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Positive Reflections messages from Awakening consciousness
The Three Mirrors For Inner Beauty (Part 2)
In yesterday's message, we had discussed the first mirror, the mirror of spiritual knowledge. Elaborating further, this mirror will also show you the Supreme Soul and it will remind you about His virtues and actions which will help you check where you stand in comparison to Him in terms of virtues and actions and will influence you to follow him by imbibing those virtues and performing actions in the similar way. Lastly this mirror will remind you of your relationship with the Supreme and forging a deep and personal connection with Him in different ways which will benefit you and others.
The knowledge read every morning will help you see and realize what mistakes you have committed in the last 24 hours while performing actions and also in maintaining a connection with the Supreme and also see what you have done positively in the same regard during the same time, which will encourage you further to do the same in the future. The mirror of knowledge will also help you remain careful for the day ahead and perform actions and experience a relationship with the Supreme based on what you have read. It is a common experience of a lot of people that the spiritual knowledge read in the morning is always what the need of the moment for them is. The spiritual knowledge read is very commonly an exact reflection of the activities and mental state of your last 24 hours and/or something which you require for the coming day for the self, for your relationships, for facing different types of obstacles in your personal and professional life. This is the Law of Spiritual Attraction that works in each one's life, but to different extents. Our consciousness and inner requirements attract towards us the spiritual knowledge of a similar nature.
(To be continued tomorrow ….)
The Three Mirrors For Inner Beauty (Part 1)
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? are famous words. To check our external beauty or tidiness, we look into the mirror on the wall each day. But on a mental, emotional and spiritual level, what is the mirror that helps you to see if there is anything wrong with your inner face or self or to realize what is happening to you and what you have to do to maintain your inner fairness or beauty?
There are three types of mirrors, which one can use to see or check the internal self:
The first mirror is the mirror of spiritual knowledge – Spiritual knowledge is the knowledge related to spiritual self-development i.e. of the soul and also of the Supreme Soul. Each day, in the morning, you can look into this mirror for 5 minutes at least. Looking into this mirror means listening to or reading a piece of spiritual knowledge for at least 5 minutes that connects you to your inner essence, increases your emotional and spiritual intelligence as well as reminds you of your true purpose.
You will see yourself very clearly in this mirror as this mirror will show you:
- the knowledge of the original and ideal virtues of the soul like peace, love, bliss, purity, power, joy etc.;
- how these virtues can be imbibed in the self to benefit the self and others;
- the knowledge of the different types of weaknesses that can arise in the soul like anger, greed, ego, hatred, fear, attachment, jealousy, sorrow, etc., the roots of all which lie in mis-identification with the physical self and forgetting the spiritual self and how these weaknesses can harm the self and others;
- the knowledge of overcoming these weaknesses.
All of these things which you see in the mirror will help you to check where you stand in comparison to the right code of conduct for thoughts, feelings, attitudes, emotions, words and actions, where you are going wrong and how you can make the required corrections in the same. On looking into this mirror you will be reminded of the Law of Karma (the Law of Action and Reaction), which will motivate you to make these corrections.
(To be continued tomorrow ….)
Making The Earth Beautiful And Pure |
The Earth is a sacred space given to us by nature to stay on and make beautiful at every step. We radiate the energy from our inner consciousness every second to this planet, on which life exists in its fullest beauty. The higher the quality of our thoughts and feelings, the more we contribute in donating positivity and purity to the Earth. Let us create a few affirmations and remember them again and again everyday for achieving this purpose -
1. I am a pure soul with a beautiful mind and heart ... I think nice and positive for myself and for everyone and everything around me ... My vibrations radiate to every element of nature, every life form and all plants and vegetation ... They all become filled with peace, love and happiness ...
2. I am a powerful soul filled with all spiritual powers ... I radiate strength to everything on Earth and revive its original richness ... Every flower blossoms, every animal feels fulfilled, all mountains and oceans overflow with abundance, every soil particle creates natural beauty ...
3. I connect with God, the spiritual seed of the World Tree ... He fills me with all His specialties ... I radiate all these specialties through my eyes to everything I see on Earth today ... I smile at the Earth and thank it ... The Earth smiles back at me and thanks me ...
4. I take every step on Earth today with a positive consciousness of care and concern ... My spiritual energy flows to Earth from my feet and feeds the Earth with spiritual sustenance and blessings ... The Earth revives again to become as clean, pure and beautiful as it was in the beginning ...
5 Types Of Sanskars Of The Soul
The soul has 3 faculties mind,intellect and sanskars. Very often we say we can’t understand each other and sometimes we can’t understand our own behavior. It is because we are not aware of the sanskars or personality traits each of us carries.
Each soul carries 5 types of sanskars:
1. Sanskars we get from our parents and family - We often find certain habits of ours very similar to habits of members of our family. They could be physical habits or our way of thinking and personality traits.
2. Sanskars which are created because of the environment we are in - country, caste, culture, city, locality, school, friends and social circle.
3. Sanskars we carry forward from our past birth - We understand that we are not this body, but the spiritual energy that uses the body, energy which is not created or destroyed – energy which is immortal, eternal. Death means the soul leaves the old body and has a new body ready for it to use. When the soul leaves one costume, it carries its sanskars with it. This explains why even identical twins have very different personalities, bodies are identical but each soul is carrying a different past.
4. Sanskars created by our own will power - We may carry any type of sanskar from the past, family or environment, but if we wish to change, we can create a new sanskar with our own will power.
5. Original sanskars of the soul- The above 4 types of sanskars are acquired after using the body, but each soul has an original set of sanskars - peace, joy, love, bliss, purity, power and wisdom. These 7 sanskars are the original sanskars of every soul, and all the sanskars we see today of ego, anger, greed, jealousy, fear… are acquired sanskars. When we become soul conscious and remain aware of our original sanskars, they start to emerge again.
Let us remember who am I,
I am a pure, peaceful, loveful soul, and so is every soul I will meet today.
Finding The Destiny Maker (Part 3)
Today, there are a large number of people experiencing loneliness and are not getting what they want, from people close to them. Also their roles in their personal and professional lives are troubling them a lot by repeatedly bringing failure. If success is there, it is extremely short-lived. Also, because the five elements are coming down in their levels of quality, more and more people who have been healthy for most of their life, are suddenly becoming unhealthy. Along with that, a general mental depression is showing in many people’s lives. This is even with people who have been very successful and content for most part of their lives. And, don’t forget - a very important mental energy giver to people - relationships are becoming fragile and are easily cracking or failing under different types of pressures. People who can say that their lives are full of positivity in every way and that too permanently, are very few or close to none.
Because of this, people are realizing a need for change in their lives and are looking for an improvement in the quality of their lives. This is because they feel their lives are lacking something. But the fact is that that emptiness can only be filled permanently by a spiritual source which is none other than God. This spiritual source will fill our lives with invisible attainments, those attainments which cannot be destroyed or taken away from us, no matter what happens in our lives. So, let all of us together hold the hand of God, the destiny maker, while He is there with us and fill ourselves with thousands of attainments for the present. At the same time, also purify ourselves through God and make our lives full of happiness.
Finding The Destiny Maker (Part 2)
God is a destiny maker, using whose knowledge we can bring happiness in our lives and face a life which may have its ups and downs. This is only possible when we are completely pure beings. That is our original state when we come down on Earth to play our respective roles. God performs His role in the world drama of freeing His children from the chains of sorrow and insecurity due to the world’s problems. Also he frees us from the effect of problems in our personal lives by filling us with strength.
