Roohaniyat: 12-05-09
Good Morning South Florida and welcome to another spiritual morning. I, am Preet Sahi.
When I say: I am Preet Sahi: what comes to your mind: am I introducing myself to you? Identifying myself?
But what exactly, is my identity? Is it this face, which is changing constantly? If my face is changing constantly with time, as I age, my look changes. So does that mean that my identity also changes with time?
No, an identity never changes. The reason being that my identity is not this physical body. If tomorrow something happened to my physical look, it does not change who I am.
That is because I am NOT this physical body, I AM the SOUL inside this physical body.
It is a human tendency to relate to people via their faces. We identify people with their faces. Little do we realize that faces are merely a name-tag given to the soul when it is in a particular body form. The soul lives in a body form for a certain granted time and then it changes its body form. We all know that every living being will eventually die, but it is the soul that never dies.
In other words, the soul changes physical forms like we change clothes.
Life is like a drama stage. We are all playing the roles of certain characters. But we need to constantly remember who we really are. Hence, the significance, of self-realization.
In the material life, we become different individuals, when we meet different people. When we meet a learned person, our perspective is different towards him or her. We treat a rich person differently than we do a poor person. Why? That is because we identify them with their material identity, not their spiritual identity. If we meet someone who lives in a mansion, are we really relating to THEM, or to their mansion? If we meet someone who is very popular, are we really meeting that person, or are we meeting the popularity and the status? If we start to see that everyone's identity is through their soul and not their material existence, we would be treating everyone in a moral and an ethical manner.
Realize that every human being has a soul inside them, and that every soul is a part and parcel of the super soul. Then how can you afford to treat someone any less than the fact that God exists within them?
Not treating them right is indirectly not treating God right.
When people make mistakes or errors, it is their human nature. We ALL are humans and we ALL make mistakes. Our material life is led by the MIND and the mind drives us to make mistakes. But when we attack someone for their shortcomings, we end up not attacking their minds, but their identity itself: which is the SOUL.
God DID NOT give anyone, the right to attack anyone's soul. And we all need to learn, where to draw the line.
We all need to learn the difference between the mind and the soul.
A group of scientists decided to prove that Science could do it all and that God does not exist. So they made a human body with every little organ and functioning. This body had synthetic nerves and veins and all the functioning started just like normal, to the degree that with ivy food going in, even the hair and nails started growing. After the entire body started functioning like a normal body does, the scientists could not understand why the body does not stand up and walk or talk like other human beings. After months into this dilemma, they finally realized that they could create a human body, but they could not give it a MIND and a SOUL. The mind governs our material existence and the Soul IS the spiritual existence.
Our life is a constant battle between the mind and the soul. To win every battle, one side will always have to compromise and in this case, it would always have to be the MIND. It is very rightfully said that: Tan, man and dhan belongs to GOD: Our body, mind and wealth belongs to God. It takes some effort to surrender our body and wealth to God, But it takes a LOT of effort to surrender our mind to God. The Gurbani says: Man becche satgur ke paas, tis sewak ke karaj raas: If we can learn the art of surrendering our minds to the almighty, ALL of our problems, find solutions.
Remember: Don't tell God how big your problem is, tell your problem, how big your God is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
