05.05.2015

Thor’s Well, Oregon, USA
Mind the Gap
The gap between what you say and what you do,
between what you promise and what you deliver,
is like a drain in the road. The drain is where
water escapes, just as your power will seep away
if there is a difference between your words and
your actions. Ask yourself every day, were your
thoughts, words and actions aligned? Ask someone
else what they saw in you too. Feedback is the
food of all positive change.
Being Aware of Specialties
Normally to be special we believe that we have
to get a chance from
the situation. So when the situation is good we
are able to use our
own specialties, but when the situation is not
so good, we tend to
come back to ordinary or waste. So we are
constantly waiting for
opportunities to reveal our own specialty and at
other times being
coloured by the negativity or ordinariness of
the situation. When we
are aware of our own specialties in a conscious
way, we are able to
add quality and beauty to everything that we
speak or do. Nothing of
ours is then waste or even ordinary but
everything we do becomes
special. We are able to make everything more
meaningful and powerful.
We are not caught up with the ordinariness or
the negativity of the
situation, but are able to enjoy the moment by
colouring it with our
own special quality.
Freedom From The Dependency On The New (cont.)
In the market, there always appears the novelty
(newness) of the same product wrapped
differently. There always seems to be a new soft
drink, a new kind of chocolate, but they are
really the same products as always. The only
thing that changes is the packaging and their
image. Some children, whenever they go to the
market, want the new kinds of biscuits,
pastries, etc. They always want new things that
then stay in the fridge. We encourage this by
telling little children that happiness is
stimulation, the new is stimulating, and comes
from the outside or you get it from the outside.
We create an addiction to the new; in this case,
to the newness of the packaging. What kind of
newness is that!
When, in order to be happy, you need to go
shopping, you try to fill yourself with
something that isn't you. You try to find
wholeness by filling your life with material
things. A soul who is spiritually awake knows
that they are already complete and they do not
need to depend on the purchase of something new
regularly for feeling full internally. The only
effort is in remembering and reconnecting with
their whole self, their complete self;
reconnecting with their inner treasures of
spiritual wisdom, virtues and powers.
Soul Sustenance
Absorbing
Spiritual Light - Part 2
How many times do we hear, * Oh, he is always in
a bad mood..., * It is my nature to be
irritable..., * He will never change... This
shows the extent to which the soul's own light
has faded and been replaced by the dark curtain
of negativity. Therefore it is better that we do
not try to deal with each vice and defect
individually. As the soul fills itself with the
power of spirituality, its overall condition
automatically improves.
Another significant point is that there is a
deep-rooted awareness within the soul of God and
His sanskars, however much it may be
covered by dirt and weakness. This is because
each soul is the child of God and being his
children we inherit his sanskars. These
sanskars are present in us when we start
playing our part in the physical world, but
gradually they fade away as we take more and
more births. As these sanskars are
brought to the surface of the consciousness,
automatically our thoughts and behavior patterns
change.
In modern psychology it is stated that we must
express all our negative emotions and note
suppress them. But the fact is that letting it
out leads the soul further into slavery to that
emotion. Remembering that thoughts, decisions
and actions are formed on the basis of
sanskars, which are deepened by repetition,
the soul can only cause harm by expressing any
defect or vice. On the other hand, the
psychological effect of suppressing negative
emotions can be quite drastic. Suppression can
lead to severe personality problems, even
madness or insanity. The right path is that we
emerge our positive sanskars with the
help of meditation and other self-development
techniques and the negative ones automatically
vanish away.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message
for the day
Patience brings
easy solutions.
Expression:
What one cannot achieve with
pressure 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 even to
mundane things.
Experience:
When I am able remain patient
even in the most challenging situations, I am
able to remain calm. I don't let go of my inner
peace but am able to be aware of my own inner
resources. I am able to retain my inner strength
which gives me courage to find the solution for
every problem.