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Soul Sustenance 02-03-2013
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Resisting False Attractions In Actions
All that glitters (shines) is not gold. Life presents you with many illusionary
scenes, scenes in which what may be visible may not be the truth. These scenes cause
desires to be born inside you to achieve something unnecessary for your prosperity
or other types of fulfillments. These can be illusions that make you believe that
you will gain something from a situation or person, without the same being true.
Thus, you waste time going down a path that not only leads you to disappointment;
but you also waste the resource of your thoughts and energy and as a result you
tire yourself out emotionally and mentally.
If the intellect is polluted, you make incorrect judgments and are easily deceived
by situations or people. Thus, you will make incorrect choices, dishonest
or illogical decisions. You will justify dishonesty and improper actions and you
will be incapable of differentiating between the real and the imaginary.
A person with a pure, clear, clean and powerful intellect will act with honesty
and sincerity. When your intellect is polluted, you may act against your own conscience
or against your better judgment; you also may be insensitive. A person with a doubtful
intellect will always justify a dishonest act. Meditation is the process of purifying
and cleaning the intellect, because in meditation we connect with the purest intellect,
the intellect of the Supreme Soul or God. Meditation is also a process of inner
awakening and strengthening of your conscience. Being awake means to realize, and
being strong means to act according to what you have realized.
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Message for the day 02-03-2013
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To recognize the uniqueness of one's own role is to be free from negativity.
Projection: When we find things going wrong with us, we sometimes wish for
a change in our role. We begin to compare ourselves with others or wish for something
better in our life, which makes us lose all our enthusiasm. We, then, make no effort
to better our role.
Solution: We need to recognize the importance of our own role. Like an actor
who doesn't make effort to change his role but brings perfection to his own role,
we, too, need to concentrate on our own role. The recognition of the importance
of our own role and the desire to bring excellence to it makes us free from negativity.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris