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Positive Reflections messages from Awakening consciousness
Positive Thought Based Living (Part 1)
Living in a world of high speed and actions in our everyday lives, we need to spend a few minutes everyday looking at how much time did we spend in the day in giving and spreading the fragrance of our specialties and loving each one whom we meet, with a big heart. Always see and check whether each action of yours is dedicated to the benefit of others and not only for benefiting the self. We all know and realize that the day to day routine includes work tasks of different types but life is also about giving and receiving from others all that’s beautiful in life like peace, love and happiness. It’s fine to be over involved with work but even in that work there are some people who are more in touch with their inner goodness. Some will make it a point to share good things with others in the form of good words while talking to them and good gestures while interacting with them. Some people will make it a point to share with others, something good over email or through any other social media before starting their daily routine at office or even the regular work at home if they are not working.
So, life isn’t all about working hard for a living but living a value based life and spreading the fragrance of values to others. Values are not to be kept within you but shared with others and distributed with a big heart. There are some people who will put up some good thoughts and spiritual words everyday in their homes or at some place in their office where everyone can read them, take inspiration from them, bring them into practice and also inspire others with them. This is called positive thought based living and not just plain living which many people in the world indulge in. Live life to the fullest and enjoy it but not at the cost of giving up values. Let every person whom you come in contact with, feel you are different not only in terms of personality and skills but also in terms of your basic nature and the virtues or qualities you possess. Then the world will become a beautiful place to live in and we will be like one big family closely knit together in a bond of pure love and happiness.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
It’s The Final Moments Of The World Drama
The World Drama is an act all souls play on planet Earth in which there are four phases - Satyug or Golden Age, Tretayug or Silver Age, Dwaparyug or Copper Age and Kaliyug or Iron Age. Because souls are eternal, this Drama is eternal. It keeps repeating again and again and souls play their respective many roles in the Drama by taking many births. Also, the most beautiful role in the World Drama is played by God at the end of the Iron Age. He is the One who transforms the Iron Age into the Golden Age and fills all souls and nature again with positive and pure spiritual energy, and the Drama begins fresh on a new note. So where are we now, at what point of time in the Drama? We are at that point of time, when God is playing His role in the World Drama and He is creating the Golden Age. These are the final moments of the Drama of four phases. What should we do at this point of time?
1. We go inwards and reflect on our journey of four phases that we have covered. We visualize every phase based on what wisdom God has shared with us. It’s time to return back to the Soul World and prepare for a new journey ahead, after coming down from the Soul World, where the soul will rest for a short period of time.
2. We have learnt from God that everything was good in our sanskars, in our health and wealth and in our relationships and roles in the first two phases. Then we came down in all of these in the next two phases because we came under the influence of bodily attractions and physical attachments. Let us not make the same mistakes again and perform beautiful and positive actions only.
3. Let us listen to God's spiritual wisdom and feel and experience what He says. Let us also experience God as a Supreme Being Of Light and connect with Him in meditation in the Spiritual World of Silence, the eternal Home of all souls - the Soul World. This will make the soul 100% pure again.
4. It is the end of one journey in the World Drama and we now begin the next journey in which we need the soul to be full of all qualities and powers and beautiful sanskars for the Golden Age and even after that. Let us be in the company of God constantly and fill ourselves with all of these again, which we have lost in this journey over a period of time.
Let’s Co-operate, Not Compete
True co-operation means extending unconditional support to everyone in every situation, with a feeling of belongingness and an intention of empowerment. It strengthens our original qualities of humility, love, compassion and empathy, thereby helping us overcome negative sanskars of ego, jealousy, resentment and competition. Co-operation often does not need us to do anything, we just need to be our self - calm and stable. Our vibrations give co-operation and support to ease people around us and make those moments a beautiful experience for them. Our vibrations help them to emerge their divinity in response to situations.
Co-operation is an antidote to Competition. Many of us have lived with the belief that life is a competition. We created stress, anger, jealousy, hatred and at time had to compromise on our ethics to get ahead of people. Let us internalize and finalize today - we are not in competition with anyone. Each one receives a result of their past and present karmas. Each one is getting what is fair for them. We can enhance our achievements only in reference to our self not in reference to others. When we co-operate or help someone we experience enormous satisfaction and contentment, increasing soul power. We also earn blessings from the person who received our co-operation. If we reject people because our sanskars or opinions differ, our energy of love, sharing and caring gets blocked. Whenever we co-operate let us check our intention behind the act - whether we expect to get something in return. If so, the energy of cooperation gets adulterated with the energy of greed. Also, we need to check for ego or a feeling of being superior to the person who receives our co-operation. Ego dilutes the energy. By accepting and adjusting with different sanskars, by sharing and caring, we are radiating pure vibrations into the world. Our vibrations are influencing the collective consciousness of the world. When we change, the world changes.
Is Reincarnation A Reality?
We are all spiritual beings or souls playing our respective roles through our respective bodies. We all feel ourselves spiritually when we think and visualize and act in different ways through our behavior, based on our nature or sanskars (habits). Also, its a commonly accepted reality that we change physical costumes or bodies from time to time and come in the cycle of birth and rebirth. This is called reincarnation. At the same time, there are many people in the world who do not believe in reincarnation and feel this is just an imagination and life is only a physical phenomenon and all thinking and visualizing is done by the brain and not the soul. They also believe that sanskars or nature are nothing but physical genes inherited from our parents, who give us birth and they are not carried by the soul.
Spirituality gives us the important learning that God is also a spiritual energy like us and He does not come in the cycle of birth and rebirth. He constantly stays in the soul world and only comes down once on Earth, when the world loses its spiritual energy and degrades in qualities. God fills the Earth and all souls who play their part on Earth with his spiritual qualities and uplifts the world again. He transforms the Iron Age or Kaliyug to the Golden Age or Satyug, which is also called Swarg or Heaven. God gives the knowledge of reincarnation when He comes down on Earth and reveals to us how souls play their roles through different physical costumes, from the beginning of the Golden Age to the end of the Iron Age and then again back to the Golden Age after God purifies the souls. This cycle from the Golden Age to the Iron Age repeats again and again.
Your Mind Is Your Inner Child
The mind is like our child. Even as we go about fulfilling our responsibilities, priority needs to be the well-being of this child within. We need to nourish it, love it and comfort it. People believe they have lost control over their mind and wish to control other people’s minds to feel powerful. Our mind is the only entity in our control. A little attention and love will discipline this inner child.
1. Like you remain connected to your children always, be connected to your mind and guide it at every step. While fulfilling responsibilities like household work, family, career and health, your priority should be the child within.
2. This inner child may not be in your control only because it is not taught how to think or how much to think. Meditate and read spiritual messages daily, it becomes a source for the mind to create right thoughts.
3. While taking care of your responsibilities, the child might start crying – which means it is irritated, angry, jealous, scared or hurt. Withdraw for a minute from whatever you are doing to silence the child. Teach your mind to be powerful when people are not fair to you, to forget the past and to think nice for all.
4. Discipline this child with love, not force or harshness. When you understand your mind, understanding others becomes simple. While dealing with others, you are dealing with the child within them.
Self Conversations And Their Significance
A very important subtle activity that we all indulge in for a lot of time in the day is having conversations with the self, sometimes consciously and a large number of times without even being conscious of it. We need to be extremely careful about what the quality of our conversations are because self conversations very strongly influence our perception i.e. the way we see ourselves, others, situations as well as our personalities and also mould them. If channeled properly, they can be constructive i.e. ones that empower the self; if not, they can be destructive i.e. ones that bring the self down or weaken it in some way or the other. They possess immense potential, both positive and negative, if we want we can use them to liberate us or they can even limit us. We can judge, criticize and threaten ourselves or praise and encourage the self in a positive way. It's important to create thoughts of acceptance, respect and approval for ourselves, even if situations don't go the way we desire or expect. Such positive conversations help rise above the dependence on what how people see us and what they think and talk about us, making the self extremely powerful.
Positive self conversations are not fantasies or disconnecting from reality and a few minutes given to the activity do a lot of benefit and no harm at all. They can be done by detaching oneself from actions when we have an emerged conversation and our complete focus is on the conversation and we do nothing else at that time or whilst being involved in actions. Some actions like going on a drive, cooking, having a meal or simply taking a walk or going on a jog allow self-conversations to take place alongside. At these times we give less mental energy or attention to the conversations i.e. we can have a merged conversation so that the respective action is not affected adversely in any way. We can choose how much mental energy to give to the activity, depending on the karma alongside.
Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 1)
Positivity is our nature which we sometimes lose in our busy lifestyles. It is like the necklace which is around our neck, but we don’t realize that and we search for it all around. When we start the day, we need to fill our minds with positive points of information from a positive source. These points strengthen our mind and protect it from the negatives which surround us. Very often like the necklace, positivity is lost temporarily and is very easy to find, but the negative influence does not let me think of the ways of becoming positive and regaining it.
There was once a rich trader who always found a reason to become upset because of the smallest of reasons during the day. Every morning he would decide to remain positive during the day and would promise himself that he would not let his mind be influenced by any difficult problem he faced. But, as soon as he used to start his trade or business, because of the complicated nature of his work, he would fall prey to one or the other problem. These problems would be either from the work itself. Or problems would arise through the money he handled, or from his work associates or sometimes due to a problem created by his own mind. A mind that easily succumbs to difficulties can be compared to a home where a little problem in the form of a little mouse enters and brings disturbances in the whole house. When the house owner manages to get rid of the mouse and thinks everything is okay, a cat enters and adds her side of troubles and has the house owner go busy in trying to get it out of his premises. The cat is then followed by the dog’s entry and the whole day the house owner spends in this way. The moral of the story is - the one who remains disturbed attracts disturbances, which he keeps trying to send away. This process or mindset of trying to keep problems away and becoming over-involved in doing that, in turn attracts more problems. So, remain calm when the first problem of the day comes and don’t become over-involved or confused in trying to keep it away. This is the primary step to keeping problems away for the whole day. Calmness attracts a problem free environment around me and also keeps me content, powerful and peaceful.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
The Beauty Of Christmas – A Festival Of Love And Joy (Part 3)
6. Lastly, Christmas brings together everyone in a united bond of love and joy and everyone remembers God and promises God that they will never hurt anyone and create togetherness in the world and also take inspiration from the teachings of Jesus Christ, a pure soul, who reminded everyone of God and said that God is the Supreme Divine Light and the Highest One. Jesus Christ stood for wisdom and truth and gave the world the light of goodness and spread goodness to everyone.
So, let us all celebrate Christmas in the remembrance of God and bring its spiritual essence in our lives. The Supreme Being or the Spiritual Pole Star, who is the Heavenly Godfather and the One who is constant in qualities eternally, says that the New World will soon become a reality and we will enter into that world with a divine personality, similar to God’s. This is remembered in the Bible as – God created man in His own image. So let us be connected to God and share the message of God with everyone. This is God’s message to all of us – Become pure and divine like me by listening to the wisdom I share and by remembering me through the process of meditation, in which you concentrate on my pure and divine point form in the pure soul world, which exists beyond the Universe and the world of five elements.
The Beauty Of Christmas – A Festival Of Love And Joy (Part 2)
3.Also, Christmas reminds us of beautiful angels with wings and a divine wand in their hands. Wings symbolize the angelic and light stage of the mind, which is experienced through purity and soul-consciousness and the divine wand is a symbol of positive blessings which we receive from God and then share with each and every soul in the world. Also, we as angels, at the present time, whisper the divine message of Godly wisdom to everyone and awaken them from the sleep of spiritual ignorance. Angels are shown with a halo or pure aura around their face or over their head, which is a sign of an awakened consciousness.
4.Christmas also involves exchanging gifts and merry making along with special meals together. All these festivities have a spiritual significance and symbolic of we as human beings sharing the gifts of goodness and Godly beauty, which we have imbibed from God, amongst each other and enjoying ourselves while doing that. Also, at the same time enjoying beautiful food for thought or spiritual wisdom, which God feeds our intellect with everyday and makes us spiritually healthy and strong with it.
5.Christmas reminds us that God is with us and we should celebrate each day in Godly love and His constant company and remain spiritually intoxicated and become very sweet like God and radiate that sweetness through every thought, word and action to everyone.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
-Awakening With Brahma Kumaris 🙏🏻
*The Beauty Of Christmas – A Festival Of Love And Joy (Part 1)*
Christmas is a festival of love and joy and brings together everyone in a beautiful spirit full of bonding and togetherness.
1.Christmas reminds us of God and His pure actions of creating a new world tree, full of beautiful attainments which all human beings enjoy and also share with each other, without any sense of ego or false ownership over them. This is the world that God is creating at the present time in which there is immense unity, equality and respect amongst each other and no sense of superiority and inferiority in human beings. God is shown on the Christmas tree as a big star on top of the tree and human souls are shown as small stars on the branches of the tree and attainments are shown as the decoration on the tree, which all human souls receive from God. God is shown on top because He lives in the soul world above and the world tree exists on Earth below.
2.Santa Claus is a very important figure in Christmas celebrations and He symbolizes God – the Supreme Father of all souls, who visits us at this time in the night of humanity, when there is a fall in human values, principles and goodness in the world and He distributes to all human beings in the world the gifts of peace, love, joy and wisdom. It is said that in the night before Christmas day, which is on December 25th, Santa Claus visits people from the North Pole of this physical world, which is very far away and where he stays. This represents God visiting us at the present time from the soul world, which is also very far away and exists beyond the physical world. The soul world is the spiritual world where God stays and also where all human souls originally stay, before coming down on Earth to play a part in this physical world. Santa Claus is said to come down chimneys of houses in the night to leave his gifts for children, which represents God’s incarnation in the dark old world of the present times. The spiritual gifts that God gives us, bring a new morning in the world – a beautiful Heaven or Golden Age, in which everything is perfect, pure and positive and there is nothing in the new world which any human beings lack or desire.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
- Awakening With Brahma Kumaris 🙏🏻
Keeping The Watchman Of Attention Alert
All the religions and spiritual groups place a lot of importance on the virtue of discipline. Without discipline you do not manage to transform negative habits and you do not create a new state of awareness where the self is nourished through the experience of spirituality. Every day you eat, you brush your teeth, bathe, drink water and breathe, and all of this you do not consider a discipline; you have adopted them as something natural in order for your body to continue working properly. On a spiritual level you also need to nourish yourself and to have a discipline that, with practice, a time comes when it becomes natural because you make it a part of your life. In the process of change you need to discipline yourself in order not to let old habits come back. Until you have burnt the old habits and they have died, you should keep the watchman of attention alert in order to maintain your self-control, given that each time you use a negative habit in action, you strengthen it. When you do not use it, you allow it to die.
The path of the spiritual traveller is therefore one of waking (awareness of self as soul) and sleeping (under the illusion that we are our body), waking and sleeping. We tend to fluctuate between the two (like dawn and dusk) until we find stability in soul-consciousness. This is why it is important to awaken and stay awake, and this is why it's important to give our mind and intellect good spiritual food (spiritual wisdom) and exercise (meditation) every day to keep them fresh and alert. Being conscious of the soul, acting from that consciousness, the scars (habits and tendencies) left by past actions based on illusions of bodily awareness are healed. Discipline is necessary for spiritual growth and personal transformation if you want to obtain satisfying and permanent results. If not, the old habits continue to rule in your life. The evidence that our discipline in the practice of meditation is working is mental lightness, an increasing easiness in our interactions with others and success in everything we do.
Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 3)
In yesterday’s message, we have already shared examples of situations which are self-created. These situations are created by my own mind, sometimes triggered by an external situation and sometimes there is no external event responsible for the situation. Then there are other situations of the physical body, relationship based situations and situations related to my workplace and home. All these situations are partly external and partly internal i.e. there is an external event present which is a reality and cannot be overlooked. This is true except in many cases when the situation is perceived as a situation but that is just a perception of a person with a negative perception, but in reality the situation does not exist. In all other cases, the situation is present and that is a fact accepted by even a person with a positive perception. Depending on how we perceive the situation, how we react to it and what thoughts we create on seeing it, the situation becomes big or small in our own mind first. But there is another aspect – sometimes some life situations are threatening in nature and can disturb the most powerful of souls. Of course the intensity of the fear varies from person to person depending on the perception. A calm mind with a powerful intellect can face all these situations. Also, techniques like meditation which are taught by the Brahma Kumaris will help you in doing that.
Meditation is a process of thought training - just like a cricketer will practice very carefully how he will time each ball that he faces to achieve the desired result of a run or runs scored. In the same way, I learn how to give each thought of mine value and create only positive thoughts for those few minutes of meditation. These positive thoughts are based on spiritual knowledge and are thoughts about the spiritual self and the Supreme Being. These positive thoughts are created very slowly, step by step and carefully. This meditation practice of about a few minutes everyday is our training for actual negative situations. Then, due to this practice, we remain calm and create only positive thoughts and keep the negative thoughts away which cause disturbances in our mind.
Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 2)
Do you know that on an average we create a new thought every 2 seconds or even less that? This speed increases very regularly when we panic and are in discomfort or under the negative influence of an external situation. We call it external because the me or I which is internal is not the creator of the situation. Even the physical body is external. Except for situations from my own negative personality characteristics, which are completely the creation of the internal me or I, all other situations are external. There are various examples of situations in the form of negative personality traits which are completely internal. E.g. on a particular day I feel gloomy or sad without any particular reason. On another day I experience thoughts of ego of my own nature or positive qualities or powers which are all internal. Sometimes I experience fear but there is no particular person or object or situation which I fear, it is just a passing phase. I am just frightened for no particular reason or on another occasion I feel I am unsuccessful although everything in my life is going fine. On another day I am worried about falling ill, although I am completely fit and nor have I met someone who is ill or listened to any news regarding poor health. So, my worry is completely self-created. These are examples of situations created completely by me.
Then, there are situations from my own personality characteristics which are triggered by outside situations. Such situations include something that I read, saw or heard which has caused a negative personality characteristic to emerge inside me. Examples of such situations are – my friend has been more successful in his or her academic career and seeing that causes thoughts of jealousy to emerge inside me. In this case, this is my self created situation but it was triggered by another person or external event. He or she did not cause me any harm and did not create the situation but I created the situation only because of my thinking. Another example of such a situation - I fear my boss at office solely because of his position being superior to me. He or she is a very nice person and is extremely polite with me and never tries to dominate me, but I feel dominated because of my thinking. Or another day, I heard a piece of news about how people are dying of heart attacks. This creates thoughts of fear inside me although I don’t suffer from any symptoms like uncontrolled high cholesterol or high blood pressure which could possibly lead to that.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Master The Art Of Self Control
We all wish to be in control of our lives in order to live well. It is our power to take charge of our mind, intellect and nature. And thereby automatically control our physical sense organs too. We do not get entangled in the musts and should defined by the society, as we take care of our own moral ways. Once we handle the self well, we will handle other people the right way. Of all the things we wish to have more of, self-control must be right on top. It refers to our ability to control our ways of thinking, being and behaving. While exercising self-control seems feasible, there are moments we get tempted to act differently, and we give in.
Follow these steps to exercise self-control and experience well-being:
1. Self-control is a strength you can cultivate by exercising it in simple scenes of life.
2. During meditation, watch your thoughts. It helps to control your mind and create a beautiful relationship with it.
3. Choose a powerful and right response in every situation, instead of automatic, habitual reactions. Awareness of having options and making choices increases self-control.
4. Stick to your values and principles. Use them fearlessly with everyone and in every situation. For example, admit to your mistake and apologize even if it will have a serious consequence. Likewise, obey traffic rules even if you are the only one on the road.
5. Choose purity in everything you read, watch, listen and talk. Follow principles of right eating and drinking, without giving in to temptations. Do what is right and healthy for you, without seeking public approval.
Repeat this affirmation 3 times to put yourself back in control of your life. Watch how your mind obeys instructions and your body supports your goals. Master the art of self-control:
I am a powerful being … I am the creator of my every thought … word … behavior … I use my mind the right way … situations may not be my way … my mind is always my way … I choose where to focus … what to see … what to listen … what to speak … I see goodness in everyone … I am untouched by public opinion … I live a disciplined life… I am the master of my mind … I am the master of my body.
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Projection Of Mental Energies In Relationships
Sometimes in relationships, you believe that the other person is hurting you because they do not meet your desires, but in such cases how can you know if it is really true? Let’s go a step ahead; does the belief that they are going to hurt you influence the situation until in the end it happens? Perhaps they won't hurt you. Your belief that the other is going to hurt you is not so powerful that it will necessarily affect the other person. But it affects you yourself. They may not hurt you at all finally, but you will end up hurt, you will become emotionally ill, even psychically ill sometimes. The symptoms will begin to show themselves and you will say: Did you see? I feel hurt, I keep telling you so. So your belief caused you to get hurt and not the other.
The other person isn't you. In relationships, a moment comes when you don't know if it is their fault or yours, if it is their responsibility or yours, if that person has caused the irritation inside you, or if it was you, if that person began the argument or it was you, if they created the conflict or if it was you, because we project (throw) our energies onto each other. All of this drives us to frustration. A lot of power, negative or positive, is needed for a person to be able to influence others with their consciousness, it is easier to influence ourselves. This is a basic principle of human relationships, which we don't understand. We don't understand, and the reason is that we don't see ourselves, because we are always looking at the other, putting the responsibility onto them, blaming them, criticizing them.