26.05.2015

Indian Classical
Dance-Kathak
Dance in Happiness
The easy way to remain happy is to remain
constantly light. Pure thoughts are light and
waste thoughts are heavy. Therefore, keep your
intellect busy with pure thoughts and you will
become light and continue to dance in happiness.
We only have to make sure that we continue to
give happiness to others without any
expectations. For this we have to increase our
own treasure of happiness by continuing to be
happy under all circumstances.
Faith
To
have faith in others means to reinforce their
faith in themselves
too. This naturally increases self-confidence in
them and thus creates
enthusiasm. They are able to respond to positive
feelings, thus using
their best potential. When I find that someone
whom I am working with
is not cooperating with me, I need to check my
own faith in that
person. When I find some special, unique quality
that can make me
develop faith in that person, I am able to
change his attitude too.
Slowly I find him cooperating with me.
The Five
Spiritual And Five Physical Elements (cont.)
As we have explained earlier in this series, the
Supreme Soul always remains an Ocean of the five
spiritual virtues or elements peace, purity,
wisdom, love and joy right through
eternity. The soul is made up of three
faculties - the mind, intellect and personality.
Meditation is a direct connection in which a
human soul, using the two faculties - the mind
and the intellect, connects with the most
powerful Supreme Source or Soul and draws
spiritual power from it. This absorbed spiritual
power then transforms the third faculty - the
personality, filling it with the five virtues
mentioned above. The more the spiritual
power absorbed the greater and faster is the
filling up of virtues. These virtues then become
a balm which heals the many different types of
wounds of ego, anger, hatred, hurt, jealousy,
possessiveness, greed, criticisms, desires, etc.
which have left their mark on the soul in this
and many past births of the soul. They gradually
restore in the soul the confidence to emerge
from the shadows of negativity and to live in
the light of its original nature. It is amazing,
and heart-warming, when one rediscovers these
qualities beneath all the other impressions
formed during this and previous lives that have
probably been peaceless and sorrowful at times.
The journey of meditation bypasses all the
negative tendencies and allows the soul to touch
these original qualities, experience their
truth, and express them in its life.
The other three factors which help us in
understanding as well as experiencing peace,
purity, wisdom, love and lasting happiness or
joy are:
1. The understanding and inculcation of the
complete spiritual knowledge of the soul,
Supreme Soul and the eternal world time cycle.
2. Attention on the self and checking and
changing the self during the entire day and
also keeping a daily chart of the main
weaknesses or negative personality trait in the
self, which is filled every night before going
to sleep.
3. Sharing the five spiritual virtues along
with spiritual knowledge with others through
thoughts, words and actions. Treasures shared
with others will bring about a direct increase
in the treasures in the self. Also, blessings
received from others, by serving them help in
the same purpose.
Soul Sustenance
Open-Eyed
Meditation
One of the special characteristics of Raja Yoga
meditation (as taught by the Brahma Kumaris) is
that I learn to meditate with my eyes open. The
training of the mind, so that it creates
thoughts, to give a positive experience, helps
me in facing not only my daily routine, but
specifically, in dealing with unexpected
practical life situations that test my real
power. Mastering the art of meditating with my
eyes open can be of immense value to me in my
practical life.
If I restrict myself to seated meditation with
my eyes closed, then I am prevented from
continuing the meditative experience in the
course of my normal activities i.e. walking,
eating, cooking, working in the office, moving
around and so on.
Meditation is at the same time an incredibly
relaxing experience as well as brings about an
increase of perception (judgement) powers and
sharper reaction response. In this way, I can be
walking along the street in a meditative state
and yet have a very quick perception (judgement)
and reaction response to the surrounding
pedestrians and traffic.
Message for the
day
To be prepared for obstacles is to remain
cheerful under all circumstances.
Expression:
Generally there is always a
wish not to have to face any obstacles. When we
begin something new we usually have a thought to
have things going perfectly well. So when
obstacles do come we are not prepared and we
experience dissatisfaction and sorrow.
Experience:
Whenever we start something
new we need to prepare our mind that we are sure
to be faced with obstacles. Along with it we
also need to understand that these obstacles
actually teach us something new and it is only
with such situations we can learn and progress.
When we have such thoughts we will be able to
remain cheerful under all circumstances.