Daily Positive Thoughts: July 03, 2017: Friends and Relatives

 

Friends and Relatives

If my friends and relatives do not choose to accompany me on my spiritual path, why should I chase after them trying to get them to change? They won't listen to me anyway, no matter what I say. A better approach is to focus on my own change process. A river doesn't need to urge people into drinking its water. People are naturally drawn to it, provided its waters are pure, free flowing and sweet. In the same way become so attractive through your spiritual efforts that everyone will want to join you naturally.

8 Steps On The Road To Success (Part 3)

The road to success is filled with major changes which we as travelers on it need to be able to adapt to and face, without the changes affecting us negatively. There are people who are very weak at adapting to change because of lack of spiritual strength and the tendency to look at the changes negatively. It is said at the Brahma Kumaris that the one who moulds becomes real gold or valuable or in other words spiritually pure or powerful. So, the ability to mould or the ability to change as per the different milestones one sees on the road to success is a spiritual power which we need to fill ourselves with. Also, as with traffic signals, what is required is the ability to stop on the road to success on passing certain signposts. These signposts convey to us that crossing them at that moment of time at the speed at which we are, will cause an accident in the form of an ill physical body or a broken relationship. Also, they may cause a stressful mind or a harmed professional or personal role which is being used to reach the destination of success in any sphere of life. This can bring the journey to the destination of success to a standstill.

Another spiritual ability is the ability to inculcate new creative and constructive sanskaras as per the demands of what side-scenes are seen on the road to success. These side-scenes may sometimes be surprising for many. The type of sanskaras which may be required to be inculcated at that moment of time could be simple like remaining egoless or keeping love maintained with everyone. Also, avoiding the negatives of someone and also not spreading them, not getting frustrated or tired and remaining patient, not creating thoughts of failure and accepting each one’s role with ease. Some other sanskaras are emerging the power to discriminate between wrong and right or remaining economical in using resources like money, time and energy etc. Also, just like any other journey, sometimes it is also important not to get stuck in these side scenes. We need to ignore or let go of them and carry on with determination on the road to success with our complete focus on the destination of success which our whole journey is dedicated to.

Check & Change

It is much easier to believe that it's snowing, than to experience the  snow. If you just believe, you can stay inside, stay warm and avoid the cold. That's why people are led up the garden path by others beliefs. It's easier and warmer.

And all this 'believing stuff' starts in kindergarten. In the context of your spiritual or personal growth, believe nothing, experiment and test everything, in the laboratory of your own experience. Only then will you be able to separate truth from falsehood, reality from illusion, and lead others with integrity.

Challenge and check at least one belief every day. And if it's found wanting, chuck it or change it. Challenge, check, then chuck or change, now that's a master at work.

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Message for the day

To be a judge of the self means to be free from judging others. 

Expression: The one who becomes the judge of the self and not that of others, is free from criticizing others unnecessarily. Such a person also does not plead his own case by giving excuses and proving himself right. So he is able to bring about a positive change in himself and others are able to take inspiration from the change that he brings in his own life.

Experience: When I am free from giving excuses and reasons for things going wrong, especially to myself, I am able to experience progress in my life. For everything that happens, instead of blaming others I am able to take some new learning and use it for my own self-progress. I am able to remain light because I have no expectations from others, but am able to bring about a change in them through my actions. 

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

English Murli Audio with some Hindi words July 02, 2017

02/07/17 Madhuban Avyakt BapDada Om Shanti 16/04/82 1/3

The confluence-aged court of self-sovereignty is the most elevated court.

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In which court has BapDada come today? In today's gathering, BapDada is seeing His children, the royal souls, who are co-operating in the task of establishing the kingdom of the world. That is, He is seeing His children who are carrying out all the activities of the kingdom and who have a right to the kingdom. He is seeing His confluence-aged court of self-sovereignty. He is seeing all the different types of co-operative souls from everywhere in this court of self-sovereignty. The special, most elevated jewels of this court of self-sovereignty may be far from BapDada personally in their corporeal forms, but Baba sees those who have a right to the kingdom in front of Him on the throne in the form of a rosary. Each of you co-operative souls who has a right to the kingdom is sparkling with the sparkle of your own speciality. Each one is decorated with the ornaments of different virtues. What is the sign of having a throne in a kingdom? All of you are sitting at court, are you not? Some of you are at the front and others are at the back, but all of you are in the court! The canopy, the sign of the throne of the kingdom, is sparkling very beautifully. Each of you has a double canopy. One is the crown of light, the symbol of the angelic form, and the other is the crown of unlimited service for world benefit. All of you have a crown, but it is numberwise. For some of you, both crowns are the same size. Some have one crown bigger than the other. For some, both crowns are small. As well as this, each of you who has a right to the kingdom has your own personality of purity. The royalty of spirituality of each one is visible, numberwise. BapDada is seeing the court of such co-operative souls, those who have a right to the kingdom. There is such a big difference between the elevated, confluence-aged court and the court of the future royal kingdom! The court of this time is the foundation of the court for many births. The form and system of the court of the present time will form the foundation of the future court. Can you see where your position is in the present court of the co-operative souls who have a right to the kingdom? Do all of you have the instrument with which to check? Scientists are able to take pictures of the galaxy with new inventions and they are able to give you information about the atmosphere there and give you news in advance of the upheavals of nature and the elements that are to happen. So, can you elevated souls, who have the authority of the Father who is filled with all powers, not know your present and also your future on the basis of the knowledge of the three aspects of time and with the instruments of your divine intellects? All of you have this instrument, do you not? All of you have received a divine intellect. You also know how to use this instrument of a divine intellect and where to use it, that is, in which stage you have to stabilise yourself to use it. Stabilise yourself in the stage of knowing the three aspects of time and use this instrument on that basis. Do you know how to use it? First of all, do you know how to stabilise yourself in your position? That is, do you know how to stabilise yourself in a particular stage? So, check yourself with this instrument and see what your number is. Do you understand? Today, Baba is not telling you about the complete renunciates. Now the last course remains. Today, BapDada is seeing His companions of the royal court who have all arrived here. In today's gathering, there are more especially loving souls. Therefore, in order to give you the return of your love, BapDada has also come into this loving gathering. You are souls who have the zeal and enthusiasm to celebrate a meeting. BapDada has also come for this celebration of the children's enthusiasm in order to celebrate a meeting with you. This too is a meeting of the Ocean of Love and the rivers. To celebrate a meeting means to celebrate a festival. Today, BapDada has also come into this celebratory meeting. BapDada is pleased to see the souls who are celebrating a meeting - those out of such a huge population of such a huge unlimited world, the variety of souls who have the fortune of receiving love and have attained the fortune of having a meeting. Souls who had no hope in the world claimed the fortune of having all their hopes and desires fulfilled, whereas souls who are very well known in the world and in whom there are great hopes are left wondering and searching. Whilst wondering about their searching, they have got completely lost in that and have become lost themselves. However, you loving souls attained God on the basis of your love. So, who is elevated? Some are debating the scriptures and are left behind, lost in the scriptures. Some become great souls, but are deprived of their fortune because of being caught up in the minor illusion of the soul and the Supreme Soul. They are deprived of becoming children and of claiming a right to the Father. Great scientists are lost in their own research. Politicians are left behind in making their plans. Innocent devotees are left behind in searching for God in every particle. Yet, who has attained Him? The innocent children of the Innocent Lord! Those with clever brains haven't attained Him, but those with honest hearts have attained Him. This is why there is the saying that the Lord is pleased with an honest heart. With your honest hearts, all of you can be seated on the heart-throne. When you have an honest heart, you can make the Father, the Comforter of Hearts, belong to you. The Father, the Comforter of Hearts, cannot stay in your remembrance for even a second unless you have an honest heart. The hopes and desires of the elevated thoughts of those with honest hearts are easily fulfilled. Those with honest hearts experience the Father’s constant company in all three forms: the corporeal, subtle and incorporeal. Achcha.

