Points to Churn from the Murli of July 03, 2013

Swamaan / Sankalp / Slogan: Swaroop Bano

July 03, 2013

हम आत्माएँ, हररोज़ मुरली रेग्युलर और पंकचुअल सुन, मुरली के पायंट्स पर मनन, मंथन और सिमरण कर ज्ञान रत्नों को धारण करनेवाले, गॉड्ली स्टूडेंट्स हैं...

We, the souls are the Godly students, listening to the murli regularly and punctually everyday...we contemplate, churn and repeatedly remember the points from the murlis, and imbibe the jewels of knowledge...

Hum atmaayen, har roz murli regular aur pankchual sun murli ke points par manan, manthan aur simran kar, gyan ratnon ko dhaaran karnewale godly stoodents hain...

Om Shanti Divine Angels!!!

Points to Churn from the Murli of July 03, 2013

Praise of Baba:
The Ocean of Knowledge, the Incorporeal Purifier, the Supreme Father, and the Supreme Soul Shiv Baba is.... My Baba...Sweet Baba...Lovely Baba...Kind-hearted Baba...Compassionate Baba...the True Father...the True Teacher...the Unlimited Father... the Almighty Authority...the Truth, the Living Being, the Blissful One and the Seed... the Bestower of Salvation... Knowledge-full...

Points of Self-Respect and Soul Study:

Slogan: Happy

Nothing is lacking in the treasure store of Brahmins... we have attained all we had to attain... by receiving Godly love only in this birth, we, the souls, become full of imperishable attainments, receive the fortune of a kingdom and go to our sweet home and to our sweet kingdom...we are constantly cheerful and happy, which is visible in our activities, behaviour and faces...

We clean up all our accounts, and finish all accounts of extroversion in the form of thoughts and sanskaras... we become introverted by constantly remaining free from all bondages and by becoming yogyukt... we do a lot of service by becoming introverted, glorify the Father’s name with the face of introversion, become liberated in life and make other souls so happy that they belong to the Father...

“I have to remain content and make everyone content”...we, the souls, the constantly happy idols of contentment, keep this slogan constantly written on the board of our forehead, bring it in our awareness every morning at amritvela, claim the certificate of the future kingdom and attain the throne...

Instead of being the embodiments of questions (prashn) in all situations, we, the souls are the embodiments of attainments (prapti), changing nature (prakriti) and stopping distress (pareshaani)...we are close to the Father, and like the Father, we are complete and perfect... by being free from jealousy and from royal desires in a subtle form, by being beyond name, regard and honour, by being ignorant of all desires, we attain honour in the heart of BapDada, the Bestower... we are the special, careful and cheerful souls, the embodiments of remembrance, who finish all mischievous games, and find solutions to reasons... by remaining combined with the Father, by having full renunciation and full transformation, by being beyond praise(prashansa) and by having constant satisfaction, (prasann), we attain the fortune of a kingdom...

We are constantly happy in our mind, our heart, with everyone, with the Father and with the drama... we are selfless and always experience everyone else to be blameless (innocent)...no matter what the circumstances arise, whether any soul who is settling his or her karmic accounts comes in front of us, whether the physical suffering of the body comes in front of us, by being free from limited desires, we have waves of happiness visible in our minds and bodies and are seen as a sparkling star with a look of happiness...

While coming into relationships and connections, we never create and sustain questions that waste time and energy...by having a birth control of the queue of questions, we remain beyond all questions and keep constantly happy hearted...

We sacrifice ourselves out of love for God, that is, have good wishes and pure feelings for everyone, sacrifice our time, our happiness and our desires for attainment of name fame or regard and follow the Father...instead of being full of questions (prashn), we renounce any desire to hear praise (prashansa) and become full of happiness (prasann)...

ॐशान्तिदिव्यफरिश्ते!!!
विचारसागरमंथन:July 03, २०१३
बाबाकीमहिमा:

ज्ञान के सागर पतित पावन निराकार परमपिता परमात्मा शिव बाबा हैं...मेरा बाबा... मीठा बाबा...प्यारा बाबा... दयालु बाबा...कृपालु बाबा... सत बाप...सत टीचर...सत गुरु... बेहद का बाप... सर्वशक्तिमान...सत चित आनंद स्वरूप...बीजरूप...सदगति दाता... नॉलेजफुल...

स्वमान औरआत्माअभ्यास:

स्लोगन:प्रसन्न

जोपाना था वोपा लिया...अप्राप्त नहींकोई वस्तु ब्राह्मणोंके ख़ज़ाने में ...हमआत्माएँ, परमात्म प्यार सेइसी जन्म मेंपाकर, सर्व अविनाशी प्राप्तियाँसम्पन्न बन राज्य-भाग्यपाकर अपने स्वीटहोम और स्वीटराजधानी में जानेवाले, अपनीचाल, चलन और चेहरेसे सदा प्रसन्न हैं...

अपने सभी चौपदे को साफ़ करनेवाले, सभी पुराने खाते, संकल्प वा संस्कार रूप में बाह्य मुख़्ता के खाते ख़त्म कर , सदा बंधन मुक्त और योग युक्त रहनेवाले, अंतर मुखी हैं...अंतर मूख बन सेवा कर अंतर मुख़्ता की सूरत द्वारा बाप का नाम बाला करनेवाले, औरों को प्रसन्न चित कर बाप के बनानेवाले, जीवन मुक्त हैं...

संतुष्ट रहना है और संतुष्ट करना है... यह स्लोगन अपने मस्तक रूपी बोर्ड पर लिख कर हर रोज़ अमृतवेले स्मृति में लाकर, भविष्य में राज्य-भाग्य का सर्टिफिकेट लेकर तख्त प्राप्त करनेवाले, सदा प्रसन्न संतुष्ट मूर्तियाँ हैं...

सभी परिस्थितिओंमें प्रश्नचितके बजाय प्रकृति कोपरिवर्तन कर परेशानीमिटानेवाले, प्राप्ति स्वरूप हैं... ईर्षामुक्त , रॉयल औरसूक्ष्म इच्छाओं सेमुक्त, नाम, मान शान सेपरे, इच्छा मात्रम अवीद्यावाले, दाता बापदादा केदिल में शानप्राप्त करनेवाले, बापसमान संपन्न औरसंपूर्ण, बाप के समीपहैं... बाप केसाथ कम्बाइंडरहकर पूरा त्यागकर, पूरा परिवर्तनकर, प्रशंसा से परेसदा प्रसन्न रहकरसदा का राज्यभाग्य पानेवाले, नाज़-नखरे समाप्त कर कारण को निवारण करनेवाले, चियरफुल और कैयरफूल, विशेष और स्मृति स्वरूप हैं...

मनसे, दिलसे, सर्वसे, बापसे, ड्रामासे सदा संतुष्ट हैं..चाहे कोई भी परिस्थिति आ जाए,चाहे कोई आत्मा हिसाब-किताब चुक्तू करनेवाली सामना करने आए,चाहे शरीर का कर्मभोग सामना करने आता रहे,हद की कामना से मुक्त, तन और मन से प्रसन्नता की लहर दिखानेवाले प्रसन्नता की झलक में चमकता हुआ सितारा दिखानेवाले, निर्दोष दृष्टिवाले, निःस्वार्थ हैं...

सम्बन्ध सम्पर्क में आते कभी भी चित में व्यर्थ प्रश्न की रचना की पालना में अपना समय और एनर्जी न देकर, प्रश्न की क्यू का बर्थ कंट्रोल कर, प्रश्न से पार रहकर सदा प्रसन्न चित हैं...

स्वयं को परमात्म प्यार के पीछे कुर्बान कर, अर्थार्थ शुभ भावना और शुभ कामना देनेवाले, अपने समय को , सुखों को, फॉलो फ़ादर कर, स्वयं के प्रति नाम, मान, शान की प्राप्ति की इच्छा को कुर्बान करनेवाले, प्रश्नचित के पार, प्रशंसा के त्यागी, प्रसन्नचित हैं...

Om Shanti divya farishte !!!

Vichaar Sagar Manthan: July 03, 2013

Baba ki Mahima:

Gyan ke Sagar Patit Paavan Niraakaar Parampita Paramatma Shiv Baba hain...Mera Baba... Meetha Baba... Pyaara Baba...Dayalu Baba...Kripalu Baba... Sat Baap...Sat Tichar...Sat Guru... Behad ka Baap... Sarv shakti maan...Sat Chit Anand Swaroop...Beejroop...Sadgati Data... Nolej ful...

Swamaan aur Atma Abhyas :

Slogan: Prasann

Jo paana tha vo paa liya...apraapt nahin koi vastu brahmanon ke khazaane men ...Hum atmaayen, Pramaatm pyar se isi janm men sarv avinaashi praaptiyaan sampann ban rajy-bhaagy paakar apne sweet hom aur sweet rajdhaani men jaanewale, apni chaal, chalan aur chehare se sada prasann hain...

apne sabhi chaupde ko saaf karnewale, sabhi puraane khaate, sankalp va sanskaar roop men baahy mukhta ke khaate khatm kar , sada bandhan mukt aur yog yukt rahnewale, antar mukhi hain...antar muk ban seva kar antar mukhta ki soorat dwara baap ka naam bala karnewale, auron ko prasann chit kar baap ke banaanewale, jeewan mukt hain...

Santusht rahna hai aur santusht karna hai... yah slogan apne mastak roopi bord par likh kar har roz amritvele smriti men laakar, bhavishy men raajy-bhaagy ka sartifiket lekar takht praapt karnewale, sada prasann santusht moortiyaan hain...

sabhi parishthition men prashnchit ke bajaay prakriti ko parivartan kar pareshaani mitaanewale, praapti swaroop hain... irsha mukt royal aur sookshm ichchaon se mukt, naam, maan shaan se pare, ichcha maatram avidya wale, data baap dada ke dil men shaan praapt karnewale, baap samaan sampann aur sampoorn, baap ke sameep hain... baap ke saath kambaaind rahkar poora tyaag kar, poora parivartan kar, prashansa se pare sada prasann rahkar sada ka rajy bhaagy paanewale, naaz-nakhre samaapt kar kaaran ko nivaaran karnewale, chiyarful aur kairful, vishesh aur smriti swaroop hain...

man se, dil se, sarv se, baap se, drama se sada santusht hain...chaahe koi bhi paristhiti aa jaaye, chaahe koi atma hisaab-kitaab chuktoo karnewali saamna karne aaye, chaahe shareer ka karmbhog saamna karne aata rahe, had ki kaamna se mukt, tan aur man se prasannta ki lahar dikhaanewale prasaanta ki jhalak men chamta hua sitara dikhaanewale, nirdosh drishti wale, nihswaarth hain...

sambandh sampark men aate kabhi bhi chit men vyarth prashn ki rachna ki paalna men apna samay aur enarjy n dekar, prashna ki kyoo ka barth kantrol kar, prashn se paar rahkar sada prasann chit hain...

swayam ko parmaatam pyar ke peeche kurbaan kar, athhaarth shubh bhavna aur shubh kaamna denewale, apne samay ko , sukhon ko, folo fader kar, swayam ke prati naam, maan, shaan ki praapti ki ichchha ko kurbaan karnewale, prashnachit ke paar, prashansa ke tyaagi, prasannchit hain...

In the daily murlis, Bapdada gives vardaan to the entire Brahmin family spread all over the world. Baba also remarked in the murli, dated 7-1-2012 that serviceable children will make cartoons after listening to the murli. Visualization makes remembrance of the blessing throughout the day easier and thus makes it more fruitful.

03-07-2013:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxNtD9QDvA

Essence: Sweet children, the Sustainer of the whole world is the one Father. He never takes sustenance from anyone. He is always incorporeal. Explain and prove this to everyone.

Question: What are the first and foremost signs of Godly students?

Answer: Godly students can never stay without hearing the murli. They would never say: I don’t have time to listen to the murli. Wherever they are, they would ask someone for points and study them. So many points are given. If you don't hear the murli, how can you imbibe knowledge? This is a study. The Supreme Teacher is teaching you children and so you should never miss the murli.

Song: Tumhe paa ke hamne jahan paa liya hai तुम्हेंपाके हमने.....Having found You, we have found the whole world. The earth and sky all belong to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfEXisfScw

Essence for dharna:
1. Become a good, clever salesman and do the business of the imperishable jewels of knowledge. In order to create an imperishable reward, connect your intellect's yoga to the one Father.
2. In order to pass with honours, become a true lover. Constantly stay in remembrance of the one Beloved.
Blessing: May you be free from any thoughts and worries by coming a companion of the Almighty Authority and having good wishes for all.
Some children have thoughts that So-and-so should recover from his illness, that her child or husband should receive knowledge, that their business should go well. It is good to have this feeling, but these desires of yours will only be fulfilled when you yourself become light and take power from the Father. For this, you need to keep the vessel of your intellect empty. If you want to benefit everyone, you have to become a form of power, a companion of the Almighty Authority and continue to have good wishes. Become free from thoughts and worries; do not become trapped in any bondage.

Slogan: Those who remain beyond questions are the ones who remain constantly happy.

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 3, 2013: Best kind of friend

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 3, 2013: Best kind of friend

Constance Moofushi- Maldives

Best kind of friend

The best kind of friend is the kind, you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away, feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

When there is love for others, they automatically become cooperative.

When you are involved in any task with others, ask yourself if you are able to give and get the cooperation from them. If you are not able to, check the reason for not getting their cooperation. In any task that involve others, see that you begin the task with good feelings for each and everyone involved in the task. Have the faith that the task is for common benefit and everyone is going to learn something from it and is going to contribute to it. Then you'll find others cooperating with you.

Attaining Success Using The Tool Of Visualization

A study shows that the majority of sportsmen and women, who win at prominent international events, are trained to use the tool of visualization to achieve success. Many months before the actual event, they visualize i.e. they create pictures of success inside their minds that they have already achieved their goal. The same principle of visualization is also used to cure patients from major illnesses including cancer. Patients are taught to visualize their diseased organs free from illnesses or visualize the organs receiving healing energy in some form or the other. Visualization helps people to have 100% belief in themselves that they will achieve the desired goal. The efforts made with this powerful energy of belief have a greater probability of success than when you make the efforts without believing in what you are doing and without visualizing yourself as achieving your objectives.

If you think about your failures from the past, you stop believing in yourself, lose your enthusiasm and get frustrated. Visualizing images of a positive future helps you work from the present towards the future, without allowing the past failures to have any negative influence on you. You visualize yourself as a person, who has already overcome his fears and negative habits, and the fears are removed and the negative habits are transformed. You see yourselfalready transformed e.g. you say "I am a soul full of all powers" and not "I am going to or am trying tofill myself with all powers ". The power of that vision and the positive affirmations, combined together, is such that it helps you to bring about a major change in yourself, not just a small change, because you make it easy for your sub-conscious mind that is sleeping to wake up and realize its potential. You stop always expecting the worst and hope for, visualize and believe in the best.

Soul Sustenance


Opening The Third Eye

The concept of the third eye has always interested people. What is the third eye? Can it be opened during an operation, or by going on a journey to a religious or sacred destination? In meditation, we understand that the third eye means the ability to understand and to perceive (realize) correctly. Then, on the basis of that perception (realization) or insight (understanding); to act and behave accordingly. In other words, on the basis of spiritual truths, we think, speak and act so that peace and well-being become natural in our life.

Spiritual values, or truths, are necessary for genuine improvement of the human condition and life.

The third eye is the intellect of the soul - when it is open, there is realization of the need to improve, change and/or create something that will help the self and others to make the quality of life better.

Message for the day

The one who experiences freedom in the mind is the one who can bring benefit to others.

Expression: There is usually the feeling that there is not enough time for the self. And so there is no time to spare for others too. The more we think about ourselves only, we don't seem to be able to be free for anyone else. Then we find our days just pass by without being able to bring any benefit to others or ourselves.

Experience: Instead of taking out time separately for bringing benefit to others, we only need to see how we can help others wherever we are. We would be able to do this only when we are free from the weaknesses in our own mind. This will help us to be available to everyone around. If we are mentally preoccupied with our own weaknesses we will not be able to free to bring benefit to anyone.

Points to Churn from the Murli of July 02, 2013

Swamaan / Sankalp / Slogan: Swaroop Bano

July 02, 2013

हम विचित्र आत्माएँ, चित्र लेकर सृष्टि मंच पर पार्ट बजानेवाले, विचित्र बाप के चित्र और चरित्र को याद करनेवाले, चरित्रवान् हैं...

We, the souls without an image (vichitra), are those with character (charitrvaan)...we take an image (chitra), play our part on the world stage, and remember the image (chitr) and the character (charitr) of the Father without an image (Vichitr)...

Hum vichitr atmaayen, chitr lekar srishti manch par paart bajaanewale, vichitr baap ke chitr aur charitr ko yaad karnewale charitrvaan hain...

Om Shanti Divine Angels!!!

Points to Churn from the Murli of July 02, 2013

Praise of Baba:

The Ocean of Knowledge, the Incorporeal Purifier, the Supreme Father, and the Supreme Soul Shiv Baba is.... My Baba...Sweet Baba...Lovely Baba...Kind-hearted Baba...Compassionate Baba...the True Father...the True Teacher...the Unlimited Father... the Almighty Authority...the Truth, the Living Being, the Blissful One and the Seed... the Bestower of Salvation... Knowledge-full...

Points of Self-Respect and Soul Study:

Slogan: Vichitra

We, the souls without an image (vichitra), take an image (chitra) and play our part on the world stage...we become dead to the old world and belong to the Father, that is, we die alive and become soul conscious...we become bodiless and remember the Father...we are the spinners of the discus of self realization and the decorations of the Brahmin clan who take a new birth through Brahma, attain the kingdom of heaven and become the masters of heaven... By having the faith that we are souls, we ignite our lamps and go on a spiritual pilgrimage...we are the beautiful brides of the one Bridegroom who sit on the spiritual eyes to return home and become the emperors and the empresses of the golden age...

ॐ शान्ति दिव्य फरिश्ते!!!

विचार सागर  मंथन:July 02, २०१३
बाबा की महिमा:
ज्ञान के सागर पतित पावन निराकार परमपिता परमात्मा शिव बाबा हैं...मेरा बाबा... मीठा बाबा...प्यारा बाबा... दयालु बाबा...कृपालु बाबा... सत बाप...सत टीचर...सत गुरु... बेहद का बाप... सर्वशक्तिमान...सत चित आनंद स्वरूप...बीजरूप...सदगति दाता... नॉलेजफुल...

स्वमान औरआत्मा  अभ्यास:

स्लोगन: विचित्र

हम विचित्र आत्माएँ, चित्र लेकर सृष्टि मंच पर पार्ट बजानेवाले, अशरीरी बन बाप को याद करनेवाले, पुरानी दुनिया से मरकर बाप के बन, मरजीवा बननेवाले, देही अभिमानी हैं...ब्रह्मा द्वारा नया जन्म लेकर स्वर्ग के मालिक बन स्वर्ग की राजधानी पानेवाले, स्वदर्शनचक्रधारी ब्राह्मण कुल भूषण हैं...अपने को आत्मा निश्चय कर, ज्योति जगाकर रूहानी यात्रा पर जाकर, रूहानी नयनों पर बैठ स्वीट होम वापिस जानेवाली, एक साजन की गुल-गुल सजनियाँ हैं...सतयुग में महाराजा महारानियाँ बननेवाले, एक ब्राईदग्रूम की ब्रायड्स हैं...

Om Shanti divya farishte !!!

Vichaar Sagar Manthan: July 02, 2013

Baba ki Mahima:

Gyan ke Sagar Patit Paavan Niraakaar Parampita Paramatma Shiv Baba hain...Mera Baba... Meetha Baba... Pyaara Baba...Dayalu Baba...Kripalu Baba... Sat Baap...Sat Tichar...Sat Guru... Behad ka Baap... Sarv shakti maan...Sat Chit Anand Swaroop...Beejroop...Sadgati Data... Nolej ful...

Swamaan aur Atma Abhyas :

Slogan: Vichitr

Hum vichitr atmaayen, chitr lekar srishti manch par paart bajaanewale, asharee ban baap ko yaad karnewale, puraani duniya se markar baap ke ban, marjeeva ban newale, dehi abhimaani hain...brahma dwara naya janm lekar swarg ke maalik ban swarg ki raj dhaani paanewale, sw darshan chakr dhaari Brahman kul bhooshan hain...apne ko atma nishchay kar, jyoti jagaakar ruhaani yatra par jaakar, ruhaani nayanon par baith sweet hom vaapis jaanewali, Ek saajan ki gul-gul sajaniyaan hain...satyug men maharaja mahraaniyaan ban newale, ek braaidgroom ki braaids hain...

In the daily murlis, Bapdada gives vardaan to the entire Brahmin family spread all over the world. Baba also remarked in the murli, dated 7-1-2012 that serviceable children will make cartoons after listening to the murli. Visualization makes remembrance of the blessing throughout the day easier and thus makes it more fruitful.

02-07-2013:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl2Ads9p54o

Essence: Sweet children, keep a picture of Shiv Baba in a little room. Go there again and again and sit in front of it and talk to Baba and your remembrance will then remain throughout the whole day.

Question: What new and unique type of love can only be experienced at the confluence age?

Answer: To love the Father who has no image is a new type of love. You understand that incorporeal Baba, the One without an image, has come into the corporeal one. You are sitting in front of Him. At the confluence age, you receive love directly from God. This love is new and unique. You have loved bodily beings throughout the whole cycle. Now love the bodiless Father. Such love can only exist at the confluence age.

Song: Kaun aaya mere man ke dware कौन आया मेरे मन के द्वारे.. Who came to the door of my mind with the sound of ankle bells?

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Essence for dharna:
1. Stop remembering everyone. Disconnect your intellect’s yoga from everyone and stay in remembrance of the one Father. Make a little room for Shiv Baba and sit in unadulterated remembrance of Him.
2. Tell yourself these sweet things: Previously, we were so beautiful. We have now completed 84 births and are going to return home in happiness. Talk to yourself in this way and spin the discus of self-realisation.
Blessing: May you be flawless and experience a life as precious as a diamond by having pure and positive thoughts for the self (swa chintan) and by having self-realisation (swa darshan).

In order to experience a life as precious as a diamond, constantly have pure and positive thoughts for the self and become a spinner of the discus of self-realisation because there are only two things that make a diamond full of flaws. One is looking at others (par darshan) and the other is thinking about others (par chintan). Being coloured by the company of these two things a clean diamond is made full of flaws. Therefore, finish these main seeds and have pure and positive thoughts for the self and spin the discus of self-realisation and there then cannot be any dust or flaws on you. You will then become a constantly flawless and true diamond, a sparkling and precious diamond.

Slogan: Only those who remember the image (chitra) and the character (charitra) of the Father without an image (Vichitra) are said to be those with a character (charitravan).

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 2, 2013: Look Inwards

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 2, 2013: Look Inwards

Look Inwards

We all have three eyes. Two for looking out and one for looking in. Why would we want to look in when everything is happening 'out there'? Because the treasure we seek is inside, not outside. What is this treasure? Beauty, truth, peace and happiness. You already have what you seek. You already are stunningly beautiful. You are already peaceful and loving. How come you don't know this? Simple, you never look inwards, beyond superficial memories or recent experiences, so you never see your own riches. Take a moment to stop, look in and see. Don't rush. Don't search. Just look. And be aware.

Relax7

Whatever you are experiencing in your mind now, is what you put in there earlier on.

Let your first thoughts of the day simply be peaceful. Fill your mind with peace & your mind will give you an experience of peace in return.

Through the day, remind yourself of your morning thoughts of peace, & move on in the same direction till the end of the day.

If obstacles come your way, don't let it block your peace.

Being Impressed By Others- Is It Beneficial?

To keep our self esteem intact, we need to make sure that we do not have an impressionable intellect. Being impressed by people, in itself, is not bad, but we can fall into the tendency of staying trapped in the superfluous (excessive and unnecessary) and in appearances. What impresses us influences us and even moulds our awareness at that moment. We lose the ability to create our thoughts and feelings and these are influenced by the impression that we have allowed the other person to leave on us. Sometimes the impression is such that we completely give ourselves to it. We give up our power to the other, and we allow them to dominate our emotional world. The results of allowing oneself to be impressed are varied and on different levels.

For example, when we are impressed by the other's position; it is fine to respect the authority and the position of the other, but when we allow their position to impress us, our ability to relate to the person in a smooth way is blocked. This can make it difficult for us to be the authority in our own life.

Another example is when we are impressed by the achievements of the other and put them on a pedestal. We compare ourselves with him or her and have weak thoughts of ourselves, such as that we are not as good or effective as them, or we might feel jealousy or guilt. All of this acts as an obstacle on the path towards our own achievement.

It is good to recognise and appreciate the achievements and skills of others, but when we allow them to impress us, in some way, we submit ourselves to their influence and we weaken our self-esteem and our respect towards ourselves. Without realizing, we use the other to fill a gap that we feel in ourselves. This will not always work. It will not strengthen us; rather it will create a dependency and dependencies weaken us.

Soul Sustenance
Keeping The Watchman Of Attention Alert

All the religions and spiritual groups place a lot of importance on the virtue of discipline. Without discipline you do not manage to transform negative habits and you do not create a new state of awareness where the self is nourished through the experience of spirituality. Every day you eat, you brush your teeth, bathe, drink water and breathe, and all of this you do not consider a discipline; you have adopted them as something natural in order for your body to continue working. On a spiritual level you also need to nourish yourself and to have a discipline that, with practice, a time comes when it becomes natural because you incorporate it into your life. In the process of change you need to discipline yourself in order not to let old habits come to the forefront. Until you have burnt them and they have died, you should keep the watchman of attention alert in order to maintain your self-control, given that each time you use a negative habit in action, you strengthen it. When you do not use it, you allow it to die.

The path of the spiritual traveler is therefore one of waking (awareness of self as soul) and sleeping (under the illusion that we are our body), waking and sleeping. We tend to fluctuate between the two (like dawn and dusk) until we find stability in soul-consciousness. This is why it is important to awaken and stay awake, and why it's important to give our mind and intellect good spiritual food (knowledge) and exercise (meditation) every day to keep them fresh and alert. Being conscious of the soul, acting from that consciousness, the scars (habits and tendencies) left by past actions based on illusions of bodily awareness are healed. Discipline is necessary for growth and personal transformation if you want to obtain satisfying and permanent results. If not, the old habits continue to rule in your life. The evidence that our discipline in the practice of meditation is working is mental lightness and an increasing easiness in our interactions with others.

Message for the day

To have knowledge in the intellect is to be constantly cheerful.

Expression: When something negative happens, we find that there are only negative or waste thoughts about the situation or people. We try hard not to think about it but we find only those thoughts coming to our mind. With such thoughts the situation seems worse than it is and we find it difficult to remain cheerful.

Experience: In such situations instead of trying to cut out waste we need to give ourselves something positive to think about. When the intellect is busy thinking about the positive, there'll be no room for negativity. In this way we will be able to remain constantly cheerful even in the most negative situations.