11.06.2015

Armillary sphere with a compass-the State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Your True North
To follow someone
else's truth is a trap. The best strategy is to
know your own truth, face it and live by it.
Others may inspire, guide, give you directions,
but ultimately you have to cut your own way
through the jungle. You could always be asking
others where North is, and they will tell you.
Someone will say North is this way and someone
else that North is that other way - and both
would have been sincere. But you alone has to
find your true North.
Responsibility
The one who is
responsible is the one who is satisfied. When
responsibility is taken up and fulfilled with
commitment, there is
efficiency and effectiveness in the work. This
results in
satisfaction and contentment at having made a
significant
contribution. Each day let us take up the
responsibility of
contributing something significant to any task,
even if it is a simple
one. Having done this, we will find that we are
able to be happy with
whatever we are doing, for having made some
contribution.
Seven Techniques To
Let Go Off The Past
Almost each one of us carries a heavy or subtle
burden of negative events and happenings that
have taken place in our life sometime in the
past, either an immediate past or a far-off one;
which reduce our present contentment levels
immensely. The negative past could be of any
form - you experienced the loss of a close loved
one due to a break-up or sudden death; you went
through a serious physical illness or a very
lean phase of financial loss, you were abused on
a mental or physical level; you were not treated
properly by a colleague at office and undue
advantage was taken of you; you performed an
inappropriate action and you repent up till now,
even after many years have passed, and many such
similar and different types of incidents.
There are three different types of processes for
removing negative past memories from our
consciousness:
* Modifying - A negative past event is
modified into a positive, beneficial form and
then stored in the consciousness.
* Forgetting - Memories of a negative
past event are forgotten and do not exist either
in our conversations or in our conscious mind or
thoughts, but traces of those memories exist in
the sub-conscious mind.
* Erasing - No traces of the negative
past exist in the consciousness and memories of
it are completely removed from the sub-conscious
also.
We need to take the help of all the different
aspects or techniques of spirituality and not
depend on only one or two for these removal
processes. In the next two days' messages, we
will explain all these different techniques of
spirituality, which if incorporated in our life,
help us experience lightness and emotional
freedom from the past. All of them have their
own unique importance.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Inculcating
Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation - The Power To
Tolerate (cont.)
For most people today, if someone insults them,
they'll immediately become angry or upset in
return, so the situation not only remains
unresolved but infact becomes more complicated.
Those who are virtuous may be able to remain
content and smile for a while, responding with
patience, but repeated insults and repeated
efforts by the other person to bring them down
will tire them until the point come where their
tolerance levels are crossed and they will
react.
If, however, through my power of spirituality
and meditation, I am receiving immense amount of
strength from the Supreme Being, my heart will
remain open and I won't count how many times the
other person has harmed or insulted me. This may
sound extremely difficult and may look like an
impossible thing to do. Meditation, however,
makes the impossible possible. Meditation gives
me an experience of a very deep, personal
relationship with the Supreme and helps me keep
the Supreme as my constant companion, which
gives me such power. It's immensely useful for
anyone then to move towards that goal.
True tolerance is made possible by openness and
acceptance. It doesn't mean clenching my teeth
and carrying on, come what may. Suppression of
my feelings can cause me internal, physical as
well as emotional damage, and end in an outburst
which can damage others too.
(To be continued tomorrow …..)
Message for the
day
Life's situations
are a game for the one who is prepared to face
challenges.
Projection:
For the one who is a skilled
player, every situation, however challenging it
may be, seems like a game. Even the most
difficult situation is faced bravely, knowing
that it has come to teach something and increase
the skill within. So such a person becomes a
source of support to those around during
difficult times.
Solution:
When I am aware of my own
skills and specialities, I am able to face all
life's situations with lightness and confidence.
I enjoy everything that comes my way. I also am
able to experience progress as I use all
situations as a means for further increasing my
own potential