2-19-15 Source of Human Joy











































































































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The centre focus of our life is spiritual growth and peace, then all other things will be around that. Your first and foremost commitment in life is to be with the Truth, to evolve in Truth.   Sri Sri

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Chicago, US of A, 2015.
Teacher Prolotheos.
Subject: “Sources of Human Joy”

Received by Valdir Soares.

Prolotheos:
“Primitive man, evolved from the lower primates, was rarely capable of expressing real joy. Nonetheless, the capacity of manifesting joyous feelings has always been a feature of the human personality. In fact, only after the genetic upstepping by the Adamites did humans become more joyful creatures. The sense of the ludicrous is an important dimension of human life and its regular enjoyment provides the necessary equilibrium with the more serious and strenuous activities of daily living. The importance of entertainment activities is well acknowledged in the Morontia Worlds by the existence of a special recreation corps called the Reversion Directors, whose ministry of diversion is most appreciated by all classes of beings. We may distinguish three primary sources for human joy.

“Joy from Entertainment.
Humans love entertainment. Anything that can attract their attention and make a pleasurable pastime falls in the category. Inside every person there is a child who loves to play and have fun if given the opportunity. In your present technological stage, your main source of entertainment is television. However, watching television is a passive and stationary activity and should be counterbalanced with more interactive and dynamic activities like sports and varied sorts of play. Human wit can be greatly enhanced in entertainment and it can be very effective in producing mood improvement in your species, which is highly beneficial to life in general.

“Joy from Accomplishment.
The drive for accomplishment is the main producer of meaningful experiences for human beings responsible for all progress in human civilization and, therefore, is an important source of joy. When Andon kindled his first flame of fire, his joy was so great that he almost lost the fire in his celebrating it. Science and Arts are fields that provide the most opportunities for achievement and recognition for the individual with consequent joy. However, social sciences and the family life also can be excellent sources of joy when one cares for the well-being of his or her neighbors and family members. Human beings indeed could better realize and better benefit from the great joy that derives from loving one another!

“Joy from Pleasure.
Consider these four basic forms of pleasure: Physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. They are all intertwined, but the most satisfying is spiritual pleasure through the experience of revelation, service and most importantly, worship — the most sublime pleasure of all. Revelation of truth excites the intellect; service brings the joy of love; and worship ensues the overwhelming satisfaction of communion with the Father of all. Meanwhile emotion is a way to express all of these. Physical pleasure is important, but temporary, both in duration and existence. Here on High, such a sensual gratification will be replaced by the pleasures from the morontia senses and spiritual perceptions.

“As you can see, my pupil, the experience of joy in life is not futile and a waste of time. Joy fulfills a need in human beings and it is the very expression of personal happiness — a state or experience that all beings are entitled to pursue. Joy must always be spontaneous, sincere and commensurate. There is a superior joy residing beyond the outer laughter, even the entrancing ecstasies or the most breathtaking emotion, that is, the genuine joy that comes from real inner peace, expressions of love and true spiritual worship. I am Prolotheos, your friend and tutor on High. Peace be with all.”

Edited by Linda Abell.

© The 11:11 Progress Group.
You lit a Flame, and it will become a Raging Fire — ABC-22.


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Heavenletter #5200 How to Become a Prince or a Princess, February 19, 2015

God said:

How can it be that a drop of rain in a limpid pool with lotuses is so heartrendingly beautiful? Or blue eyes? Or green or brown or hazel eyes? Or rosy cheeks?

If a limpid pool can be so beautiful, what on Earth makes you think you are not? Not only do many of My children believe they are not beautiful, they do not even believe that they ever could be beautiful.

When this is the case, and this is the majority of the cases, then My children look outside themselves for a sense of self-worth. And, thus, My children may become too obliging, too willing to win approval and acceptance from another. And so sometimes this is how My children go down paths they would not of themselves choose. With self-avowal, they would not.

When you do not think highly enough of yourself, you may do anything to gain even a semblance of love from anywhere it is offered. You think you need it. You think you have to have it. You think you cannot live without it. And so you sell yourself down the river. You give yourself a placebo of comfort and trade in the truth of your Beautiful Self. You may have felt relegated to being unloved anyway.

I almost said that you might sell your soul for even a tiny possibility of a little light. Thankfully, you cannot sell your soul. That is only an expression. You can’t trade your soul, and you can’t give it away. You can give away your own free will and believe in decisions made by others. You can give your present life away for the price of a song when you feel and accept that you don’t amount to anything anyway.

And so there are addictions to people or to alcohol or drugs or all manners of will-lessness and outer directedness. And thus you may prove to the world that you aren’t much, and you can consciously or unconsciously say: “See, I was right. I’m not worth anything anyway.”

Or, with a negligible sense of self-worth, you may go into hiding right in front of everyone and do your best to become invisible.

Yet, even in these garbled ways, there is purpose. You grow to freedom. Your life could be a lesson for someone else. You might grow out of this and directly help many get out of this crunch they may well have found themselves in. You cannot know what blessing you have bestowed. You know the heartache you have but not the blessings. If you run away from yourself your whole lifetime, the good in it for you could be that you will never do that again in another lifetime. Absolutely not.

Or, with a negligible sense of self-worth, you may go on a tirade against those who went down a path you would never. Your self-disappointment may be projected outward and you disdain those who have gone in a direction you are so vehemently opposed to.

There are all sorts of things My children may do to distract themselves from their undervaluing of their very own selves. Of course, you are not your own self when it comes down to it. You are far from your own self. You do not know yourself or respect yourself as you would had you some awareness of your innate value to yourself, to Me, and the world. Beloved, what you could be, you can be.

You can be Cinderella in the ashes and become a princess. It is your inalienable right to become a princess or a prince.

I see your bright light which is identical to the light of angels. Now you know who you are when you are true to your God-given self and when you are not.


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Sivananda Daily Reading


20 February

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:09 AM PST

Epistle of Swami Sivananda - 1
What is divine life? To shed the animal in man and to sublimate the human in him to the divine; to express the sublimation in his daily life, in his hourly life, in thought, word and deed. That is divine life.
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To pray, to do japa (repetition of God's name), to sing His glory, to do kirtan (chanting), to meditate on the Lord, is divine life.
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Treat all kinds of work, domestic, official, etc., as service of God. Surrender all your actions and their fruits to the Lord. Give up agency. Feel you are an instrument in the hands of the Lord. 
Actions will not bind you. Your heart will be purified. The grace and light of God will descend on you.
This is the way to spiritualise all your actions. See God in all beings and things. See the world as a manifestation of God. It is not necessary to abandon the world in order to have a vision of God, because the world itself is a manifestation of God.
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Listen! Wake up now. Develop dispassion. Do sadhana (spiritual practice). Beware of the senses. Become desireless.
Understand life. Live divinely. Seek good company. Fear not. Waste not time. Depend on God.
Spiritual discipline is the key to God-realisation. Discipline the body and the senses and the mind.
May you attain God-realisation now and here.
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Be regular in keeping your spiritual diary. Spiritual progress will be greatly quickened. Kindly be regular in sending me a copy of your diary at the end of each month for review and further instructions. I am immensely pleased to note your regularity in sadhana.
Go to bed early (10 p.m.) and get up early (4 a.m.). The early morning hours are most favourable for meditation.
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Understand life's supreme purpose. Seek the eternal. Realise the underlying essence.
Have intense thirst for liberation. Die to live. Discipline the mind. Have self-control.
Learn to be wise. Make the best use of this human birth. Realise the oneness of existence.

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