The Relationship Between Virtues And Vices

When we are internally strong, our nature characteristics and skills are reflected, from inside us to the outside, to everyone we interact in, in the form of virtues. If we are internally weak, those same traits emerge and radiate as vices.

Vices are just qualities or virtues that have lost their focus and strength. For e.g. if we take the quality of love - when a strong soul radiates love, it is unlimited and without any conditions. Such a soul respects and has good wishes for everything and everyone and under all circumstances, irrespective of whether love and respect is coming from the other side or not. When a weak soul radiates love, he/she tends to restrict the love to limits e.g. the love would vary from person to person and from situation to situation. In a sense, if spiritual might (strength) and spiritual light (understanding or knowledge) are taken away from the virtues, they get transformed into the six vices, which make us spiritually unhealthy or weak:
#Ego - developing an image of the self that is false, temporary or imaginary.
#Greed - finding short term fulfillment by acquiring material goods, a role
in society or money or through the physical senses - eyes, tongue, ears, etc.
#Attachment - finding security by developing a feeling of possessiveness over
loved ones and material objects.
#Lust - using excessive satisfaction through the senses as a means of
fulfillment.
#Anger - the feeling of hatred and revenge when any of the other vices are
threatened or being taken away from us.
#Laziness - becoming inactive on a spiritual, physical or mental level.

Let us overcome those vices through meditation 🧘😀

The one who serves with the balance of the head and the Heart

The one who serves with the balance of the head and the heart is the one who is successful. 

Projection: We usually give directions to people when they go wrong. We also use a lot of logic when we give such directions, but it doesn't always have the desired effect. We then begin to consider the other person to be wrong.

Solution: What we need to do is to have a balance of both the head and the heart while giving our suggestions to others. That means we need to have a lot of love while giving our suggestions to them. Then whatever we say will have its effect on them.

Understanding What Is Aura
The mind is the thinking energy of the soul (negative or positive). It is the mental energy, which makes the aura (subtle body) of a person. The soul, situated in the brain, radiates its mental energy to all the brain centers e.g.: hypothalamus (thinking centre), limbic system (centre of emotions and attitudes), frontal cortex (memory centre), respiratory centre, speech centre, visual centre etc., in maximum concentration as these centres are located near the soul. In fact the soul radiates the mental energy to each cell of the physical body. Many scientists world over are now of the opinion that mind is not only located in the brain but each cell of the body has a mind that means the mind/mental energy has the same shape as the physical body, which is nothing but the aura.

Now the aura of a person can be photographed by Kirlian photography. If a person most of the time thinks negative, the aura around him has various shades of white light e.g.: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red or can be black if there is no flow of mental energy. If a person thinks positive most of the time then aura around him is made up of silvery white light. Such a person is liked by all and radiates all the innate qualities of the soul e.g.: purity, peace, love, bliss, power around him. Other people coming in contact with him can feel the soothing effect of these qualities. Good meditators normally have clear white auras.

Kirlian photography has been proving useful in diagnosis of disease in a particular part of body and organ system before the disease becomes clinically visible in the form of signs and symptoms.

Marrying Spiritual Practices With Actions

Spiritual practices and life are interconnected; so are my thoughts and
actions. It is not possible to separate them. The immediate influence of any spiritual practice like meditation is on the quality of my thoughts.
The quality of my thoughts is then reflected in my day-to-day actions. As the quality of my actions improves, it starts influencing my thoughts positively and the quality of my spiritual practice also starts improving. When I really understand this, it becomes clear that the right way to live is to marry both these sides within my life - meditation and practical life, marry the process of
improving the quality of my thoughts with my actions, because both are interconnected with each other.

Actions performed by being too action conscious, in a wrong, non-spiritual
consciousness, have led to a monotonous and meaningless existence, an existence without permanent peace, love and joy, causing feelings of discontentment and an emptiness in many hearts. On the other hand, religious or meditation practices, which were done with the aim of bringing
peace and happiness in our personal life as well as in relationships, but were performed in seclusion (by detaching or becoming aloof from society), did not achieve the desired objectives and was unable to influence life positively. This caused spirituality to become disconnected from reality.
"I want my consciousness to become such that I can experience the richness 
of a life of actions, interactions and relationships of the world, but adorned 
(decorated) with the jewels of the energy and spiritual power that only 
meditation can provide".

You are What You Think

"Man is what he thinks about all day long"

We are all born perfect with a never ending enthusiasm to write our very own future and live the way we want to but, as the time passes by many of us develop fears, false self-concepts and opinions. Mindlessly accepting what others speak about us is one of the reasons behind such behaviour. Our negative reaction to our initial failures too contributes in the development of such behaviour. Over many years, these attitudes, opinions, and beliefs are/get ingrained into us until we believe what we believe now, which then becomes an unalterable “TRUTH” in our personal reality. And the major part of us which turns all these thoughts and beliefs into reality is our subconscious mind.

There are two levels of your mind- the conscious and the subconscious. These are not two minds. They are merely two spheres of activity within one mind. Your conscious mind is the reasoning mind. It is that phase of mind which chooses. For example, you choose your books, your home, and your partner in life. You make all your decisions with your conscious mind. On the other hand, without any conscious choice on your part, your heart is kept functioning automatically, and the process of digestion, circulation, and breathing are carried on by your subconscious mind through processes independent of your conscious control.

You think with your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think, sinks down into your subconscious mind, which creates according to the nature of your thoughts. The subconscious mind works for good and bad ideas alike as it never argues. It acts only from what you write on it. It accepts your verdict or the conclusion of your conscious mind as final. This is why you are always writing on the book of life, because your thoughts become your experiences.

 No matter how rigid the thought pattern which is not serving you well is, it can be replaced with a better one. Through daily repetition of your positive affirmations, visualization along with strong emotional feelings and looking for bliss every now and then will condition or recondition your subconscious to help you achieve your goals because subconscious fails to differentiate whether whatever you are feeling and affirming is fantasy or a reality. Eventually your dominant positive thoughts will be captured by the universe and will manifest the same in your reality as the universe mirrors what you hold within. Tame your subconscious for your own good, write your own fairytale, bask in self love, make yourself your number one priority and live life to the fullest. Our subconscious mind is very powerful; it’s one with infinite intelligence and woundless wisdom.

 NOTE:–It might happen that when you start affirming the good, the little voice in your brain will make you doubt whether you deserve this good or not. Don’t worry it’s just your dominantly practiced thoughts and beliefs which are making the noise. Just as you imbibed the negative thought pattern over a span of time similarly, the reprogramming for the good will take some time too, it won’t happen in one night. So be easy with yourself and enjoy your beautiful transformation.