about the main roles
that God plays in our life and identify the main virtues
and characteristics which He expresses e.g. in the role
of Father He demonstrates the art of living to us and
how to perform right karmas. In the role of
Mother he gives spiritual sustenance, in the form of
virtues like peace, love and joy to us. In the role of
Teacher, he showers us with true knowledge of the spirit
or the soul. These are just a few examples. We suggest
you do your own thinking about seven different roles
that God plays: Father, Mother, Teacher, Guide (or
Guru), Companion (or Beloved), Friend, Child and
how he plays them. Once you have done this inner
thinking exercise, experience each of these seven roles
on each of the seven different days of the week, one
role per day. Feel Him being in that role for you and
then note what you feel exactly and how you relate to
Him. Also identify the spiritual characteristics and
virtues that it brings out from within you.
Soul Sustenance
The Consciousness Switchover (cont.)
Given below are few simple methods which help us in the
process of rising above action or role consciousness and
make the task of switching of consciousness to a
spiritual one, easy.
1. Every hour, stop for a few seconds and note down in a
small diary, which you carry with yourself through the
day, to what extent, in the hour that has just gone by;
you have maintained the light and detached awareness of
yourself as a soul, a being of peaceful and blissful
light, situated at the centre of the forehead, playing
its part through the physical body costume and the
physical role costume and seeing others the same way. If
you haven’t had any awareness, that’s fine: the light
reminder will help you remain attentive for the next one
hour period. This will over a period of time become an
easy, natural and enjoyable exercise, which is very
relaxing.
2. Every 2-3 hours, stop whatever you are doing for a
3-4 minutes and turn your attention within, creating an
awareness and feeling of the soul, but a very deep one.
Remind yourself of your spiritual relationship or your
relationship on a soul level with the Father of the
soul, the Supreme Being or God. Experience the
relationship. At centres of the Brahma Kumaris and even
at their homes and workplaces, the members of the Brahma
Kumaris around the world, follow this exercise. Where
it’s feasible, music is played at these times to make
the break effective and soothing. This exercise is
called 'traffic control', because the peace experienced
in this exercise helps you become aware of the traffic
of your thoughts and slow it down, reducing the risk of
accidents that are caused due to internal mental clashes
as well as clashes with the variety sanskaras or
personality traits of people whom you come in contact
with.
3. Every time you eat or drink something i.e. you
nourish the body, along with that sustain the soul with
spiritual thoughts, above the mundane or ordinary. These
spiritual thoughts could be based on something positive
that you have read in the morning at the start of the
day.
Message for the day
To know the fruit of efforts will surely come is to
remain happy and healthy.
Projection:
To know that the fruit of my effort will eventually come
one day is to understand the importance of making
effort. Once there is this understanding, it becomes
easy to continue making effort, which is like
nourishment that keeps one happy. So effort is never
stopped till what has to be achieved is achieved.
Solution:
Knowing that my effort will surely be fruitful makes me
enjoy everything I do. It makes me remain happy, keeps
me enthusiastic and free from tiredness, even when
things are not going right for me. My mental happiness
and well being thus keeps me healthy.