Message for the day 23-10-2015
Contemplation: When you say 'you first' instead of 'I first' you will be placed forward. For having done the selfless service of putting others forward and encouraging them, you will get plenty of blessings. This will take you forward very quickly.
Application: When there is a conflict with someone, become generous. Instead of expecting the other person to understand you and do according to what you want, listen to what he is saying. When you give a chance in this way you will move forward very quickly.
 Soul Sustenance 23-10-2015 A Special Message On Dussehra Many interesting and famous mythological stories of Dussehra or Vijayadashami, that celebrates the victory of righteousness over evil, are present in the world. These stories are hidden in importance and are not completely understood. According to the spiritual knowledge shared at the Brahma Kumaris, the soul originally was a sparkling star-like point of living energy, full of peace, purity and bliss; spiritually charged and staying in the soul world. This world is commonly called Shantidham or Muktidham, a world beyond this physical world of five elements. When this spiritually powerful soul first came onto the earth to play its fixed role on earth, its purity was naturally seen through the physical body, in the form of divine qualities like love, happiness and joy. Slowly as it came down in the cycle of birth and death, it started falsely identifying itself with its physical body and forgot its eternal identity of that of a soul. It started getting attracted to the five senses and sense objects that it came across in its journey. The golden deer which had attracted Sita in the Ramayan is a symbolic representation of these attractions and the internal stage of soul-consciousness is shown in the form of the Lakshman Rekha which Sita had crossed. This led to her getting kidnapped by Ravan and getting distanced from Ram. The episode of kidnapping of Sita by Ravan refers to the kidnapping of the soul by the forces of Evil or the five vices namely lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego. It is believed that Ravan, also called Dashanan had ten heads. It is physically impossible for such a human being to exist. So these ten heads surely have a symbolical and deep spiritual importance, which we seem to have forgotten. The ten heads symbolize the five vices in man and five vices in the woman of today. In the Bhagwat Gita, it is said that lust, anger and greed are gates to hell. Thus, the soul under the influence of body consciousness or Ravan divorced itself from Ram, as a result of which it opened the gates of hell for itself and experienced sorrow and pain. Ravan literally means one who makes you cry. Today every soul or Sita trapped in the chains of the five vices, which are the roots of all emotional sufferings, tensions and sorrows; cries out to Ram for liberation. Ram is just one of the symbolic names of the non-physical Supreme Father of all souls who is eternally bodiless and stays in the soul world or Shantidham, free from the cycle of birth and rebirth and constantly peaceful, pure, blissful and loveful. The whole comparison, in fact, relates to the coming of the Supreme Soul at the end of Kaliyug onto the physical world to free all the Sitas from sorrow. According to his sacred promise, the Supreme Being comes at such an important time of human history when souls have become slaves to impure pleasures and desires. He transforms and re-moulds spiritually weakened souls and purifies their intellects by pure spiritual knowledge to them. He teaches them simple Rajyoga meditation (Rajyoga can be broken up into Raja + yoga which means king of unions) by which the souls can connect their minds and intellects to him and spiritually re-empower themselves. The word Dussehra comes from the word Dasa-Hara, Dasa meaning Ten and Hara meaning destroy. Only when we kill the ten-headed demon of Ravan in our nature, with the arrow of spiritual knowledge and burn his huge effigy with the divine fire of intense meditation or yoga with the Supreme, can we truly celebrate Dussehra and experience permanent joy. In Spiritual Service, Brahma Kumaris |
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