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Soul Sustenance 24-06-2012
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The Relationship Between My Conscience And Intellect
To act from a state of truth, it is important to realize the relationship between
my intellect and conscience and what role these two play in experiencing this state
of truth in my thoughts, words and actions. The quality of my thoughts, words and
actions is based on the quality of my intellect and conscience. There are
three different stages of the intellect conscience relationship.
The first stage is one in which my conscience and my intellect, both are
so pure and transparent that whatever is right and true is naturally brought into
my thoughts, words and actions and nothing negative or impure manages to enter into
my thoughts, words and actions.
The second stage is one in which my conscience acknowledges that which is
the truth, but the intellect does not have the strength to be able to bring the
truth into practical. The conscience tells me one thing, but my intellect pulls
me elsewhere, and it overpowers me. I do what I know I shouldn’t.
The third stage is one in which my conscience is not clean enough or aware
enough to acknowledge the truth so the question of it influencing the intellect
to bring the truth into practical does not arise. As a result my intellect, which
is not at all backed by the conscience in this state, takes complete control of
me. I do what I shouldn’t and I am not even aware of it.
When my intellect overpowers my conscience repeatedly, my conscience loses its influence
on my intellect. As a result the conscience keeps weakening until its voice is stifled
or silenced. As a result of that, I can then no longer discriminate between truth
and falsehood. I will feel that there are no fixed ways of defining right
and wrong, that each has their own judgment or definition of truth and falsehood.
True spiritual knowledge, which gets stored in the intellect, and the experience
of meditation, which purifies the intellect as well as my conscience, both together,
make me aware of the definition as well as give me an experience of what is the
truth and what is false, what is right and what is wrong. As a result of
that, I am able to maintain the first stage of the intellect conscience relationship
very easily in my day-to-day actions.
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Message for the day 24-06-2012
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To fill the ones who are hopeless with hope is the greatest service.
Expression: To have faith by seeing the positive qualities even in the most
negative person is to fill them with hope. Also to fill hope means to encourage
others to move forward in the most negative situation. When this is done they are
able to use their potentials for a positive purpose and slowly bring about a change
for the better.
Experience: When I am able to see positivity under all circumstances, I am
able to have the courage and enthusiasm to make the best out of every situation.
This also naturally makes me an inspiration for those around me too and makes me
an image of support for those who want to make effort.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris