Attain Self Realization & Experience Higher State of Consciousness !

One aspect of practical spirituality is the practice of values such as tolerance, patience, flexibility, humility (egolessness) etc. Another is for the meditator actually to experience the highest level of consciousness. It is said that when this highest level of consciousness is experienced, there is the strength to practice those values that create well-being. How can we go beyond the stages of information, knowledge and even wisdom to experience the original state of being, that is, truth? 

One way to describe the above process is to compare it to the game of the pole-vaulter. The pole-vaulter has a long pole to help jump over the barrier. The athlete runs for a short distance, and then quickly fixes the pole into the ground, enabling the body to be lifted up. When the athlete reaches a certain point in the air, the very pole that was used to get to that point is discarded; if the athlete fails to let go of the pole, then the body will be propelled backwards and it will be impossible to accomplish the task of jumping over the barrier. 

The   same   mechanism  of   the  pole-vaulter  is  involved  when   a  person  wishes  to  attain realization  of  the  self  and  an experience of  a  higher  state  of consciousness. To experience realization, we have to  run some distance, collecting  the necessary information. Then we use the pole of knowledge and wisdom to lift us off the ground  of ordinary  consciousness. But, we must then let go of the very pole of knowledge that we used  to elevate our minds and  take  a jump  of  faith,  flying  over  the  barrier  of  'ordinary consciousness' to  experience  a new and higher level of consciousness. If there is no faith, then there is not enough trust to let go of the pole and jump. 

Many people do not let go of the pole of knowledge and, as a result, fall into the spinning of speculation and the habit of analysis and discussion – the experience of spiritual consciousness eludes them. The pull of the ego draws the consciousness back to the ground. The irony is that they think they have jumped over the barrier and regard themselves as being in the privileged position of knowing. Then they think that from this privileged position they are in the position of judging and being better than those who 'know' in a different way or in other words those who are truly spiritually enlightened. 

The ones who have let go of the pole can be characterized by their wider, creative perspective and their benevolent strength. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Our failures in human relations !

Most of Our Failures in Human Relations are due to “misunderstandings”.

We expect other people to react and respond and come to the same conclusions as we do from a given set of “facts” or “circumstances.”

No one responds or reacts to “things as they are,” but to his own mental images.  Most of the time, a person “understands” and interprets the situation differently from us. He is merely responding appropriately to what – to him – seems to be the truth about the situation.

Ask yourself:

“How does this appear to him?”

“How does he interpret this situation?”

“How does he feel about it?”

Try to understand why he might “act the way he does”

In dealing with other people try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

Source : K.N.RAJAN

Move Ahead With Blessings !

Become the one who flies forward with blessings from everyone. 

Throughout the day check if you are moving forward with ease in whatever you do. Also check if you are performing any activity that enables you to get blessings from others. Each day take a thought right in the morning to work in such a way that automatically gets you blessings from others. Remind yourself of this at least thrice a day and you will find your own progress easy. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Focus Brings In Positive Thoughts !!

The Law of Focus and Attention 

Wherever we focus our attention is where our thoughts are directed with most frequency and interest. Thus energy is produced in this direction, whether positive and beneficial energy or negative and harmful energy.

If we have a complicated mind, which thinks too much about certain things unnecessarily, our attention may be led towards the obstacles, problems, upsets and the things we worry about from a critical and negative viewpoint. By paying more attention to difficulties and problems, we feed these types of thoughts with our attention, so that we end up attracting these situations towards us. Finally, the problems and obstacles absorb us due to the amount of energy we have invested in them, turning what was perhaps a molehill into a mountain.

The situation does not necessarily change immediately on changing our attitude. With this inner change, however, we will have more energy, clarity and determination to face up to and change the situation. When we focus on seeking solutions to problems and difficulties with a positive and enthusiastic attitude, we attract positive energy towards us, and this helps us transform mountains into molehills.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Get Some Time - Work Smarter !!

 

Sometimes no matter how hard and fast you work, you still miss a deadline. Is it the end of the world if a deadline is missed, especially if the deadline is self-imposed?

Maybe, the next time there's little chance in meeting a deadline, ask for an extension and re-schedule the deadline. Give yourself permission to relax and lower your stress levels. Then you'll have more energy to get back to working harder and faster.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Special Positive Messages !!

"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the
pencil, you're overdoing it."

~   Josh Jenkins






You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,the ocean does not become dirty.

~   Mahatma Gandhi







I think laughter may be a form of courage. 
As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, 
and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

~   Linda Ellerbee

"There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, 

and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."

~   Leigh Hunt

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
~   Wilma Askinas

Think Positive To Achieve What You Desire !

When you renounce desire, you can achieve your fortune. 

At the end of each day, check if through out the day you had experienced unhappiness. Also check if your unhappiness is because of the desire that you have. Where there is desire there is unhappiness. In order to enjoy what's there in your fortune, each day make the practice firm, 'I get what is right for me according to my fortune. I have no desire because desire only gives me sorrow.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Create Your Positive Thoughts !!

The mind is a faculty of the soul, the main function of which is to produce thoughts. The thoughts we create are energy. In one day we produce an average of thirty to forty thousand thoughts. How much energy does this represent? What do we do with it?

The mind works constantly, even when we are sleeping. We cannot separate ourselves from it, it is our inseparable companion. If you study your mind you will see that, as well as thinking, it imagines, remembers, dreams, associates, desires and even produces your feelings.

If you think about some incident that made you unhappy ten years ago, you will feel that unhappiness again, perhaps even more deeply than before. If you think of something that made you happy, you will also feel that happiness when you repeat the event in your mind.

If you create positive thoughts about yourself, you will feel good and your self-esteem will be strengthened, and if you create negative thoughts, you will feel depressed, with low self-esteem. The mind opens up the way to the self. By creating the right type of thoughts you can open up your inner potential again, and rediscover that as people we are full of positive qualities. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Know Others By Their Goodness, Not By Weaknesses !

Do you mentally keep a note of others' weaknesses and flaws? Does it become the basis on how you relate to them? 

How about giving this a try :

• Realise that if you keep others' weaknesses in your mind, those weaknesses soon become part of you.

• Recognise that all humans, despite their flaws have an innate goodness within them.

• Decide to see the best and draw the best out of others.

• Re-contextualise the other person by mentally noting at least one of their good qualities. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Learn To Remove That Anger Within Us !

If we think, speak and act in an angry way, we leave an impression or memory of anger within our own consciousness which results in sanskara of anger to be born.

Within the sanskara is the recorded emotion and experience of our expression towards the object of our anger. The object is a particular person or situation. If we encounter the object of our anger the next day, it will trigger the emergence the recorded anger from within the sanskara. We then deepen the sanskara as we express more anger, even if we only 'think' anger. The emergence of this emotional energy from within our consciousness then stops us from interacting in a positive way. It clouds our mind and confuses our intellect, weakening and distorting our thoughts, decisions and behaviour. This often explains why we find it harder to connect and communicate with certain people in our life. Essentially we are carrying a negative image of the other person within our sanskara from a previous interaction with them. And when we see them again it emerges the energy within the sanskara, which then influences our ability to respond to them. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Carry Out Every Action With Careful Consideration !

Perform every action after careful consideration of the past experience, present situation and the future consequence and you will be successful. At the end of each day, in all the situations that you have faced and in all the decisions you have taken check if there were any feelings of regret, repentance or any other waste thoughts. When the action is performed after careful consideration, there will be no waste thoughts. Before you make every major decision, make sure you do it after careful consideration. Let there be the practice of spending time and thoughts before the action than wasting time and thoughts by regretting after the action has already been performed. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Great Morning Thoughts !!

It is hardly possible to build anything,

if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

~   Lech Walesa

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; 

therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself 

or your life that you want to change."

~   Barbara de Angelis

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call 

can defend against its force....

My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun

whose rays soften the coldest day.

~   Og Mandino

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

The most certain way to succeed

is always to try just one more time.

~   Thomas A. Edison

"Never be ashamed! 

There's some who'll hold it against you,

but they're not worth bothering with."

~   J. K. Rowling

Effective Meditation Helps To Be Positive In Outer World !!

Effective meditation means to gather the positive resources of the inner self and then use them in the outer world. 

It is important to remain neither too much inside, nor too much outside, but constantly to create a balance between the inner and outer realities. Meditation resembles the cyclic path of energy: going from the inside out and then from the outside in, gathering information, or experiences that we need to reflect on, or understand better. On other occasions, it may be a question of recharging our minds with positivity and peace: we go inside and, with the practice of silence, the battery becomes re-energized.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Keep the Give & Take of Positive Things Happening All The Time !!

When you are full you will be overflowing and will be able to bring benefit to others. 

Throughout the day, check if you are able to be a giver. Also when others are seeking support from you and you are not able to give what they are expecting, check if your own treasure is full. Take a thought each day that you have to be a giver. In order to be a giver, continue to fill your own treasure store. Keep filling yourself with all that you are getting throughout the day. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Create Your Own Space To Move Towards Positiveness !

When you create a small, healthy space between yourself and the drama of life, you've created a buffer. 

This buffer will prevent you from jumping out and reacting negatively. It will also stop the drama of life from grabbing you unawares. 

This personal space within yourself will allow you to respond constructively.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Find The Treasure Within Yourself !

You can be multi-millions fortunate when you know to use the treasure of your thoughts. 

During the whole day, check to what extent you are having waste thoughts. Also check if your thoughts are elevated and pure. The more your thoughts are elevated and pure you'll find yourself accumulating this treasure. Each day remind yourself that you have the best treasure of all - the treasure of your thoughts. Take a determined thought to use this treasure in the right way, that means not to have negative or waste thoughts and you will realize your own fortune. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Rule Your Own Thoughts & Get Rid of Negativity !

The one who has the consciousness of being the ruler of his own thoughts is the one who is fortunate. 

When others say anything negative to you, check if you are being influenced by their thoughts, which make you think negative too or if you are able to guide your thoughts as you wish. Each day begin your day with the practice, "I am the ruler of my thoughts and it is me who is in control of my thoughts and no one else." Also remind yourself of this thought and you can see the picture of your fortune in the mirror of your life. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Keep Your Treasures Increasing !!!

Keep giving others and you'll find your treasures increasing. In your interactions with others during the day, check if you are expecting anything from others in any way. Your expectations could include physical help or understanding from others. Also check if you are able to give others without expecting. Tell yourself that to give means to take because when you give happiness or love you get the same. If you want to take, you'll only find yourself disappointed, because others are expecting from you too. But when you give, you find your own treasures multiplying. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

 

 

Stop complaining about your circumstances !!

It’s extremely rare to find a successful person who whines, complains, and frets about his circumstances. This is despite the fact that he may have overcome great obstacles to achieve his level of success. On the other hand, it’s extremely common for struggling individuals to continually blame their circumstances for their lack of joy and happiness. 

The real question is: what came first – the attitude or the success? The answer, in virtually all cases, is that the winning, positive attitude came first, followed by a lifetime of success.

All it takes is a simple decision; the decision to stop yourself from falling into the habit of complaining about your circumstances. At first it may be difficult – even funny – to observe how often you complain. 

Habits can be hard to break. But in this case, it’s well worth the effort. As an excuse of complaint comes to mind, gently shoo it away. Don’t worry about it too much. You’ll quickly get used to the nicer feelings that come from a life without complaints.

Source : K N Rajan

Finish that Negativity To Being Enthusiasm !!

When you experience all attainments, there'll be no trace of negativity in you. Check within yourself, if there is any kind of desire. Also check if you are aware of and have an experience of all that you have got. Where there is the experience of all attainments, there is no negativity. At the end of each day, check what you have attained throughout the day. This practice enables you to be happy with what you have and also work with renewed enthusiasm for the next day which finishes your negativity. 

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.