14.02.2015

All We Need Is Love
Everyone looks outside for everything, including
love. Love is all that everyone wants. Their
purpose in life is love; to love someone, to be
loved, to love their car, to love their dog, to
love their garden etc. But all these types of
love are perishable and are destined to fade
away. The love we really want is within us all
the time. When we feel love, where is the love
coming from? It is within us, that’s because we
are love. So I need to sit in silence and get to
know myself again, because when I get to know my
true self I will find out that I am love. I
don’t need to look for it outside. I have an
imperishable supply of the sweetest love
possible within me.
Good Wishes
Although we speak with a lot of logic and make
the other person
understand what we mean to say, we sometimes
find that they are not as
effective as they should be. Sometimes our words
are also misunderstood
and misinterpreted. So there are a lot of
conflicts that rise because
of this and spoil relationships with others.
What we say is of course
important, but much more important is how we say
it and with what
feeling. We need to keep ourselves free from any
kind of attitude, when
we have to say something to someone. This can
happen when we have good wishes for others and
thus we find that our words are effective.
The Journey Of Time (cont.)
In yesterday's message, we had explained how the
Law of Entropy works on a physical level. When
the Law of Entropy is applied to spiritual
energy, our virtues, to the quality our
thoughts, words and actions, we can perhaps
begin to see why, as individuals, we feel tired
and old in virtues, irrespective of whether we
are young or old physically. We can also
understand why we succumb to negative thoughts,
words and actions more easily than being
influenced by the positive. In fact, the entropy
of our virtues i.e. the spiritual entropy has
followed the same pattern as the entropy of the
physical world or the physical entropy
(explained yesterday) i.e. the spiritual
energy or the energy of the virtues of the world
has been reducing (as the world has become older
and older) because it has not been renewed or
re-energized from a source outside the system. When
we accept this movement from new to old, we
understand the journey of time in a completely
different way.
As we look backwards into the journey of time,
we find that although there have been very
important scientific discoveries and global
communication has improved immensely, which have
all contributed to the give everyone an illusion
of progress, everyone accepts that we are not
enjoying healthier, more loving and peaceful
relationships with ourselves, each other or the
planet Earth. The reason for this is understood
easily by applying the second law of time i.e.
everything new becomes old. At the present
moment, the source from outside the world system
(on a spiritual level) which is required to
re-energize it and restore it to its original
new stage is the Supreme Soul or God or the
Spiritual Sun, who is an ocean of spiritual
energy and divine values or virtues. In
meditation we, as living beings, who are part of
the world system, can absorb this energy or
divinity from him and contribute to this
process.
Soul Sustenance
Shedding Off The Attachment To A Positive Past
(Part 2)
Excessive attachment to a glorious past is a
subtle shade of the negative emotion of ego
which colors my present perception of external
events and which affects my present actions and
responses, as a result of which not only present
but my future is also affected. As I hold on
to it, my creativity is reduced and I do
everything with a limited perspective, not
letting myself grow and shape up a glorious
present and future. There are some people whose
goal is to achieve something so great in their
lives so as to ensure they will gain recognition
and respect by others in time to come. This is
again a subtle shade of attachment and ego.
But shedding off this type of attachment is not
easy and first requires the realization that
this attachment is incorrect and damaging. The
next step is sitting in silence and becoming
aware of how you lose your identity in a story
of past thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes
and actions and then disassociating or detaching
yourself from that story. You do not need to
suppress or deny or fight with this story;
otherwise its memory gets stronger and more
overpowering. You just need to simply see
and realize deeply that your past is just a
record of a particular set of actions, which you
committed at a particular point of time, it is a
series of images of previous events that you
witnessed and that you were a part of, all of
which have left a record in your memory, and in
the memories of others, but they are not what
you are. This type of practice of disassociation
with spiritual understanding fades the excessive
memory of the story in your consciousness over a
short period of time and these actions then
cease to influence you in any way in the
present. Here we are talking about an influence,
which we have for long deceived ourselves into
believing to be a positive one, but which in
reality is not.
Message for the day
The one who is the master is the one who creates
positive thoughts under all circumstances.
Expression:
The one who is the master of
himself is always able to create the right kind
of thoughts according to the circumstance. Never
is there the dependency on situations or people
for the right kind of responses. Since there is
mastery over thoughts, there is also mastery
over all words spoken and everything done.
Experience:
When I am able to be a master of myself, I am
able to constantly create positive thoughts. I
am in touch with the inner resources and I am
able to make use of these resources in a timely
way. I never get confused or pressurized with
outside situations, but am able to be in control
in all situations.