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Soul Sustenance 02-06-2013
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The Spiritual Concept Of Becoming A Trustee (cont.)
While it’s important to realize that the treasures mentioned in yesterday’s message
are my treasures and they possess immense potential since they help me grow spiritually
by their right use, it is also important to maintain a relationship of detachment
with them, because we live with these treasures all the time and it is very easy
to get caught up with them and become attached to them. Where there is attachment,
there develops ego and the treasures start getting misused. An important
concept in this regard is that of trusteeship. The Supreme Being while sharing
the knowledge of these treasures and the method of using them, also shares, that
for our benefit, once we realize what these treasures are, we should surrender these
treasures to Him. This is an invisible or non-physical surrender, not a
physical or visible one.
Once these treasures are surrendered to Him, unlike worldly surrenders, the treasures
don’t remain with Him, because being an Unlimited Donor and being Incorporeal (bodiless),
the Supreme doesn’t keep them with Himself and returns them back to us. Anyways,
the surrender is deep but is on a mental level and not on a physical one. But, while
returning the treasures back, the Supreme Being presents a condition in front of
us. He says that since these treasures now no longer belong to us, we need to remove
any sense of ownership over them and become a trustee while taking care of and using
these treasures only for the purpose instructed by Him, the purpose of bringing
the self and others closer to a state of truth (as explained in yesterday’s message).
The word trustee comes from the word trust. In this case the Supreme Being
says that He wishes and hopes that we keep His trust and don’t breach it at any
cost, at any point of time, in taking care of and using ‘His’ treasures, because
don’t forget, although the treasures are with us, there are no longer ours.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
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Message for the day 02-06-2013
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Self-respect increases when one learns to converse positively to the self.
Projection: The usual way to talk to the self is to talk to the most superficial
aspects of the personality, those which are related to fears (including those of
the future), complaints and mindless repetition of things in the past. Such talk
to the self only lowers the self-respect to a great extent.
Solution: Not only when our mind is going towards waste and negative, but
at all times, it is important that we talk to the mind with love, as we would talk
to a child. Like a mother would lovingly explain to the child, we need to teach
our mind with love. This creates true happiness within and our self-respect increases.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris