Contemplation: Write Often

  Contemplation:  Write Often

 

Write Often

Make it a point to write something every day, even if it's only to myself. In fact, it is mostly to myself. How else do I get to know me? And how else do I get to know what I know until I hear what I have to say? The most important conversation in all our worlds is with ourselves. One way to converse is to take two words and then let your mind flow into them, around them and through them, and then out through your pen on to a blank white page. It doesn't matter what comes -but be sure that you will reveal yourself to yourself, and if you keep doing it I can guarantee you will be astounded by revelation. Start your journal today.

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Imbibing (Absorbing) Spiritual Knowledge

The first step into experience, particularly the meditation
experience, is knowledge. What does it mean to 'know'? Knowing
involves four steps, which ultimately give the meditator the
experience of realization:

The first step of knowing is information. With information, our
intellect opens to new ideas and opinions.

The second step of knowing is knowledge, when we begin to reflect and
think on the ideas and views that we have listened to. At this point,
we often have to select only a few of the ideas we have heard, as it
is not always possible to reflect (think) on all the information that is
fed to us. In order to deepen our understanding, we reflect on the
information and sometimes discuss our findings and thoughts with
others.

The third step of knowing is when we move from thinking to doing, that
is, from knowledge to wisdom. Wisdom is gained when we commit
ourselves to 'doing'. Knowledge translated into our everyday
behaviour is called wisdom, which, in turn, is called quality life. A life of
quality is where personal values are not only realised but also lived
and experienced through our practical actions.

Doing, or practice, naturally brings us to the fourth and final step
of knowing, which is called Truth.

The Internal Voice Of Our Conscience

At the heart of our consciousness, we have a conscience. Our conscience is essentially our basic awareness of truth. From a spiritual point of view, the truth of who we are as spiritual beings is core and eternal truth. If we consider ourselves to be anything other than soul or spirit then we will be thinking and acting against our conscience, against our truth, which is like going against the essence of spirit. We will feel something is not quite right. If one of the pistons in our car engine is out of sync with the others, the engine will sound slightly different from normal. We immediately have it fixed, because we know that if it continues it may destroy the engine. If we do something that is out of sync with the truth, the voice of our conscience speaks to us. But we tend to ignore or suppress it, especially if we are having a seemingly pleasurable experience - we then create the sanskars or habit of ignoring our own conscience. As a result we keep repeating the negative karma and the sanskars of the negative karma are deepened, further ignoring the voice of our conscience. It is a vicious cycle, to come out of which is extremely difficult.

Soul Sustenance 


Being a Lighthouse For The World (Meditation)

Sit in silence and visualize the following thoughts:

In a deep meditative state see yourself sitting in front of the Supreme Soul, the Supreme Being of Light, in the soul world. I a point of light, experience golden rays of spiritual light and bliss descending on me... and through me into the whole world (globe) below... I feel these rays charging the atmosphere with vibrations of purity, love and spiritual calm... I am bathing in golden light... strong currents of spiritual might are radiating from me in all directions... I am a spiritual lighthouse... I have the deep realization of being separate from my body. .. I feel that I am a brilliant point of light with rays of very high intensity bursting and darting forth from the soul for the service of the whole world. .. There is no feeling of my body and no conscious thought except that of being absorbed in the peace and bliss of the Supreme’s love... I feel completely filled and that I have obtained the ultimate... the final and highest destination – satisfied that through this stage of fulfillment, I serve others.


Message for the day 


To judge others is to take law into our hands.

Projection: When we see anyone doing something wrong, we immediately begin to think about it and judge them based on whatever we have seen. When we bring any such negative thoughts we will not be able to help in any way to overcome the weakness.

Solution: We need to remind ourselves that we have no right to judge others. The only thing we need to do is to see if we can help them out in anyway to overcome their weakness. If not, we need not think or talk about it, i.e., we need not take the law into our hands.