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Soul Sustenance 06-10-2012
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Going Back To My Original Nature (Personality)
Our present personalities are basically the combined habits of this lifetime (birth),
built on the combined habits of previous lifetimes (births), all of which have left
their mark (sometimes deep and sometimes not so deep) on our consciousness. It may
well be that habits such as becoming angry, upset, anxious, stressed, sorrowful
or scared, have been with us for so long that, they feel a natural part of our inner
world, so natural that when someone says our true nature is not anger but peace,
not fear but love, not aggression but acceptance, not anxiety but calm, it does
not feel right. And even if it did feel right for a moment, we have become so attached
to our old habitual moods, emotions and behaviors that we do not really want to
change. It may even be the case that we have become so weak that we need help to
change. It seems much easier to stay the way we are.
As we begin to meditate and develop our spiritual practice, our views on the above
subject will fluctuate. When that does happen, imagine you are having a conversation
with yourself and teaching yourself. Give yourself permission to be peaceful by nature,
full of love and joy by nature, naturally content by nature, wherever you are and
in whatever you do. After a while, you won't need to give yourself permission and
you will find these states of being are there within you quite naturally at every
moment. They are our original and eternal nature. Everything else is acquired or
learned. In so many ways introduction to spirituality, like many other approaches
to inner awakening, is as much about unlearning (the acquired beliefs) as
it is about learning (new beliefs).
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Message for the day 06-10-2012
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To be clean at heart is to give happiness to others.
Expression: The one who has a clean heart is the one who always tries to
do the best for those with whom he comes in contact. Thus, the person develops the
ability to accept others as they are and ignore anything wrong done by them. Instead,
he is able to do the right action without losing the balance. So such a person brings
happiness for himself and for others through every action he performs.
Experience: When I have a clean heart I am able to have an experience of
my inner qualities. I am able to enjoy the beauty of the different relationships,
each relationship and each person being unique. Thus others are able to get in touch
with their inner beauty too. So there is happiness experienced by all.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris