Man today is dominated by selfishness. Insatiable desire fills his whole being. The number of such persons is growing without limit. How can they achieve anything great in life? Their daily round of activities consists of reading newspapers, watching video programmes and listening to the radio. Every moment their attachment to castes, creed and parochial interests is growing. Men today must learn to lead lives inspired by sheelam and tyaga (morality and sacrifice). Human relationships today are governed by friendship or enmity. The cause for either feeling is the mind. Hatred is bred by each one’s thoughts. This may be seen from the hatred of Ravana towards Rama, of Shishupala and Dhantavakra towards Krishna and of Kauravas towards Dharmaja, who was an “Ajatashathru” – incapable of hating anybody. There is no need to worry about the enmity of others towards you. You develop a friendly attitude towards all. Ignore the abuses of others, because they serve only to diminish your sins and transfer them to the reviler. When a man praises another, the merits of the latter accrue to the former. Deem the critic as your friend, not the one who flatters you.
Sathya Sai Baba
Divine Discourse, Jul 12, 1995.
Thought of the Week – 19th February 2024 (1)
This reminds me of the apocryphal story about Michelangelo and the secret of great sculpture. “How on earth did you manage to create this sublime depiction of David?” the sculptor is asked. “Well,” he replies, “I just kept chipping away everything that didn’t look like David.”
We need to let go of the noise.
You do not create your thoughts
Where do thoughts come from? A questioner engages Rupert in a discussion about the consciousness-only model, the origin of thoughts, the nature of the mind and how we can go beyone the limitations of the mind.
Rupert explains that in the consciousness only model infinite consciousness is the medium within which literally everything arises. Thoughts may be conditioned from individual experiences that we have like a toothache, by events that take place outside your mind like the coronavirus or your own past conditioning through experiences you had as a child. The more we explore our experience the more we realize that the self of each of us, is the self of infinite awareness.
And at some point the personal thoughts and feelings tend to die down because there is no longer a clearly defined personal self or ego for them to revolve around. The mind expands until it loses its limitations and is recognized to be one with infinite consciousness or, in religious language, with God’s presence.
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