The Subtle Role Play Of Thoughts & Visuals (Part 2)
The quality of a soul’s thoughts and images creates depends on the soul’s sanskars. Depending on the quality, the soul experiences various different emotions, whether positive or negative. When the soul first incarnates on the physical world stage from the soul world, because its sanskars are of a higher quality at that time, the quality of this role play of thoughts and images is pure and positive, hence it experiences only positive emotions like peace, love, and joy. As it plays its different roles through different physical bodies and comes down in the birth-rebirth cycle, this quality reduces, leading to the experience of emotions like peacelessness, hatred, and sorrow.
➤A point worth noting is that the key to any deep emotional experience, whether positive or negative, is the creation of thoughts as well as images related to that particular emotion at the same time e.g. think and visualize at the same time, the death of a close relative that took place ten years ago and you immediately have a deep experience of sorrow.
➤Think and visualize together, a loving hug from your mother that took place in your childhood, and you immediately experience deep happiness. This type of coordination between these two subtle processes is true concentration. The key to any type of spiritual experience is making these two processes spiritually positive.
➤The Rajyoga meditation that is taught at the Brahma Kumaris, is a spiritual thought process in the mind accompanied by a spiritual visualization process in the intellect, in which thoughts and images of the spiritual self (or soul) and the Supreme Being (or Supreme Soul) are created together to experience the original qualities of the spiritual self and the eternal qualities of the Supreme Being – peace, joy, love, bliss, purity, power and truth.
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Message for Today
"To forgive oneself is to have the power to forgive others"
Points to think about:
When others make mistakes, it can be difficult to forgive them. We have a tendency to recall them to ourselves over and over again. Although we try hard to understand why they did wrong , we often find it hard to understand. When we cannot understand the behavior of others , we find it difficult to forgive them.
Procedure:
When I love myself, and when I can learn from everything that happens , I can forgive myself. I can use what I learn to improve. I can understand other people's point of view and I can forgive them.