Contemplation: Past is Past
Past is Past
Let the past be the past and learn a lesson from
the past and be cautious in the future.
Meditation
Meditation gives me a discerning eye
- an ability to discriminate between truth and falsehood. It does this by
helping me maintain a consciousness that helps me rise above competing claims
to truth – the different ideologies and opinions, reasons and analyses,
justifications and stories related to a situation - which can be so confusing.
Meditation opens my third eye, the eye of pure consciousness. When I look at the world through this eye, truth is not just an intellectual idea, but an experience of the heart. When I think and act in ways that maintain and deepen this experience of truth, I know I am moving in the right direction.
Meditation opens my third eye, the eye of pure consciousness. When I look at the world through this eye, truth is not just an intellectual idea, but an experience of the heart. When I think and act in ways that maintain and deepen this experience of truth, I know I am moving in the right direction.
Conversely, I discover that thoughts
and behaviours that cloud or hide the experience of truth are coming from
falsehood, no matter how much I or others may try to justify them. So,
meditation gives me a reliable basis for discerning the value in different
courses of action: will this help me recover my truth, or take me further into
falsehood? Will it maintain the flow of love, peace and happiness in my heart,
or will it cause a blockage? Previously, I may have been easily swayed by other
people's demands and opinions, or by illusory ways of thinking arising from my
own negativity. Like a good lawyer, the intellect is very clever at arguing its
case, regardless of where the truth may lie. But, when truth is experienced in
and from the heart, there is no arguing with it. Deeply experienced truth
clears my mind of irrelevancies created due to possessiveness, greed, desires
and ego. As I learn to create pure, positive thoughts, and connect with the
divine, it is as though a flow of clear, fragrant water gradually displaces the
mud and rubbish in my intellect, enabling me to see reality or truth again.
To be constantly
enthusiastic is to experience freedom.
When everything is going on well I find myself enthusiastic and have
the interest to move forward. But when even a little thing goes
wrong, I lose all enthusiasm to do anything else. This creates a
bondage for me and I find it difficult to move forward. I need to
remind myself that to be enthusiastic in all situations is to be like
a free bird reaching great heights. To lose enthusiasm according to
difficult situations is to be like a caged bird.
When everything is going on well I find myself enthusiastic and have
the interest to move forward. But when even a little thing goes
wrong, I lose all enthusiasm to do anything else. This creates a
bondage for me and I find it difficult to move forward. I need to
remind myself that to be enthusiastic in all situations is to be like
a free bird reaching great heights. To lose enthusiasm according to
difficult situations is to be like a caged bird.
Soul Sustenance
Understanding The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace (Part 1)
Each and every human soul's original trait or characteristic is peace. Before each soul comes down on the earth to take its first physical body, the soul is in a state of complete peace, residing in the soul world. In the soul world, the two faculties of the soul – the mind and intellect are complete inactive or dormant and the third faculty, the sanskara or spiritual personality is only that of eternal peace and purity and no other virtue like happiness, love or knowledge. The mind is completely silent, not creating a single thought or emotion or feeling nor possessing an attitude. The intellect which possesses the power to discriminate right thoughts, words or actions from the wrong ones does not exercise its power because there are no thoughts, words or actions in the soul world, so there is nothing there to discriminate. The sanskaras (as mentioned above) are also inactive to a certain extent – there are no thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes, words or actions to be created or processed, which would be based on the sanskaras or personality.
When the soul first takes a physical body on the world stage, it creates thoughts and feelings which are few in number and they are only positive and its words and actions are also limited and completely positive. Its discrimination power is active and completely accurate and its sanskaras or personality come into an active mode (sanskaras other than peace also become active) but only for a positive purpose to create positive thoughts, words or actions. As a result of this, the soul experiences immense peace, but the extent of the peace is lesser than that of in the soul world, where it is completely still and experiences dead silence or peace. It is never peaceless though at this stage. As the soul starts coming into the process of birth and rebirth, its starts losing its energy slowly; its mind, intellect and sanskaras start functioning negatively or incorrectly, it begins to succumb to the vices, leading to the creation of thoughts, words and actions, which are not only large in number but they are mostly waste or negative in nature. As a result, the soul gradually begins to lose its peace, which it experienced in the soul world (eternal peace) and at the start of its journey on the physical world and starts becoming peaceless.
Tomorrow we shall explain how we can return to our original state of peace.
Message for the day
The way to get blessings is to be open to learning.
Projection: We do get both negative and positive situations in our life. When we are faced with negative situations we usually expect blessings from God or someone great by which the negativity in our life will fully finish. But it doesn't usually happen so.
Solution: The method to receive blessings is to go on learning from the experiences of life. To learn means never to repeat mistakes by learning from whatever has happened. This learning acts as a lift for us, which takes us forward.
Understanding The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace (Part 1)
Each and every human soul's original trait or characteristic is peace. Before each soul comes down on the earth to take its first physical body, the soul is in a state of complete peace, residing in the soul world. In the soul world, the two faculties of the soul – the mind and intellect are complete inactive or dormant and the third faculty, the sanskara or spiritual personality is only that of eternal peace and purity and no other virtue like happiness, love or knowledge. The mind is completely silent, not creating a single thought or emotion or feeling nor possessing an attitude. The intellect which possesses the power to discriminate right thoughts, words or actions from the wrong ones does not exercise its power because there are no thoughts, words or actions in the soul world, so there is nothing there to discriminate. The sanskaras (as mentioned above) are also inactive to a certain extent – there are no thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes, words or actions to be created or processed, which would be based on the sanskaras or personality.
When the soul first takes a physical body on the world stage, it creates thoughts and feelings which are few in number and they are only positive and its words and actions are also limited and completely positive. Its discrimination power is active and completely accurate and its sanskaras or personality come into an active mode (sanskaras other than peace also become active) but only for a positive purpose to create positive thoughts, words or actions. As a result of this, the soul experiences immense peace, but the extent of the peace is lesser than that of in the soul world, where it is completely still and experiences dead silence or peace. It is never peaceless though at this stage. As the soul starts coming into the process of birth and rebirth, its starts losing its energy slowly; its mind, intellect and sanskaras start functioning negatively or incorrectly, it begins to succumb to the vices, leading to the creation of thoughts, words and actions, which are not only large in number but they are mostly waste or negative in nature. As a result, the soul gradually begins to lose its peace, which it experienced in the soul world (eternal peace) and at the start of its journey on the physical world and starts becoming peaceless.
Tomorrow we shall explain how we can return to our original state of peace.
Message for the day
The way to get blessings is to be open to learning.
Projection: We do get both negative and positive situations in our life. When we are faced with negative situations we usually expect blessings from God or someone great by which the negativity in our life will fully finish. But it doesn't usually happen so.
Solution: The method to receive blessings is to go on learning from the experiences of life. To learn means never to repeat mistakes by learning from whatever has happened. This learning acts as a lift for us, which takes us forward.
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