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Soul Sustenance 12-12-2012
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Resolving The Inner Identity Crisis (Part 1)
At the present moment in human history, almost every individual has lost the awareness
of its real or true self. This has happened very gradually as each individual has
progressed in its journey of birth-rebirth and has kept on attaching itself to various
different things and as a result losing its sense of self in things that it is not
i.e. identifying with things that it is not. In a way it can be said that this took
the self far away from itself. This personal, internal identity crisis has led to
a universal, external identity crisis, which has resulted in an emotional crisis
resulting in peacelessness and sorrow in our inner world as well as in the outer
world.
This inner identity crisis is the root cause of the multitude of deformed emotions
that exist inside us like anger, ego, lust, fear, comparison with others, greed,
hatred, low self esteem, dependencies etc. all of which have brought us and keep
on bringing us pain. We explain this with an example – suppose you have
just constructed a new apartment. While making it and once its ready and you are
using it, you have become excessively attached to it i.e. you have started identifying
with it. Due to this false identification, the first emotion that gets created inside
you is ego. If someone were to criticize the apartment even slightly, you would
react immediately with anger. You constantly fear any sort of harm to the apartment.
You even compare it with apartments that others possess. You also start looking
down at people whose apartment is not as good as yours i.e. you create emotions
of hatred for them. If something negative were to happen it, it affects your mental
state immediately i.e. your happiness has become dependent on the material possession.
Your temporary success along with the recognition that it brings you from others
leads to the desire of more success of a similar type i.e. possess some more things
- bigger and better, which is nothing but greed etc. The seed of all these incorrect
emotions is my over-identification with this newly acquired possession. All of these
wouldn’t exist inside me, if my relationship with was one of detachment with it.
In this way, we identify with various objects and people in the whole day, which
leads to the creation of such emotions inside us.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 12-12-2012
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The one who has the power of realisation is the one who can bring transformation.
Projection: When something goes wrong we immediately begin to look for excuses
why that mistake happened. This finishes our power of realisation and we will not
be able to recognise our own mistake. Then we will not be able to work at improving
ourselves and we will not be able to bring any transformation.
Solution: Instead of looking for excuses for what happened, we need to take
the opportunity to check within ourselves and see our own mistake. When we recognise
our mistake, however small it may be, we will be able to work on it. Only when we
are able to realise our own mistake, will we be able to bring about transformation
in ourselves.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris