Essence of Murli (H&E): July 05, 2014:

Essence of Murli (H&E): July 05, 2014:

Essence:    Sweet children, this eternal drama continues to turn; it continues to tick away. In this, the parts of no two souls can be the same. Understand this accurately and remain constantly cheerful.    

Question:   With which method can you prove to everyone that God has already come?

Answer:   Do not tell anyone directly that God has come. If you say this, people will laugh at you and make comments because there are many nowadays who call themselves God. Therefore, first give them the introduction of the two fathers tactfully, that one is a limited father and the other is the unlimited Father, and that a limited inheritance is received from a limited father, whereas the unlimited Father gives you an unlimited inheritance. Then, they will understand you.
 

Essence for Dharna:

 

1. It is at this time that you have to become perfect, like the Father, and claim your full inheritance. Imbibe all the Father’s teachings and become an ocean of knowledge, happiness and peace, the same as He is.

2. In order to make your intellect divine, pay full attention to your study. Have faith in the intellect and pass the examination to change from a human being into a deity.
 

Blessing:  May you be a knowledgeable soul who finishes thoughts of harm and has mercy on those who defame you.    

 

Even if someone insults you or causes you harm every day, let there be no feeling of dislike in your mind for that one. To have mercy on those who cause defamation is the duty of a knowledgeable soul. Just as you children insulted the Father for 63 births but in spite of that, the Father looked on you with benevolent vision, so, follow the Father in the same way. To be a knowledgeable soul means to have benevolent feelings for everyone. Let there not be the slightest thoughts that are not benevolent.


Slogan:  Remain stable in the stage of manmanabhav and you will know the feelings in the minds of others.  

 

सार:- “मीठे बच्चे – यह अनादि ड्रामा फिरता ही रहता है, टिक-टिक होती रहती है, इसमें एक का पार्ट न मिले दूसरे से, इसे यथार्थ समझकर सदा हर्षित रहना है”   

                                                     
प्रश्न:- किस युक्ति से तुम सिद्ध कर बता सकते हो कि भगवान् आ चुका है?

उत्तर:- किसी को सीधा नहीं कहना है कि भगवान् आया हुआ है, ऐसा कहेंगे तो लोग हँसी उड़ायेंगे, टीका करेंगे क्योंकि आजकल अपने को भगवान् कहलाने वाले बहुत हैं इसलिए तुम युक्ति से पहले दो बाप का परिचय दो | एक हद का, दूसरा बेहद का बाप | हद के बाप से हद का वर्सा मिलता है, अब बेहद का बाप बेहद का वर्सा देते हैं, तो समझ जायेंगे |

 

धारणा के लिए मुख्य सार:-

  

1. इस समय ही बाप समान परफेक्ट बन पूरा वर्सा लेना है | बाप की सब शिक्षाओं को स्वयं में धारण कर उनके समान ज्ञान का सागर, शान्ति-सुख का सागर बनना है | 

2. बुद्धि को पारस बनाने के लिए पढ़ाई पर पूरा-पूरा ध्यान देना है | निश्चयबुद्धि बन मनुष्य से देवता बनने का इम्तहान पास करना है |

 

वरदान:- अकल्याण के संकल्प को समाप्त कर अपकारियों पर उपकार करने वाले ज्ञानी तू आत्मा भव !   

कोई रोज़ आपकी ग्लानी करे, अकल्याण करे, गाली दे – तो भी उसके प्रति मन में घृणा भाव न आये, अपकारी पर भी उपकार – यही ज्ञानी तू आत्मा का कर्तव्य है | जैसे आप बच्चों ने बाप को 63 जन्म गाली दी फिर भी बाप ने कल्याणकारी दृष्टि से देखा, तो फ़ालो फादर | ज्ञानी तू आत्मा का अर्थ ही है सर्व के प्रति कल्याण की भावना | अकल्याण संकल्प मात्र भी नहीं हो |

 

स्लोगन:- मनमनाभव की स्थिति में स्थित रहो तो औरों के मन के भावों को जान जायेंगे |   

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 05, 2014: Be Gentle

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 05, 2014: Be Gentle

Be Gentle

Non-violence is a very deep philosophy. Not only does it require me to harm no one physically, but also to avoid harming anyone's self-respect. Such an ethic requires tremendous awareness and sensitivity. When I have learned to be gentle with myself, I can be the same with others.

State of Calm

Whenever there is a challenge, which demands my accurate judgment, I
tend to become panicky. A lot of waste thoughts come up in my mind.
Whatever decisions I take with such a state of mind tend to go wrong. I
need to take my mind to a state of calm before I can take any decision
in challenging situations. For this too I need a practice of a long
time to keep my mind calm - even when the situation demands that my
activities increase their speed. Such training over a long period of
time enables the mind to be calm even in challenging situations.

Understanding The Identity Of The Supreme Being

It's not too difficult to understand that out of all the billions of souls, there is One who could be designated as the Supreme (God), because of His perfect love, total truth and absolute beauty. It is reasonable to accept that such an unlimited being is never born from a mother's womb nor undergoes the experience of death. He never passes through the stages of growing up nor gets involved in specific relationships with individuals. Just as every human soul has a mind, intellect and a specific set of 'sanskars' that determine each one's individuality, the Supreme would also be made up of these three energies - each functioning at their most perfect levels. Because He remains beyond the play of things in the physical world, the power and sharpness of these basic capabilities never decrease. His original qualities are neither lost nor reduced. Before coming here from the soul world, we also had qualities similar to those of the Supreme but not to the same unlimited extent.

If we identify ourselves totally with the physical body, the idea that God created human beings in His image may have led us to believe that the human form is God's image. Perhaps that is how we created the figure of an old white-bearded man (as God) sitting up in the heavens, controlling, rewarding and punishing humans as well as nature as He found fit. The contradiction is that such a God appears to have been created in our image, with both our best virtues and our worst defects.

Soul Sustenance

The Original Ingredients Of The Soul

Our original resources are very simply - peace, love, purity, knowledge and happiness. In Raja Yoga meditation these are called the five original qualities of the soul. When we return our consciousness to these five qualities and remember them, then the following feelings arise in us, which finally get reflected in our actions:

• Love: I care and I share.
• Peace: I harmonize and reconcile (adjust).
• Purity: I respect and I honour.
• Knowledge: I am and I exist.
• Happiness: I express and I enjoy.

To understand and remember these qualities, we need to recognize the heavy deep shadows or personality traits (sanskars) which have blotted them out, or polluted them. Sometimes we don't recognize the pollutants because they have ingrained themselves so deeply into the personality that we say ‘I am this’. True, complete spiritual knowledge, makes us aware of these pollutants and the practice of meditation empowers us to dilute them and get them out of our consciousness.

Message for the day

True love is felt by all who receive it.

Expression: Sometimes we do find ourselves in situations where others are not responding to the love we are giving. We are trying to be understanding and accepting as much as possible but others don't seem to be recognising it. In such a situation we begin to blame others and their lack of feelings and concern.

Experience: Instead of blaming others when our love and concern is not being reciprocated, we need to check the quality of the love that we give. If there is even a trace of selfishness or if it is mixed with expectations, our love will not be able to reach out and touch the hearts of others. So we need to make sure that our love is pure and unselfish.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 04, 2014: Greatness

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 04, 2014: Greatness

Greatness

To be free from desire for prestige and regard is a sign of true greatness.

Appreciation

When there is regard for each and everyone, others' specialties are
easily visible. There is appreciation o f each one's specialties.
This appreciation creates a good feeling in the other person. And with
every interaction the other person continues to bring transformation. I
am able to see the positivity even when their negativity is being
expressed. This naturally brings transformation in others and of course
I find my intellect too changing to the positive, because of a long
time of practice of seeing positivity.

Restoring The Mind-Body Balance

Many people are under the impression that the focus of spirituality is only on the mind and the soul, and the physical body is neglected. But that's not true. Our physical body is essential to our life and the art of living. It is our vehicle and our home. An appropriate balance of diet, sleep, relaxation and exercise is important for the body. However, when we enter the world of spirituality, the main emphasis is on the mind and the soul. This does not mean that we do not value or take care of our body. Without a healthy body, we would not be able to express ourselves mentally or spiritually. Spiritual progress, which includes the listening/studying and imbibing of spiritual knowledge, the practice of meditation, the inculcation of divine virtues and the spiritual service of others through different means is much easier and better with a healthy body.

Unfortunately, though, we have lost the art or wisdom of balance and for very long we have placed too much emphasis on our physical form, the body; and less emphasis on our spiritual form, the soul, as a result, reducing our spiritual awareness. One of the aims of spirituality is to restore this balance between mind and body so that we can experience well-being and happiness at every level. So while our body and our physical energy are essential, the focus of spirituality is on the mind and the soul, to help regain the balance.

Soul Sustenance

The Subtle Role Play Of Thoughts And Images (Part 2)

What the quality of a soul’s thoughts and images (or scenes) that it creates, depends on the soul’s sanskaras. Depending on the quality, the soul experiences the various different emotions, whether positive or negative. When the soul first incarnates on the physical world stage from the soul world, the quality of this role play of thoughts and images is high, pure and positive, hence it experiences only positive emotions. As it plays its different roles and comes down in the birth-rebirth cycle, this quality reduces, leading to the experience of emotions like sorrow, peacelessness, etc.

A point worth noting is that the key to any deep emotional experience, whether positive or negative is the creation of thoughts as well as images related to that particular emotion at the same time e.g. think and visualize at the same time, the death of a close relative that took place ten years ago and you immediately have a deep experience of sorrow. Think and visualize together, a loving hug of your mother that took place in your childhood, and you immediately experience deep happiness. This type of co-ordination between these two subtle processes is true concentration. The key to any type of spiritual upliftment is the upliftment of these two processes. The meditation that is taught at the Brahma Kumaris is nothing but a spiritual thought process accompanied by a spiritual visualization process, whereby thoughts and images of the subtle, spiritual self (or soul) and the Supreme Being (or Supreme Soul) are created together to experience the original qualities of the spiritual self and the eternal qualities of the Supreme Being – purity, peace, love, happiness and power.

Message for the day

Success comes to the one who understands the importance of time.

Expression: When we are working at a task, success doesn't come as much as it should because we have not been able to recognise the importance of time. Because of this sometimes carelessness sets in which makes us lose valuable time and interferes in what we are doing. Then we cannot give our best to the task.

Experience: We need to recognise the importance of time so that we never postpone what we can do now. We will then always have the slogan 'now or never' in our mind. Knowing that what we can do now, we cannot do it as well in the future, we'll give our best to all we do right now. This will enable us to use our time in a fruitful way and success will come very easily to us.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris