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Soul Sustenance 11-03-2013
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Understanding The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace (Part 1)
Each and every human soul's original trait or characteristic is peace. Before each
soul comes down on the earth to take its first physical body, the soul is in a state
of complete peace, residing in the soul world. In the soul world, the two faculties
of the soul – the mind and intellect are complete inactive or dormant and the third
faculty, the sanskara or spiritual personality is only that of eternal peace and
purity and no other virtue like happiness, love or knowledge. The mind is
completely silent, not creating a single thought or emotion or feeling nor possessing
an attitude. The intellect which possesses the power to discriminate right thoughts,
words or actions from the wrong ones does not exercise its power because there are
no thoughts, words or actions in the soul world, so there is nothing there to discriminate.
The sanskaras (as mentioned above) are also inactive to a certain extent – there
are no thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes, words or actions to be created or
processed, which would be based on the sanskaras or personality.
When the soul first takes a physical body on the world stage, it creates thoughts
and feelings which are few in number and they are only positive and its words and
actions are also limited and completely positive. Its discrimination power is active
and completely accurate and its sanskaras or personality come into an active mode
(sanskaras other than peace also become active) but only for a positive purpose
to create positive thoughts, words or actions. As a result of this, the soul experiences
immense peace, but the extent of the peace is lesser than that of in the soul world,
where it is completely still and experiences dead silence or peace. It is never
peaceless though at this stage. As the soul starts coming into the process of birth
and rebirth, its starts losing its energy slowly; its mind, intellect and sanskaras
start functioning negatively or incorrectly, it begins to succumb to the vices,
leading to the creation of thoughts, words and actions, which are not only large
in number but they are mostly waste or negative in nature. As a result, the soul
gradually begins to lose its peace, which it experienced in the soul world (eternal
peace) and at the start of its journey on the physical world and starts becoming
peaceless.
Tomorrow we shall explain how we can return to our original state of peace.
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Message for the day 11-03-2013
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The way to get blessings is to be open to learning.
Projection: We do get both negative and positive situations in our life.
When we are faced with negative situations we usually expect blessings from God
or someone great by which the negativity in our life will fully finish. But it doesn't
usually happen so.
Solution: The method to receive blessings is to go on learning from the experiences
of life. To learn means never to repeat mistakes by learning from whatever has happened.
This learning acts as a lift for us, which takes us forward.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris