Making Your Mind Your Best Friend

Reach for God Through All You Do!

You do not reach God through meditation alone. God is also found in appreciating happiness in your daily life. Enjoy everything you do in life…when you drive to work, when you work in your office, when you spend time with your family. Appreciate everything as a gift from God. When you wash dishes you are doing the work with the help of dishwashing powder, water, etc. Things that are a gift from the universe. Enjoy them thoroughly.

When you continuously enjoy the hours of regular existence, God will slowly reduce your burdensl you will have more time for matters of the spirit. But, if you work hard with contempt towards work, you may get more money or higher promotion, but you make little progress spiritually.

You may ask, can I not get God realization faster through meditation than through work? Do not believe those who do 8-10 hours meditation daily are progressing faster spiritually. Sometimes those people may regress by developing pride. You came to the world not only for yourself. Your wife, son, mother, and society, all have reasonable and useful expectations from you. Do not think you can go to a quiet monastery, or deep in the jungle, and automatically find peace. There are problems there, too. Find God through your daily life, by finding happiness in everything you do now.

Your body cries like a child for your attention and love, your mind longs to have your presence and participation in the thought process, your breath longs to have the company of your watchful loving gaze! If you always deprive yourself at these levels of your life, then you continually suffer from stress and inner dissatisfaction, discontent.

Just reverse the process! Meditate, feel with your heart the gifts of body-mind-breath. See what difference you can create to your Spirit and your overall health. What antidote can you find that will neutralize and eliminate the stress other than RELAXATION?

When you are conscious of your body, your mind and breath, you are relaxed, happy, and calm. When you are conscious of your body, your mind and breath, you do not generate negative stress. You are functioning from the reference point of your Spirit within and not from the capricious ego.

When you grow more aware of your thoughts, when you practice intensely watching your inner world of thinking, when you do not condemn, criticize or judge, you will gradually find your thoughts will gradually lose their randomness. You will be able to see your thoughts. You will see them separately appearing on your mental screen. You will be able to find the gap between two thoughts. As you are able to find the gap between two thoughts, know that gap is the silence. The silence that is between two thoughts is the deepest Silence of this whole Universe.

All spiritual practices, all meditations done to identify the gap that exists between two thoughts. As you practice meditation, you will be able to extend the gaps between thoughts. They will start out as very small gaps, small gaps that quickly disappear. But as you observe your thoughts, deeper and deeper, watching with more and more intense awareness of your emotions, as you open your heart and your whole being, you will find your thoughts will gradually come to make a kind of friendship with you.

Meditation will no longer be stressful for you. It will no longer be painful for you. You will, for the first time, realize you are separate from your thoughts. This is an intense experience in human existence. Know that you are separate from your thoughts.

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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If you feel hurt by someone you thought was your friend, know that the hurt is really in your imagination. Your best friend is not outside of you, it is within you. The best friend you have is your own focused and illuminated mind.

So long as you are groping in the dark alleys of your unconscious mind, you will cling to externals, to utopias that cannot last. Life is trying to reveal a deeper truth to you. Whenever you find yourself nurturing a sense of injury, look more deeply within. Discovering that you have your best friend within will allow you to move beyond superficialities. Accept and be grateful for the lesson and reminder.

Forgiving comes from your deep understanding. The Universe forgives you all the time for your own innumerable mistakes, whether you commit them knowingly or unknowingly. You trample over many living insects and creatures without feeling their pain. You hurt people, often without having the slightest idea of the impact of your actions, your attitudes, your words, or your own ego. In spite of this, the Universe allows you infinite chances to improve, to scale the heights of conscious awareness, so that you can discover and experience true joy in life.

It is always in the present moment, when you are bathed in divine grace and light, that forgiveness flows. It arises from the deep awareness of your need to simply let go of all sense of injury. It comes from realizing the truth of the lessons life is revealing to you. Realize that you have so much more in your life. Your sense of injury will naturally dissolve into your more expansive awareness. So, without the slightest concern, forgive and move on to higher things.

For more information on Babaji's work, see www.feelinghearts.org.
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