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Soul Sustenance 22-05-2013
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The Soul Journey
A common question asked by many is – “Do we go back to the soul world, the incorporeal
world (non-physical world), the home of all souls, when we die?” When we
understand and experience ourselves as souls, as un-destroyable, eternal beings,
we realize that death is only a physical phenomenon. At the death of the body, the
soul enters another physical costume and a new chapter in its journey of life begins.
Depending on the soul's karma performed through the body, its new birth is
likely to be somewhere in the company of those souls with whom it has been close
in previous births. It is quite a paradox that when a soul leaves a body, the relations
which it has left, mourn over the loss of their loved one, and the new relations
which it gets attached to celebrate with happiness, over an addition of a new-born
entrant in their family.
The soul only leaves the home (the soul world) once in a unique, personal journey.
This journey of the soul is not linear i.e. a straight line, with a beginning and
an end. But, on the other hand, it is cyclic i.e. a circle, with neither a beginning,
nor an end – although both leaving the soul world and going back to the soul world
happen once each in every cycle. This soul journey can be compared to actors
who leave home to go to the theatre to play their parts. They change costumes between
scenes - they don't return home at the end of each scene, they return home when
the play is finished, only to return the next day to repeat their part in the play.
Each birth of the soul that it takes can be compared to a new scene of the play,
which consists of many different scenes.
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Message for the day 22-05-2013
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To have love for the self means to finish the weaknesses within.
Projection: When we make a mistake we usually think about it a lot and continue
to feel guilty. The continued thought about the mistake magnifies it and we think
it is difficult to change or overcome that weakness.
Solution: Like a mother who accommodates the mistakes of the child, yet has
the best wishes for the child to be free from them, we, too, need to deal with ourselves
with love in order to finish the weakness that is working within us. We need to
recognise and work with some speciality that is within us, which will help us overcome
the weakness.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris