Why is it important to raise ourselves to higher states of understanding? Bhagawan lovingly explains with a beautiful analogy.
Today's Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam.
If you stand at the same level as the ocean and look at it, it will appear as a vast sheet of water. On the other hand, if you look at the same ocean from a height, it will appear like a lake. Similarly, since the rishis (sages) were on a higher level in spiritual knowledge and away from the world, they could recognise this vast world as a very small and insignificant entity. When at a lower level, one thinks that the world is big, important and manifold. The diversity and the differences will be seen more clearly. But when one evolves to a higher state, everything will look smooth, small and even. When we have a narrow vision, our country, our people, our languages will all appear as full of problems and differences. If you can go to a high place and look at the world, it will appear in one unified aspect and all the people and all languages will appear as one.
"Oftentimes you give others the opportunity to create your happiness, as many times they fail to create it the way you want it. why? because only one person can be in charge of your joy, of your bliss, and that's you. so even your parent, your child, your spouse-- they do not have the control to create your happiness. they simply have the opportunity to share in your happiness. your joy lies within you."
Break through all the barriers and feel that you Are Blessed. This Is The One And Only Step You Have To take - the rest will all happen. This deep sense of feeling that "I am blessed" can help you overcome any obstacles in life. It gives you courage and confidence and it will open your lid for grace to be poured in. Once you realize that you are blessed, then: All the complaints disappear All the grumbling disappears All the insecurities disappear A sense of feeling unloved disappears Wanting love disappears. If you don't realize you are blessed, then the doership begins. If you want to make a difference in your life, feel you are blessed. And especially for those on this path of knowledge, there is no reason for you to not feel blessed. So, feel you are blessed. This is the first step towards the Self.
Q: My head is filled with too many thoughts. I don't know what to do. Please suggest something.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If your head is filled with too many thoughts, lie down on the floor and keep rolling and you will see the circulation in the body improves. When circulation improves then the mind feels better. That is the reason they do shayana pradakshinam (a form of worship done by rolling on the floor). Experience it and see how there is a change in your mind. It was a part of the course in the olden days. In Canada, there were grass hills and people would roll on the hill. It was very safe, no stones around, only grass. When you roll on the ground, all fears and anxiety will go away
Take a look at your life, the things you like and the things you don’t like about your current reality. Do you want to change your entire life? Sometimes we feel stuck and we just need a little shift in perspective to begin to change our reality into something we are excited to experience.
To do this we need to change something. If you keep doing the same thing and expecting different results then you are experiencing the definition of insanity according to Albert Einstein. So what is it that we need to change?
Often the answer to life’s questions are contained in their opposites. What I mean by that is you have to shift your focus from what you have always done and look at the opposite action. If you keep doing what you are doing then you will keep getting what you are getting in life.
Changing your thinking will work its way down into changing your life but in order to change your thinking often you have toopen your mind to new ideas and concepts that are so far outside of your typical reality that they may seem strange or uncomfortable.
Being uncomfortable or feeling awkward is often the result of bouncing up against one of the walls of your mental boxes. We want to grow, expand our awareness, achieve our dreams and become more spiritual but in order to do this we have to redefine and remove our mental boxes.
So as a practice, tell your inner voice to listen to what I am about to say, breathe it in and feel what the idea means. Pretend for one moment it IS true so that you can experience the impact of this new idea in your life.
The present is not the result of the past, and the future is not the result of the present.
What does this mean? Well I am going to allow the channeling of Bashar to shed some light on this before I continue. Check out this short yet mind blowing explanation about the power you have over your reality right now!
If you want to change your whole life you can decide in this moment to be adifferent person. You can start right now to be 100% the new person you want to be and manifest the life that version of yourself has. You literallyFake it until you become it.
Now this may sound hard to you. If so that is ok let me give you some tricks that can help you maintain your new self.
1. Physical Reality- One thing you can do is to change up your physical reality. Get a new set of clothes, redecorate, reorganize, or repaint. Redo your physical reality to remind you of the new vibration you are moving into as a person.
Transform the physical reality by putting up pictures, crystals and inspirational quotes around your home or work space to help stabilize and solidify the new you. Remove anything from your reality that doesn’t align with your new life as soon as possible.
2. People. Tell the people closest to you about who you are becoming now. Ask for their support for you as you practice each day being your new self. Ask for them to empower and support you in your growth and show them that you are different each day through your actions and support of them in their own growth. If you want support give support, its how the universe works best.
People accidentally become used to us being what they remember of us and sometimes aid the boxes in keeping us from growing.
If you are really struggling with getting support or supporting the growth of the people around you I recommend an amazing book about getting outside of the box and helping empower others as well called Leadership and Self Deception.
3. Shift to an Alternate Timeline. If you want your reality to change you have to allow it to change. Change your now focus, your now moment, your now reaction to this article, and then you will start seeing evidence each day that your reality is different. When you change yourself the people around you will begin to change too, support their change withlove and encouragement.
4. Live your new life! The more you shift your attention and focus into being the new you, the quicker your reality will start to look and feel different. The biggest thing I have done to change my life is to be myself, raw and unfiltered. You deserve the very best life and you are the one who can unleash yourself right now and begin to be the real you.
In the comments below I would love to hear about your experiences, your shifting and how you are going to live this now moment as the version of yourself that you want to be.
An affectionate disposition not only calms the mind, it’s good for our physical well-being too. On the other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear disturb our peace of mind, they make us agitated physically and mentally. Such agitation is disturbing, which shows that the need for peace of mind is in our blood.
