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Get Through the Day
For the days when you wonder how you're going to
get through the day, what do you do to give
yourself that extra oomph to keep going?
Try this: take a break, even if it's just a few
minutes. Find a window and look out to catch
the light, the space and the possibility of
seeing something new.
Clear your head. Go from a frown to a smile.
Let the brow become smooth, the features soft.
Feel free, feel new and notice how the day
changes for the better.
Faith
When we are continuously being battered by the
storms of life, and our very spirit is ebbing
away, then all we need to do is hang onto that
gift called "Faith" that one support which will
weather the storms. Faith does not depend on a
clever head, only belief; belief in the self and
the strength that lies within. Faith is the seed
of victory and the foundation of making the
impossible possible.
Absorbing Spiritual Light
Just as darkness is the absence of light,
negativity which manifests as vices and
weaknesses inside us is merely the absence of
spiritual light. Through
the influence of negativity, the sense organs
waste away the light. The question of vice, or
sin, has been of a lot of importance in
religion. No matter how much political or
religious control has been imposed, nothing has
been able to block the internal wasting away of
the "light" of the soul. Light has a source but
darkness does not. Darkness is not created by
any source but is rather the absence of a
source. In the same way, the negative forces
do not emerge from the real nature of the self,
but are simply symptoms of a lack of spiritual
power or light. As spiritual power declines,
symptoms of negativity such as anger, greed,
ego, attachment, hatred, jealousy and related
vices appear. On the other hand, as the soul's
power and spiritual light increases through a
union (meditation) with the Supreme, the vices
automatically disappear. In fact problems are
not fundamentally caused by a particular vice,
it is a question of the extent of one's power.
If I am weak, the sanskars mostly related
to vices dominate my experience. If I am strong
they do not have a chance to affect me.
The negative forces have often been personified
as Ravana, Maya or Satan but
in fact there is no such entity. Maya describes
a level of consciousness. There is no outside
being whom we can blame. The vices are symptoms
of individual ignorance and loss of power, which
appeared only when our original creative powers
subsided as we came into the process of birth
and rebirth.When the soul's power fell below
the level necessary to control matter and the
senses; then the vices emerged inside the soul. The
soul was more and more propelled by them through
many births, until today when they appear to be
a basic part of our "real" nature.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
The Three Mirrors of Inner Beauty (Part 3)
In the last two days’ messages, we have
explained the first mirror for inner beauty.
The second mirror is the mirror of meditation –
In the silence of meditation which is a
connection or the experience of a relationship
with the inner self and the Supreme Soul, each
day you come close to and dive deep into both of
them. When you create powerful, positive
thoughts about the self and you also visualize
your true spiritual self, you feel and
experience your true virtuous being, what you
are - radiant and free of all influences. That
experience helps you to see yourself as you
really are and in contrast to how you are now.
Perhaps you feel peaceless, disturbed and
dejected today, but by creating thoughts of
peace and contentment in meditation you quickly
realize that in reality that is your true
nature. In that way, it serves as a mirror for
self realization and checking and changing. When
you visualize the Supreme Soul during meditation
and experience His virtues, it helps you to see
and quickly realize yourself in contrast to Him
and make the required changes in yourself
because the child should reflect the qualities
of the Father.
So a good practice then is to look into this
mirror and check yourself once in the morning
before the day’s activities and once before
sleeping for 10 minutes each time. Also, since
this is the most powerful mirror, it is
extremely vital to carry this mirror with you
throughout the day and check yourself in it for
one minute after every hour. This may sound
too much time given to the inner self to many,
but all of us are aware that like an untidy,
unkempt external self is not pleasing to the
self and does not create a favorable impression
on those who come in contact with us, in the
same way that applies to the inner self also. So
one minute spent in looking into this mirror and
doing some self-introspection and checking and
changing will keep us looking good for the next
fifty nine minutes and if we do mess up
internally during those fifty nine minutes, then
corrections can be made quickly in the next one
minute break – it’s as simple as that.
(To be
continued tomorrow ….)
Message for the day
To have a balance between being a master and a
child is to ensure success.
Expression:
To be in the consciousness of being a master
means to have confidence in whatever has to be
done and in the ideas that have to be put forth.
Along with this if there is the consciousness of
being a child, there is learning and
improvement, because criticism is taken in the
right spirit.
Experience:
When I am able to be open to criticism as a
child, I am able to learn from it. I am able to
gain further mastery without being troubled by
ego. My learning would never be blocked by what
other people think or feel. Instead I am able to
experience constant progress and sure success.