Friday, August 04, 2023

Freeing Yourself From Hatred For Anyone

Freeing Yourself From Hatred For Anyone

We are living in a world of many different relationships between human beings. A beautiful relationship between me and others is based on true spiritual love, one in which I do not carry any hatred for others. Hatred arises in our hearts for someone else when we look at their weaknesses or at their negative behaviour. Sometimes we expect something from the other person and when we don't get what we want, we start looking at the person negatively and start hating them. For some people hatred for a few people in their lives is very common. Can we become completely free from hatred? Is it possible? Let's look at a few different ways to become free from hatred -


1. Begin Your Day By Filling Your Heart With God's Love - The moment you get up in the morning, create thoughts and feelings of closeness with God, who is the Ocean Of Love. Take His blessings and connect with Him in meditation and silence. This will make you full of spiritual love for all souls of the world, who are your sweet brothers and sisters and children of God, just like you are and you will feel we are all one divine family.


2. Feel Deeply That You Are A Beautiful Soul And Everyone Else Is Also A Beautiful Soul - Only when we love ourselves deeply can we love others. Only when we realize that we have weaknesses can we realize that others too have weaknesses. Only when we know we are trying to improve ourselves will we not get impatient with others and realize that they too are trying to improve themselves. Then we will never hate them in any circumstance.


3. Learn To Give Blessings To Everyone - Whenever we meet anyone in the day, create a beautiful thought in your mind about the other person's specialties. Don't let anything negative or ordinary about the other person touch your consciousness. Spread goodness about everyone.


4. Create A Positive Environment Of Love Wherever You Are - When we create an environment of love and closeness, when we share love and joy with each other, then we will be an embodiment of all qualities and fill everyone else with them. Also, we will only absorb others' qualities, never their weaknesses.

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Message for the day


Speciality lies in experiencing one's fortune.


Expression: 
When there is the awareness of one's fortune, there is speciality seen in every word and action, because of wanting to make the best of everything. There is also the pure desire of sharing with others, which also makes one special. 


Experience: When I have the recognition of my own fortune, and am aware of what I have, I find myself content. I have no expectations but continue to make the best use of what I already have, for my benefit and that of others. So I find myself being special and making my own fortune.


Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 3)

Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 3) 

In yesterday's message, we have already shared examples of situations which are self-created. These situations are created by my own mind, sometimes triggered by an external situation and sometimes there is no external event responsible for the situation. Then there are other situations of the physical body, relationship based situations and situations related to my workplace and home. All these situations are partly external and partly internal i.e. there is an external event present which is a reality and cannot be overlooked. This is true except in many cases when the situation is perceived as a situation but that is just a perception of a person with a negative perception, but in reality the situation does not exist. In all other cases, the situation is present and that is a fact accepted by even a person with a positive perception. Depending on how we perceive the situation, how we react to it and what thoughts we create on seeing it, the situation becomes big or small in our own mind first. But there is another aspect – sometimes some life situations are threatening in nature and can disturb the most powerful of souls. Of course, the intensity of the fear varies from person to person depending on the perception. A calm mind with a powerful intellect can face all these situations. Also, techniques like meditation which are taught by the Brahma Kumaris will help you in doing that. 


Meditation is a process of thought training - just like a cricketer will practice very carefully how he will play each ball that he faces to achieve the desired result of a run or runs scored. In the same way, I learn how to give each thought of mine value and create only positive thoughts in the few minutes of meditation, when I practice the meditation. These positive thoughts are based on spiritual knowledge and are thoughts about the spiritual self and God - the Supreme Being. These positive thoughts are created very slowly, step by step and carefully. This meditation practice of about a few minutes everyday is our training for actual negative situations. Then, due to this practice, when there are negative situations in our life, we remain calm and create only positive thoughts and keep the negative thoughts away which cause disturbances in our mind and in our life.

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Message for the day


The beauty of things lie in the ability to appreciate them.


Expression: 
Nothing is positive or negative in itself, but the one who has the eye for positive things sees only positively even when there is negativity around. Such a person is like a swan, which separates and picks up only pearls from stones. 


Experience: When I am looking only at the positive aspects, I am able to remain happy. If I am able to appreciate everything that comes my way, even if it is visibly negative, I find nothing to be a problem, but everything becomes enjoyable for me.


Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 2)

Awakening The Positivity Within (Part 2) 

Do you know that on an average we create a new thought every 2 seconds or sometimes even less that? This speed increases very regularly when we panic and are in discomfort or under the negative influence of an external situation. We call it external because the me or I which is internal is not the creator of the situation. Even the physical body is external. Except for situations from my own negative personality characteristics, which are completely the creation of the internal me or I, all other situations are external. There are various examples of situations in the form of negative personality traits which are completely internal. E.g. on a particular day I feel gloomy or sad without any particular reason. On another day I experience thoughts of ego of my own nature or positive qualities or powers which are all internal. Sometimes I experience fear but there is no particular person or object or situation which I fear, it is just a passing phase. I am just frightened for no particular reason or on another occasion I feel I am unsuccessful although everything in my life is going fine. On another day I am worried about falling ill, although I am completely fit and nor have I met someone who is ill or listened to any news regarding poor health. So, my worry is completely self-created. These are examples of situations created completely by me. 


Then, there are situations from my own personality characteristics which are triggered by outside situations. Such situations include something that I read, saw or heard which has caused a negative personality characteristic to emerge inside me. Examples of such situations are – my friend has been more successful in his or her academic career and seeing that causes thoughts of jealousy to emerge inside me. In this case, this is my self created situation but it was triggered by another person or external event. He or she did not cause me any harm and did not create the situation but I created the situation only because of my thinking. Another example of such a situation - I fear my boss at office only because of his position being superior to me. He or she is a very nice person and is extremely polite with me and never tries to dominate me, but I feel dominated because of my thinking. Or another day, I heard a piece of news about how people are dying of heart attacks. This creates thoughts of insecurity inside me although I don't suffer from any symptoms like uncontrolled high cholesterol or high blood pressure which could possibly lead to that. 


(To be continued tomorrow …)

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Message for the day


To know the fruit of efforts will surely come is to remain happy and healthy.


Expression: 
To know that the fruit of my effort will eventually come one day is to understand the importance of making effort. Once there is this understanding, it becomes easy to continue making effort, which is like nourishment that keeps one happy. So effort is never stopped till what has to be achieved is achieved. 


Experience: Knowing that my effort will surely be fruitful makes me enjoy everything I do. It makes me remain happy, keeps me enthusiastic and free from tiredness, even when things are not going right for me. My mental happiness and well being thus keeps me healthy.