17.01.2015

Castle Swallow's Nest, Ukraine
Always Look On the Bright Side
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees
opportunity in every difficulty.
Have Patience
There are many reasons why people oppose each
other;
misunderstanding, resistance to change,
competitiveness. If someone
decides to hold on to their negativity, no
amount of analyzing or reasoning
can ease the situation. At such times, only
patience and more patience will
help a closed mind gently unfurl itself.
Relieving The Stress Of Subtle Inner Burdens
All of the matters, messages, ideas and feelings
that you want to
communicate and/or clear up with someone but you
still haven't done,
mean an inner burden that you sustain. To
communicate the essential, and
what has meaning to people that you love and are
important for you, is an
act of love and care. To leave pending
conversations and to postpone them
means to accumulate things to say, matters to
clear up and ideas to
dialogue with, inside you. It means a burden
that prevents you from living
the present with full freedom. You have
something pending. There are
people who, only on the verge of death, quickly
say what they feel, to clarify
matters and to communicate feelings. It seems
that feeling death to be near
gives them the courage to dare to open
themselves and communicate that
which they have wanted to say for so long but
have put off.
Sometimes we feel the burden of not having
expressed our feelings to a
closed loved one, before he/she has died, about
how grateful we are to them
or/and how sorry we are for some incorrect
action committed towards
them. We put off the expression of the feelings
until it is too late and the
loved one dies. Even after a long time after
that, we continue to feel the
burden of the postponement within. What might
have been, and was not,
can no longer be fixed. We simply have to accept
how the past happened
and not live with regrets that increase our
inner heaviness. We have to
learn from it, not put off conversations, but
clear up matters as they arise
and not be afraid to do so.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Fulfilling Desires By Changing Your Belief
System (Part 2)
We have been holding a lot of incorrect beliefs
as to what can lead us to
back to our eternal and original state (these
states were discussed in
yesterday’s message) and many of our actions are
based on these beliefs.
We have mentioned a few examples of incorrect
beliefs below. There are
many more, which you could reflect on.
Lust and attachment increases love in a
relationship.
Anger is necessary for success in relationships
and is important
for getting work done and gaining respect. It
provides a mental
upsurge of energy.
Greed attracts physical prosperity and brings
happiness.
Ego is power; a person with no ego is generally
timid or
submissive.
Worry prepares us for the worst, worrying for
someone close is
expressing our love for them.
Being emotional and crying for our loved ones in
bad times, is
expressing love for them. Being emotional and
crying in good
times is expressing and experiencing joy.
Gossiping increases social bonding and gives one
an experience
of joy.
Jealousy inspires us to do better and achieve
more.
The Supreme Teacher changes our belief system
and not only makes us
aware of these incorrect beliefs but
reconditions us by incorporating correct
beliefs inside us so that we start performing
karmas or actions based on
them and start progressing towards our eternal
and original state.
Message for the day
Patience enables one to easily overcome
obstacles.
Expression:
Usually, when faced with obstacles there is an
urgency to
remove it without any proper planning. That
means we want to overcome
the obstacle without putting in any effort. And
when it is not possible, it
tends to create impatience and frustration in
us.
Experience:
It is important to do some internal work to
overcome an
obstacle. First, it is good to check to what
extent there is faith in the self.
With faith in ourselves, we need to plan out
before we act to remove or
overcome the obstacle and we will, then, find
ourselves successful.