Greetings and welcome to Awakening With Brahma Kumaris
We are starting a new series today and Sister Shivani is with us. Welcome, Sister
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti and welcome to Soul Reflections.
Thank you.
The spirit within needs to be nurtured
And no amount of worldly glory or power or wealth
Is going to make one radiate.
Beautiful.
The spirit within. What does within mean?
Whenever we thought of who we are, we would see this physical body in the mirror.
We said the spirit within - the soul within - needs to be nurtured.
Spirituality taught to us - I am the soul who lives within this body.
So we will change it a little bit and say - I the spirit who lives in this body - I need to be nurtured daily.
The second line is very beautiful. No amount of wealth, power or glory can make me radiate.
Today the goal in our life has become earning money, name, fame, glory, and power.
When we forgot that we are the souls, the purpose of our life was only to achieve all this.
Because we got so involved with that purpose, we did not even think of nourishing the soul.
Waking up in the morning we say we need to get ready, drink coffee, have breakfast, leave for work and so on.
We also take care to water the plants.
Because we know that the water will nurture those plants.
Even the body needs tea, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Because they nurture the body. So we know about nourishment and nurturing.
We are also nurturing throughout the day, whatever needs to be nurtured outside.
We are nurturing our children, our body, plants and trees in our garden. Then we set out for work for the rest of the day.
What has been the purpose of our life?
I need power, I need wealth, I need name, fame, money.
What do we want to give our children?
Name, fame, money, power, good education.
Why good education? So that tomorrow they will earn name, fame, money, power - which is important.
We need money and power. But all these things are getting outside, while we earn them, if I the soul did not nourish myself.
The one who has to go out throughout the day and earn all the things
But it is not visible. If I do not put petrol in my vehicle, it will not move. If I do not water plants, they die.
If we do not water plants for 2 days, they start wilting. Today we have started to wilt or fade.
Today we have started to wilt. Even on small issues, we start becoming like this. This is also like wilting.
The moment situation comes, we become like this. Somebody says a word or two, we become like this.
Even if it does not show on our face, if we had that practice of not showing it, we need to check within at least.
Whether the flower within is blossomed or is it wilting even for small things.
God gives us a beautiful line - do not be like the Touch Me Not plant (Chui-Mui in hindi).
God says that our life has also become like that today. Somebody says something unpleasant, if there is a small situation, call a person's words for not to your liking, we start becoming like this.
Knowing that we are becoming like this, should we not take care to nourish ourselves? I nourish myself so that I remain blossomed like this throughout the day.
I met Dadi Gulzar at the centre. I always used to overthink. Dadi Gulzar said - "Always keep a smile on your face. And always keep a rose in your hand. You can see it and like it remains bloomed, you also be like that."
See, this is such a beautiful line.
I was expecting her to give a Mantra.
Now I realize that they cannot be a bigger Mantra then this.
How should I be the whole day? Like a blossomed flower.
Let us just see what a blossomed rose gives everybody. Fragrance and a smile.
A rose can be used for different situations. It can be used in a function. It can also be used while mourning over a dead body.
It means it can be used in happy occasion or a painful occasion.
During a victory, it is worn as a garland, and also when a person dies.
But how is the rose in both the situations? The flower is not changing.
You clarified the meaning even further. So Dadi Gulzar means that regardless of your situation, in whatever situation you are placed, remember to be like the rose.
And like the quotation that you just read - Radiate.
It radiates beauty, it radiates fragrance. We smile the moment we see it. It means the moment somebody meets us, what should they get from us?
Till here it is clear - we need to nourish ourselves, blossom like a rose, be happy and make others happy. But how to nourish the self?
How do you nourish plants and trees? With water.
How do you nourish the body? With food and water.
What do we give to the soul for its nourishment? The soul which drives the body does a lot of things throughout the day.
I the energy runs this body. We create thoughts and after thinking we take a decision. After taking a decision will bring it out into action through this body.
So the power or energy which operates this body is - I the soul.
My first responsibility is that I have to run this body.
Second, the whole day you are out in your work, whether it is acting or any other profession.
Who is the doer? The soul.
Before doing anything we need to think, take a decision and then bring it into action. Who does all these three things? I, the energy. I will do it through this body.
But I cannot do any work without thinking. When there is a thought created, then work can happen.
So whether it is a small task or a big task, the doer is I the soul.
We say the whole day we are busy earning money, power, fame, glory. Who is the one earning all of this? I the soul.
You said we are taking care of our kids the whole day. Who is the one taking care? I the soul.
Is there anything which I the soul is not doing?
The moment the soul leaves the body, the body cannot do anything on its own.
So the body cannot do anything, the responsibilities end, kids are there but you cannot help them. Because the energy has left.
Who is the one doing everything the whole day? I the soul.
A tree cannot survive without water, vehicle cannot move without fuel, mobile cannot function without being charged, the body cannot sustain without food. But I the soul - I am going on and on, doing everything without being nurtured. Today we have seen its results.
We are seeing the results. We started to get angry or upset even at small things. This means we the soul is wilting or faading.
It means a weak soul. Whom do we call a weak soul? When we are not nourished.
But sister with plants it is reversible. Even if it has wilted or started drying, if we water it for 2 days, it starts growing again.
It is same for the soul also. For many years or probably for many lifetimes we have not nurtured the soul.
We did not know the meaning of nurturing the soul.
Instead of using pure water, if we use impure water on plants.
The plant would die.
Similarly instead of nurturing the soul with whatever is healthy, if we feed it with things that are not right, then we will see the result of that also.
You said we were not aware that the soul needs to be nurtured. Still life was going on. We would wake up, get ready and go for work. We would come back in the evening and spend time with family.
The next day it would be the same routine. Life went on this way for many years.
We got angry at times or sad but we will be fine soon. Life went on. We could live with many people together. You could adjust with them but sometimes got angry at them, but again we were fine. Life was going on.
Even if we were not nurturing the soul, you not giving the soul many wrong things. Every morning we used to do Pooja or say prayers and the rest of the day used to be normal.
So even the few minutes of Pooja or prayer was nourishment for the soul.
The rest of the day would be ordinary. Sometimes a little up and down but best of it was fine.
Both mind and body were going fine.
There were very few treatments at that time as compared to what we have today.
But illnesses were also very few. Relationships were harmonious.
Sometimes a little here and there but otherwise fine.
If we see only in the last 15 or 20 years
We haven't nurtured the soul but we have started to feed the soul a lot of negative things
Which are harmful for the soul.
You might have seen in your own life span
For 50 years you may not have nurtured the soul much, but you did not feed the soul with much either.
We were going on like that. But if you look at the last 20 years
We have not nurtured the soul, but we have started to feed it with a lot of wrong things.
That is the inflow of Information and all kinds of media.
If you look at the present situation because of that
Mental illnesses and physical illnesses have increased.
Conflicts in relationships are increasing.
And yet even now we are not stopping to ask ourselves - what is the solution?
We are only talking about the problem.
Depression has increased, diabetes has increased, cardiac problems have increased, the divorce rate has increased. We are talking about all these.
Road rage has increased, abuse has increased, child abuse has increased. We are talking about all this and we read about all this.
What is the solution?
Nurturing the soul.
Once I had bought a new vehicle and wanted to have petrol field in it.
There were heavy rains and even flooding. So the petrol that he put in my vehicle that got mixed with water. It was so painful to get the vehicle repaired after that incident.
They are things which we can see and understand visibly. But what we are discussing today
We read about them but till now why did not know that the soul has to be nurtured.
Even if you are not nurturing plants and trees with water
This is what has happened in the last 15 to 20 years.
Why are children getting so influenced today?
Information. They are not getting nurtured. Schools are giving them an education. But the soul is not getting nurtured.
They are not getting nurtured but at a young age, they have iPads and iPhones in their hands.
They have gadgets. There is violence even in the cartoons which they are watching today.
If children start getting these things at a young age, when will the soul get nourished?
They learn things like "bad man" and say that to other children when they fight. They watch it there and say such things here.
Power of media.
From the quotation that you read, if our life goes on like this
If I the soul, continue doing everything that I have to do without nurturing myself.
If I do not nurture myself but I continue to execute all my responsibilities
And while executing my responsibilities, if I am not happy
I live a life of struggle.
It's going on, we are dragging ourselves to do things, we are tired but getting things done.
I am imagining the scene where we have a wrong fuel filled in the vehicle. So there is enormous smoke from the exhaust which is affecting the other vehicles behind the car.
Which means we are harming even the other generation.
Today we are seeing that the pollution levels in the city are increasing.
We are looking for all the solutions for this pollution - not to use certain vehicles older than 10 years, not to use a certain fuel and so on
But we are not looking for solution for this pollution.
And like you said, if you water the plants once again for just 2 days they will start growing and blooming again.
Similarly if you start nurturing the soul even for a few days, that soul will once again blossom.
That soul will get rid of depression, the mind will get rid of sorrows, body will start becoming healthy.
The dosage of medicine for BP will reduce, knee pain will reduce. That soul's relationships will become beautiful.
Sometimes when I look at the plants at home, it will seem as if it has completely dried up. But still, when I start nurturing it, just a small little leaf will start growing.
We spend a lot of time in our garden also every day.
If someone has to take care of his garden, he will at least spend half an hour there daily.
He will check every single plant. Even when he passes by the garden he will keep an eye on it.
So beautiful. Just see we're talking about plants in our house.
Besides we take care of the children, of the family and everything else without taking care of the Self
But if we first take care of ourselves and then take care of everything else, can we imagine how our quality of life will be?
Not only that, if we first take care of ourselves and then our children, that the quality of nurturing for the child will be different.
Today my soul feels like a dead body so I will use anger to teach my child.
But if the soul was nurtured, I would have taught him with so much love.
If you scolded him while teaching then you definitely did not nurture. But you did something else
Suppose you water a plant, being angry at it.
The poor plant will wilt or dry.
Poor plant. What about the child, will he not wilt?
We can see it when a plant dries.
Just for 4 days, give it water but also scold a plant.
Today we are feeding a child, but along with that we are scolding him. We ask the side to study but along with that we scold him.
Just like you water a plant but along with that you scold it.
This happened in a village. People sat around a tree and were cursing it. It died.
Anybody can experiment this.
The other day I met a lady. She has 2 staff members to water her garden.
One of them would water the plants with love. The other one would water it just for the sake of doing it, disinterested.
The lady said she could see the difference in the results.
I have an example from just 8 days ago.
Certain birds come to our balcony. Since we were out for a week I told my staff to regularly add grains in a bowl for the birds.
But when I came back the ball was still full, so I asked them how come the birds did not eat at all.
The staff told me not a single bird came. I said I was on a vacation but the birds were not.
The way or the thoughts with which the birds were given the grains matters. Not a single bird came. So after coming back, I sent them very pure thoughts.
I put away the old stuff and brought new ones so that the bird came back.
Beautiful. Whose influence was this on the birds?
The quality of the thought that the soul is radiating.
We can actually see the effects of these things. But we look at them and still walk away.
We see this and that happening, and then we move on.
But we are seeing the effect. When the effects of your thoughts can influence plants, birds animals, nature and on children
It is influencing our family and even our physical body. So how much will it affect our own self?
When your thought can influence another mind
Then how much will your thought influence your own mind?
Because we think about other people only for a few minutes. For how long can you think of a bird in an entire day?
Still it had an influence on the Bird.
But the thoughts that we are creating the whole day - how much will they influence our own self?
They went on affecting us again and again, and we are seeing its consequences life.
So today we need to stop and take back that line - I the spirit needs to be nurtured. I need to do it for myself.
Without taking care of it we cannot just go on. For how long can we sustain if we do not take care of this body?
Today we will finalize one thing - I the soul will start nourishing myself.
I am going to feed myself whatever is healthy.
So should we give good thoughts in this case?
You cannot give good thoughts to yourself. It cannot be given. Good thoughts are the result.
When you nurture the soul, good thoughts are the result.
Each of us needs to finalize for our self - if our thoughts are not pure or good
If we create anger or hurt or jealousy for somebody at small things, comparison, competition - if we get such thoughts
If we start thinking only about ourselves and cannot do anything for other people
These are all indicators that I the soul I'm not nourished.
When I the soul is not nourished, then any amount of wealth, glory or power cannot make me radiate.
I love this word Radiate.
Just like how Gulzar Dadi told me - to radiate like a rose.
What does a rose radiate - look at the color, look at the vibration, look at the fragrance.
It does not matter to a rose whether you keep it at somebody's feet, on a dead body or in a temple. No jealousy that I was kept here or there.
What it means is that - I the soul have achieved a lot externally.
But if I have not nurtured soul then I cannot radiate.
Today in order to radiate, what not are we trying to do to our body? We are doing so much for the face to look beautiful.
Just to look good.
We put drops into the eyes for it to sparkle. We use liners so that the eyes stand out or radiate.
But when we smile, it is not expressed in the eyes.
We are doing all these things to radiate, is it not?
But when they smile we can make out if it is a real one or not, from their eyes. Because the expressions show in the eyes.
One is that there is a smile on the face. Other is that the Soul or mind is smiling and that is showing on the face.
Both are completely different.
When just the lips smile, it cannot radiate because there is no vibration at all.
If you are sad from within but smile outside, what vibration will you radiate?
And it seems artificial.
The more a soul is deprived of nourishment and is weak, the more we need think outside of us. This is a simple equation.
The more I the soul am not feeling nice, the more I need other things and I will want to achieve more, and I will want to buy more expensive things - to feel better.
Suppose there is a plant which has started to fade or dry. It is placed at the side. And suppose you have a party at home.
The plant will not look attractive or good.
But there is a party or function so people are coming home. So what you would do is
You will have to decorate the plant externally.
Now just look at this plant. It is wilting from within. But we have put a lot of decorative items around it so that it somehow looks beautiful.
And other thing is, there is a rose plant around which you have not added anything to decorate it.
But that plant is radiating its originality and vibrancy.
Can you visualise the difference in both the plants?
One looks original and the other looks artificial.
This one is radiating its originality and the other is only covered with outer decorations though it is wilting from within.
Between these two we need to see which one our life matches with.
Which is our life between them?
Are we radiating from within? Or, are we doing things externally by earning name fame, wealth, expensive clothes, our position - and trying to decorate ourselves?
How much ever we try to decorate, which does not mean we should not achieve or not buy
Buy and achieve.
But however but you decorate, unless you radiate your originality (it does not matter). That quotation was very beautiful.
In the next episode I shall ask you how to radiate, Sister.
Thank you so much. Om Shanti.
Thank you.
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