Making Your Mind Your Best Friend

Trust is deeper than just faith. It is indeed the most powerful gift God has given each human soul as he travels down the path of Truth Eternal.

In any relationship, trust is fundamental. Further, it is the foundation required for long-lasting love, friendship, and cooperation. It is not an accident that you start to trust somebody deeply. Trust has a karmic connection. The souls in a trusting relationship come to pay or collect the debts of previous lives.

When you start to trust someone, you invest lots of your energy to strengthen the bond. When trust begins between imperfect minds, with different tendencies and expectations, it often fails. In the end, you feel your trust has been betrayed. When trust begins between two souls who have much common and positive light to share with each other (due to the karmic connection), the relationship can remain strong and satisfying.

Your question is: should you trust everyone completely? Well, this is not likely! You cannot trust everyone completely because you do not have your karmic connection for that. It is an ideal and desirable philosophy to say that you could or should trust every one without any judgment. But is that philosophy practical and possible in a real world?

The stepping stones toward trusting others begin when you start to trust the Divine without any judgment. Offer the egocentric mind to the Divine without any conditions. It is only after you have practiced such surrender and inner purification that trust blossoms from the subconscious levels to spread its aroma all around to touch many, many other souls who are traveling along side you in the path of light.

You cannot force trust; trust has to blossom. In a higher state of mind it will blossom naturally, for you are able to see the Divine in everyone and in everything. How could you judge or get repulsed? Like the Ganges River, trust flows and touches everyone, wrapping them up in your divine love. Trust appears to me, in its pure form, as a divine romance. Divine romance is possible only in a heart filled with the intoxication of true love. Which is, of course, Divine Love.

Learn to trust the Divine residing in each and every human soul until such time that your ability to find fault is transformed by removing the cataracts of Maya and the illusive potency of Nature. It is only by becoming more and more anchored in your Spirit, through regular mediation and prayer, that you can reach the stage of divine love which manifests as compassion and love for all beings, beyond attractions and repulsion, beyond the dualism of ignorance.

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Happiness and Love

You cannot please everyone in the world and be happy within yourself. But, you can please the Self within you, the You in you, and be happy for ever.

As long as you work from the plane of mundane consciousness, you will tend to do things for others and to have expectations of them. Consequently, at some point, you will feel exhausted and cheated. These feelings are really tricks of your ego. But, if you learn to be true to Yourself, true to your own consciousness, you will not stretch expectations of others beyond a certain level, lest you lose the sight of the point of balance.

The best way to cope is to learn the balance in life. Your spiritual objective is to attain that balanced state, that awareness, which keeps you calm and focused, so that you know how much you can stretch yourself to help another. Your true spiritual practice creates the stable ground of your mind from which you actually draw your happiness and joy in life.

It is not praise from other people that will provide a solid base on which you can build your home of joy. Your base is the experience and the awareness of the Spirit within you. The Spirit gives you the power to truly love, for love would happen to you as fragrance to flowers. You would never get exhausted because love is supplied by the infinite source of the Universe, and not from the capricious judgment of your ego self or dependence on the opinions of others.

Wake up to the reality that true happiness is found in the balance of your Mind, Body, and Spirit. To reach a this balance, you must first work to create a solid ground within your own mind. You must fine tune yourself to appreciate the Higher realities and realize the Power to share without expectation or judgment.

Love and infinite blessings from Baba!

Talking about spirituality in the workplace may be counterproductive, unless you are very sure the other person shares the same vibration with you. But, even in silence, always try to dwell on the positive field; and with love, understanding, and calmness, try to open the hearts of others. In this way, you are living spirituality, and not talking about it.

You cannot transform negativity with negativity. You cannot fight darkness with darkness. Light is the needed ingredient in order to transform attitudes. In the workplace, you need to be appreciative of different manifestations of human nature, different shades of darkness and light. We can manage machines easily. But not humans.

When you are in a reactive field of mind, you are already angry. With anger and negativity, you can not trigger positive energy in others. What is needed is the power to understand the cause of negative behavior of your co workers. If you approach the situation with understanding, love, and appreciation, then you can help the negative person to see value in your positive frame of mind.

You don’t have to resolve the issue with the person then and there. Wait for your time. Maybe in a friendlier situation, you can raise the issue and address the cause with ease and harmony. Here you are not imposing, but creating the energy field in which the negative person can open up to positive light that you have.

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