
New Year Resolutions
The greatest jewellery in the world is your own
nobility.
Your own best companion in the world is your
determined thought.
Those who do not wish for anything receive
everything.
Renounce that happiness in which there is sorrow
for others.
Hope and Faith
To be cooperative to someone who is being good
to you, and to get the
cooperation of "good" people is easy. But not
always do we get
people's cooperation consistently. When we
don't, it affects the
task and our own state of mind negatively. True
cooperation comes from
a vision of hope and faith in each and every
individual we come into
contact with. When we have this vision, we are
able to give
cooperation in the right way to people. And we
are also able to get
their cooperation at all times for all tasks,
for we will be able to
inspire the best in them.
Returning To The Inner Seat Of Mental Comfort
And Peace
At the end of a busy and hurry filled and many a
times even peaceless day at office, everyone
goes home, to do what? Even a housewife, who has
had a busy day in the kitchen and with the
children, will yearn to do want at the end of
the day? Sit, lie down, relax and experience
peace. Just as each one of us returns home or
to the comfort of the bedroom at the end of each
day; each time we experience any of the various
forms of anger in our words or actions or even
in our thoughts, sooner or later, we will try to
return to what we instinctively and intuitively
know is the truth, what is right and good, to
the inner seat of our own mental comfort and
peace, which is our original and basicsanskara,
peacelessness being an acquired one. It's as
if we know when we are set on this seat that we
have access to our inner power. It's as if we
know that we can only be comfortable, powerful,
blissful and content when we are first
peaceful.
Sitting on this seat also provides us with the
ability and the power to influence others. A
proof of the fact is that all of us have,
sometime or the other, known someone who lived
their life peacefully but assertively (not
weakly or timidly). They expressed themselves
peacefully and interacted with others free of
any traces of anger in their personality, and
they stayed, more or less, positively peaceful
and peacefully positive. We remember that person
for much longer than the one who is always
finding an excuse to use the weapon of anger
when things or people do not go his way or get
things or people to be as he would want. The
peaceful nature of another makes a deeper and
more lasting impression on our hearts than the
angry nature of another. And when we are in
the presence of such a peaceful person, we
always allow them into our lives much more and
for longer periods of time. In the same way,
when we function from our inner seat of mental
peace, we are able to influence others and make
a lasting impression on others much more.
Soul Sustenance
Turning Qualities Into Powers (Part 1)
An important aspect of God or the Supreme Being,
remembered throughout history in all cultures
and traditions, has been the concept of God
being an Almighty Authority. The interpretation
of this concept has been varied, however:
Some have conceived a God who is fearsome and
revengeful and one who punishes. That is very
different from the experience of God, in
meditation, as a gentle, benevolent (generous),
merciful parent; as a teacher of absolute
spiritual wisdom or knowledge, but a wisdom that
has total humility, and is free from the demands
of ego.
Yet, it is also the experience of the soul that
God is the Almighty Authority, the source of all
power and strength.When I meditate and
connect with the Supreme, I experience a state
of truth in which the combination of all the
original qualities of the soul — peace, love,
purity, wisdom and happiness — fills me with a
positive power — a power that overcomes
negativity in myself and others, so that those I
am connected with become better able to
experience their own truth. This power also
extends to my physical surroundings,
transforming the atmosphere around me.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Message for the day
Fortune is in one's own hands.
Expression:
To have fortune in one's own
hands doesn't mean to have it in the lines of
one's hands. It means to have the ability to
make the best use of all the resources
available. When they are put to the best use,
they naturally increase. Through right actions
one can draw the line of fortune as long as
desired.
Experience:
When I understand the significance of my actions
and create an elevated fortune for myself
through right actions, I am able to experience
constant progress in my life. I also naturally
become an inspiration for others too, so that
they can discover their inner resources to
create an elevated fortune for themselves.