29.06.2015

Solace
Learning to turn my thoughts away from all my
responsibilities at the day's end and take my
mind into a state of peace and benevolence
enables me to carry greater and greater loads
without feeling the burden. When my inner
landscape is full of beautiful thoughts,
everything I do is a pleasure. Gently, I calm
down chaotic situations and offer solace to
troubled minds.
Role Play
As we juggle all the
various roles we play in life, many of us
struggle to keep a balance.
To NOT feel 'role overload' or 'role strain',
you need to maintain balance so that you don't
keel over.
Play all the roles, but without making constant
sacrifices. Don't
try and do everything perfectly. Instead, do
your best. And
remember, life is richer and more rewarding
because of all the different roles you play.
The Return
Journey
In meditation you can return to (or experience)
the dimension or home from which you, the soul
proceeds or starts, which can be called the
return, back home, to your original essence, to
your sweet home. This journey home is not a
flight from reality but rather the return to a
superior reality.
The unreality (or the false reality) for the
soul is the belief that the physical world is
all that exists and that happiness always
requires some physically stimulated experience.
In your home of light and silence, of peace and
liberation, live your Father and Mother, God,
the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul. It is the
home where all souls reside before they come
into the physical world, to take physical
bodies. This home has been called by many names,
such as: the land of Nirvana (beyond
sound), the Brahmlok (the world of the
energy of subtle and spiritual light, the
Brahm), Muktidham (the dwelling place
of liberation)... it is the home, the place of
rest, where all souls shall return and that is
why it is said that at the present moment, we
are on a return journey.
Soul Sustenance
Reaching the
Destination Of Peace On Time (Part 1)
The objective of meditation has always been
reaching the destination of inner peace. The
process of meditation is like a journey to that
destination, which many human souls have
undertaken since thousands of years. After a
life and in fact many lifetimes of indulging in
habits of anger, fear, ego, sorrow, jealousy,
hatred, greed etc. all of which blocked our
access to this inner pure emotion and made us
believe that these are normal emotions,
believing completely that our true nature is
peaceful, which is an experience opposite to all
these; might seem difficult at first. Only our
own experience can lead to a change in our
deeply held beliefs, which then makes it easy
for us to incorporate peace as an integral part
of our personality.
As you dive into you own consciousness, with the
objective of searching for and reaching your
subtle destination of inner peace, you will
encounter some distractions in your journey.
Some of the most important of such distractions
include:
* thoughts in the form of negative memories
of the past; over-thinking about the
present scenes and day-to-day actions in
your life; desires, worries and unnecessary
thinking related to the future, waste
thinking about the natures and actions of
people whom we come into contact with the
most, etc.
* the inner, subtle voices of the many
incorrect beliefs, which we have picked up
from people by whom we have been surrounded
since we were small;
* thoughts and emotions related to deep
habits of identifying with and getting attached
to things we are not, like the physical
body, material possessions, people, our role in
society, money, places, opinions or viewpoints,
hobbies or interests etc.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
To serve with the
heart, with love is to guarantee success.
Expression:
When we have to be of help to
others, we sometimes find ourselves doing it
with force. We don't seem to be really
interested in doing it but situations or people
seem to be forcing us to do it. We, then, don't
enjoy what we do and also don't find the benefit
of it either to others or to ourselves.
Experience:
We need to consciously make
an effort to see what people are benefiting when
we are helping them. With this conscious effort
we are able to help others with love without
feeling the heaviness of what we have to do.
Thus, we find our actions to be much more
fruitful.