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Positive Reflections messages from Awakening consciousness
"Your vision shapes your reality.
See the good and you begin to become the good."
Cooking And Eating In A Spiritual Consciousness (Part 3)
The low subtle energy of certain tamsic foods like non-vegetarian food, alcohol, tobacco and also onion and garlic is an obstacle in the purification of the soul, which is our life objective and they also affect the body negatively on an energy level. So consumption of such foods should be avoided.
This is because these foods cause the minds to become agitated and aggressive and even bring the mind under the influence of other negative emotions like lust, greed, attachment, ego, jealousy and hatred.
You might say why not purify these foods by meditation and then consume them. But giving these foods pure spiritual energy does not transform their inherent tamsic nature and does not prevent them from having a negative effect on the mind and the body on an energy level, although some of them may be known to have some positive effects on the body on a physical level, according to medical science.
Also, along with being selective about your meal menu ingredients and using the right recipes, it’s important to maintain a higher spiritual consciousness while cooking and eating meals. This can be done by creating positive and peaceful thoughts or by playing a few peaceful spiritual songs or even playing soothing meditation tunes while cooking and eating food. This will remind everyone of their connection with God and pure spiritual love for their family members.
Food should not be eaten while watching television, while reading the newspaper or while using the mobile phone.
Also, before consuming any food item or even water, spend a few seconds in creating a powerful thought of spiritual self-respect and focus your vision or drishti on the item. In this way, the food or liquid item will be charged with positive spiritual energy through your eyes and its negative nature, both on a physical as well as spiritual level, will be destroyed. Remember you are what you eat. Your thoughts are a direct reflection of the kind of energy filled food you eat.
Cooking And Eating In A Spiritual Consciousness (Part 2)
When cooking a meal, switch on the role of a beautiful creator of pure energy filled food, which is the divine sustenance for the mind and body. Switch off the role of a hard-working mother, which makes cooking food a boring and difficult task to be done everyday. Create the following affirmation in your mind while cooking the food and bring it into practice,
I love making a meal using the creations of nature, the ingredients that are given to me by the elements of nature. With my beautiful inner state of mind and by being connected with the Supreme Being of pure spiritual energy or God, I shall pass on this pure energy to the food I am cooking. By doing this, all those who eat the food, will be benefitted spiritually and physically. So cooking a meal is respecting and loving these elements to the fullest. Also, although physical nature’s elements are eternal, it is important to know that when nature loses its purity, it’s God who purifies it and returns it to its original state.
That is why God is incorrectly called the creator of nature, which he is not exactly, although he is a transformer of nature from impure to pure.
So the nature’s elements also, when in their purest state, give pure energy to the soul and the physical body. But, today as we all know, these elements have lost their purity on a physical level. This is because of causes like vehicle pollution, emission of poisonous gases from factories, deforestation, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, etc. This is also because of the use of improper materials to grow vegetables and fruits that are harmful to the physical body. The elements have also deteriorated on a subtle energy level, the spiritual energy level. This is because of the impure and peaceless emotions in the minds of human beings, which travel to the elements and make them impure and full of negative spiritual energy. So it’s important to purify your meal ingredients before their consumption.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
A Higher Purpose At Every Step (Part 3)
A very important aspect of a higher purpose in our lives is making every moment of our lives so beautiful and positive that it is remembered by each and every person interacting with us, in our homes, at our workplace or in any other sphere of life. Suppose you have to give a speech to a large number of people. You prepare immensely to ensure that your speech delivery is good, the content you share is appreciated and also everyone likes listening to your words. Don’t you think more than just once about how you present yourself in front of many people? Why? Because it matters to you how people see and perceive you. In the same manner, when we perform some other actions in the whole day, take care and ensure that everything you do is of a higher quality and not just ordinary.
Make every action so special and so full of good qualities that others like every moment of being with you and not only feel happy in your company but also full of peace, love and power and also truth. Some people are very pure and truthful and just being with them is a beautiful experience. What makes them different from others? They carry treasures of beautiful personality characteristics like humility, love and care as well as concern for others which are unmatched. Also, they have an awakened inner spirit that wants to serve everyone and ignite the lamp of goodness in everyone, through spiritual knowledge and the knowledge of how to be a nice person and how to perform only good and pure actions. So, make your life special by being such a special and shining living star, who lives life with a higher purpose and spreads the light of that purpose through every action, in the lives of others.
A Higher Purpose At Every Step (Part 2)
A very important aspect of keeping a higher purpose in every action, even if that action is a very ordinary action like cooking food or driving a vehicle or working on your phone or computer, is keeping a higher consciousness. A higher consciousness means a positive state of mind, a state of mind full of mental strength and determination, full of the surety of success and along with that very stable and fearless. Also, a higher consciousness means a mind full of only positive and necessary thoughts and no negative and unnecessary thoughts. So, you need to check and keep such a higher mental state, which will always bring you victory at every step, because where there is the inner power of faith, victory is guaranteed. Keeping a state of mind focused only the actions you are performing and taking care that the actions are performed well, is not enough to get success in the actions alone. Take an example - if you are working on a project in your workplace, and you have various tasks to perform in the project. Taking care of all those tasks is natural and you should and will look after them, but if you keep an ordinary consciousness, then there will be more obstacles in the tasks and it will even take longer to complete. Also, there will be more problems and issues of differences of personalities in interactions with people involved in the project. So, in such a case, if everyone involved in the task would begin their day with something good to read, some spiritual wisdom, some positive thoughts, some food for the mind, then the project and all its tasks would be done much sooner. Also, there would be greater amount of success in them.
So, a higher consciousness means a higher purpose for the mind. Over-thinking about a task and becoming stressed about it is a sign of an ordinary purpose. A higher purpose means a positively empowered mind which thinks above the ordinary day-to-day tasks.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
A Higher Purpose At Every Step (Part 1)
A beautiful and important purpose of our lives is to make everyday important and worthwhile and also make sure that each moment of our lives is extremely valuably spent. How does one ensure and how does one know the right way of spending time? Suppose I am visiting a friend of mine and I will have a few things to discuss with him about our lives. In such a case, is this the only purpose of my meeting or can I have a higher purpose or should have a higher purpose? A higher purpose means being a virtue filled person having virtues or qualities expressed through my words and actions when I interact with my friend. Also, do I give the experience of my virtues to the other person or are they experienced only by me? Also, do I possess divine wisdom inside me while I interact with someone? Divine wisdom’s first step is experiencing myself as a spiritual being or soul? Do I see the other person also as a spiritual being while talking to him? Another aspect of a higher purpose in this type of meeting would be giving happiness and giving and receiving blessings. After such an interaction, do I experience contentment at the level of the heart or a deep rooted feeling of happiness of having contributed to the other person in a higher way? Or do I just feel superficially happy for a short period of time and the interaction is forgotten? These are some of the few things to observe and make a part of every action. We have given an example of an interaction or meeting a person, which is something we do the whole day - we meet a number of different types of people all the time.
Let us look for higher purposes in everything we do. Let us give, share and donate our inner treasures of peace, love and joy to everyone we meet and let us experience these treasures in every action that we perform. Just living from morning to night with no higher purpose is almost living like machines, just performing actions, with temporary purposes.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Have Clarity, No Confusions
Having clarity is the key to live a life of peace and stability. But we often find ourselves wondering how to be, what to do or which direction to step towards. When the mind enters a confused state, it creates uncertainty, irritation, anxiety and fear. We struggle to move forward and feel lost. Clarity is vital for life of peace and stability. Sometimes our mind is clouded with confusion. In this agitated inner state, mind creates too many thoughts, and the intellect cannot process them smoothly. So we struggle to take right decisions or timely decisions.
Follow these steps to take the path of clarity -
1)Confusion cannot be sorted from thinking at the same level. You need to be calm and elevate your thoughts.
2)Meditate for at least 15 minutes every morning. It cleans your mind of emotional toxins and silences it. Your intuition or wisdom gets activated.
3) the stillness of your mind, put forth your question and wait for answers. Be assured that right answers come either immediately or later.
4) Whether it is confusion in beliefs, decisions, career or relationships, solution is within you. Even if you take advice from others, take decisions based on your intuition.
Clarity helps you take charge of the situation and choose right responses. Sit back and let’s affirm how we shift towards clarity -
I am a wise being … my every thought is right … I energise my mind every morning … I meditate for 15 mins … I strengthen my intuition daily … I choose my response … I decide what is right for me … every decision is based on my values … my intuition gives me the right ans
Breaking Down Patterns Of Negative Thoughts And Feelings
Having understood that the source of our feelings are our thoughts, we realize that right through our journey in the physical world, in many births, we have repeatedly built up enormous webs of negative and harmful thoughts and feelings, creating many unnecessary difficulties for us, internally as well as externally. The habit continues in my present life too. Meditation helps me to untangle this mess, and break the habit. It helps me come to terms with what is going on in my own inner world and understand how I create thoughts and feelings, how to take responsibility for them, and how to tap into my original, positive inner resources, which helps me displace negative patterns of thoughts and feelings. So, meditation is not merely a relaxation technique but a powerful tool for a seemingly difficult task of self-transformation.
To get the positive cycle of thoughts and feelings working in my life, the easiest place to start with is our thoughts. It's not very difficult to change our thoughts. It just requires attention. And by changing my thoughts, it becomes easy to change my feelings. In meditation, I decide that for a few minutes, each day, I am going to set aside negative thoughts which are weak or wasteful, and create pure, positive, powerful thoughts, based on the awareness of my spiritual identity. As I do this, I begin to experience the original resources or treasures of the self. As a result, positive and powerful feelings for the self and others emerge.
Contentment:
The Way to Happiness
Contentment is the quiet art of finding sufficiency in what already exists, rather than endlessly chasing what lies beyond our reach. The ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus wisely taught, "𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨." This timeless truth reveals that happiness is not born from acquiring more, but from appreciating what we already possess. When we cultivate contentment, we liberate ourselves from the exhausting cycle of comparison and desire that modern society perpetually fuels. True contentment does not mean abandoning ambition or growth; rather, it means finding peace with our present circumstances while simultaneously working toward our aspirations. This delicate balance allows us to move through life with gratitude and inner calm, recognizing that the richest treasures—meaningful relationships, good health, personal integrity—are often invisible to those obsessed with material accumulation.
➤The path to contentment requires us to reframe our relationship with life's inevitable challenges and limitations. Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher, proclaimed, "𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫." This profound observation teaches us that poverty of spirit comes not from material scarcity, but from an insatiable hunger that can never be satisfied. When we embrace contentment, we develop the wisdom to distinguish between genuine needs and artificial desires manufactured by external forces. We learn to celebrate small victories, find joy in simple moments, and appreciate the present rather than perpetually deferring happiness to some future achievement. This shift in perspective transforms our daily experience from one of insufficiency to one of abundance, even when our external circumstances remain unchanged.
➤Contentment ultimately becomes the gateway to sustainable happiness because it frees us from the tyranny of unrealistic expectations and external validation. Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman emperor and philosopher, reflected, "𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚; 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛, 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜." This wisdom reminds us that contentment is fundamentally an internal state of mind rather than a reflection of our external reality. When we accept ourselves fully—with our strengths and imperfections—and appreciate the unique journey we are on, we discover a deep well of happiness that cannot be diminished by life's inevitable setbacks. Contentment invites us to live authentically, to pursue what truly matters to us rather than what others expect, and to find profound satisfaction in simply being rather than constantly becoming. In this state of peaceful acceptance, true happiness blooms naturally, creating a life of meaning, resilience, and enduring JOY.
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Cooking And Eating In A Spiritual Consciousness (Part 1)
Mother, what are you making for dinner tonight? Please make something delicious! Children often request the menu for their meals to their mothers. Mothers are often in a hurry to finish their cooking work for the day and also eager to fulfill the tastes of their children and other family members. Often mothers relax at the end of the day after having spent their energies on the minutest details of their meals – the vegetables, the salt, the spices, the oil, the pulses, the wheat flour and the rice. They take care that food is prepared accurately, leaving no room for error. The objective – satisfying the tastes of everyone and also experiencing the blessings from the family.
How come, inspite of this positive exterior feeling to this family setting, there lie underneath negative subtle energies, which sometimes prevent the food from being spiritually energizing, although it may be very tasty to eat.
Love filled food, pure energy filled food is not only healthy, curing illnesses but also spiritually, emotionally and mentally soothing. This is because of the subtle connection that exists between the physical body and the non-physical mind causing both of them to influence each other.
You have heard of how food cooked by a mother tastes better than the food cooked by a maid. Why?
Because of the purity of purpose. The mother is absorbed in the love of her family while cooking the meals and the maid cooks because she earns from the task, which she experiences as hard at times. The mother will cook with a higher purpose which reflects in the food quality and the energy it’s every bite carries invisibly. So food should be cooked in pure love, a love without any dependencies, attachments and fear and full of positivity.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
5 Beautiful Specialties Of God
1) The One Whom Everyone Sees As God - In India, people worship a large number of deities or devi devtas. Outside India, different religious heads are worshipped with great respect. But God is the One bodiless Supreme Being Of Spiritual Light, the One Ocean of all qualities which remain constant always. He is known in different religions as God, Eeshwar, Bhagwan, Allah etc.
2) The Highest Of Highest - God is the Supreme Father, Supreme Teacher And Supreme Guru Of The World. He does not take sustenance from any other soul. In fact, He is the Supreme One whom everyone looks upto for sustenance. He fills all the souls of the world with His wisdom, qualities and powers and even purifies the 5 elements of nature.
3) Beyond The Dualities Of The World - God is the one who is beyond birth and rebirth, joy and sorrow, action and the fruit of action. He is the One constant Supreme Soul, always staying in the soul world, ever pure, blissful, knowledgeful and powerful and always soul conscious, sweet and the most humble Supreme Parent of all souls of the world.
4) The Ocean Of Wisdom Who Knows Everything - God possesses the wisdom of the soul, Himself and the complete details of the World Drama and how it is cyclic in nature. He also knows the secrets of every life situation and how to resolve it. Everyone looks upto Him in times of sorrow for divine help. He possesses the most pure and supreme intellect.
5) The Giver Of Goodness And Who Does Not Take - God is the One who never takes or expects to take anything from anyone. He is the constant donor and giver of everything good - both physical and non-physical. By remembering Him, not only do we fulfill ourselves internally but we also achieve success in the world and get everything good on a physical level.
Returning To My Original State Of Goodness (Part 3)
To return to our original state of goodness, we need to look towards a Higher Source of spiritual power and positivity. Asking for love and happiness from others is like the musk deer which possesses the fragrance it’s looking for in its navel but looks for it outside. We have all these treasures inside us. Going back to the original virtuous self means realizing this completely and then taking the knowledge and power to fill ourselves with these treasures from God, who never loses these treasures. Also, the more these treasures have reduced inside us over a period of many births, the more we have lost our happiness. Also, we have become burdened with lots of incorrect sanskaras or personality characteristics. These characteristics have become a part of our nature due to incorrect actions performed by us as we came down the ladder of many births or lives.
So now, the call of time is to connect with the Supreme Being or Supreme Soul, the Supreme Parent of each soul of the world - God and regain all those positive qualities. This will make us rich internally, on a spiritual level. The more we do that, the more we will return to the original stage we had once, when we came down into this world from the soul world, which lies high above the physical world. Also, it is not only the time to become pure and positive again and start a new life, but it’s also time to first return back to the soul world for a short while. After that, we will start a new cycle of many births and rebirths in this world. This is the rest the soul needs before coming down in the world full of actions, interactions and relationships. Hence, we are on what we call, the return journey and the cycle of birth and rebirth will repeat itself.
Returning To My Original State Of Goodness (Part 2)
Niceness at the level of our personality is original and our false or negative personality characteristics are acquired. A person who has been bad all his life is actually a very good soul or being originally and a person who has been good all his life is a much better soul or being originally. This is because we don’t limit our vision to a one birth reality because that is a false reality. A true reality is one of many births. A human being is temporary but a being is eternal. So, a being, which we call a soul, is nice when it begins to play its role in the birth-rebirth story of life. It is full of seven qualities – peace, joy, love, bliss, purity, power and truth. As it begins to play its role, it is not only full but is always radiating these qualities to others. This is called a no-expectations stage of the soul. As a result, it is constantly happy and overflowing with contentment.
As the soul passes a few births in its role play, it loses these qualities and starts asking for these qualities from God and others around it. Slowly, the soul becomes expectation filled and the seven original qualities inside it begin to decrease. Such a soul is not able to play relationships well and positively and also experiences hurt and pain in different ways. Although it receives some qualities from God in worship, it is unable to go to its original state of fulfillment, until it has complete knowledge of the self and God and also the Law of Karma. This knowledge is called spiritual knowledge and the only one, who has it in complete truth, is God. This knowledge from God helps us become full of all qualities and powers and as a result nicer beings or souls.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Returning To My Original State Of Goodness (Part 1)
A very important and influential aspect of our lives is living every thought in our actions. It is said commonly – that practice what you preach. In other words, you have many ideal thoughts and good view points and you keep them as benchmarks to follow and look up to. But, sometimes whilst performing actions, you don’t actually live by these benchmarks, which not only disappoints and gives sorrow to oneself but also disturbs and gives sorrow to others.
E.g. today I decide I will remain happy at any cost and give everyone the same. But as soon as I face a difficult situation or problem, it takes very little time for me to start worrying and radiating the same energy to others. Also, on another day I have an aim in my life that I will keep only good wishes for others. But as soon as I have to face a negative behavior of someone, I lose the love inside my heart and not only think negatively about the other person but also speak against the person to others. This spoils my relationships. So, these and many more are benchmarks which we keep in our mind and try and reach upto, throughout the day and everyday. Sometimes we are successful in doing so and sometimes are unable to do so. What is the reason for this? Are we not nice people at heart, all of us? Of course, some are nicer. But, according to spiritual wisdom, everyone is nice originally and basically. And also, everyone, at some point of time in their lives, want to be nice people. Some are serious in bringing about the niceness in their lives and natures and some think about the change towards becoming nicer but do not bring it in their personality with determination.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕔𝕜 𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝔸𝕕𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥
When you need to change – a habit, lifestyle, job, house, city, social circle or make changes in your thoughts, emotions and attitude, how open are you to change? In a world of rapid changes in people and events, adaptability is a very important quality which we need to possess at all times.
1. Anything you repeatedly do becomes your habit. Once you create a habit of who you are, what you do, how you work, where you live, whom you interact with – you settle into a comfort zone. The day any of these changes, it demands you to adapt to the new reality. How willingly do you adapt?
2. When there is a change around you, there needs to be a change within you – an inner preparation. Your mind may say - 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. Teach the mind that you have created so many changes in life, this is just one more.
3. Instead of sticking to comfort zones created by past experiences or past beliefs, be flexible. You have the power to adapt to any person, any place, any job, any environment, any situation. Within a few days this change will become your comfort zone.
4. Meditate daily to increase your power to accept, accommodate and tolerate. Adapting is a matter of breaking old and rigid thought patterns. Remember that you are always only one thought and one decision away from adapting and flowing with life.