07.05.2015

Clayton Kershaw’s devastating curveballs
Life's
Curveballs
When life throws you
a curve ball, are you ready for the unexpected ?
Take a deep breath and adapt to the new
reality. Be brave enough to think on your feet
and rethink your strategy.
Catch the ball, drop it; or find a way to get
over, under or around it! Keep your momentum to
keep pace with life's curveballs.
Victory
We normally
attribute success to the resources available, or
the help
of the people around. But in spite of our best
efforts, we sometimes
find ourselves failing. We then tend to blame it
on luck or on some
negative situation. Our victory is not so much
based on what we have,
but it is more based on what we do with what we
have. When we believe
that we can win, we will be able to use all the
available resources to
ensure our victory. And so we will also be able
to get the best help
from the people around us too.
Fulfilling Desires
By Changing Your Belief System
One most important characteristic that
differentiates the Supreme Soul from human souls
is that the Supreme Soul is the only entity that
exists in this World Drama that is completely
desire-less and remains that way eternally. If
we were to make a list of desires that human
beings have, we would name a lot many and
various different types of desires. Whatever
karma or action any soul performs at
different points in the World Drama, whether
positive or even negative, pure or even impure,
they are all performed to fulfill these
different types of desires. But when seen
from a spiritual perspective, whatever the
external form of the desire may be, the internal
desire is always very simple - to go back to its
eternal (or inert) state of peace or original
state of peace, love, joy and power. The
eternal or inert state of each soul is the state
in which it exists before it begins its journey
of birth and rebirth, when it resides in the
soul world and the original state of each soul
is the state in which it exists when it has just
begun its journey of birth and rebirth i.e. at
the beginning of the birth-rebirth cycle. Even
negative karmas based on the personality
traits of anger, greed, ego, lust, etc. may
externally seem to be filled with violence or
impurity, but internally, each time any soul
performs such karmas, all it desires is a
return to its eternal and original state (we
shall explain this in tomorrow's message). But
it does not realize how these karmas take
the soul away and not close to these states.
This is where the role of the Supreme Soul comes
in. The Supreme Soul is completely desire-less
and possesses the capability, knowledge and
power to fulfill these desires of the soul.
Being the Supreme Teacher, He guides and teaches
us what are the right karmas or actions
that can help us fulfill our desires and take us
closer to our eternal and original state and
which actions, take us away from it. Also He is
the only one who can teach us how to connect
with Him so that these desires are fulfilled,
because he is the Ocean of all the qualities
that exist inside us in our eternal and original
state and connecting with Him fills us with
these qualities. The connection and the right
actions, both, are vital for our progress.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Soul Sustenance
Going
Beyond False Identifications
The more I identify with the physical factors
of my life, the more I become a prisoner to my
destiny or the various up and downs of my life.
E.g. if my self-respect is attached to my
beautiful new car, how will I feel about myself
when the car becomes old and its beauty and
shine reduce? Or if I my car is stolen or gets
immensely damaged in a road accident? Then, I
shall find myself in an identity crisis. The
same will be true if my business or job is
everything to me. If one day, I am in a good
financial state and I enjoy a very respectable
and dominant position, and the next day I find
myself in a dispute in my profession and I
suddenly lose all of that, and nobody wants to
know me, I will feel as if I have lost my soul
and have almost died. The problem is sometimes
so great that people do, literally, lose their
desire to live. It happens, too, in
relationships, when your partner leaves you
either due to a separation, a divorce or even
death - a partner in whom you have invested all
your love and emotions. Or if my identity is
tied to my back balance or property, and
suddenly I am broke.
All of these are actually false identifications,
and the crazy part of living this way is that I
can never be satisfied, even if I succeed in
maintaining my false identity. These kind of
false identifications do not keep me placed
stably on my seat of self-respect and either
bring about an inferiority complex or a
superiority complex - both of which are false,
so both bring insecurity. Even while I am
externally successful, having my identity based
on that success means I am a slave to them. I've
handed over my self-esteem to them. I become
addicted to it.
Message for the
day
The method to
stay in constant enthusiasm and to keep others
enthusiastic is to see specialties in others.
Projection:
Many times while I am
sincerely working towards my task, I find myself
losing my enthusiasm. I also might find people
not very happy with me or my work. I do make an
attempt to understand their feelings but fail to
do so Such negative responses further reduce my
enthusiasm.
Solution:
I need to develop the art of
looking at specialties in people. The more I am
able to see their positive qualities, the more I
am able to relate to them with that specialty.
This encourages the other person further to use
that specialty. This will naturally keep me
constantly enthusiastic.