To the flowing Ganges who constantly celebrate a meeting with the Ocean of Love, to those who constantly experience BapDada as belonging to them in all relationships on the basis of their love, to those who make a permanent deal with the Innocent Lord, to such loving, elevated souls with honest hearts, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.

BapDada meeting teachers:

1.   What do you servers constantly keep in your intellect?

Do you only remember service or do you have remembrance and service? When there is balance of both remembrance and service, there will automatically be growth. The easy way to have growth is to have a balance. At the present time, the greatest desire of all souls is for peace. Therefore, whenever you see that service isn’t growing, that it is the same as before at that centre, make the atmosphere like that of a shanti kund (a sacred area of peace). Create a room especially with this atmosphere and design. You can make it like you make Baba's room so that, in the midst of upheaval, they are able to see a peaceful corner. When you make such an atmosphere that it gives an experience of peace, service will easily grow. The museum is fine, but that is something for listening and seeing. The museum is fine for those  who want to hear and find out more, but people have got tired of hearing so much. So, create a place of peace for them. The majority now says to you: “We have seen and heard everything of yours”, but no one says, "We have attained everything!" As yet, they don't say that they have had an experience or attained anything. The way to make them experience something is to make them sit in remembrance and give them the experience of peace. If they have an experience of peace for even two minutes, they wouldn’t be able to leave. Therefore, both facilities have to be created. Not just a museum, but also a sacred area of peace. The museum in Abu is good, but a place of peace is also attractive. If they don't understand from the pictures, then, if they are made to sit in remembrance for a couple of minutes, their impression and their desire change. They then understand that they can find something here, that it is possible to attain something here. When you have a desire to attain something, it is then easy for them to take steps to go there. So, adopt such a means of expansion. However, when servers are content with themselves and with everyone, there is automatically zeal and enthusiasm for doing service and co-operating. You don’t have to say anything, you don’t have to make them do anything, because contentment easily brings about zeal and enthusiasm. A server needs to have the special aim of remaining content and making others content.

2. Are you the holy swans who constantly stay on the shore of the Ocean? Swans always live on the shore of an ocean and they constantly play in the waves of an ocean. Do you experience yourselves to be such holy swans? The intellects of those who constantly pick up jewels of knowledge, that is, who imbibe jewels of knowledge, are always filled with jewels of knowledge. All the rest are wasteful situations and scenes; they are just stones. Swans never take stones, they always pick up jewels. Therefore, let there never be any influence of anything wasteful. If you are influenced by that, then that is what you will churn and speak about, and by your churning and speaking about it, the atmosphere becomes like that. The situation may not be anything much but the atmosphere becomes such that it’s as if the biggest mountain has fallen. If there is churning going on in your mind and you speak about something, then even a trivial thing becomes as big as a mountain because it spreads into the atmosphere. However, if you accommodate that situation and overcome it by becoming a detached observer, then that situation becomes like a mustard seed. So you are constantly holy swans who constantly live on the shore of the Ocean. Remain constantly aware of this form.

3. In order for you servers to become constant embodiments of success, become equal to the Father.

Remember just one expression: Follow the Father! Whatever action you perform, first check whether it is for the Father's task. If it is for the Father's task, it is also your task; if it is not the Father's, it is not yours either. Always use the touch stone of checking in this way. To follow the Father means that the Father's thoughts are your thoughts and the Father's words are your words. What will happen as a result of this? Just as the Father is constantly the embodiment of success, so you yourself will also become a constant embodiment of success. Therefore, continue to place your steps in the Father's footsteps. When someone continues to move forward and you just keep following him, you easily reach your destination. Therefore, those who follow the Father will be freed from labouring and will constantly continue to experience easy attainment.

Meeting kumaris:

1. What is the aim of you kumaris? Do you experience all attainments within yourself before you engage yourself in service? However many treasures you have in yourself, you will accordingly be able to give those to others. Do you pay attention to this spiritual study every day? As well as studying you also take any chance for serving. By constantly considering yourself to be a Godly student, you pay attention to the study. The more attention you pay to studying, the more you will become experienced and enable others to study. According to the present time, you are seeing what household life is like. A householder’s life means to be trapped in an unlimited jail. You are now free, are you not? You are free from so many bondages! So, constantly maintain the stage of being free from bondage and liberated-in-life. Never have any thought to see or experience for yourself what household life is. You are very fortunate that you belong to the Father in your kumari life. Therefore, become a right hand, not a left hand.

 2. Have all of you kumaris made a firm deal with the Father? What deal have you made? You said, "Baba, I belong to You!" And the Father said, "The child is Mine”. Is the deal you made firm? You won’t make any other deal, will you? What would be the condition of those who place their feet in two boats? They would neither belong here nor there. You are clever at in making a deal, are you not? Look at what you give! An old body that you continue to have stitched up with a needle, a weak mind that has no power and dirty money. Whereas what do you receive in return? A kingdom that is guaranteed for 21 births. You would never have made such a deal throughout the whole cycle. So, have you made this deal firm? Have you written an agreement? BapDada loves kumaris because they are surrendered and have become teachers. When kumars surrender, they are not called teachers; they are called servers. A kumari receives the seat of a teacher. Today she is a kumari and tomorrow everyone sees her as an instrument teacher equal to the Father. So, you have become elevated, have you not? If you become elevated in your kumari life, you are then saved from climbing up the wrong ladder. You didn't climb that one and so you don't have to make the effort to come down it. Those who live in a household have to make that effort. Therefore, you are kumaris who are constantly world benefactors. BapDada considers all of you to be embodiments of success. Go ahead of one another! Race, but do not compete! Look at everyone's speciality and become special souls! Achcha.

3. Instead of considering yourself to be a kumari or a server, consider yourself to be an embodiment of power. Are you constantly aware of your Shiv Shakti form? By considering yourself to be an embodiment of power, there will constantly continue to be an increase of powerful souls from the service you do. As is the land, so is the fruit that emerges. However powerful you make your stage and atmosphere, the souls who emerge will be like that too. Otherwise, weak souls will come and you will have to make a lot of effort over them. Therefore, may you always have your Shiv Shakti form in your awareness! You are not a kumari, not a server, but a Shiv Shakti. There are many servers. Nowadays, many receive this title. However, your speciality is to be a combined Shiv Shakti. Remember this speciality and you will easily experience growth in service and have elevated experiences. A return has to be given for the gift of the lift of doing service that you have received. What is the return? To become a powerful embodiment of success. Achcha.

 Blessing: May you be ignorant of the knowledge of desires and finish all limited desires by remaining stable in your self-respect.

Those who remain stable in their self-respect never have any desire to receive limited respect. When all limited desires are merged in your self-respect, there is then no need to ask for anything. Limited desires are never fulfilled. One limited desire gives birth to many other desires, whereas self-respect easily fulfils all desires. So maintain your self-respect and you will become an embodiment of all attainments. You will become ignorant of any lack of attainment and of any desires.

Slogan: Those who mould themselves to all situations are real gold.

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Daily Positive Thoughts: July 02, 2017: Detached Observer

 

Detached Observer

It is far better to observe than to absorb every word, feeling and attitude, to get over-involved, or react too much. Observing gives us the patience and clarity to think act appropriately. Observing creates an inner focus that allows us to see reality.

8 Steps On The Road To Success (Part 2)

Just for a minute stop what you are thinking and ask yourself is a goal or an achievement so significant that you do not mind losing some of the important relationships of your life. Also, what use is an achieved mission if in the process I suffer sleep disorders or my digestive system is weakened or I suffer from high blood pressure or diabetes? Also, I may even suffer from mental illnesses like depression or sometimes even end up attempting suicide. The same purpose of life can be achieved without losing mental peace, even if the achievement takes place at a date later than the one intended.

So, the first step on the road to success is revising your purpose to one that can be achieved at a slower speed than the speed we might see others working at. Of course, it’s needless to say that the wrong energy with which we are working that is giving us hurry and worry sickness is nothing but competition. Competition is not at all an un-required energy in mainstream society but when competition is accompanied by or mixed with comparisons, it becomes negative or self-harming. So compete, competition is healthy but do not compare, comparisons are unhealthy.  Also, ensure that while moving towards the destination of success it is important to set smaller goals to be achieved instead of targeting directly at the bigger cause. This is important because this keeps us extremely light in our journey and keeps us on the road to success and does not let us become tired when the going gets difficult at times. This is a way of unburdening oneself while travelling on the road to success which can be long at times. Another important feature of a relaxed journey to success is satisfying people who are a part of the journey and not developing cold relations with them. Very often, people are so obsessed with work or professional targets that a 12 hour day at the workplace is a common practice with busy professionals with no time for their family members. This causes distancing and differences between them and also very often children and husbands or wives are affected negatively by this and remaining dissatisfied.

(To be continued tomorrow …)

State of Inwardness

When we are living from our inner self, it means that we are focusing our attention on the internal and when we observe the external world around us, we do not get lost, threatened or frightened by the events. We remain stable and experience the feeling of security and tranquility. 

The biggest obstacle to Inwardness is living in our senses - organs of sight, hearing and eating. We lose sight of our

inner being. We look at things with feelings of desire, greed, anger, attachment or arrogance. We hear indecent or degrading talk. We utter harsh words or get addicted to the pleasures of the palate. 

Living in the outward is living far away from the state of inwardness, the consciousness that brings us serenity, happiness and peace.

Message for the day

Let there be a positive record of always talking with regard. 

Expression: When I have regard for others, there are good wishes expressed through my words. Such words are totally free from the slightest bit of negativity and bring a very positive result. When words are positive, they are few but essence-full. So they have a lot of impact on others. 

Experience: When I have regard for others, I will be able to keep myself free from negative and waste words. So I'll naturally find every word of mine being used in a positive and powerful way. So I find only accumulation and no waste through my words. My energy is saved and others too would have only good wishes for me. 

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 01, 2017: New Perspective

Daily Positive Thoughts: July 01, 2017:  New Perspective

New Perspective

It is easy to create new things, change places or do something different. To keep that sense of newness that creates enthusiasm is more difficult. The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights and a new perspective.

8 Steps On The Road To Success (Part 1)

We all live a life which is filled with different actions which we perform from the morning to the night. Every action either in the personal, professional, social or financial sphere is filled with the energy of an intention or a pure desire that I have to achieve what I aspire or aim for. But things go wrong when the ambition starts becoming  an obsession and it starts affecting our relationships, health and mind sometimes individually and sometimes all together. With some people, the desire to succeed is so immense and so obsessive that it tends to influence their thoughts excessively. They lose interest in performing any action which takes them away from this aim.

They say success for some comes at a price – a broken soul, a stressful mind, an unhealthy body and harmed relationships. For some, life is like a continuous challenge to be overcome. Challenges are good; they bring out the inner powers and help in tapping the hidden potential inside you. But at the same time, a life which eats, sleeps and breathes challenges and goals is the wrong road to success. A main cause of professional burn out at a young age is an obsession to achieve and dream big. This is even causing a lot of people to become severely depressive, unenthusiastic and disinterested after a certain period of time in their careers and family lives. Many people are taking to meditation and relaxation techniques because they lost the balance at some time in their lives. They left the right road to success with the destination of success remaining away from them instead of coming towards them.

In the next two days’ messages, we shall explain 8 different steps one needs to take on an emotional level so that success is achieved. At the same time it is a success without any of the side effects in the form of love lost in relationships and physical and mental illnesses.

STOP!

An inner power needed to make accurate decisions is the power to tolerate. Tolerance is not about having to put up with or endure. 

It's about respect for difference. It is about being able to appreciate diversity, the beauty in that diversity and difference. We
need confidence to allow others to do what they are doing. Rigidity is a sign of lack of self-confidence and self-respect. It is better to have peace with someone than to have 100 percent perfection and tension. The quality of interaction comes from our ability to stop (that is not to be affected or influenced by what the other is doing).

When I learn to stop, then I become more perceptive of the situation and am able to do make the right decision.

Message for the day

The power of stability enables to cross over all obstacles. 

Expression: The one who is stable is not influenced by one's own old habits and tendencies to react, but is able to think and act properly under all circumstances. The power of stability brings forth the best decisions in the most difficult times, brings solutions and helps in lessening the impact of the obstacle itself. 

Experience: When I am stable on the seat of a master, I am able to be free from the influence of my own old habits, those that are of weakness. Instead I am able to transform old habits into new ones, making them into those of power. Learning to be stable in the most difficult situations, enables me to cross over all obstacles very easily. 

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Daily Positive Thoughts: June 30, 2017: Great Expectations

 

Great Expectations

The root of all needs and expectations is an unfulfilled spiritual desire. Satisfy your spiritual desires through the practice of meditation and you'll be able to interact successfully with anyone. No longer needy, you will enter into relationships simply to share and enjoy. There'll be no strings attached in the way you give of yourself; your love will be unconditional.

Being A Good Transformation Agent (Part 2)

If you go inside yourself and observe, with sincerity, your feelings towards someone that you consider unbearable or intolerable, you will see that your perception (way of looking at them), your expectations and your bad feelings make you feel that the other isunbearable or intolerable. You have allowed the other to influence you in the creation of your bad feelings. You have lost compassion (kindness) and the capacity to accept and understand the other.

Being a good transformation (change) agent requires having full control over your inner world. If you are the victim of your rapidly moving mind, your bad feelings, your aggressive emotional states and of your not-very-healthy habits, you will easily feel yourself to be the victim of others, of circumstances, of time and of society. In relationships, the key is in living with your consciousness awake and not to do anything that your conscience does not agree with. In doing so, you don't have to fear the opinion of others. You don't have to feel insecure or doubt yourself. If not, we will continue to act against our own consciousness and we will feel ourselves to be victims. To avoid pain or the unhappiness that arises automatically when we act against our own consciousness, we look for guilt excuses: Because of... I haven't acted as I should. We blame or we make excuses. That way we suppress the voice of our consciousness until the suffering and unhappiness is such that our conscience scolds us, which increases our unhappiness even more. A good transformation agent will always obey the voice of the inner conscience. By remaining in tune with our conscience and creating right thoughts, words and actions, it becomes easier for us to move from victim consciousness to transformer consciousness (one who brings about change).

Want to make something happen? 

Well, an intention is a start, but it's not enough.  What is required is determination - from start to finish!

To keep your determination going, regularly revise and reaffirm your commitment.  

Then revive and reinforce determination, with determination.  Then you'll equip yourself with the enthusiasm and power to make your intentions happen.

Message for the day

The biggest treasure of all is the treasure of experience. 

Expression: The one who has the treasure of experience is able to bring benefit to others. He is clear in thinking and accurate in judgement. So he is naturally able to give directions or corrections based on his own experiences and is also successful in it. Also there is equality in what he talks and does. 

Experience: To be an embodiment of experience means to learn from everything that happens. So when I am able to become an embodiment of experience, I am able to feel mastery over every situation that comes my way. The power of my experience enables me to move lightly through all situations. 

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris