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Soul Sustenance 18-07-2012
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Experiencing Perfection And Success In Role Playing
Spirituality gives me the detached realization of being pure consciousness. This realization not only detaches me from my physical body, but also detaches me from the different roles I play through my physical body (male or female) and the different acts or scenes in each role, in one particular day or one particular lifetime. The roles may be many, the acts and the scenes may be many, but I am the actor playing the different roles and participating in the different acts. There is great strength in experiencing myself as an actor as compared to the previous existence in which I used to lose myself and forget my spiritual identity completely while playing the different roles, identifying more with the roles and thinking myself to be the role instead of being a spiritual actor. An actor, even while in the midst of the most dramatic scenes, even whilst getting excited or emotional or angry, knows he is not the part itself, the part is just temporary. He knows he is something more than that, and that when the play is over, the role will not exist anymore. So, even though I ‘play’ my role, I don’t cut off myself from the role and don’t leave my responsibilities, I need to adopt the ‘observer’ or ‘spectator’ or ‘detached’ consciousness instead of the ‘player’ consciousness. A player tends to get over-involved. So, the balance has to be maintained – I ‘play’ as well as remain detached. Only then the roles will be played to complete perfection and I will experience success in each role.
If I'm able to protect and maintain my inner spiritual identity in each role, it’s also much easier for me to switch roles. I switch roles so many times even in one particular day. If I lose myself in a particular role, my mind and intellect tends to become limited and restricted to that role and I'm not able to see beyond the immediate needs of the role and I find it difficult to adapt to another role. As a father, for example, I may also be called upon to play the different roles of husband or a Managing Director or a friend or a brother or a son or a son-in-law etc. Also many a times, for e.g. in the absence of the mother, I may have to play the role of the mother or in the absence of the Plant Manager in my company on a particular day, I may have to play his role, etc., both being roles that I do not normally play. I'll have a better chance of being able to fulfill all these roles if I don’t get too caught up in any of the roles while playing them and remain in my spiritual consciousness while playing them. A spiritual consciousness will keep me detached.
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Message for the day 18-07-2012
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True love means the ability to forgive and forget.
Expression:
When there is love there is the ability to look at only specialities.
Even if the other person makes a mistake, there is only the conscious
awareness of his specialities. So it becomes easy to forgive the
mistake committed by him. When there is real forgiveness the mistake
is totally forgotten and the future interactions with that person are
free from the negative attitude.
Experience:
When I am able to forgive the mistakes made by others, I am able to
forget them easily also. So my mind is free from the burden of waste
of all the past mistakes. So I am able to be light even when I am
faced with the negativity of the other person. I am never caught up
with attitudes about people so I am successful in my relationship with
others.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris