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Soul Sustenance 07-01-2013
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Meditation For Personality Transformation
At the heart of every human being or soul there is a spiritual energy, pure, of
peace, love, truth and happiness without dependence. Being aware and experiencing
this energy provides you with the inner strength necessary for change. Meditation
is the method of access in order to allow that energy to come to the surface of
your consciousness and in your mind in order to color your thoughts and feelings.
In a way very similar to that of a volcano whose melted lava, hot, flows from the
centre of the Earth to the surface, we, on meditating, can create volcanoes of power
(which emerge in our conscious minds) required for personality transformation.
You can do an exercise, a meditation whereby you choose a habit or ‘sanskar’ that
you don't want, and you will replace it with a characteristic that you would like
to incorporate, like a thread, into the cloth of your personality. For example,
replace impatience with patience.
Tomorrow we shall explain a meditation with this theme: changing a habit or ‘sanskar’.
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Message for the day 07-01-2013
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To celebrate means to finish all trace of the old.
Expression: We find that whenever there is an occasion, we are full of zeal
and enthusiasm for that day. However this doesn't continue for long and we find
ourselves getting caught with our old nature. We then give the excuse to ourselves
saying, 'this is how we are, and this is our nature' etc. Once we start working
with our old nature we cannot be enthusiastic anymore.
Experience: Each new festival is an occasion for us to finish something of
the old. We only need to take a determined thought to remove something of our old
nature. We no longer need to give excuses, but make the firm promise to ourselves
to transform. Our zeal and enthusiasm will then never lessen and we will continue
to celebrate with constant enthusiasm.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris