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Soul Sustenance 18-03-2013
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Realizing Our Natural Nature Of Peace
If we look at nature, we will notice that everything in nature – plants, flowers,
etc. do everything they do peacefully – they grow, flourish, decompose and die in
peace. We get an obvious impression from them that peace is their natural nature.
Even the five elements – earth, wind, water, fire and sky are mostly peaceful by
nature. It’s only when we try and exercise control over them and interfere with
their balance that they lose their peace. Most of us, irrespective of our age, even
in these stressful and hurry filled times, act peacefully and express our peaceful
nature in relationships by means of peaceful thoughts, words and actions, unless
something is wrong in the relationship. We instinctively like peaceful relationships.
If something is wrong in a relationship and it lacks peace even to a small extent,
we do not feel good or comfortable about it. All this proves to us that we, like
nature, are essentially peaceful by nature. That is our basic personality.
Most of us have, at some time in our lives and even more frequently in the case
of many of us, experienced and expressed our peaceful nature. It's so natural, we
are not even consciously aware of it. What we are more aware of is when we are distanced
from the natural i.e. we are unnatural - worried, scared, irritated etc. But these
unnatural phases always pass and we finally return to our peaceful self. There are
some people who are permanently grumpy and tight with someone or the other, because
of something or the other. On some days we also feel as if we are continuously living
on the edge and continuously succumbing to frustration and anger. But even then,
away from everyone’s eyes; everyone, the compulsive angerholic (one who cannot live
without anger) and you also, will, at some stage, look inwards, relax and have an
inner personal spiritual retreat in which they will find relief by experiencing
their true nature of peace.
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Message for the day 18-03-2013
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True progress is to bring perfection to the role we play.
Projection: Usually when we think of progress we think of changing the role
we play. The idea of progress is to change the place or the position that we are
in. We rarely associate progress with the present position that we are in.
Solution: We need to recognise the fact that we can bring perfection to whatever
role we are playing. When we continue to work at improving ourselves wherever we
are, we will not only experience progress but also will be able to move forward
in the position we are in.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris