23.05.2015

Lasting Happiness
The real reason why
we sometimes experience a lack of real, deep
lasting happiness in our lives is dependency. We
are taught to make our happiness dependent on
some event, condition, person, object etc. This
is why we keep delaying our happiness until
things are just right in our life. We think we
will be happy in the future and then wonder why
we are not happy now. But life is never just
right, and the future never comes – there is
only now! And that's why, in order to be happy
we must make our happiness a decision and not a
dependency. This may seem slightly difficult in
the beginning, because we have just spent our
life being dependent on acquiring something or
someone, or seeing the result we desired, or
wanting some pain to go away, before we allow
ourselves to be happy.
Humility-4
Humility comes from
an open and clean heart. Humility needs a good
home to dwell in. When the mind is filled with
negative feelings or
biased ideas towards anyone, we cannot use
humility. So we need to
fill our mind with positive thoughts towards
everyone. If I have
negative thoughts towards anyone, I need to make
an attempt to remove
them. I need to tell myself that what I don't
like about a person is
just one particular aspect and not the person
himself. In this way I
will be able to change my own attitude and also
will help the other
person also to bring about change.
The Five Spiritual
And Five Physical Elements
There are various ancient teachings in the East
including India which describe the five
physical elements - earth, air, water, fire and
sky as the five pillars of Creation or the
building blocks of Creation. These teachings
suggest that every particle of the physical
Creation is made of these building blocks. The
human body is also made of these five primary
elements. These elements need to remain in
balance for the Universe to stay in order and
the human body to stay in order or good health.
Bad health generally means one or more of these
elements is out of place. There are various
techniques mentioned in these teachings which
are used to create this balance, including
ancient Indian mantras. The popular ancient
Indian Vedic 'Vaastu' science, used by many to
build homes even today, also works on creating a
balance between these five physical elements.
According to spiritual principles given by the
Supreme Being or the Supreme Soul, in the same
way, on a spiritual level, the soul also
comprises of five original constituent qualities
or building blocks or elements- peace, purity,
wisdom (or truth), love and joy. When the soul
first comes down from the soul world and starts
playing its part on the physical world, there is
a complete balance of these five qualities in
its personality. This is the reason that at
the beginning of the world cycle, in the period
that we commonly call the Golden Age or
Paradise or Satyuga
, there is complete happiness, love and peace
within the self and even in relationships.
The balance of the spiritual elements in the
souls, causes the five physical elements earth,
air, water, fire and sky also to remain in
complete balance; hence in the Golden Age,
there is complete physical prosperity and
richness; there is no trace of illnesses and
natural calamities like earthquakes, floods,
etc. Due to the double balance, nature is not
only in order but very very beautiful. Even the
physical bodies are not only healthy but very
beautiful. Even the animals and birds are
completely full of all virtues and live in
absolute love and harmony with each other. So
the balance of the five virtues in souls
reflects itself not only on a subtle level i.e.
in the personalities and interactions but also
on a physical level i.e. in the physical bodies,
flora (plants) and fauna (animals), nature in
general, etc.
In tomorrow's message, we shall explain the
reason for this.
Soul Sustenance
Meditation
– Experiencing My Original Home (Part 1)
In meditation, I focus my mind and intellect on
that region which is called by names like soul
world, paramdham, nirvandham, shantidham
and so on. In fact, this is the region where the
soul stays, when it has no body. Here the soul
stays in the form of a star-like point of light,
untouched by matter (five elements including the
body). In this world, there exists neither
thought, word nor action; just complete
stillness, sweet silence and peace. When I first
take a physical body, it is from here that I the
soul come down into the material world i.e. the
earth, which is the field of action.
With the practice of meditation, my third eye
(eye of the mind) opens; and I see and
experience my original home as an infinite (very
large, unmeasurable) world of very subtle
(light) golden-red light, situated beyond the
physical world of five elements, beyond the sun,
moon and stars.
(To be continued tomorrow .... )
Message for the
day
The one who recognises the needs of others is
the one who gives real happiness.
Expression:
I usually make a lot of
effort to give in some way or the other to those
around me. Yet I sometimes find that people are
not able to be happy with me. What I give is
usually based on what I feel the other person
needs. I continue to give in this way and begin
to expect from others too, and find myself
disappointed when I am not appreciated.
Experience:
I need to be a giver in the
true sense. Before I think of giving, I need to
recognise the needs of others. The more I keep
myself tuned to this I will enjoy what I am
giving and the impact of it will be there on the
others too. I will then find that others are
pleased with me too.