Brahma Kumaris

Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 07-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 07-01-2020
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Stars Of Success (Part 2)

People who are beautiful natured and very very specially gifted in lots of ways achieve a lot in their lives. Some people are so lucky that they are born to excel in different spheres of life like in human relationships, at work, in becoming better human beings and at everything else they do. Life for them is about giving to everyone and contributing to life in different beautiful ways. We all know that goodness gives happiness to all those around, but at times in different life’s situations, we fail to bring our qualities into action. So true success as a person is using qualities at every step and becoming a special actor in life, the one’s whose actions everyone looks up to and takes inspiration from. And success at the level of personality brings success in every other sphere of life.

We all play different roles in life and every role requires certain skills and talents to make them full of success. A talent-filled person stands out as special in this world. But if we want to give happiness to everyone while experiencing success, we need to be special as a person too. Talents are sometimes physical in nature but our goodness adds beauty to these talents and makes us seen as special stars of success. Also, the more good natured we are, the more talents we acquire and God also fills us with many many specialties that make us a complete person. Such complete people make the world a special place to live in and they also make God extremely proud.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 07-01-2020
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To be committed towards one’s own progress is to help others to move forward.

Expression: The one who is committed towards his own self-progress, is free from criticizing others when he sees them make mistakes. Having realised what is wrong, such a person makes corrections immediately. He is able to realise his own mistake in a second and take the chance for self-improvement. This naturallly gives the ability to help others also to bring about a change for the better.

Experience: Since I am committed to my own self-progress, I am able to become stronger and stronger with each passing situation. I find that I become a source of inspiration for those around, as I continue to learn from all that happens. I don't put people down for their mistakes, but am able to give them the help to be better.

In Spiritual Service,
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Monday, January 06, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 06-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 06-01-2020
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Stars Of Success (Part 1)

All of us our sparkling stars of success born with many specialties and talents which we bring into actions as we grow up. There are some of us special ones who bring these beautiful characteristics from our past lives. Some of us develop new characteristics or specialties as we grow bigger and shine in different ways in life. God is our loving and beautiful spiritual Mother and Father, who is an ocean of specialties and beautiful qualities and powers and we are all His spiritual lovely children. The more we love God and remember Him with a deep heart, the more His qualities and talents we imbibe inside us. Sweetness, humility, respect for all, good wishes for everyone, care and love are some of these lovely qualities which we can take from our spiritual parent. God is the one and only non-physical Supreme Star of peace, love and joy and the sweetest One in the world. We see these virtues in some people, whom we interact with and such nice people radiate these qualities to everyone around them all the time. They fill life and life’s different scenes with beautiful colours, painted by the brush of good and pure action.

People who are blessed with lots of qualities, receive a lot of love from others and are respected by all and are the real lucky stars of the world. They make their beautiful fortune in life and in doing so; they touch the lives of many. God loves such beautiful angels more than anyone else as they live upto His virtues and adorn His heart always. It is said that there are many who admire God’s qualities but the luckiest ones are those whose qualities God admires.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 06-01-2020
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The one who is the master is the one who creates positive thoughts under all circumstances.

Expression: The one who is the master of himself is always able to create the right kind of thoughts according to the circumstance. Never is there the dependency on situations or people for the right kind of responses. Since there is mastery over thoughts, there is also mastery over all words spoken and everything done.

Experience: When I am able to be a master of myself, I am able to constantly create positive thoughts. I am in touch with the inner resources and I am able to make use of these resources in a timely way. I never get confused or pressurized with outside situations, but am able to be in control in all situations.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website

Sunday, January 05, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 05-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 05-01-2020
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Power Of Silence Before Beginning Any Activity

When planning our tasks, we organize external resources like people, time, skills or money needed. Perfection in the state of our mind is rarely a priority. So our mind races from task to task carrying unwanted thoughts and gets stressed. Observing one minute's silence before any task helps us clear the mind, think right and radiate the energy of success to the task. As you learn to silence the conscious mind, it becomes stronger and our intellect becomes sharper. Remind yourself - I use the power of silence in every situation and experience peace and happiness. I choose actions which are right for the task and for my karmic account.

From today, start being disciplined and orderly and take a minute to prepare your mind for any important task. Before we begin a new task – studies, office project, household work, driving or anything for that matter, we and everyone else involved in the task need to observe a one-minute’s silence to clean and energize the mind. Thereafter the mind becomes capable of creating the right response for everything that's going to happen in the task. During the one-minute silence, let us put aside matters of the tasks done until now - any stress, anger, anxiety or fear created so far in the day - and bring the mind completely to the present moment. We can consciously create powerful thoughts of blessings for success of the task ahead and blessing for people working on it. This sets up our mind to be at its highest emotional state and elevates the energy of everything we do next. When I silence the top layer of thoughts, any wrong thoughts from my whole day become silent, my intuition which tells me from whom I need a solution is activated. I increase my power to discriminate, I know what is right what is wrong, what is true what is false, based on my intuition. I listen to it, I understand the situation and people as they are, I receive answers for the task. I come back to the scene stronger. Everything is the same, nothing changes outside, but I see things differently and more positively and that guarantees success in the task.

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Message for the day 05-01-2020
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To be free from desires is to have the experience of attainment.

Expression: The more there are desires, the more it becomes difficult to appreciate what is there and what is attained. Life becomes a constant struggle for attaining something else. One desire is fulfilled and before it can be appreciated all energies are focused on the fulfillment of ten other desires.

Experience: When I continue to run after desires, I am not able to have the experience of having attained anything. Running for desires is like running after the shadow, I can never get it. But when I turn my back on it, it runs after me. If I am free from desires, I am rich because I am content with whatever little I have and I am happy putting in effort to be better with that little.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 04-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 04-01-2020
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The Invisible Law Of The Universe (Part 6)

Reviewing the day that has gone by and checking how the quality of karmas has been and then ensuring that the karmas the next day are of a positive nature is a very good protection. It is a protection against difficult situations and also in reducing the intensity of these situations. Some people say that there is no justice, but remember the law of karma is an integral part of life. It is eternal and permanent. So people who are creating negative thoughts, words and actions will sooner or later face sorrow. This is because sometimes the law of karma can take time to catch up with someone but they will face the results of their actions sooner or later. Also, if someone is surrounded by different types of difficult situations and problems all the time does not mean that he has performed more negative actions than others. These others are those who are relatively less surrounded by situations. In these cases, it is just a matter of chance that at a particular moment of time or for a few months or years, their past actions were visible in their lives in the form of problems more than for the others. For the others, that time when they face the results of their karma could be a few years later. So using the law of karma to label someone as one who has performed more negative actions in their past births or lives is absolutely incorrect. This is because remember negative or impure actions were performed by everyone, some more and some less. Each and every human being on the planet is facing the result of their past karma at the present moment of time when it’s time to clear all our negative actions.

This is the time when God performs His task of world transformation incognito i.e. not known to the complete world. This is since many people have not recognized His present presence in the world or have heard of that but they do not believe it is possible. God is a part of our lives today for the purpose of freeing us from the results of all our negative actions. So there is no need to feel sorrowful if there are negative situations in our lives today. On the other hand, let us become full of the power of determination that with the help of God’s power of purity and a powerful connection with Him I can finish off all the accounts of my negative actions. As a result I will become pure and problem free.

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Message for the day 04-01-2020
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To switch on the power of awareness is to be free from being mood off.

Expression: To be mood off means to find excuses and reasons to feel negative - to have negative thoughts for the self or for the others. But if there is a strong powerful awareness in the mind, a positive thought about the self, there will not be a chance for a negative thought to enter the mind. So there will never be any reason to be mood off.

Experience: When I am able to maintain a single powerful thought, I am able to remain happy and content. I am not dependent on the external situations for the internal state of mind. Nor do I make external situations as an excuse to further weaken my own thoughts. So there is constantly a feeling of positivity under all circumstances.

In Spiritual Service,
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Friday, January 03, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 03-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 03-01-2020
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The Invisible Law Of The Universe (Part 5)

In yesterday’s message, we had explained four types of thoughts, words and actions, which create corresponding sanskaras in the soul. Not only corresponding sanskaras but all of them create different types of sanskaras depending on the emotion behind the thought, word and action. Also, the four types of thoughts, words and actions as mentioned yesterday, in decreasing order of purity are – positive, necessary, unnecessary and negative. We have explained what all four mean.

The whole day sees different types of situations and ups and downs. Life is constantly turning. Situations do arise and settle down soon all the time. Sometimes some situations remain for a longer time also which is less rare. But, the bottom line is maintaining our thoughts within the positive and necessary category all the time. Because, the ones who are internally powerful, for them situations are like bubbles on water, which are temporary. They only remain positive in any kind of situation to see the situation go away soon. They smile inspite of situations existing in their lives, which in more than 9 out of 10 times say goodbye very easily and in a span of a few hours or days and not more than that. Of course, there is that one odd situation like an illness or a difficult relationship or a loss of a close loved one, which can last for a few months or more than that and that too not in all cases. Very often, you hear people complaining of how situations are sticky in nature and refuse to go away from their lives. Of course, there is the past negative karma which is the big reason for these situations, as explained earlier in this message series. The law of karma is something that no one can run away from. Imagine many past births under the influence of a deadly negative and impure emotion like lust or a little less negatively powerful emotion of anger. These can destroy the soul’s cleanliness and fill it with negative and impure sanskaras. Here we are talking of thousands of such thoughts, words and actions of the past births – how negatively influential they can be on our present. But remember there is a way out of this – not only clean the past negative karma through meditation. Also something which we can do about that now, because the past negative karma is over. Perform positive and pure karma in the present. Doing both of these attracts solutions to difficult situations in our lives very easily and very fast – that is the key.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 03-01-2020
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The one who follows the right method gets easy success.

Expression: When there is a clear aim of what has to be done and how one has to go about doing it, then there is accuracy in all words and actions. Whatever effort is put in is according to the system and is naturally accurate. So when there is accuracy in all that is done, the fruit of that is also right.

Experience: When I have been following the right method for whatever I have to do, I am able to remain happy for the effort that I have put in. I am also able to be patient and wait for the fruit of my effort to come at its own time. I am never in a hurry, so I always experience success whatever the outcome of the task may be.

In Spiritual Service,
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Thursday, January 02, 2020

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 02-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 02-01-2020
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The Invisible Law Of The Universe (Part 4)

We all live our lives at a fast pace without ever stopping and checking the quality of our thoughts, words and actions. It was different for us when we did not possess the knowledge of what is a good action and what is not. But now, when we have this knowledge from God, we need to review at the end of each day what we have done in the complete day. How were our thoughts, words and actions and was any thought, word or action not the right one? The measuring meter for this is the knowledge of the Law of Karma, which our intellect possesses. So, the first step is learning this knowledge and then implementing the knowledge in our lives.

Generally speaking, not only any word or action, but every thought which is created under the influence of any of the five main vices – lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego is considered negative karma. Also weaknesses connected to these impure emotions, like jealousy, hatred, revenge, criticism, fear etc. are considered negative karma. All of them create negative sanskaras in the soul when created or indulged in. For many, imagining a day without some of these may seem difficult and that will make you realize that a very large percentage of our thoughts, words and actions go the wrong way. This happens without us making a conscious effort of stopping them from going that way. Also, thinking, speaking and performing actions which are related to the past or the future are considered unnecessary and is something we spend a lot of time in doing. These are of a lesser negative nature but have a subtle connection with body consciousness, which is the cause of all negative sanskaras being created in the soul. Of course, there are also thoughts, words and actions, which are related to our daily routine and our day-to-day tasks, which are necessary in nature. But they are sometimes accompanied by the unnecessary when we attach excessive attachment to the past and future with them. And lastly, what is commonly known to all of us, all thoughts, words and actions, which are based on the primary qualities of the soul - peace, joy, love, bliss, purity, power and knowledge (truth) are the last category of positive. They are of the highest quality.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 02-01-2020
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To have the spirit of sharing is to be constantly happy.

Expression: There are lots of resources in each one’s life that can be shared with others. The more there is the consciousness of giving there is the ability to give and share these inner resources with others. New treasures are discovered and used for the benefit of all and also for the self.

Experience: There is constant satisfaction in my life when there is the spirit of giving. There are no expectations from others, but only an awareness of what I have. Life becomes more and more satisfactory and I feel richer for having given unconditionally. There are also constant good wishes that I receive from others.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website

Soul Sustenance & Message for the day 01-01-2020

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Soul Sustenance 01-01-2020
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The Invisible Law Of The Universe (Part 3)

We all desire to live a beautiful lifestyle where we don’t have to face negative situations from the world which are a reflection of our past karmas. By past we mean karmas performed in this birth and also karmas performed over many births before this one. Of course, the births before this one have been forgotten completely. Also, every thought, word and action performed in each birth created a matching sanskara in the soul. Such actions were forgotten completely by us as we took new births and older births were forgotten. Such sanskaras are the main cause of attracting negative or positive situations in our present life. So, nothing can be done about what happened in the past and how we spent each birth and what was the quality of our actions in each birth. But, there is a way of cleaning up all the negative sanskaras of the soul which attract negative situations in our life. Meditation is a beautiful method for doing this, in which through the power of visualization, which we all possess, we experience beautiful spiritual energy. This energy is of the purest seed of humanity or God, whom we commonly see with the eye of the mind as a point of pure spiritual light. Meditation means touching this point of pure energy using the power of visualization. Also, one sits under this fountain of overflowing spiritual energy which He radiates, for a few minutes everyday. His light is like a laser beam which removes or destroys these negative sanskaras from the soul, which were created due to negative karmas. That is why, at the Brahma Kumaris, we commonly call this meditation as a method of destroying negative actions performed over many births. A soul from which traces of negative actions have been removed then attracts positive circumstances only and keeps negative circumstances away.

The reason why we experience happiness when we start our journey of birth and rebirth is that we are pure souls or we are full of the power of purity. This means negative sanskaras created due to negative actions, which attract situations of sorrow, are not there inside us. As we come down in the process of birth and rebirth, we fill ourselves with these negative sanskaras, due to the quality of actions reducing and as a result, the sorrow in our life increases.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day 01-01-2020
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To listen to others fully is to be able to be free from repeating mistakes.

Expression: When there is criticism that comes one’s way, it should be carefully analysed to see if there is any truth in it. If there is correction can be made accordingly. On the other hand, if others’ criticism is ignored or there is a tendency to defend oneself, there cannot be any correction and mistakes are repeated.

Experience: When I listen to others with honesty, I am able to discover even the most negligible aspect in my behaviour which I can change. So I find myself constantly improving and progressing and moving on towards success. So having brought about a change, even the criticism that comes my way stops.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris | Facebook | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram | Website | Intl Website