In the dark night, the Moon can be seen through its own light only. The Lord is all Love, so He can be seen only through Love.
He is Sathyam and Nithyam (Truth and Eternal), and is beyond all falsehood (Mithya).
When the dust settles upon the glass of the lantern, it dims its light. Attachment to sensual objects and to the pleasure they give (Vyamoha) is the soot that dims the light of love in your heart. Remove the delusion and the fact that you have become old or diseased, or that you are weak and debilitated. Do not count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. Remember, despondency is hell, elation is heaven. Have always some work to do and do it so well that it grants you joy!
Baba (thought for the day)
Have always some work to do and do it so well that it grants you joy.
That is probably the work I do here, just to keep busy. In the beginning it didn't make sense at all. But in the mean time I got that many insights by doing it, that there is no question about the value, it is great to listen, think it over and absorb.
It has to be seen in our own experience, our own life and that is only possible if we think it over and as he said yesterday, analyze it. It took me some time to go through all that stuff coming up in the mind as soon as we have to face the fact that we should think it over, there is some resistance also, we don't want to do it, I guess because we don't know if we understand it.
I began with the last sentence, with the conclusion. But how does it feel, if we look first at the beginning of that thought for the day?
In the dark night, the Moon can be seen through its own light only. The Lord is all Love, so He can be seen only through Love.
It was in the dark of night that the inner reflection was present as light in my dream, many years ago, but that doesn't matter on that level. And it was love and it felt very beautiful. The higher self was reflected as light, beauty and love. As soon as I remembered it, the feeling changed, because now I can see it in the light of my own life and experience.
But if we read that, we need to think it over to get in touch with those memories and our own experiences and dreams and Baba dreams in our life to get aware that there is a connection to that same experience as Baba has mentioned it in this sentence.
The first reaction listening to it is usually on the level of our mind and depending to our mind state just now in this moment, it can be denial, refusing it or just the feeling, I don't have the time to go into that now.
It makes inside passion come up, the challenge that we have to think it over. It is not that easy, because we don't know it good enough. But we have to find it in our own life anyhow.
That means we have done the first step. The challenge to see the vision of the moon in the night is not in the mind, but beyond the mind and a transcendental state. But if we got that far, we have done the first step, it is discrimination. (We already went beyond the resistance in the mind to go on that level now… and afterwards it gets fulfilling, because we begin to remember it in our own life.)
It is not a mind state of love, it is higher self love, it is divine love, to realize that is discrimination and on that level – it gets fulfilling. Now we have instead of resistance in our mind – enthusiasm and joy.
When the dust settles upon the glass of the lantern, it dims its light. Attachment to sensual objects and to the pleasure they give (Vyamoha) is the soot that dims the light of love in your heart.
If we manage to get over all our inner resistance and passion coming up in our mind to not do it, we will finally will be able to share the beauty. Even if it means we have to get aware of attachment and we don't want that too, because attachment is attached and that doesn't feel okay at all to get rid of it.
Even if we are old and diseased and tired and weak and debilitated, if we manage to go over all that in our mind…, we forget to count the years and the grieve over the advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death?
But just before I began to think about that thought for the day it was just present, exactly that. I was tired, fed up of getting older, sick of waiting, had enough of not knowing anything about that work and felt tired of hanging in the air …, I didn't like to think of my situation in the past, in the present and even less in the future and thinking of how to change something to go on differently in the future… that was all in my mind, until I got aware that it was my mind only and that I should rather think of the self.
So for now I went beyond it and I am aware of the difference between mind and being focused on the higher self. All those impressions in the mind are just part of the waves of the ocean and we need to be the ocean and dive into the deep silence and eternal reality of it.
And there is the joy to go beyond it, but there is also the pain to remember that tomorrow I will have to do the same again, because it will be again first mind only and I have to go over it, by getting aware of all those obstacles coming up in the mind, as it is just mind…
And that is how we got aware of the third step. We have to go on no matter what obstacles will be there.
It will be the same tomorrow again and after tomorrow, not what I really want and it will be again colored by all that coming up and getting aware and going on those three steps to realize it, that it is the mind only and that we go beyond the mind in time, the last part is the time factor, time decides when time itself is transcended.
That is probably the work I do here, just to keep busy. In the beginning it didn't make sense at all. But in the mean time I got that many insights by doing it, that there is no question about the value, it is great to listen, think it over and absorb.
It has to be seen in our own experience, our own life and that is only possible if we think it over and as he said yesterday, analyze it. It took me some time to go through all that stuff coming up in the mind as soon as we have to face the fact that we should think it over, there is some resistance also, we don't want to do it, I guess because we don't know if we understand it.
I began with the last sentence, with the conclusion. But how does it feel, if we look first at the beginning of that thought for the day?
In the dark night, the Moon can be seen through its own light only. The Lord is all Love, so He can be seen only through Love.
It was in the dark of night that the inner reflection was present as light in my dream, many years ago, but that doesn't matter on that level. And it was love and it felt very beautiful. The higher self was reflected as light, beauty and love. As soon as I remembered it, the feeling changed, because now I can see it in the light of my own life and experience.
But if we read that, we need to think it over to get in touch with those memories and our own experiences and dreams and Baba dreams in our life to get aware that there is a connection to that same experience as Baba has mentioned it in this sentence.
The first reaction listening to it is usually on the level of our mind and depending to our mind state just now in this moment, it can be denial, refusing it or just the feeling, I don't have the time to go into that now.
It makes inside passion come up, the challenge that we have to think it over. It is not that easy, because we don't know it good enough. But we have to find it in our own life anyhow.
- Discrimination.
- We have to find it in our own life.
- We have to go on no matter what obstacles are coming up.
That means we have done the first step. The challenge to see the vision of the moon in the night is not in the mind, but beyond the mind and a transcendental state. But if we got that far, we have done the first step, it is discrimination. (We already went beyond the resistance in the mind to go on that level now… and afterwards it gets fulfilling, because we begin to remember it in our own life.)
It is not a mind state of love, it is higher self love, it is divine love, to realize that is discrimination and on that level – it gets fulfilling. Now we have instead of resistance in our mind – enthusiasm and joy.
When the dust settles upon the glass of the lantern, it dims its light. Attachment to sensual objects and to the pleasure they give (Vyamoha) is the soot that dims the light of love in your heart.
If we manage to get over all our inner resistance and passion coming up in our mind to not do it, we will finally will be able to share the beauty. Even if it means we have to get aware of attachment and we don't want that too, because attachment is attached and that doesn't feel okay at all to get rid of it.
Remove the delusion and the fact that you have become old or diseased, or that you are weak and debilitated. Do not count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. Remember, despondency is hell, elation is heaven. Have always some work to do and do it so well that it grants you joy!
But just before I began to think about that thought for the day it was just present, exactly that. I was tired, fed up of getting older, sick of waiting, had enough of not knowing anything about that work and felt tired of hanging in the air …, I didn't like to think of my situation in the past, in the present and even less in the future and thinking of how to change something to go on differently in the future… that was all in my mind, until I got aware that it was my mind only and that I should rather think of the self.
So for now I went beyond it and I am aware of the difference between mind and being focused on the higher self. All those impressions in the mind are just part of the waves of the ocean and we need to be the ocean and dive into the deep silence and eternal reality of it.
And there is the joy to go beyond it, but there is also the pain to remember that tomorrow I will have to do the same again, because it will be again first mind only and I have to go over it, by getting aware of all those obstacles coming up in the mind, as it is just mind…
And that is how we got aware of the third step. We have to go on no matter what obstacles will be there.
It will be the same tomorrow again and after tomorrow, not what I really want and it will be again colored by all that coming up and getting aware and going on those three steps to realize it, that it is the mind only and that we go beyond the mind in time, the last part is the time factor, time decides when time itself is transcended.
If we get aware of it and are therefore, in the observer and not in the mind, we can go beyond it.
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