Purity in our every thought, word and action is the primary knowledge that God gives us to follow in our lives. And the foremost important technique to bring this purity and cleanliness in our life is meditation, which gives us the power to do that. Also, the more we use meditation to empower our thoughts, the more determined we become. We don’t let negative thoughts or unnecessary thoughts affect us, when we have a difficult situation to face. There are people in this world who have adopted spirituality in their daily lives because spiritual tools like meditation, which is the remembrance of God as a spiritual being, are helpful to them. This technique helps us become stable and remain powerful in today’s world of sudden changes and disturbances. Also, the more pure and powerful we become, the more our beautiful future or a very good destiny is shaped.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Finding The Destiny Maker (Part 1)
All of us are players in the world drama with different roles. We can shape our roles into positive ones with spiritual wisdom. True spiritual knowledge is given to us by the Supreme. He is an Ocean of Knowledge. So, we are indebted to God because of this, because so many good things in our life would not be possible if the Supreme would not shower on us his love, his presence, his knowledge and his company.
You might ask that are our roles given to us by God? Roles are played by us but the roles are not given by God to us. As mentioned above, God only shares with us the way of shaping our roles because our physical body and relationships with others no longer permanently give us happiness. Also the roles that we play in our families as well as in our professional lives no longer permanently provide us happiness. On the other hand, there is sorrow in every sphere of life and if happiness exists also, it is not secured or safe. It is the time in the world drama when we can no longer say for sure, that tomorrow will bring no disturbing situations. So, we have to thank God because He can help us be happy in every sphere of life. Love for the Supreme should flow from our heart and we should make God a part of our lives and connect with Him at the present moment and make our positive destiny.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Feel And Experience The True Meaning Of Unconditional Love
We are all beautiful in qualities and loveful in character as we experience the Earth in the beginning and come down from the soul world to play our roles over here through our physical bodies. Love expresses itself naturally as we begin our journey. Our love is like God's love - very very unconditional, always flowing to each and every soul in the world, without asking for anything in return. Slowly with time as we get older and experience many births on Earth, our love begins to expect instead of accept others. We feel sorrow because we are attached. We feel pain because we always want more. We feel disturbed because the other person is different from us. We feel we own the other person and want to dominate instead of relate to them. What is the true meaning of unconditional love -
1. A love that is limitless, without any boundaries and without any fixed demands.
2. A love that does not see the other's weaknesses and instead loves their qualities.
3. A love that is blissful, strong and with no hidden fears and insecurities.
4. A love that adjusts and moulds according to the other person and is willing to sacrifice.
5. A love that feels God and brings His goodness and big-heartedness in a human relationship.
Seed of Peace :
If we plant a positive, clean seed of thought and concentrate on it, we give it energy, like the sun gives to a seed in the earth. And as the seed in the earth awakens, stirs and begins to grow, the thoughts on which we concentrate awaken, stir and begin to grow. So let us sow positive thoughts.
Each morning before we begin the journey of the day let us sit still, in silence, and sow the seed of peace. Peace is harmony and balance. Peace is freedom from the burden of negativity and wastefulness. Let peace find its home within us. Peace is our original strength, our eternal tranquillity of being.
Positive Thinking
Given below are some examples of simple positive affirmations (thoughts) that you can make about oneself, others, real life situations and the future, which will help you in becoming a positive thinker.
The self: I do like myself; I accept my weaknesses; I understand myself; I have special skills and qualities; I value myself; I believe in myself; I am lovable.
Others: I accept others as they are; I look for the best in others; there is something good in everyone I meet; I appreciate others.
A real life situation: I am capable of handling the situation; I have all I need; I am fortunate; there is a bright side to everything; nothing lasts forever.
The future: I look forward to each day; every difficult situation is an opportunity/challenge in disguise; each day brings something new and beautiful, something to learn.
The Key To Mental Freedom – Spiritual Knowledge
The world is full of many wonders; incredible works of art and architecture, of science and invention, but the greatest of them all by far is the human mind. It is the mind's play that brings about all activity in the human world. The outline of everything people construct is first formed in the mind and then filled in with matter to assume a concrete shape. History, science, culture, trade and commerce, in fact all knowledge and systems of our day-to-day world, are but the projection and fulfillment of thoughts born in the mind. If the mind, by concentrating itself on matter, can bring about such wonders and attain such miraculous physical powers as we have, what can it not attain if it concentrates on itself and on the Supreme!
Disorder and tension on the individual level and as a result on the social level are the result of ignorance of the self and the world around, such that the mind stays without rest. It runs, jumps and churns aimlessly, lashed by waves of feelings and emotions. Like a spider caught in its own web, the individual becomes entangled in nets which are the consequences (results) of this ignorance of the self and the fundamentals of life. When we receive spiritual knowledge from the seed of the tree of humanity, the Supreme Being or God at the present time, we begin an upward journey that takes us through deeper and deeper levels of understanding and experience which create freedom from these nets. This freedom, as a result helps us create a positive future, not only for ourselves but we also take up the responsibility of creating the same for the complete tree of humanity, which is primarily the purpose why God shares this knowledge with us.
5 Affirmations For Experiencing Peace |
1. I am a spiritual star like energy, seated at the center of my forehead ... I experience the beautiful quality of peace and radiate peace to everyone and everything around me ... God, the Ocean of Peace, is with me at every step ... He fills my thoughts and feelings with peace ... I create a peaceful environment ...
2. I am an angel of peace with a beautiful aura full of peaceful vibrations ... I walk and talk with a peaceful attitude ... I look at everyone as peaceful brother souls ... My interactions are full of peaceful energy ... My family, home and workplace carry a peaceful positivity and a goodness which arises from peace ...
3. I am a peaceful being taking care of my physical body always ... Every cell of my body is in a state of peace and free from tension ... I experience good health as a result of that ... I begin and end my day with peaceful affirmations and maintain the peaceful consciousness throughout the day ... I sleep with a peaceful aura around me ...
4. I am a peaceful light ... I see myself just above the eyebrows ... I cook food in the peaceful remembrance of God ... Peace gets radiated through my eyes to everything I eat ... My food becomes filled with peace ... Before I eat food, I remember God for a few seconds ... I eat food peacefully with no negative conversations at that time ...
5. I am a light house of peace for all the souls of the world ... I visualize God in the soul world and the world globe in front of me many times in the day ... I absorb the rays of peace from God and vibrate peace to every soul of every country of the world ... Every soul gets connected to God through my peaceful energy ...
The Five Primary Qualities (Part 3)
The soul has five primary qualities; we could say they are the primary colours of humanity with which we paint the picture of our lives. We have discussed four of the qualities in the last couple of days. The last one is:
Happiness :
Happiness is the natural expression of joy in being alive and interacting with others. Happiness is only possible when I relate to myself and express respectfully what I am and allow others to share in what I am and what I have. I relate to people and nature and experience the fulfillment of human life through relationships.
In the meditation taught by the Brahma Kumaris, we absorb the rays of these five primary qualities from the Supreme Soul by concentrating on his point of divine light form in the incorporeal world (paramdham or shantidham). The absorption and the harmony of these basic qualities (peace, purity, love, knowledge and happiness) lead to the development of many more virtues inside us.
As we become aware of these five primary qualities, we gradually realize that each one of them has many characteristics.
e.g. we understand that love does not mean just a special feeling for one or two people. Spiritual love is far greater; it means respect, tolerance, forgiveness, compassion and flexibility; there is a universal feeling of belonging, an openness of heart, a generosity of spirit that is all-embracing.
The Five Primary Qualities (Part 2)
The soul has five primary qualities; we could say they are the primary colours of humanity with which we paint the picture of our lives. We had discussed peace and purity yesterday. The others are:
Love :
Perhaps the most difficult original quality to achieve because it has become so mixed up with attachment, possessiveness and dependence, deeply ingrained habits that have become accepted as normal. As a result, the human being finds it difficult to realize the true form of pure love, which is unconditional. The quality of love means I care, I share and, in particular, I liberate. True spiritual love never creates that need, or dependence, where others cannot find, or be, themselves.
Knowledge :
To know and to be what I am eternally and truly, and to exist in this consciousness, is what we mean by knowledge. It is not knowing about the soul, peace, love, etc., but rather knowing is to be the soul, to be peace, to be love. This quality of true knowing is expressed through I am, the original awareness of the self that exists beyond the false self of ego.
(To be continued tomorrow ….)