Om Shanti
Om Shanti
कम बोलो, धीरे बोलो, मीठा बोलो            सोच के बोलो, समझ के बोलो, सत्य बोलो            स्वमान में रहो, सम्मान दो             निमित्त बनो, निर्मान बनो, निर्मल बोलो             निराकारी, निर्विकारी, निरहंकारी बनो      शुभ सोचो, शुभ बोलो, शुभ करो, शुभ संकल्प रखो          न दुःख दो , न दुःख लो          शुक्रिया बाबा शुक्रिया, आपका लाख लाख पद्मगुना शुक्रिया !!! 

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 22, 2017: Get Grateful Now

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 22, 2017: Get Grateful Now



Cordoba, the City of Flowers

Get Grateful Now

Even when you feel as though things aren't going well in your life, you have reasons to be grateful. Today, take time to appreciate the gift of life and all its wonders. Count your blessings and cherish what you have.


Regaining The Lost Paradise (Part 2)

Let’s go back into the history of the world. We are not talking about only recorded history. Let’s talk about those moments of the world which are not in our history books. Who is the one who knows those moments the best and with complete accuracy? Not any of us, but only the One who has seen those moments without playing a part in them. God has seen those moments. He has seen us play a role in those scenes which took place in the world. Those moments are called by different names – Paradise, Heaven, Swarg, Garden of Eden, Garden of Allah, Bahist in different religions and countries of the world. This world existed before our recorded history. It was a world where the seven basic virtues of humans – peace, joy, love, bliss, purity, power and truth existed in abundance. Also, because human souls were full of these qualities, they never experienced sorrow because no negative actions were performed. This is the world, where richness and health were also present in complete positivity with no trace of poverty and illness.


This is the world that was created by God and that is why God is also called the Heavenly God Father and the world that He created is called heaven. In this world, there was complete unity and love amongst humans and no wars were fought and no natural disasters ever took place. This is because nature was complete pure. Also, the physical bodies made of the five elements of nature were not only very beautiful and pure but also completely free from any type of disease or illness. Even animals lived in complete harmony and peace amongst each other. Also, everyone in this world was holy. This is our unrecorded history which is never spoken about so much. It is only mentioned in our scriptures or shastras.

(To be continued tomorrow …)


Finding Solutions

When something is going wrong for someone.... we often start providing solutions, simply because we want to help them work things out.

However, what they may need and what may work best is our support, not our solutions.

That doesn't mean you can't help them.  Ask questions that lead them towards a solution.  Help them find their own solutions and they're more likely to apply those solutions and work things out.

Message for the day
To water seeds of positive thoughts is to bring it to fruition. 

Though to Ponder: Every seed needs the right amount of water at the right time to help it grow. In the same way, when I have a good thought, I need to provide with what it needs to take it fruition. Understanding it in a deeper way, by churning about it; adding it with good wishes and pure feelings; reminding of this thought again and again... these are the things which help the seed grow fully. 


Point to Practice: Today I will take up a good thought and provide the right environment for it grow. I will not do anything that will take me away from that thought. On the other hand, I will do every possible thing to help it grow. I will repeat that thought to myself, not only as a reminder, but also as an experience. This will help me sustain it.
 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 21, 2017: Subconscious Mind

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 21, 2017:  Subconscious Mind

 



Subconscious Mind

Our subconscious mind has no sense of humour, plays no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.


Regaining The Lost Paradise (Part 1)



We live in a world full of different types of people belonging to different countries and religions. All of us aspire to create an existence for us, which is very beautiful and completely free from any sorrow and peacelessness. We all want to live united and share peace and happiness with each other. Also, all of us want to live like a big family, where there is no difference of opinions amongst people and everyone loves and respects each other a lot. Sometimes, many world leaders, in the world’s history have tried to create a world of peace and joy and even today many countries aspire for that. Even organizations like the United Nations aim for that. 

So, one thing is certain that the desire is there in everyone’s hearts. Most importantly God is the world’s Spiritual Father, who wants His every child to be happy and free from any sorrow or the pressure of difficult circumstances. But it is also true that there are certain factors like the existence of many people with very negative personalities in the world, natural disasters and also terrorism which stop this from happening. Also, wars are being fought in certain corners of the world along with the existence of other anti-social elements, which prevent this from happening. Along with that, the deteriorating natures of people in general, where anger, ego, greed, jealousy and hatred have become a part of the personality of a lot of people is also not letting this purpose to be achieved. So, what should be done so that what we want, we are able to fulfill. This dream cannot become a reality without spiritual power. And the only one who can provide spiritual power is the One who is completely full with it i.e. our Supreme Father or God. He is called the World Almighty or the most powerful one and here we are referring to spiritual power and not physical power. Physical power cannot achieve this purpose, as we have already seen happen in the world in the past.

(To be continued tomorrow …)



Smile  

A smile from the heart is the best accessory you can wear.  
So if you're not smiling from the heart - why not?  What's stopping your heart reaching your face? 
Add that warm, wholehearted smile to your appearance and it will make you feel good, look good, and do good!

Message for the day


To watch with detachment is to give the best performance. 
Though to Ponder: Any actor would like to portray his best on stage. He would have utmost attention to every small action or expression. When I become an audience to my own act, I would be able to give my best performance too. Then, I also need to watch my act as the audience. Then, I can applaud my best performance and improve upon what is not good. 

Point to Practice: Today I will imagine being photographed at every step. I will see myself as a camera would see me. This detached perspective will give me a clear indication of what my behavior, actions and expressions are and what I would like them to be. Then, I would be able to make an attempt to portray my best.
 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 20, 2017: Simplicity

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 20, 2017: Simplicity




Pagudpud Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Simplicity

Peace is simplicity. Simplicity is beauty. Choose a day as your day of simplicity. Speak little, and listen with attention. Do something incognito and nice for a person you are close to. Eat simple and natural food. Create time periods for not doing anything - just walk, look around, live the moment. Have your mind open to a more profound and silent sensitivity. Appreciate each scene and each person as they are.

Overcoming The Subtle Desire For Revenge

Ask yourself very honestly how many times in your life did you feel joy, even a slight trace of it, when something negative happened with someone who had harmed you or hurt you or insulted you in any way in the past – either in the immediate or distant (far-away) past. When this kind of joy, which is an impure form of joy, is seen inside you, even if it is at your extremely subtle thought level (if not in your words or actions), you need to remember that this is nothing but a feeling of subtle revenge, even if physically you haven’t got back at any point of time at the person who has harmed you, when he did so. It may not sound very nice, but this kind of joy is enjoying the pain of others and is obviously an extremely low grade form of joy. Sometimes, as a way of justifying our joyful revenge, we call it justice.

The driving energy or fuel behind this kind of revenge is hatred or anger. It is a feeling of:  I really enjoyed it when what they had done to me came to them - I was so happy to see them suffer for what they had done, this is their punishment … tit for tat. It is a type of joy that only increases our accounts of negative karmas with the other person, which as a result, increases our sorrow, instead of decreasing it, although it may give us an impression for a while that it is decreasing our sorrow. This kind of joy will only cause the radiation of a negative form of energy to the other person, which will not only give pain to the other person, but will also cause the radiation of the negative energy of hatred from the other person to us that will never bring us long term joy. Imagine someone meeting with an accident on the road and in a lot of pain and instead of helping that person immediately we smile at that person happy with what has happened to him or her. What energy will such a person send us in return? This example is on a physical level, but the same principle applies on a subtle level. So the next time something like this happens in our life, we need to remind ourselves only if we don’t have the slightest trace of joy inside us that we can safely say that we are free from any desire for revenge, even though it may be very subtle.

Hand Shake


In the moment of shaking the hand of another, not only are we participating in a universal greeting, but we are acknowledging we are all connected in the game of life together. For what is life but a series of meetings, a gentle sequence of connectings!

The touch of hands is a reminder of our unity, the squeeze of a hand says we care, and the shaking of hands says we are celebrating being together. 
What are we saying when our touch is too cold, our squeeze too firm or too soft, or our shake too limp?

Sometimes words are inadequate, or just too difficult. Which is why we can always say with our hand what is in our heart. If you are not ready to look directly into your heart, but you'd like an idea of what's there, be aware of your hand when you next put it forward for a shake!


Message for the day

To be ready before time is to be able to give the best in situations. 


Expression: Each situation has something new to teach and there is something to learn from it. For the one who learns from every situation, there is progress. Such a person is able to be ready before time. So when the challenging situation does come up, he is well equipped with whatever is necessary and he is able to give his best. 

Experience: When I am able to understand the fact that all life's situations are just training for me, I am able to learn from everything that happens. I am able to build up and use my inner powers more and more and I find myself moving towards perfection with each passing moment. 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 19, 2017: An Angel's face

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 19, 2017: An Angel's face




An Angel's face
An angel's face is still because there are no lies inside. Truth makes it a straight, simple face whose beauty lies not in its form but in the feeling it gives you.



Seeing With Spiritual Eyes

My eyes are the most powerful medium through which I, the soul, not only absorb information from the outside to the inside but also express myself to others from the inside to outside. All that the soul possesses inside it or is made up of in the form of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, positive virtues, even weaknesses, in fact all personality traits, are expressed through my eyes to others and shared with others. As I look towards others, my eyes can be used to shower others with pure love, peace, joy, power etc. and the same eyes, if not used appropriately, can shower others with anger, jealousy, criticism, hatred etc. My eyes also express whatever wisdom or knowledge I possess inside.
When I stay in the awareness that I am a soul, a spiritual being of subtle light, situated at the center of my forehead, my eyes are used to see others in the same way with a spiritual vision. This leads to my spiritual upliftment. When I stay in the awareness that I am a body, my eyes are used to see others in the same way with a non-spiritual or a body-conscious vision. This brings me down on a spiritual level. A spiritual vision helps me see others with a sense of equality, instead of with feelings of comparison or competitiveness. Usually, on a physical level, I create all sorts of impressions of another person from just one glance through my eyes, about their age, gender, looks, position in society, job, how rich they are, their dressing sense, caste, nationality etc. and many a times, very commonly, I make various assumptions about their personality or behaviour. In the state of soul-consciousness, that changes. Looking out I see souls, and I see them as my brothers, on exactly the same level as me, neither higher, nor lower. A spiritual vision reminds me of the original, positive qualities of each soul, instead of their present personality. It also reminds me that each soul has incarnated from the soul world to play its various roles through different physical costumes in this unlimited drama on the world stage. Age, gender, appearances, status etc. which are visible to me today are just temporary ones. The same soul has been in the past and will be in the future in different physical costumes or roles, where all these have been and will be different and the same applies to me too. This makes me rise above comparisons and I am no longer judgmental about the other.



Negative feedback

Receiving negative feedback is not pleasant or easy to hear, but it is part and parcel of life.  So we may as well handle it effectively.  How?

1. If possible, try not to respond immediately.  Give yourself a few seconds, minutes or more to cool down and to process the feedback.

2. If it feels right, say "Thank you for your feedback."

3. Assess the feedback.  Is there any truth in it?  Is it highlighting any blind spots?  If you take the bits that seem useful for self-improvement, you flip negative to positive.

Message for the day


To forget the mistakes of the past is to win the game. 


Expression:  To forget the mistakes of the past means to take the learning from them and then forget them. When there is the ability to do this, there is also the ability to make the best use of the resources available in the present. There is a clear vision for the future and constant effort to move towards it. 

Experience: When I am able to forgive my own mistakes after understanding how to correct them, I am able to forget them. This keeps me mentally free and I am able to move forward with lightness. Whatever situations come my way, I am able to enjoy them like a game.



In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

18/06/17 English Murli Audio with some Hindi words

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Renounce everything wasteful and become powerful.

English Murli Audio with some Hindi words on Madhuban Official Murli site.
Go to
http://madhubanmurli.org/#
There are Murli audios in 18 languages.
In the English Murli section,
Click on the button that has the headset icon.
Audio is labelled English 2.
To download the audio or pdf, click on the downward arrow.


Today, BapDada is seeing all the souls who are conquerors of sinful actions, that is, all the sannyasi (renunciate) souls who have renounced performing sinful actions. To become a Brahmin soul means to perform elevated actions and to renounce sinful actions. As soon as each one of you became a Brahmin child, you had the elevated thought that from now on you would perform pure actions and stop performing sinful actions. A soul who performs pure actions is said to be an elevated Brahmin soul. So your thought was to become a conqueror of sinful actions. This was the aim that everyone of you adopted first of all, was it not? By keeping that aim in front of you, you are acquiring the elevated qualifications to achieve that aim. Therefore, ask yourself: Have I renounced performing sinful actions and become a conqueror of sinful actions? Just as, in the world outside, souls of an elevated, royal family cannot have ordinary activity, so, too, you souls who perform pure actions cannot perform sinful actions. Just as those limited Vaishnavas cannot accept anything tamsic (dirty and impure), so, too, you conquerors of sinful action, who belong to the clan of Vishnu, cannot have any sinful thoughts or perform sinful actions, that is, you cannot perform impure or dirty (tamoguni) actions or have impure or dirty thoughts. This is not allowed in the Brahmin religion. Just as you write for the seekers who come here the directions of all the things that are not allowed for an easy yogi soul, do you also understand very clearly what is not allowed for Brahmins and for yourself? All of you understand and also accept this, but you follow it; numberwise. Seeing such children, BapDada remembers an amusing story that you tell. Although you accept it and speak about it, nevertheless, you still do it! You tell others the story of the parrot that is based on this. You tell someone not to do something while you are doing that very thing. So what would you say about this? Is this elevated behaviour of a Brahmin soul? Because to be a Brahmin means to be one who is elevated. So, what is elevated? Pure actions or ordinary actions? Since Brahmins cannot even perform ordinary actions, there is no question of performing sinful actions. To be a conqueror of sinful actions means to be one who renounces sinful actions and sinful thoughts. Because you have physical senses, you cannot stop performing actions. The body is connected with the physical senses and the physical senses are connected with actions. We are now talking about the renunciation of the body and everything connected with the body. Actions are connected with the physical senses and, in terms of actions, you have to renounce performing sinful actions. Without renouncing performing sinful actions, you cannot become one who performs pure actions and who is a conqueror of sinful actions. You understand the definition of sinful actions very well. To perform any action while being even slightly influenced by vice is to perform a sinful action. You understand both the subtle and the royal forms of the vices very well and you have already been told about what the royal form of vices is for Brahmins. If there are any vices in their royal form or if there is even a subtle trace of them, then such a soul cannot become one who constantly performs pure actions. Check every action from amrit vela as to whether you performed a pure action, a wasteful action or a sinful action. A pure action means an action performed on the basis of shrimat. An action performed on the basis of shrimat is automatically accumulated in the account of pure actions. So, this is the easy way to check pure actions and sinful actions. Constantly continue to check yourself in this way. You have been given shrimat for every action, from the action at the time of waking up for amrit vela to the action at the time of going to sleep at night. You have been told how to wake up, how to sit, how to do everything. If you don’t wake up at that time then, accordingly, you cannot create an elevated reward of elevated actions from amrit vela - which means, you cannot renounce wasteful and sinful actions. Therefore, you must renounce this dependency. You also have to renounce everything wasteful. Some think that they haven't performed any sinful actions, that they haven't made any mistakes or that they haven't spoken any such words. However, wasteful words don't allow you to become powerful, that is, they don't allow you to become greatly fortunate. If you haven't performed any sinful actions but you have, however, performed wasteful actions, then you haven't accumulated anything for the present or the future. By performing elevated actions, you experience the instant fruit of elevated actions in the form of happiness and power. You yourself experience the practical and instant fruit of that and others, when they see souls perform elevated actions, also experience zeal and enthusiasm to make effort, feeling that they too can become like you. So, you experience instant fruit and you also serve others. In this way you accumulate double in terms of the present, and the future is accumulated anyway. In this respect, if you perform any wasteful or ordinary actions, then that causes so much damage! Therefore, never think that you just performed ordinary actions and that that happens all the time. Every step, every action and every word of an elevated soul has to be

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elevated. So, do you understand what the definition of renunciation is? To renounce everything wasteful means to renounce ordinary actions, words and time and to become constantly powerful and to remain unique, that is, to become multimillion times fortunate. So, now underline everything wasteful and ordinary. Renounce this carelessness, because all of you Brahmin souls have hero and heroine parts on the world stage. Each and every second, each and every thought, each and every word and each and every action of such hero actor souls is even more valuable than a diamond. If you waste even a second, that is like losing a diamond. If someone loses or drops his most valuable diamond somewhere, he would feel that he has lost something of great importance. However, this is not a question of just one diamond. Each second has the value of many diamonds. Think in these terms. It shouldn't be that you sit and talk amongst yourselves in an ordinary way about ordinary things and pass your time just like that. What do you then say? We weren’t talking about anything bad. We were just talking amongst ourselves like that. We were just sitting and chatting together. We were just passing the time like that. So much time is spent in doing things “just like that”! You are not “just like that”, but you are like diamonds. So, understand your own value! Your non-living images have so much value! So much value is given to even a glimpse of one second. One thought of yours is so valuable that, till today, people consider that to be blessing. Devotees simply ask for a vision of just one second. Therefore that glimpse is the value of your time, and the blessing is the value of your thoughts. The value of your words is that, even today, they are desperate to hear a few words from you. The value of your vision is that, even today, they call out for you to take them beyond with a glimpse from you. Every action of yours has value. When you speak about the elevated actions you performed with the Father, they melt in that experience. Therefore, every second and every thought of yours is that valuable! So, understand your value and renounce your wasteful and sinful actions and thoughts. What was the lesson of renunciation that you made firm today? Renounce the carelessness of the words, "Just like that"! You speak about the common way of speaking today. So, this has become the common way of speaking for Brahmins today. Renounce this common language! Let every second be unique. Let your every thought be alokik, that is, let it be invaluable. Let it bring double fruit, that of the present and the future. You must have seen how some fruit are two fruits combined in one - two varieties of fruit are together in one. So, you elevated souls constantly have double fruit, that is, you have double attainment. Before you receive anything in the future, you have attainment at the present time, and, on the basis of the present, you receive your future attainment. So, do you understand? Eat double fruit, not single. Achcha.

To those who are constant conquerors of sinful actions, to the double heroes who become invaluable and make every second of theirs invaluable by using it for service, to those who eat double fruit, to the great renunciates who have renounced everything wasteful and ordinary, to the greatest, fortunate souls who have elevated thoughts and who perform elevated actions equal to those of the Father, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.


BapDada meeting groups:

1.   Service done through the faces of souls who are full and complete.

All of you who live close to the ocean, are you continuing to fill yourselves with the treasures of the ocean? There are so many treasures at the bottom of the ocean. So, those who are living on the shore of the ocean and close to the ocean have become the masters of all treasures. Generally, when someone discovers a treasure, he is very happy. When someone suddenly receives some wealth, he becomes very intoxicated. You children have received such wealth that no one can snatch it away from you or loot it from you. You will be constantly wealthy for 21 births. The key to all treasures is, “Baba”. As soon as you say “Baba” the treasure-store opens. So, you have found the key and you have also found the treasures; you have become constantly prosperous. Such overflowing and prosperous souls have a sparkle of happiness on their faces. Seeing their happiness, everyone will say: I don’t know what that one has received! They will have the desire to know it and in this way they would automatically be served.

2.   In order to become a conqueror of Maya, be seated on the seat of self-respect.

Do you constantly experience yourself to be seated on the seat of self-respect? Do you experience yourself to be seated on the seat of the elevated self-respect of being the highest Brahmin soul, an elevated soul and a great soul? To sit anywhere, you need a seat. So, at the confluence age, the Father has given you the seat of elevated self-respect; remain seated on that. To maintain your awareness means to remain seated. Always have the awareness, “I am a charitable soul who performs the charity of donating multi-millions at every step.” “I am a great soul who has elevated thoughts and elevated words and who performs elevated deeds.”

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Never consider yourself to be ordinary. Who do you now belong to and what have you become? Remain constantly stable on the seat of this awareness. Maya will never be able to come to you when you are seated on this seat; she will not have the courage. The seat of the soul is the seat of self-respect. Those who remain seated on this seat easily become conquerors of Maya.

3.   Have all your relationships with the One and become free from all bondage, that is, become accurately connected in yoga.

Do you souls constantly experience yourselves to be free from bondage? Have you become free from all bondage or does some bondage still remain? The sign of being free from bondage is that you are constantly yogyukt (accurately linked in yoga). If you are not yogyukt, then you definitely have bondage. Now that you belong to the Father, what else would you remember except the Father? You always remember something that you love or something that is beautiful. So is there anything or anyone more elevated than the Father? When it becomes clear in your intellect that there is nothing more elevated than the Father, you become an easy yogi. You also easily become free from all bondage; you don’t have to make any effort. All your relationships are forged with the Father and all consciousness of “mine” is finished. This is known as having all relationships with the One.


4.   The sign of souls who are close is that they are equal.

Do you constantly experience yourselves to be souls who are close? The sign of souls who are close is that they are equal. Whoever someone is close to, he is automatically coloured by that one’s company. So, to be close to the Father means to be equal to the Father. The Father’s virtues are the children’s virtues; the Father’s task is the children’s task. Just as the Father is constantly the World Benefactor, so too, children are world benefactors. So check at every moment that the actions you perform and the words you speak are equal to those of the Father and you will become equal to Him. Just as the Father is constantly full and the One with All Powers, so the children will also become masters. You won’t then lack any virtues or powers. If you are full, you remain unshakeable; you do not fluctuate.


5.   Running around for service is also a means of entertainment.

Do all of you consider yourselves to be those who are multi-million times fortunate in accumulating an income of multi-millions at every step through remembrance and service? You have found such an easy way of earning an income. Remember the Father while sitting comfortably and continue to earn an income. You can earn a lot through your thoughts but, the running around that you have to do every now and then for the facilities of service is also a means of entertainment. In any case, you want a change in life and so this becomes a change. You have many methods of earning an income and you accumulate multi-millions within a second. As soon as you have remembrance, you are able to multiply it by adding a zero. So, keep yourselves busy earning your imperishable income in this easy way.

BapDada speaking to the people from Punjab, conveying love and remembrance to them.

Constant congratulations to the serviceable children of Punjab, who have a lot of zeal and enthusiasm for service. The more service you do, the more you become those who eat lots of the fruit of service. In any case, in Punjab there will be those who eat the fruit, that is, the instant fruit. This is special unlimited service. This mela means you are becoming instruments to enable souls to have a meeting. You have done unlimited service with unlimited enthusiasm; continue to move forward whilst constantly having such constant zeal and enthusiasm. BapDada knows that many of you good old souls, who have taken sustenance, have become instruments. The fortune of the old children is even now praised in the scriptures, and new children who come here in the living form also speak about this.

So, multi-million times love and remembrance to the serviceable children who take the chance of becoming multi-millionaires. Achcha.


Blessing: May you be a successful tapaswi who does not touch anything bad with your mind or intellect and become a complete Vaishnav.

One who has the personality and royalty of purity cannot touch anything bad with his mind or intellect. Just as, in Brahmin life, physical attraction or physically touching anyone is impurity, similarly, any attraction or touching of any type of thought of vice in your mind or intellect is impurity. Do not touch anything bad, even in your thoughts. This is a sign of being a complete Vaishnav and a successful tapaswi.

 Slogan: Finish the confusion (uljhan) of the mind and make your present and future bright (ujwal).


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