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Soul Sustenance 15-07-2013
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Seeing With Spiritual Eyes
My eyes are the most powerful medium through which I, the soul, not only absorb
information from the outside to the inside but also express myself to others from
the inside to outside. All that the soul possesses inside it or is made up of in
the form of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, positive virtues, even weaknesses, in
fact all personality traits, are expressed through my eyes to others and shared
with others. As I look towards others, my eyes can be used to shower others
with pure love, peace, joy, power etc. and the same eyes, if not used appropriately,
can shower others with anger, jealousy, criticism, hatred etc. My eyes also express
whatever wisdom or knowledge I possess inside.
When I stay in the awareness that I am a soul, a spiritual being of subtle light,
situated at the center of my forehead, my eyes are used to see others in the same
way with a spiritual vision. This leads to my spiritual upliftment. When I stay
in the awareness that I am a body, my eyes are used to see others in the same way
with a non-spiritual or a body-conscious vision. This brings me down on a spiritual
level. A spiritual vision helps me see others with a sense of equality, instead of
with feelings of comparison or competitiveness. Usually, on a physical level,
I create all sorts of impressions of another person from just one glance through
my eyes, about their age, gender, looks, position in society, job, how rich they
are, their dressing sense, caste, nationality etc. and many a times, very commonly,
I make various assumptions about their personality or behaviour. In the state of
soul-consciousness, that changes. Looking out I see souls, and I see them as my
brothers, on exactly the same level as me, neither higher, nor lower. A spiritual
vision reminds me of the original, positive qualities of each soul, instead of their
present personality. It also reminds me that each soul has incarnated from the soul
world to play its various roles through different physical costumes in this unlimited
drama on the world stage. Age, gender, appearances, status etc. which are visible
to me today are just temporary ones. The same soul has been in the past and will
be in the future in different physical costumes or roles, where all these have been
and will be different and the same applies to me too. This makes me rise
above comparisons and I am no longer judgmental about the other.
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Message for the day 15-07-2013
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To serve with the heart, with love is to guarantee success.
Projection: When we have to be of help to others, we sometimes find ourselves
doing it with force. We don't seem to be really interested in doing it but situations
or people seem to be forcing us to do it. We, then, don't enjoy what we do and also
don't find the benefit of it either to others or to ourselves.
Solution: We need to consciously make an effort to see what people are benefiting
when we are helping them. With this conscious effort we are able to help others
with love without feeling the heaviness of what we have to do. Thus, we find our
actions to be much more fruitful.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris