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Soul Sustenance 14-11-2012
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Reaching The Destination Of Peace On Time (Part 1)
The objective of meditation has always been reaching the destination of inner peace.
The process of meditation is like a journey to that destination, which many human
souls have undertaken since thousands of years. After a life and in fact many lifetimes
of indulging in habits of anger, fear, ego, sorrow, jealousy, hatred, greed etc.
all of which blocked our access to this inner pure emotion and made us believe that
these are normal emotions, believing completely that our true nature is peaceful,
which is an experience opposite to all these; might seem difficult at first. Only
our own experience can lead to a change in our deeply held beliefs, which then makes
it easy for us to incorporate peace as an integral part of our personality.
As you dive into you own consciousness, with the objective of searching for and
reaching your subtle destination of inner peace, you will encounter some distractions
in your journey. Some of the most important of such distractions include:
* thoughts in the form of negative memories of the past; over-thinking about
the present scenes and day-to-day actions in your life; desires, worries
and unnecessary thinking related to the future, waste thinking about the natures
and actions of people whom we come into contact with the most, etc.
* the inner, subtle voices of the many incorrect beliefs, which we have picked
up from people by whom we have been surrounded since we were small;
* thoughts and emotions related to deep habits of identifying with and getting attached
to things we are not, like the physical body, material possessions, people,
our role in society, money, places, opinions or viewpoints, hobbies or interests
etc.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 14-11-2012
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Success comes to the one who has a balance of being a master and a child.
Expression: When we make a contribution in the form of an advice or a suggestion,
we usually do it with confidence. That means we are sure of ourselves and we are
masters. But the problem usually comes when people don't accept our suggestion.
W are then not able to accept their decision or criticism.
Experience: We need to have the perfect balance of being a master and a child.
It means that along with being a master while giving the suggestions we need the
consciousness of a child while it is being heard. That means we are totally ready
to accept the comments/criticism that we might be faced with.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris