Make Mercy and Compassion your Friends
In the early morning, practice such a level of silence that when you go to your work place you will continue to carry the experience of silence that you achieved here with you. Firstly, we practice being quiet and then we go into the experience of peace. When we go deeper into that peace, we experience silence.
So what should I do if I need peace? Let me experience silence in such a way that it becomes very natural. When someone is tired they cry over little things. If they don’t cry, they suppress and this leads to depression. What is the solution for this? Nowadays, so many people are depressed. This is because they don’t have the art of thinking. They think internally about all the things that are external. Just as pollution pollutes an entire area and if it is really bad people cannot breathe, so too, the pollution of the wrong type of thoughts becomes a type of cloud in the mind. This cloud knows no boundaries and can
seep into the entire mind. To deal with this, it is important to firstly have mercy for your own self. When you have mercy for yourself and put yourself right, you will feel as if you want to remove the suffering of others. God is known as the Remover of Sorrow and Suffering. I am His child and I also know how to remove the pain and suffering of others.
Many people have feelings of mercy but because of ego they are compelled to act in another way. This is why it is very important to be humble. Learn how to make compassion and mercy your friends. Bring them into your every thought and every action. If you want to be happy then firstly have mercy and compassion for yourself. If someone creates a situation of peacelessness then just keep quiet. Remember; first comes quietness and then peace. Be quiet and you will automatically become peaceful. Don’t become quiet because you are suppressing something but because you understand many things and are wise. Someone who is wise realizes that that they can become successful using this method.
If you just keep quiet because you are suppressing everything then at some point you will explode. In fact human beings have lost the practice of being quiet. They see and hear things and find it very difficult to remain quiet. They react rather than keeping quiet. Just remain quiet and you will develop the nature of being peaceful. Then, whenever you want to practice silence you will feel it is easy for you to become completely free from everything external and to move into silence. In your freedom you will be able to go into the depths of silence.
When you get disturbed by things outside you leave the work on your self half done. Realise the benefit of going deeply into silence.
There are different levels of silence. The feeling of dead silence is when you move away from the body. I, the soul sit inside the body and see everything as if it is on the outside, while I remain deep inside. In this type of silence you become totally detached from the body. In this stage of dead silence, whenever you want to go inside and pick up different treasures within the self, you are able to do so; you can pick up diamonds, gold and other treasures.
Going deep in this way enables the soul to find a lot inside the self. Once you learn how to access these things inside then you can come out of silence and bring them to others.
When a situation comes in front of a very experienced doctor or lawyer, they don’t refer to their books but rather keep a moment of silence when they go within. By going inside themselves they automatically come up with a solution.
It is essential for us to accumulate the power silence. Why? Because if you have not accumulated silence, all external upheavals will pull you towards themselves and create sorrow.
In everyone’s life there are many people and there are as many situations. If
there is attachment, then when something changes or someone goes away for some reason, you will feel a loss. The soul experiences a shock through such loss. Silence allows us to move away and to separate ourselves from what is external.
Silence teaches us to become detached. It is a very subtle thing but most people are very attached to their own ideas. People are so attached to their ideas that if their ideas are not respected or put into practical, they experience pain. If someone rejects your idea you feel disregarded and that is painful. This creates sorrow. The solution to this is that we have to learn to give our ideas and then remain detached. Whether it happens or not, I have to remain detached.
Attachment can be extremely subtle. For example, if you are attached to a person or to any physical possession, then when you move away from that attachment you will not be able to concentrate fully on what you have to do because the thing will pull you towards itself. As a result, it will take you time to adjust.
Nothing stays the same and when something that you are attached to changes you will feel that you are being shaken. Some feel this all the time because they are attached to so many things. When someone is attached they are not able to move forward spiritually. This is why to be detached on this path is essential because it is a path in which we need to be constantly moving. How can you move if you are stuck to anything or anyone? On the journey of life it is good to be able to move freely and lightly - so now practice being detached.
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Dadi Janki
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