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Soul Sustenance 15-11-2012
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Reaching The Destination Of Peace On Time (Part 2)
In yesterday’s message, we had mentioned the main type of distractions that you
might face in your journey to the destination of peace. The secret of not getting
affected by each of these distractions is very simple – do not interact with any
of them on a subtle level by giving them your mental energy of attention, but avoid
them, detach yourself from them, just observe them and let them go, remaining
completely focused on reaching your destination.
Imagine you are driving to your office on the highway and you are very late. There
are a large number of different vehicles which you pass, either travelling in the
same direction as you are or coming at you from the opposite side. You are even
familiar with a lot of these people sitting inside these vehicles, because you see
them every day, but you don’t even spare a second to glance at them because if you
did you would lose your focus and be delayed, you would fail to reach your destination,
your office in this case, on time. Meditation is exactly like this. Just as you
cannot empty the highway full of vehicles, because you are in a hurry to reach office,
you cannot empty the highway of your consciousness of all thoughts, emotions, beliefs,
worries, opinions, desires, memories etc. some of which are even very familiar to
you, just because you want to get to the destination of your inner peace.
Let all of these, like the vehicles, come and go, but all you have to do is avoid
them and focus on reaching your destination on time. It's as if, by the way you
are driving, your body language, in this case the subtle energy of your determined
thought, word has spread through the highway of your consciousness that you will
not be sparing a second to even glance at any one of these on your way. If with
a momentary loss of self-awareness, you do start giving attention to them, and you
get lost in one of them, remind yourself subconsciously, "I am on my way back to
the destination of peace, peace that I am." This will help you regain your focus
and before you know it, you will realize you have arrived; you will experience your
destination i.e. the peace within, and will completely believe that you are that.
And it will be the most blissful experience that you have felt in a very long time.
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Message for the day 15-11-2012
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Faith in others enables them to be powerful.
Expression: Faith in others is usually mistaken for blind faith - observing
helplessly only hoping for the best in our heart. We then consciously don't do anything
but just hope for the best. In such a situation we subtly experience fear or tension.
But this is not true faith nor is the outcome usually right.
Experience: Faith in others means to remain alert to what is going on and
then to fill the other person with the strength of our faith to such an extent that
they feel able to do whatever needs to be done. Our faith will fill them with confidence
and they will be able to give their best to the task.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris