Om Shanti
Om Shanti
कम बोलो, धीरे बोलो, मीठा बोलो            सोच के बोलो, समझ के बोलो, सत्य बोलो            स्वमान में रहो, सम्मान दो             निमित्त बनो, निर्मान बनो, निर्मल बोलो             निराकारी, निर्विकारी, निरहंकारी बनो      शुभ सोचो, शुभ बोलो, शुभ करो, शुभ संकल्प रखो          न दुःख दो , न दुःख लो          शुक्रिया बाबा शुक्रिया, आपका लाख लाख पद्मगुना शुक्रिया !!! 

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 18, 2017: Co-operate with good wishes and pure feelings

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 18, 2017: Co-operate with good wishes and pure feelings


 

  

Co-operate with good wishes and pure feelings

The best way to co-operate is to use the energy of the mind to create good wishes and pure feelings towards others and for the success of a task. When I co-operate with others in this way, I will receive their co-operation when I need it most.




Crossing Negative Situations With Spiritual Power (Part 2)

Looking at different types of difficult problems in our life can make us loose our enthusiasm and also weaken us internally. Life can become a difficult and rough journey, which is when spirituality with all its different benefits can help us immensely. Spirituality is the technique of learning how to rule over yourself not only at the level of words and actions, but also on a more subtle level of thoughts, feelings and emotions. It teaches us the art and fills us with the power of applying a brake to our negative and unnecessary thoughts when a difficult situation is in front of us. It’s not about suppressing your mind and saying that from today I will not get angry or I will behave with love and humility with everyone and then going back to your negative self after some time. This is unnatural. But on the other hand, it’s about gently transforming your negative emotions into positive ones by the use of spiritual power filled in the self by connecting with the Supreme Spiritual Power Source of the world - God. This connection is called meditation in spirituality.

Also, it’s not about just relaxing your mind by reducing the number of thoughts, but it’s about creating the right positive thoughts which replace the negative thoughts which are in our mind, when we are in the middle of a difficult situation. So, spiritual strength is what will give us the ability to change our way of thinking and behaving and not just spiritual knowledge. Remember, it’s our personality which needs to change and that will automatically transform our thoughts and feelings, which are influenced by my personality.
(To be continued tomorrow …)



Anger

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
To be controlled by anger is to repress the soul's original qualities of tolerance and love.


Message for the day


To be a trustee is to use all treasures well.


Thought to Ponder: We do have a lot of treasures. But we need to understand that we are entrusted with these treasures so that we can bring benefit to others too. When we put into use treasures like our thoughts, values, skills etc. for the benefit of others, we are benefited too. So, we need to use all these treasures as a trustee.

Point to Practice: Today I will say everything that is mine belongs to God and is meant for His service. This ensures that I don't waste or misuse any of the treasures entrusted to me. I use it well for others, as well as for myself. 



In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 17, 2017: Exercise the mind regularly

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 17, 2017: Exercise the mind regularly



 

To exercise the mind regularly keeps it healthy

 

Whenever we have negative thoughts, we try to stop them. We know they are not good for us and they drain us of energy, so we try to avoid them or change them. Because we are not always able to succeed in doing so, we begin to accept those kinds of thoughts as part of our lives.
I need to get into the habit of exercising my mind in order to keep it healthy. To exercise the mind means creating and stabilizing whatever consciousness is required at that time. That means if I need peace, I can hold on to that thought for however long I want to. This prepares me to deal with difficult times.

Crossing Negative Situations With Spiritual Power (Part 1)

A significant and important sphere of our life which constantly goes away in a direction that we do not want it to is the way we look after our mental well-being and how it influences our overall behavior and the way we perform our actions. E.g. if we are in a positive mood today, automatically all our actions will begin to get influenced by that and positive emotions that exist in our mind, start showing in our interactions. Also, if a negative and difficult situation comes into our life suddenly and our mind moves into a negative direction, then almost automatically our actions go into that direction.

How do we prevent this process from happening? What is the single best method to follow to prevent the mind from coming under the influence of difficult and demanding circumstances? Is there some method which we can use for our mind so that this complete process is stopped at the level of the mind in the first place? Say, you are not physically well today and you do not feel comfortable. So that is a type of negative situation. On another day, your boss at work has not been nice to you and you feel uncomfortable with the situation surrounding you. This is another type of negative situation. Such ups and downs are common in life and they will be there at every step, but do we let them dictate the way we behave or do we ensure that they do not interfere with our regular routine and our dealings with people? Of course, no one wants a burden on them but at the same time situations have to be dealt with positively also. But the main thing to take care of is, that while doing that, you do not lose your inner stability and your actions remain positive and full of peace, love and happiness. 

(To be continued tomorrow …)


As without, so within

We live in the age of ‘busy’.  Busy people not only do a lot, they think a lot. The origins of ‘busy’ are mental. 

Mental tiredness is a symptom of the self-going against the grain of the truth about the self. Being lost in thought, thinking constantly about things to do, what’s been done, what could have been done, what was done wrong, what should have been done but wasn’t, what others did, are doing, should do, must do, is not only tiring and a brilliant way to waste energy, If you would learn to meditate and thereby turn the eye of your attention and awareness within, if you would let your mind be quiet and allow your being to be still, you would rediscover, ‘as without, so within’. You would realize outer space is but a reflection of inner space. Both are vast and infinite spaciousness.


Message for the day

To be content and make others content is the best way to get good wishes. 

Thought to Ponder: Whether others are good to me or not, I need to develop the art of being content. I can be content when I appreciate what I have rather than just expecting from others or situations. When I am content, I can provide others too from my own reservoir. Thus, I will be able to give the experience of contentment to others too. This is a simple way to earn good wishes from others, filling me more.

Point to Practice: Today I will not let anyone go away from me empty handed. I will ensure that every person that comes to me, gets some positive experience or is connected to something positive in his own life. This will keep me busy giving and will make me free from expectations too. 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

16/04/17 Madhuban Avyakt BapDada Om Shanti 19/03/82

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English Murli Audio with some Hindi words on Madhuban Official Murli site.

Go to


http://madhubanmurli.org/#

There are Murli audios in 18 languages.


In the English Murli section,


Click on the button that has the headset icon.


Audio is labelled English 2.


Actions are the mirror that reflects the soul.

Today, the Almighty Authority Father is pleased to see His Shakti Army. To what extent has each of you master almighty souls imbibed all powers within yourself? You know all the main powers very well and you have created your own picture based on them. This picture is a sign of the living form. It is the indication of your nobility, that is, your greatness. When each action is elevated and great, it proves that you have used your powers in action, in practice. Whether souls are weak or powerful, whether they are full of all powers or complete embodiments of power, this is known through their actions, because they have to come into connection with people and have to interact in situations. This is why there are the terms, “karma shetra” (field of action), “karma sambandh” (relationships through actions) “karma indriya” (organs with which actions are performed - physical senses), “karma bhog” (suffering of karma) and “karma yoga” (yoga whilst in action). Therefore, the speciality of this physical world is “karma” (action). Just as the speciality of the incorporeal world is to be beyond action, that is, to be detached from action, so, the corporeal world means action. If actions are elevated, then the reward too is elevated. When actions are corrupt, sorrow is the reward. However, the basis of both is action. Your actions are the mirror that gives a vision of the soul. Through the mirror of action you can recognise your form of power. If no power is revealed through action, then, no matter how much someone says that he is a master almighty authority, if that hasn’t been revealed through his actions while on the field of action, would anyone then believe him? For instance, although someone may claim to be a very good soldier or very good at fighting, if he is not able to fight with an enemy on the battlefield and is defeated, would anyone believe that he is a good soldier? In the same way, someone may intellectually consider himself to be an embodiment of power, but if he is unable to use that particular power in a difficult situation, or when coming into connection with others, at the time when he needs a particular power, would anyone believe that he is an embodiment of power? Simply for your intellect to understand this is just like you sitting at home and considering yourself to be very clever. However, if you don’t show that form at that time, if you are unable to use the power you need at that time, if you remember it after the time has passed, would you then be called an embodiment of power? This greatness is needed in action. Use the power in action according to the time. So, check your activity throughout the whole day to see to what extent you have become a master almighty authority. Which special power makes you victorious at the right time and in which power are you weak and thus repeatedly defeated? Some children know in which powers they are weak, and they even speak of them, but only in an ordinary way, when there is a virtue-filled gathering or in an atmosphere of similar effort-makers. The majority try to hide their weakness from others. Some speak of their weakness at that time, but they don’t have that much recognition of the seed of that weakness; they speak about it superficially. They speak at length of the external form, but they do not reach the seed. Therefore, what is the result? They prune the branches of that weakness and they thereby feel for a short time as though that weakness has finished. However, because the seed is still there, because it receives the water of various situations, the branches of that same weakness start to grow again. Nowadays, illnesses in the world are not permanently cured, because doctors don’t know the seed of the illness. This is why the illness is suppressed but isn’t completely cured. Similarly, here, too, finish the seed by knowing the seed. Some of you even know the seed, but, because of carelessness, you say, “Yes, it will happen at some time.” “It won’t be finished in just one go, it definitely takes time!” They try to be very clever in this way. At the time when they have to be powerful, they become knowledge-full. Knowledge is certainly a power, but they don’t use that knowledge as a form of power. They just use it in the form of a point. Each point of knowledge is a weapon. But they don’t use it in the form of a weapon. Therefore, understand the seed and don’t allow anything to be lacking due to carelessness that would stop you becoming complete and perfect. If, after understanding the seed, you experience yourself to have the power to know the seed but not the power to burn that seed, you can then take help from the many elevated souls who are embodiments of intense yoga (jwala swarup). Because souls are weak, they are unable to have a direct connection with the Father or to take correction from the Father, so they have to take co-operation from the second number elevated souls and have themselves verified. By having yourself verified, you will easily be purified. So, do you understand what you have to check and how?

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Firstly, don’t hide anything. Secondly, don’t ignore anything whilst knowing it; don’t just make do. When you just make do, you also cry out. So, today, BapDada was looking at the power of the Shakti Army. Now use the powers you have attained because it is your actions that give your introduction to all the souls of the world. It is through your actions that they will easily come to know you. Actions are more gross than thoughts, which are subtle energy. Souls of today are able to recognise the physical form very quickly. Generally, subtle energy is much more elevated than physical, but it is very difficult now for people to catch vibrations of the subtle power. Through the power of your actions they will continue to come to know the power of your thoughts. Serving through the mind is more elevated than serving through actions. The service you do to transform the attitudes and atmosphere through your attitude is extremely elevated. Nevertheless, it is easier to perform actions than to do that. You have also been given this definition before, but, today, Baba is clarifying the aspect of giving a glimpse or vision of you being an embodiment of power through your actions. It will become easier for the power of your thoughts to reach them through your actions. Otherwise, weak actions and the subtle energy will bring down the intellect and your thoughts, just as the earth’s gravity brings things down from above. Therefore, put that vision into a practice. Achcha.

To those who reveal every power through their actions, to those who reveal the Almighty Authority Father through being embodiments of power, to those who are embodiments of power and who constantly recognise and then transform themselves, to those who constantly grant a vision of the unique Father through their activities, to such master almighty authority souls who perform elevated actions, to the souls who are embodiments of power, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.


BapDada meeting groups:

1.   The result of giving Maya hospitality is sadness.

Do you constantly consider yourselves to be BapDada’s companions? The sign of your constantly experiencing the Father’s company is constant victory. If you spend a lot of time battling and finding everything hard work, it proves that you don’t have the Father’s company. Those who experience His company constantly remain absorbed in love for Him. A soul merged in the Ocean of Love cannot be influenced by anyone else. It is not a big thing for Maya to come, but do not let her show her form. By offering hospitality to Maya you experience sadness as you move along. You feel that you are neither moving forward nor moving backward; you are unable to move backward or forward. This is the influence of Maya. The attraction of Maya doesn’t allow you to fly. In fact, there is no question of moving backward, anyway. However, if you are not moving forward, then check the seed and burn it. Don’t think, “I am moving along, I am coming, I am listening, I am serving according to my capacity.” Instead of doing that, check to what extent there is progress in your speed and your stage. Achcha.

2.   Only those who surrender to the Father with one strike become a mahaprasad (great offering).

Are all of you children especially experiencing your inheritance of the stage of liberation-in-life? Are you liberated-in-life or bound-in-life? To be a trustee means to be one who is liberated-in-life. So have you died alive or are you still dying? For how many years will you still be dying? On the path of devotion, what do they offer as prasad (bhog) to the non-living idols? What is sacrificed instantly with one strike. A sacrifice that dies crying out cannot be offered as prasad. Only those who sacrifice themselves with one strike become prasad in front of the Father, only those who surrender themselves in one go. It is an instant sacrifice for those who consider everything and think, “I am Baba’s and Baba is mine”. As soon as you have the thought, everything is finished and you are struck by the sword; you are one who has been sacrificed in an instant. If you think, “I will become that, it will happen”, and constantly put everything off until some time ahead, that is like crying out. Those who constantly think in that way cannot be liberatedin-life. As soon as you say “Baba”, then, “As is the Father, so the children”. It is not possible for the Father to be the Ocean and the children to be beggars. The Father has made you an offer, “Belong to Me!” There is nothing to think about in this. Achcha.

Questions asked by double-foreign brothers and sisters and BapDada's responses:

1.   Question: How can we children go on a world tour with Baba?


Answer: For this, you need to stabilise in the stage of a world benefactor, in an unlimited stage, the same as the Father. You will then experience what is portrayed in the picture of Shri Krishna sitting

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on the globe. You will be sitting on the globe of the world. You will automatically have toured the world. When you go to a very high place, you don't need to go around it, because by remaining in one place you are able to see everything. When you stabilise in the stage of being at the top, in the seed stage, in the stage of a world benefactor, then the whole world appears to be like a small ball. Then, because you will be in an elevated stage, you will be able to tour around in a second. You can experience going on a practical tour through divine vision sometimes or with your subtle angelic form. Just as you circle around in a plane, you can also encircle the whole world with your angelic form; you can tour the world in both these ways. Since you are the children of the Creator of the world, you will tour around the whole of creation, will you not?

2.   Question: Many times, whilst sitting in yoga we receive very good touchings, but how can we tell whether those touchings are from Baba or not?

Answer: 1) Baba's touchings are always powerful and you will experience this power to be more powerful than your own power. 2) There will be the experience of easy success in Baba's touchings. 3) There will never be questions of "Why?" or "What?" about Baba's touchings. Everything will be very clear. So, from these things, you can understand that that is a touching from Baba.

3.   Question: How can one recognise whether one has surrendered with one’s intellect or not?

Answer: The meaning of “surrendering with the intellect” is: Whatever the intellect decides will be according to shrimat, because the work of the intellect is to decide. Therefore, let nothing but shrimat enter your intellect. Because you constantly have the awareness of Baba in your intellect, that will be the decision-making power. The practical sign of that is that your judgement will be correct and filled with success. Whatever such a soul says, he will like it himself and others too will accept it as a very good thing. Everyone will feel that that your intellect is very clear and surrendered. You will be content with your intellect. There won't be any question as to whether someone is right or wrong.

4.   Question: Why is it that some children who have faith in the intellect leave after four or five years? How can this wave be finished?

Answer: The particular reason why they leave is that, although they keep very busy in service, they lose the balance between serving the self and service. That is one reason why some good children come to a halt. Another is that they have a particular sanskar in which they have been weak from the beginning, but they hide it and continue to battle with it by themselves. They don't clearly tell BapDada or the instrument souls about that weakness and thus they don’t finish that sanskar. Because they hide it, that weakness takes on a dangerous form inside them and they don't experience themselves to be making progress. They then feel disheartened and leave Baba. The third reason is that they are unable to harmonise their sanskars with those of others. Their sanskars are in conflict with those of others. In order to finish this wave of souls leaving, together with service, full attention has to be paid to keeping a balance between self-service and service. Everyone who comes needs to be very clear with BapDada and the instrument souls. If you feel that service is too much, then first think of a means for your own progress. Also tell the instrument souls about your feelings. First, draw the attention of the new ones to these things. Check your own sanskars first. If you have a conflict of sanskars with anyone, it is good to step away from that person. It is better to separate yourself from any circumstances where there is a conflict of sanskars.

5.   Question: If there is no result from the service done at a particular place, is that due to one's own weakness or is it due to the land there being like that?

Answer: First of all, try using all types of facilities for service. If, after doing all types of service, there is still no result, then it is possible that it could be the land. If service is not increasing due to your own weakness, then your conscience will definitely bite that service is not taking place because of you. At such a time, take help from one another and fill one another with force. If

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it is due to you, then the souls that emerge from that land will also be weak; they won't be intense effort-makers. Achcha.

Blessing: May you become constantly victorious by transforming the attitudes of others with your own efforts as well as by experimenting with yoga.

Effort prepares the land and that is necessary but, along with effort, also transform the attitudes of others by experimenting with yoga and success will visibly come close to you. With strong faith and the experimentation of yoga, you can transform anyone’s intellect. Whenever there has been some upheaval in service, it is by experimenting with yoga that they gained victory. So, prepare the land through your effort, but, in order to reveal the seed, experiment with yoga and you will then receive the blessing of being victorious.

Slogan: Those who accumulate the treasure of charity by doing service are charitable souls.




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Daily Positive Thoughts: April 16, 2017: Create rather than wait

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 16, 2017: Create rather than wait





Create rather than wait

'Create rather than wait' - at least not for too long! Seeing options, choose what to do now rather than wait for the ideal time, person or circumstance to arrive before acting decisively. Though patience is important, it's important not to become passive.The Art Of Living (Part 3)

Our mind, body, wealth and relationships are four out of five aspects of each one of our lives and all of us intend to make them successful. It is natural to desire that our mind be content and peaceful, our body be healthy and we earn wealth without facing any obstacles and also our relationships our beautiful. But all of these desires will only get fulfilled if along with taking care of all of them, we include God at every step of our lives. You might ask what has God got to do with my physical wealth or my job? But remember it is your healthy and pleasant mind which influences your physical body positively and makes you healthy and a powerful mind cannot be experienced constantly without a loveful relationship with God. In the same way, without God’s help, we may be able to run our jobs for some time but the journey may be stressful and the money earned may not give to us a lot of happiness. Also, what use is a beautiful relationship if God is not there to share the happiness of that relationship with? A lovely parent or a child for e.g. is a result of our good actions of past lives. So shouldn’t I include God in this happiness? God is like a parent Himself who deserves to be told each and every little thing that I experience in a worldly relationship. By doing this, relationships will be positive and peaceful continuously.
Sometimes, we start to think that God is just a concept and not a reality. But remember God is a beautiful living energy with a heart and all that we have to do is love Him with a pure heart and He will fill our life with happiness and make all the different aspects of our lives, which we have discussed, full of success and our lives will become an inspiration for others.



H O P E

One of the ways through which you can give others hope, is to Have Only Positive Expectations of them.

When you see beyond their shortcomings, and only see their strengths and potential,  your vision of hope allows them to discover and use their strengths and potential.


Message for the day

It is on the basis of actions that praise is received.

Thought to Ponder: The one who only talks but is not able to put his talk into practice does not become worthy of praise. On the other hand, the one who is able to bring his good thoughts and words into action becomes worthy of praise. Such a person's actions become inspirational for others and encourage them to follow him.


Point to Practice: When I am able to act according to my thoughts and words, I am able to take inspiration to do more. For every positive action that I do, I experience support and good wishes from others which encourage me constantly. My account of positivity is always full and it takes me further to a cycle of positivity making it a habit. So I find that I don't have to work hard for performing positive actions. 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 15, 2017: Relationships

Daily Positive Thoughts: April 15, 2017: Relationships





Relationships


A sensible person knows it is a waste of time and energy to get angry. Effort will then have to be made to reconstruct that relationship. It is much more useful to breathe deeply, pay attention to your attitude and answer without rushing. In this way, improve and strengthen your relationships with others


The Art Of Living (Part 2)


A very important and the fourth pillar of life that we all depend on so much is our personal and professional relationships and interactions which give us strength and are also a medium of give and take. We give peace, love and happiness and get blessings in return. They say that all the people who surround you and make up your life play an important role in shaping up your personality and success filled relationships are a source of immense joy for each one of us. 


The fifth and most important aspect of our lives is God, who makes our life beautiful and our mind, body, wealth and relationships are shaped positively by remembering Him. God does not give us our minds but teaches us how to make our minds beautiful by connecting our minds with His. Also, our physical costume or the precious vehicle, when used in the way God wants us to use it, makes our actions filled with divinity and purity. Even our wealth and the way we use it gets affected positively when we earn it by making God our constant companion and giving Him due respect by keeping a small amount aside from our profits, for the service of people and their betterment. And lastly our relationships can never be successful without including God in them. What that means is that I take from God and share with others. I connect others with Him. These five different aspects of our life define our life. All are important in their own way and how good we are in handling all of them makes us happy and content. These different aspects or pillars are the foundation of our lives and all of them are connected with each other. Even if one pillar is weak, it affects our lives in a negative way. 

(To be continued tomorrow …)


Let go of what you can't control.


Try to control the uncontrollable, & you end up feeling more frustrated & stressed.  

Realize:  There are aspects that you can control, & there will always be aspects that you can't control.

Let go of what you can't control.  And focus on what you can control. Then you'll reduce your stress & increase your response skills.


Message for the day


To make the internal stage powerful is to be protected. 

Thought to Ponder: Situations and challenges will continue to challenge me, but when I am strong from within I am able to withstand and move forward with every challenge. I need to work on making myself stronger at each step. When I have weaknesses, even a small little challenge will make me weak and vulnerable. I will, then, not have the strength to move forward. 

Point to Practice: Today I will strengthen myself. Strength comes from faith. When I believe that I am strong, I am. So, today I will practice a simple thought like "Victory is my birthright" or "I have the power to transform" or "God is my companion at every step". Such thoughts silently build strength into me. 


In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

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