Tiny Buddha@tinybuddha "Since you alone are responsible for your
thoughts, only you can change them." ~Paramahansa Yogananda Retweet by F.Andries
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In honour of Ascension Day
(symbol of the victory of the spiritual over the material, of God over the
devil, of the eternal over the earthly evolution) I will comment on this.
Paramahanse Yogananda is a loving and great saint of the East.
His saying is a key to change.
The Catholics have an old
saying: your first thought is from the devil, your second is yours.
So to say everything can
come into your mind, and everything can give rise to it, a beautiful woman, a
bad experience, a remark of a colleague, you name it, really everything. In
fact your mind is just an antenna and you do not realize enough everything can
come in. You are in touch with the whole world, an earthquake so the speak can
lead to cold sweat on a sensitive person in Basingstoke-West.
But the point of this
saying is. Are you going into this thought yes or no, are you grasping this
thought, yes or no, are you getting attached to this thought, yes or no. And
then the real issue will occur : then it is your thinking, then it will be part
of your ego, then your will shall strengthen the process. And then the saying
is in force. Your first thought is from the devil, your second is yours.
So the second and next thought
is yours. That’s your responsibility, and there the whole process of own
choices, willpower, self-will, free will, self-conceit and attachment gets its
value. And in the spiritual world the free will of mankind is utterly cherished
so this brings Us to:
"Since you
alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them"
So you for yourselves have
to change your world of thoughts. No one else has the power to do it. One can
try to influence you, manipulate you, inform you improperly, this all will be
food for your thought, but at the end no one can call the shots of your
thinking, and no one can really change your thinking, that’s up to you.
Your choice for purity, for
God, for your inner self, for your spiritual freedom, for your spiritual
liberation, for your surrender to the eternal life, for your essential loving
future in the spirit is all up to you.
And when I as “My God” of
Frenkie are doing one thing to Frenkie it is this.
Showing him how he out of
free will can choose for the Kingdom of God on earth. Showing him, that he for himself
is asking for all the confrontations, corrections, suggestions, painful messages
on his thinking, so that’s what I am giving him.
So now you all know for
yourself you can choose for the Kingdom of God. Wonder then if this is what you
want, really want, and then wonder what you are going to do about it? No one
else can do it for you.
My blogs indeed have only
one message. And here it is. To impress you on the promise of limitless
happiness, endless possibilities and a pure and powerful inner life, but that’s
only the case if you are wanting this. Otherwise We will wait a little bit
more.
My blessing to you all
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Patanjali “The only worthwhile accomplishments are not
those we achieve outwardly, but the victories we win over ourselves.”
The
only true victory of a man is when he conquers himself. Patanjali has
proclaimed this to mankind already a few thousand years ago and in the last
century it is repeated in the west by Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Eastern
yogi who has enriched the West with his eastern acquired knowledge and
insights.
Man is a marvelous creature, full of dreams and insights and talents.
Specially wealthy countries in the world have become masters of the matter, of
technique, of science, of human knowledge, of democratic developments.
This is a true achievement. The successes of mankind on practical, social and
economic fields, made mankind recently believe the world was manageable.
The
persistence of poverty in the world, unrest in a lot of countries, the
environmental crisis and the economic crisis show mankind there is still a long
way to go. Mankind could be helped by this ancient wisdom of Patanjali.
"The only worthwhile accomplishments are not those we
achieve outwardly, but the victories we win over ourselves"
It is
a spiritual law that the outer world more or less corresponds with the inner
world.
God says simply this to you: when you should tackle the turmoil and chaos and
confusion and limitations in your inner world, the outer world would certainly
respond. Of course not directly because the relationship between the spiritual
world and the material world, between the inner and outer world, between mind
and body is a complex one and is depending on many factors.
Victory
of the inner world? What can that be?
Why don’t you look around: people are generally spoken well dressed,
well fed, well educated, well housed and well informed.
But
at the same time you all are very much struggling with your attachments and
addictions.
- Seniors who drink too much
- Children who have overweight
- Smokers who can not stop
- TV viewers going to bed tired after 6 hours a day watching passively,
cluttered with advertisements and moderate programs
- Parents of children with two jobs, two cars, two holidays a year, who “are
loosing oneselves”
- Overcrowded shopping centers and empty churches
- Economic growth as the only foundation of society
- The environment as the victim of this growth.
This rich and saturated outer world, silted up with luxury which has captured
your heart, at the expense of the inner man, has had of course its day. We, in
the spirit, are already seeing the dawning of a new day, but for you people the
night is still ahead and to overcome.
Our advice is consider your inner self and look around and see the desperation of the vulnerable, the turmoil of the elderly, the powerlessness of the youth. The attachments, addictions and the despair resulting from this are controlling you more than you want to admit.
Create for yourself inner calm and silence and space and wisdom.
I would love to tell you "how much hope and future and happiness" is lying in this ancient wisdom of Patanjali, more relevant and necessary than ever.
My blessings to you all
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