Words hold a profound influence over our thoughts and emotions. A simple change in our language can significantly alter the quality of our thinking, reasoning, and actions. Consider the shift from 'I am a body' to 'I have a body,' or from 'I am sick and miserable' to 'My body is experiencing sickness and misery.
' These subtle linguistic changes can transform body-conscious feelings of confinement, illness, and sorrow into a soul-conscious spirit of detachment, solace, and contentment. This awareness of being a non-physical entity also instils a sense of security and peace of mind in us with the truth that since the soul doesn't own anything, it can't lose anything. Top Picks For You Be Like Radha, Transcend The Dance Of Thoughts Wisdom Shines Through Inner Silence Of The Mind Admiring The Wildfires In Your Backyard With such a conscious mindset, we can put our worldly positions and possessions to their best use and care as trustees, having no strings attached.
Our world is made up of two realities - inner and outer. The inner reality constitutes our thoughts and feelings as well as our inner personality or sanskars. The outer reality combines our physical body, the roles we play at home, workplace or in society and very importantly our worldly relations and resources.
Our inner world determines the outer world, just as the external environment reflects our internal environs of thinking, reacting and responding. It's also true that we work very hard to create and sustain a beautiful outer reality, however transitory it may be. It's equally true that without having a beautiful inner reality full of peace, love, joy and wisdom, we cannot create an outer reality capable of giving us constant calmness, happiness and success.
To go to our inner realm of creative silence and contemplative bliss, it's imperative to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness from material vision and gross-body perception to divine visualisation of our inner sentient being, the soul in its pure 'point light' form. People who subscribe to externality as the only reality look for sense-centric pleasures without. Few and far between are those who seek to realise true peace and happiness within through silent introspection and divine contemplation.
Their quality of life and living differences stem from their body-conscious attitude and soul-conscious aptitude, respectively. Everyone likes to live a life of love, peace and bliss despite ups and downs. Situations outside cause instability and make the human soul weak.
Since we cannot easily face these fluctuations, we need to enhance our inner strength and goodness to survive in today's uncertain and unpredictable times. We need to positively change and charge our inner reality, through daily spiritual introspection and meditation . For such transformational change and inner empowerment, we need to adopt and apply the four basic tools of imbibing godly knowledge, practising Raj Yog meditation, inculcating divine virtues and rendering selfless services to society as our natural way of life.
Regular practice and promotion of these positive and proactive steps for self and societal empowerment can bring about holistic health, harmony, happiness and sustainable development. Authored by: Dadi Ratan Mohini The writer is chief, Brahma Kumaris Organisation Can Spirituality Save Our Planet? Gauranga Das Opens Up On His C20 Journey, Climate Change & How Krishna's Teachings Can Change Humans.
