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Soul Sustenance 16-07-2013
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Inculcating Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation -
The Power To Pack Up
On the path of meditation, I am a traveler, on a magnificent journey. I have to
make some firm choices about I what will take with me on this journey. To pack up
means to learn the lessons of the present, then to move on, letting the past be
past. It means not carrying the baggage of the past into my present and future,
but traveling lightly from one day to the next, keeping only what is most useful
to me. That way, I'll enjoy the journey more, and move faster in the direction of
my choice.
I'll also be lighter in my relationships. The power to pack up enables me to fill
each exchange I have with others with freshness and newness, instead of allowing
influences from past encounters with them to affect my present attitude and behaviour.
When I carry emotional or intellectual baggage from the past into my present dealings
with an individual, I don't give that person the opportunity to express himself
freely: my attitude colours him with the paint of my previous experience. It is
important to process the past, and learn from experience, but then finish it, so
it does not block my view of how things are today.
Meditation helps me to acquire that discipline of finishing negative and wasteful
thoughts i.e. inculcate the power to pack up. As the habit of self-observation develops,
it doesn't take long to understand how negative thoughts and feelings literally
negate my central aim, of re-emerging my true nature. Negativity drains the battery
of the soul faster than anything else does.
(To be continued tomorrow …..)
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Message for the day 16-07-2013
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To be responsible for each thought, word and action is to be free from questions.
Projection: When we are faced with challenges we usually put the blame on
others or on situations. We justify our thoughts, words and actions. We, then, tell
ourselves and others that we have been forced to think that way or say and do such
a thing. Such thinking creates a series of questions in our mind about others and
situations for which we can never find answers.
Solution: We need to recognize the fact that no one or nothing can force
us to do something that we do not want to do. Each and everything we do is our own
choice and we are responsible for it. When we take up the responsibility in this
way, we will not only be free from waste questions and doubts but will also be able
to mould our thoughts, words and actions in the right way.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris