The mood and behavior of people in cinema halls, marriage halls, exhibitions or while watching a game is very different from that of a spiritual gathering!
The mood during entertainment is very different as the crowd there are moved by totally different impulses. However, in a gathering devoted to the needs of the spirit, what is expected is calm, reverential and eager attention, prayerful silence. Silence is most needed in all spiritual gatherings where deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
Only the eye and the ear need function, the tongue has no business to wag. Everyone then will be able to receive completely, the gift of love and grace.
Learn to make the best of life, this chance offered to you to sublimate your instincts, impulses and impressions on the mind from past deeds (Vasanas) and rise higher and higher in the moral and spiritual plane.
Baba (thought for the day)
What does it actually mean that we are able to sublimate the mind impressions of past deeds?
The difference between the mood of the crowd during entertainment is due to different impulses.
However, if the gathering is devoted to the needs of the spirit, it has to be different and calm, reverential and with silence. Silence has to prevail because the deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
We have some people here they have a family consciousness and it is directed into outer activity and passion.
Because they want to feel good in family, they come in the center and talk loud, expecting everybody to share that with them, as in their mind all belong to the same family. Often it seems to be whatever is in their mind.
The difference between the mood of the crowd during entertainment is due to different impulses.
However, if the gathering is devoted to the needs of the spirit, it has to be different and calm, reverential and with silence. Silence has to prevail because the deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
We have some people here they have a family consciousness and it is directed into outer activity and passion.
Because they want to feel good in family, they come in the center and talk loud, expecting everybody to share that with them, as in their mind all belong to the same family. Often it seems to be whatever is in their mind.
It is always kind of a challenge to integrate it and to be able to take it. It is a level of socializing instead of devotion and it seems rather to destroys the others enthusiasm and motivation.
After Baba left the body, I went on every meeting just to participate and following his inner guide, challenging it, that he will inside respond to it.
Some compensate and some are eager and loud just to make everybody hear that they are present and to be noticed by others it seems they get even louder, because they think love makes other available for them to feel good.
Some compensate and some are eager and loud just to make everybody hear that they are present and to be noticed by others it seems they get even louder, because they think love makes other available for them to feel good.
The first thing our new center leader had to face when she began were some who always have problems, calling her constantly asking for advice. She had to stop it, because they were just taking advantage of it that she was a center leader, expecting her to solve their problems.
Kind of the same level I had met with my ex and I was not aware of it.
Baba said in the dream sometimes last year that it was 'passion, I should stay alone'. That was the reflection of all those meeting I had attended and I always came back with headache. Now I attend only what feels okay to me.
It easily becomes passion if we are directed on outer activity.
I always wondered why I came back with headache and told myself that it cannot be, that spiritual gatherings lead instead to good feeling and bliss or whatever, maybe love to headache only, but I had constantly headache and was glad to leave and be alone again. I guess that was answered by his dream when he said, 'it is passion, stay alone'. If I manage to stay alone in myself in the midst of the gathering, it is okay and I go, but if that it not possible, because some people enforce themselves on us and think we have to be as they think it is right, then I don't go, because that will lead to discussions and passion.
It is the pressure of the group thinking that we have to prove that we are good devotees in participating and sharing activities and that is not the right motivation and also not in touch with divinity.
I always wondered why I came back with headache and told myself that it cannot be, that spiritual gatherings lead instead to good feeling and bliss or whatever, maybe love to headache only, but I had constantly headache and was glad to leave and be alone again. I guess that was answered by his dream when he said, 'it is passion, stay alone'. If I manage to stay alone in myself in the midst of the gathering, it is okay and I go, but if that it not possible, because some people enforce themselves on us and think we have to be as they think it is right, then I don't go, because that will lead to discussions and passion.
It is the pressure of the group thinking that we have to prove that we are good devotees in participating and sharing activities and that is not the right motivation and also not in touch with divinity.
I get home with headache, if there are people together in meetings and some are just talking freely their mind out, because they think we are family and we can behave as we like.
It seems to be a wrong conclusion, the result of singing together or doing some activities together, they get to the conclusion that it is all done and that it has to be on that socializing level.
When we mentioned silence, the reaction was, if we are not allowed to talk, we don't come anymore.
However, in a gathering devoted to the needs of the spirit, what is expected is calm, reverential and eager attention, prayerful silence. Silence is most needed in all spiritual gatherings where deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
There is much tension in the mind when spiritual matters are discussed and people lack the awareness of the value of silence, instead of eager attention they are tensed and upset, for whatever reason. If there is one person like that, the level can expands to the group and the discipline is gone.
Only the eye and the ear need function, the tongue has no business to wag. Everyone then will be able to receive completely, the gift of love and grace.
I still remember the headache, remembering some who seem to enjoy to talk out freely their minds, instead of being in that inner silence, where deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
It was about a Christmas play and we had a study circle and one person thought that it was of such importance, he stood up, began to talk without further notice, he interrupted the schedule and made his ego air to tell everybody what they should do. I had on the spot a headache. He put without shame all the passion on everybody present and began to distribute work and was eager that we should notice how passionate he was to do a good work.
I told him that he didn't tell us and that it was not his turn and that he spoke without further notice and we were not able to hold the study circle because of his interruption.
And who he thought he was that he enforced his anxiety and mind on everybody, thinking that it had to be like that, just because the priority for him was the gathering and not in the spiritual insight. We have enough people who are ready to help freely and take care silently and joyful, without his 'perfect' and passionate organization.
And who he thought he was that he enforced his anxiety and mind on everybody, thinking that it had to be like that, just because the priority for him was the gathering and not in the spiritual insight. We have enough people who are ready to help freely and take care silently and joyful, without his 'perfect' and passionate organization.
That was the same guy I got a headache in a center meeting, because he always freely speaks out his mind and calls the others his family. My response was, I would not attend at all, because of passion.
Once I talked to him before I published my book and asked him about a Baba picture. His response was such that it was impossible to feel okay anymore afterwards.
In the inner reflection in the dream he was in the back of the car and was wearing a white and red striped shirt and I was driving the car and he couldn't take it. Red and white is a mixture between sathva and rajas, purity and passion.
I didn't attend, because it was passion, it was not possible to stay inside alone. There had been a change inside and I was before in his redaction team and it all has dissolved in the mean time.
He can still not take it. That means in every group gathering it feels like that guy makes himself air, trying to tell me what I should do what he thinks is right, making out of devotion a social event.
He can still not take it. That means in every group gathering it feels like that guy makes himself air, trying to tell me what I should do what he thinks is right, making out of devotion a social event.
That is wrong understood devotion and it destroys all enthusiasm. Whatever he had done in the past, but something has changed from the inside I guess, and he is not aware of it.
In the last study circle the person who did it began to lecture instead of letting people talk, not making a circle out of it.
And there was one person with the concept of family in her mind and she spoke out her mind freely, there was instantaneously aggression instead of silence in the air, just remembering I can feel the headache.
She is one of those family members who think everything has to be done together and to be shared and she knows it all.
They question it, and it ends up in ill-intended logic and people finding faults and that it she end of it.
They question it, and it ends up in ill-intended logic and people finding faults and that it she end of it.
It was a burst out of passion and the energy was such that it kept the level of attention on the surface of the ocean and it was not possible to be a circle, it was only half a circle.
We will not always be able to experience the reality of the ocean, there is too much agitation in the mind and if there is no discipline and no silence, that agitation is coming up.
I begin to get aware where the headache is coming from, when I get back from a gathering feeling like that. It is a reason why I don't like the social gatherings. It is mostly created by people who think they know and have understood it and they are good devotees and they expect others to fulfill their expectations and to be recognized by them.
Learn to make the best of life, this chance offered to you to sublimate your instincts, impulses and impressions on the mind from past deeds (Vasanas) and rise higher and higher in the moral and spiritual plane.
But that was my question. Why he tells us that we can sublimate our instincts or the impulses and impressions on the mind from past deeds. Vasanas are the sprouts, that which is the cause that we get reborn again in next life.
Therefore, if we are able to sublimate our past impressions on the mind, we get rid of Karma and we get free.
When in such a spiritual gathering that much aggression is felt that it is not possible to answer without getting taken in and becoming passionate or aggressive as well, we just have to keep silence and wait that it goes away and that is the headache.
It felt like the whole society was present, in the background of her mind, all those problems. It is a level very well known to us and above all a very boring mind level. We should be able to stay calm to be able to experience a more deep level of spirituality and for that reason we should understand the value of silence.
Therefore, if we are able to sublimate our past impressions on the mind, we get rid of Karma and we get free.
When in such a spiritual gathering that much aggression is felt that it is not possible to answer without getting taken in and becoming passionate or aggressive as well, we just have to keep silence and wait that it goes away and that is the headache.
It felt like the whole society was present, in the background of her mind, all those problems. It is a level very well known to us and above all a very boring mind level. We should be able to stay calm to be able to experience a more deep level of spirituality and for that reason we should understand the value of silence.
In reality devotion has to be in our hearts and they should keep calm, because it is only present on the level of sathva and that is silence. We should remember it, before we get together in a spiritual gathering ...
The mood during entertainment is very different as the crowd there are moved by totally different impulses. However, in a gathering devoted to the needs of the spirit, what is expected is calm, reverential and eager attention, prayerful silence. Silence is most needed in all spiritual gatherings where deeper spiritual disciplines are discussed.
If we keep silence and watch, we are able to sublimate the impulses from past impressions in the mind. What I describe and remember mostly in my blog are those impulses and it is about getting aware of it.
The impulses in my mind due to past impressions facing my parents transformed into a picture.
I don't know how many time I thought it over to understand it, it came up as reflection, the parents as dolls. It was kind of strange.
The feeling of parents is still present, but in a divine form and it is rooted in Baba. As it was not possible with the worldly parents to go in direction of self-realization, even though we did our best, the doll faces reflect the mind attitude, they didn't change.
It has something to do with Lila and roles and their role has transformed into dolls. It is a divine Lila, we come from him and we go back to him. If it is based on divinity and not parents and world anymore.
In the light of the self they are dolls.
I guess that is how we sublimate past impressions in the mind, because I don't have to go always again remembering every detail with my parent's house. The doll face is kind of 'the whole is more than the sum of the parts', it is the reflection of the result of their mind and it gets sublimated by it.
Every object is searching for its reflection.
If we keep silence and watch, we are able to sublimate the impulses from past impressions in the mind. What I describe and remember mostly in my blog are those impulses and it is about getting aware of it.
The impulses in my mind due to past impressions facing my parents transformed into a picture.
I don't know how many time I thought it over to understand it, it came up as reflection, the parents as dolls. It was kind of strange.
The feeling of parents is still present, but in a divine form and it is rooted in Baba. As it was not possible with the worldly parents to go in direction of self-realization, even though we did our best, the doll faces reflect the mind attitude, they didn't change.
It has something to do with Lila and roles and their role has transformed into dolls. It is a divine Lila, we come from him and we go back to him. If it is based on divinity and not parents and world anymore.
In the light of the self they are dolls.
I guess that is how we sublimate past impressions in the mind, because I don't have to go always again remembering every detail with my parent's house. The doll face is kind of 'the whole is more than the sum of the parts', it is the reflection of the result of their mind and it gets sublimated by it.
Every object is searching for its reflection.
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