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Soul Sustenance 21-12-2012
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The Subtle Role Play Of Thoughts And Images (Part 2)
What the quality of a soul’s thoughts and images (or scenes) that it creates, depends
on the soul’s sanskaras. Depending on the quality, the soul experiences
the various different emotions, whether positive or negative. When the soul first
incarnates on the physical world stage from the soul world, the quality of this
role play of thoughts and images is high, pure and positive, hence it experiences
only positive emotions. As it plays its different roles and comes down in the birth-rebirth
cycle, this quality reduces, leading to the experience of emotions like sorrow,
peacelessness, etc.
A point worth noting is that the key to any deep emotional experience, whether positive
or negative is the creation of thoughts as well as images related to that particular
emotion at the same time e.g. think and visualize at the same time, the
death of a close relative that took place ten years ago and you immediately have
a deep experience of sorrow. Think and visualize together, a loving hug of your
mother that took place in your childhood, and you immediately experience deep happiness.
This type of co-ordination between these two subtle processes is true concentration.
The key to any type of spiritual upliftment is the upliftment of these two processes.
The meditation that is taught at the Brahma Kumaris is nothing but a spiritual thought
process accompanied by a spiritual visualization process, whereby thoughts and images
of the subtle, spiritual self (or soul) and the Supreme Being (or Supreme Soul)
are created together to experience the original qualities of the spiritual
self and the eternal qualities of the Supreme Being – purity, peace, love, happiness
and power.
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Message for the day 21-12-2012
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Success comes to the one who understands the importance of time.
Expression: When we are working at a task, success doesn't come as much as
it should because we have not been able to recognise the importance of time. Because
of this sometimes carelessness sets in which makes us lose valuable time and interferes
in what we are doing. Then we cannot give our best to the task.
Experience: We need to recognise the importance of time so that we never
postpone what we can do now. We will then always have the slogan 'now or never'
in our mind. Knowing that what we can do now, we cannot do it as well in the future,
we'll give our best to all we do right now. This will enable us to use our time
in a fruitful way and success will come very easily to us.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris