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Soul Sustenance 08-04-2013
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The Location Of The Soul Inside The Body
The soul has the following basic functions to perform:
• to give life to the body and to maintain life inside it,
• to express and experience its role through the body, and
• to receive the rewards or fruits of past actions performed in previous births, through the body.
These functions are controlled and monitored by the soul via the nervous and hormonal systems from a particular point in the area of the brain which contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal glands. This region is known as the seat of the soul, or the third eye. The connection between the physical (body) and the non-physical (soul) is by the medium of thought energy. Many religions and philosophies place great importance on the third eye, or eye of the mind. When viewed from the front, this region appears to be between and slightly above the line of the eyebrows. It's for this reason that Hindus use a tilak, a dot in red or sandalwood paste in the middle of the forehead. Christians also make the sign of the cross in this region. Even when one makes a mistake or expresses tiredness it's to this region that we put the hands in the gestures of self-dismay or exhaustion. After all the soul subconsciously knows that it makes the mistakes and not the body. When people are concentrating deeply in thought it is this area of the forehead where creases or lines are formed on the skin.
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Message for the day 08-04-2013
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The balance between firmness and love brings change in others.
Projection: When we want to bring about change in others, we speak with
firmness. But sometimes this firmness takes on the form of rudeness
because we don't make an attempt at combining it with the right
attitude of love and good wishes.
Solution: We need to be firm when we have to work with our authority. But
along with it we need to pay special attention to be gentle and
sweet while administering our authority. When we take care of this
we will be able to bring about the desired result.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris