07.07.2015

Acceptance &
Appreciation
Acceptance
is the secret of contentment. Appreciation
is the secret of happiness.
Let your voice be
heard
Ever wondered how you're able to hear the sound
of the triangle amongst the many instruments in
the orchestra ?
Just because the instrument itself may appear
tiny and insignificant in comparison to a cello,
tuba, or a kettle drum, there is nothing that
stops the clear, pure 'voice' of the triangle
from being heard !
So, the next time you start comparing yourself
to others, stop! Reinforce your self confidence
and let your voice be heard.
Reaching The
Destination Of Peace On Time (cont.)
In yesterday's message, we had mentioned the
main type of distractions that you might face in
your journey to the destination of peace. The
secret of not getting affected by each of these
distractions is very simple - do not interact
with any of them on a subtle level by giving
them your mental energy of attention, but avoid
them, detach yourself from them, just observe
them and let them go, remaining completely
focused on reaching your destination.
Imagine you are driving to your office on the
highway and you are very late. There are a large
number of different vehicles which you pass,
either travelling in the same direction as you
are or coming at you from the opposite side. You
are even familiar with a lot of these people
sitting inside these vehicles, because you see
them every day, but you don't even spare a
second to glance at them because if you did you
would lose your focus and be delayed, you would
fail to reach your destination, your office in
this case, on time. Meditation is exactly like
this. Just as you cannot empty the highway full
of vehicles, because you are in a hurry to reach
office, you cannot empty the highway of your
consciousness of all thoughts, emotions,
beliefs, worries, opinions, desires, memories
etc. some of which are even very familiar to
you, just because you want to get to the
destination of your inner peace. Let all of
these, like the vehicles, come and go, but all
you have to do is avoid them and focus on
reaching your destination on time. It's as if,
by the way you are driving, your body language,
in this case the subtle energy of your
determined thought, word has spread through the
highway of your consciousness that you will not
be sparing a second to even glance at any one of
these on your way. If with a momentary loss of
self-awareness, you do start giving attention to
them, and you get lost in one of them, remind
yourself subconsciously, "I am on my way back to
the destination of peace, peace that I am." This
will help you regain your focus and before you
know it, you will realize you have arrived; you
will experience your destination i.e. the peace
within, and will completely believe that you are
that. And it will be the most blissful
experience that you have felt in a very long
time.
Soul Sustenance
Resolving The Inner
Identity Crisis (Part 2)
In yesterday’s message we had explained
how the confusions, complications and problems
that exist in our world today and the state of
human relationships all over the world, are
simply a reflection of our lack of inner clarity
about who we are, what we are and where we are
heading i.e. a lack of true self-identity. So
how do we resolve this internal and external
turmoil? There is an original, beautiful
self, with characteristics of peace, love and
happiness that exists within each one of us,
the self from which we have been distanced since
a very long time. This is a centre full of the
spiritual resources of all virtues and powers.
Reaching it is a journey of only one second and
no distance. By identifying with this inner
centre, a centre which is imperishable,
unchangeable, constant and even eternal, my self
identity becomes strong and stable, as
compared to many false identities based on
external realities like position, wealth and
material possessions which are all perishable
and subject to various ups and downs even in one
single day, and if we over identify with them,
we are bound to experience constant pain and
discontentment.
This process of true self-identification is not
a renunciation or avoidance of the way the outer
world is but it is a healing process for your
inner world. It is an internal correction
process of identification, whereby you
rediscover your true self as a complete being
full of positive emotions that you always were
and you start identifying with it, doing which
very easily helps you let go of the wrong
identifications. This process is commonly called
meditation, the foundation of which is spiritual
wisdom. Once this inner work is done, the outer
world starts taking the shape of a reflection of
that. Resolving the identity crisis first
changes the way our internal and external world
looks to us, as a result changing the way it
works.
Message for the
day
The method to
serve is to become an embodiment of power.
Projection:
Service to others is usually
understood as bringing benefit to others through
what I do. I have love for such service and make
an attempt to do it too. But sometimes busy in
such service, I find that my own self-progress
is left behind.
Solution:
I need to pay attention for my
own self-progress by learning from everything
that happens. I thus find myself improving and
filling myself with power. This power spreads
around and shows the right path to others, just
like a lighthouse and others continue to take
benefit from me.