Roohaniyat: 7-31-10: Good Morning South Florida and welcome to few spiritual words on Roohaniyat.
We all know that it is wrong to tell lies, yet we do. We all know that it is wrong to hurt other's feelings, we still continue to do so! We all know that God is constantly watching us, yet we continue to do wrong!
Why is it that we read something in our scriptures, but never follow it? We ask God to bless us, yet when he asks us to live right in return, we never follow through with our own share of spiritual responsibility! We ALL know what is right and what is wrong, yet we fall prey to what our mind feels like doing. Instead of the mind following our instructions, we follow the mind. Our brain should tell us the difference between right and wrong, and the mind should do what we tell it to do. Instead, we have become the slaves of the mind and the Mind: mind you, is very clever: it always tends to sway us away from the truth.
In the small Texas town of Mount Vernon , Drummond's Bar began construction on a new building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.
The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds
that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise in its reply to the court. As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork.
At the hearing he commented, 'I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and an entire church congregation that doesn't.'
We all have reached a point where we become something else when we are in a spiritual environment, yet once we step out of a temple, church, satsang, etc. we become someone totally different: someone trying to fit into the materialistic world.
Ask yourself: Are you a spiritual person trying to fit into the materialistic world? Or are you a materialistic person trying to fit into the spiritual world?
What God wants from us is to be pure in both the worlds. Be pure and sincere both from the inside and outside. Always believe that cheating someone for some extra money is ultimately not going to be worth the burden on your conscience. If you believe that you are tough enough that you can't be bothered by a conscience, then someday you might find yourself in a situation where the burden becomes so heavy that your soul will want out and will make you realize how heavy the burden has become.
It is actually a lot easier to live a clean, pure and truthful life, than to complicate it with lies, fraud and impurities. It is just a matter of surrendering to God and seeking His blessings to help us live right.
Take a general rule of thumb: Open up the scriptures that you believe in: no matter which religion you belong to, read them, and live like they tell you to. Just follow the scriptures, because they are the word of God, sent to us via our prophets: that is how God wants us to live. The only thing to keep into consideration is that we need to know God we worship. We need to understand the scriptures and we need to create a strong willpower, which will keep us motivated to always do the right thing, no matter what the consequences.
If we indulge in thinking ill of others, we cannot be happy ourselves. One who always looks at others' failings, finds faults in others to disgrace them in the eyes of other people, cannot be called a devotee. He cannot be a happy and prosperous person. If on the other hands one points out failings and weaknesses of a person with an earnest desire to help him, then we should all pray that nothing untoward happens to him. We should also make sure that what has disgraced anybody, should not happen to us. One who has such feelings in him, is never disgraced or dishonored. In reality he is a true disciple.
"Make a mind which never minds. Make a heart, which never hurts.
Make a touch which never pains & make a relation which never ends"
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The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds
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