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Soul Sustenance 29-01-2013
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Harmonizing The Mind And The Intellect
The intellect is the faculty of the soul that judges thought and determines its
quality, its ethical purity, its truthfulness, its usefulness, its appropriateness,
whether it is necessary, right or wrong. The intellect is backed by the conscience.
In fact, the conscience expresses itself through the intellect. If you have
a positive thought, the intellect should approve it and allow it to be put into
practice. If a feeling of doubt accompanies the positive thought, the intellect
should take it into account and remove that doubt, before the thought gets converted
into action. When the faculties of the mind and intellect are pure and strong, and
they cooperate in harmony; they support one another and there is no inner conflict.
If the intellect is weak, the mind feels confused and it will generate many
unproductive thoughts. There will be an inner conflict and in the end the intellect
will lose, because the power of influence of the intellect is less. Then, the intellect
will not have the power to prevent them from going into action. Actions will be
performed that are negative or unproductive, in opposition to the conscience, and
they will as a result create negative habits.
The intellect is the most important faculty of human consciousness to bring about
personality change. If the quality of the intellect is good, the capacity
and quality of the intellectual processes through which you perceive and live reality
will be higher. If the intellect is clean and pure, you will differentiate what
is real and authentic from what is unreal and false. You will be able to judge if
a situation is beneficial or wasteful, useful or useless.
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Message for the day 29-01-2013
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To have true faith in oneself is to attain success.
Projection: Sometimes false courage is mistaken as faith. When we take up
some task we might be deceived into a feeling of having a lot of courage which makes
us over-confident. Then instead of putting in effort to give our best we tend to
become careless. Such carelessness will not enable us to achieve easy success.
Solution: We need to check within ourselves and see if we have true faith
in ourselves or not. Faith always comes with the recognition of our own specialities.
We also need to pay special attention to work towards something that we can achieve.
When we do this we will find ourselves succeeding naturally.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris