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Soul Sustenance 13-01-2013
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Am I Creating Negative ‘Karma’ – Guilt As An Indicator
At the heart of our consciousness, we have a conscience. Our conscience is essentially
our basic awareness of truth. From a spiritual point of view, the truth of who we
are as spiritual beings is core and eternal truth. If we consider ourselves to be
anything other than soul or spirit then we will be thinking and acting against our
conscience, against our truth, which is like going against the essence of
spirit. We will feel something is not quite right. If one of the pistons in our
car engine is out of sync with the others, the engine will sound slightly different
from normal. We immediately have it fixed, because we know that if it continues
it may destroy the engine. If we do something that is out of sync with the truth,
the voice of our conscience speaks to us. But we tend to ignore or suppress it,
especially if we are having a seemingly pleasurable experience - we then create
the ‘sanskars’ or habit of ignoring our own conscience. As a result we keep repeating
the negative ‘karma’ and the ‘sanskars’ of the negative ‘karma’ are deepened, further
ignoring the voice of our conscience. It is a vicious cycle, to come out of which
is extremely difficult.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 13-01-2013
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To experience newness each day is to be creative.
Expression: Sometimes we find things to be very monotonous. There seems to
be nothing new that is happening. Days pass on and we tend to become action-conscious
only trying to finish the tasks at hand. We feel caught up in the routine not able
to enjoy anything anymore.
Experience: Instead of just doing what has to be done in a monotonous way,
we need to take a thought each day to experience something new. There is such a
variety in each day, we only have to discover ways of experiencing it. When we learn
this creative art, we'll never be bored, but will be able to enjoy everything that
comes our way.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris