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Soul Sustenance 10-01-2013
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Understanding The Quality of Peace
Inner peace is inner power. But before you start walking the path of relaxation
and meditation to create a life, which is free from anger, and based on peaceful
living, it is important to clear some misunderstandings we hold in our mind about
mental peace.
1. Peace means nothing is happening; it’s a state of inaction.
Fact: By practicing meditation for a few minutes everyday, very soon you
can experience a stage in which you are physically active yet mentally peaceful,
when the mind is active but nothing negative happens inside it. Nothing and no one
can irritate or upset you, irrespective of what they say or do.
2. Living a peaceful life is being submissive (bowing down) or defensive.
Fact: Inner peace is not submissiveness or defensiveness. The power of peace
that you acquire through the practice of meditation makes you assertive and confident.
Emotions like anger and fear show in our behaviour in the form of aggression and
defensiveness respectively and make you emotionally weak. Peace is strength.
3. To remain in an inner peace experience, you have to disconnect yourself from
the world.
Fact: For a long time you have used the world to stimulate (energize) yourself
mentally and emotionally. If at the beginning of your meditation practice, you suddenly
disconnect yourself from the world you will experience an increase in your attractions
towards it. Thus, initially it is wiser to include only short spells of meditation
in your daily routine, otherwise the meditation practice can do more harm than benefit.
(To be continued tomorrow….)
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Message for the day 10-01-2013
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To spread the light of happiness is to become a spiritual lighthouse.
Expression: When we are in situations where there is negativity around or
there seems to be no source of happiness, we too naturally tend to feel low and
negative. We are totally under the influence of the situation and we can't seem
to overcome the feeling at that time. Nothing actually inspires us to make effort
to come out of such a feeling.
Experience: We need to remind ourselves that we are a lighthouse, a source
of light to all those around us. This thought will give us the inspiration to remain
stable and strong even when we are amidst chaos or difficult situations. We will
be able to spread our light across and show everyone the right direction by becoming
an inspiration to those around us.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris