
Make Up
While we spend much time 'making up' our faces
to ensure our appearance is beautiful for
others, we forget to make up our minds. This is
not about making decisions. Making up our mind
means ensuring that our thoughts are positive
and our feelings towards others are filled with
good wishes. When we do, others begin to sense a
deeper beauty emanating from behind the skin!
This is inner beauty. Don't hide behind your
face. Let the real you show through.
Non-violence
Normally we pay a lot of attention not to hurt
people physically but end up hurting others
through our words. This creates negativity in
others which in turn affects us negatively too.
Our work too is affected by these kind of words.
In order to bring true non-violence in our
lives, it is equally important to pay special
attention to our words too. The basis of words
that don't hurt others are positive
thoughts-thoughts based on good wishes and
benevolent feelings for others.
Freeing Myself Of My Inner Darkness (Meditation)
- cont.
Continuing from yesterday's meditation; have a
conversation with yourself:
I observe feeling who I am... I am a being of
light, situated just above the eyebrows; a
peaceful being that radiates light, like a small
candle that lights up a dark room and dissipates
(removes) the darkness that there is in my inner
room...
Aware of whom I am; I open myself to receive the
presence of a benevolent (generous) golden-white
Being of Light that radiates infinite love,
peace and happiness... It is an ocean of love
that can dissolve all my fears and melt the pain
and suffering that there is within me, the
soul...
I open my heart and I go towards this ocean,
saying to it "Here are my fears, here are my
dark areas. They are yours. They are no longer
useful to me. I hand them over to you. I absorb
your love and allow the light of your love to
reach each dark corner of my inner being. I feel
how your love touches my fears, my weaknesses -
they dissolve and I am freed."
The weaknesses no longer have power over me...
God is with me. He accepts me as I am, he
comforts me, there is nothing to fear and I feel
secure; in an immense peace, in the light of
being... I maintain the divine presence of the
Supreme Soul in my being; a presence that
dissipates (removes) the darkness and brings out
my inner beauty...
Soul Sustenance
The Relationship between the Soul and the
Body–Explained with Interesting Examples
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; myhands, myeyes, my brain,
etc. I am different from my body.
Message for the day
To be a master means to use the right power at
the right time.
Expression:
To be a master means to be aware of the internal
qualities that one has. Also it is the ability
to use these qualities as and when required.
That means to be able to give an order and put
into use in a second whatever internal power or
virtue that is required at that time. If there
is an awareness of the positive quality, and not
the ability to put it into use within a second,
it would not be called total mastery.
Experience:
When I am a master I am able to have an
experience of having control over whatever is
happening around me. Even if something comes up
suddenly, I still am able to feel the control
over the situation and make the best out of it.
I neither feel helpless nor blame others for
what is happening.