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Soul Sustenance 23-03-2013
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Marrying Spiritual Practices With Actions
Spiritual practices and life are interconnected; so are my thoughts and actions.
It is not possible to separate them. The immediate influence of any spiritual practice
like meditation is on the quality of my thoughts. The quality of my thoughts is
then reflected in my day-to-day actions. As the quality of my actions improves,
it starts influencing my thoughts positively and the quality of my spiritual practice
also starts improving. When I really understand this, it becomes clear that
the right way to live is to marry both these sides within my life - meditation and
practical life, marry the process of improving the quality of my thoughts with my
actions, because both are interconnected with each other.
Actions performed by being too action conscious, in a wrong, non-spiritual consciousness,
have led to a monotonous and meaningless existence, an existence without permanent
peace, love and joy, causing feelings of discontentment and an emptiness in many
hearts. On the other hand, religious or meditation practices, which were done with
the aim of bringing peace and happiness in our personal life as well as in relationships,
but were performed in seclusion (by detaching or becoming aloof from society), did
not achieve the desired objectives and was unable to influence life positively.
This caused spirituality to become disconnected from reality.
I want my consciousness to become such that I can experience the richness of a life
of actions, interactions and relationships of the world, but adorned (decorated)
with the jewels of the energy and spiritual power that only meditation can provide.
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Message for the day 23-03-2013
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To think of solutions instead of the problems is to be in peace.
Projection: When faced with difficult situations, we see such situations
as problems. Thus we find ourselves anxious or tensed and our mind is full of negative
thoughts. We can no longer think positive or keep our mind in peace.
Solution: In each difficult situation we need to see what solution we can
find for the situation at hand instead of thinking unnecessarily of it as a problem.
When we learn to think in this way our mind will be light and we will be able to
maintain our own inner peace.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris