Believing in “pretty words.”
When someone is living Life absorbed by the mind, words are very important specially if their meaning is ambiguous.
In my past experience with the Brahma Kumaris, I learned about certain “keywords” which no one knew what exactly those meant.
“The power of yoga” is one of them, “Shrimat” is another, “Dharamraj,” is a mysterious one but well used when “punishment” is the incentive to be “good and obedient.”
Do you believe that Life is about punishment and reward?
Are punishment and reward actually “real” in a predestined Drama? How that can be?
Food for thought.
But yet, the idea is that there is “punishment.” Loaded word that only brings fear to comply, which many followers label as “love.”
The other day I received an email with the following “inspirational quote”:
To be still is to be conscious without thought.
Eckhart Tolle.
Is that your experience?
If you are a Brahma Kumaris follower; Do you know what is stillness?
It cannot be what Tolle mentions above, for a Brahma Kumaris follower believes in “remembering Baba” as much as possible.
Can you remember without thoughts?
Thus, “stillness” in Brahma Kumaris is another thing. How about single pointed concentration? Most BKs may agree with that, especially if I add the word “Shiva.” Single pointed concentration on Shiva.
What is my point?
A pretty word is used. That word is worshiped, but it means different things for different people.
Let me change the quote from Tolle and say:
To BE is to be conscious without thought.
Can we say that to BE is stillness?
It doesn’t sound right… but once you experience BEING, you may say that the Stillness of Tolle is the same as the BEING-ness of Avyakt7- NG.
And what about the “Stillness” of Brahma Kumaris?
Controlling thoughts by adding a leading thought (Shiva), is the first attempt to become AWARE of thoughts. The leading thought is not the “thing” to achieve but a prop. Once we are AWARE of thoughts, we will not try to control them, but we will learn to OBSERVE if we are identified with them. When there is no identification, even though there are thoughts, there is NOBODY HAVING thoughts, then you are experiencing “stillness” despite thoughts… 🙂
For the common good.
Gayathri are discussing. 
Brahma Kumaris and Beyond - Avyakt7 
Gayathri 8:51 AM on May 24, 2017 Permalink |
Om shanti brother.
Yes, you have explained well about (the) ‘being’. I feel that there are many levels in understanding and practising BK philosophy. One starts with just trying to focus one’s thoughts only on Baba. And when he reaches the level of seed stage, there will be no thoughts. That is ‘stillness’ and the most powerful stage of yoga. Our sanskars get transformed easily in that stage. Baba says that if one could stay in seed stage for an hour, one can ‘burn away’ many sins ( one’s sanskars change so much during that stage that whatever suffering was needed to bring in that level of transformation would become un necessary and will be removed).
I liked the way you explained about not identifying oneself with one’s thoughts and to be still even while having thoughts. 🙂
I also remember Baba’s words: He used to ask (in avyakt muralis) whether we are silent only when we are alone OR, whether we could be speaking to some one (let alone just having thoughts) and still maintain ‘silence’. I used to interpret it as being a detached observer and an instrument and speak from silence, maintain the inner silence and peace even when ‘coming into sound’.
Thanks for all your churnings.
regards,
Gayathri ben.
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avyakt7- New Generation 9:54 AM on May 24, 2017 Permalink |
Thank you for your comment, sister.
Most of what I share are my experiences, not necessarily “my churnings.” Anyone can “churn” and interpret things based on what someone else said, but honesty gets in the way of believing something that we have not experienced.
You mentioned that the “seed stage is stillness and it is the most powerful stage of yoga.”
Is that your experience? what do you base on the description of “most powerful stage of yoga”?
It is my experience that “thoughts” are not mine. They come and go. Thus, for someone else who does not have that experience, I can see how he may believe that he needs to control “his” thoughts. It is my experience that what we call “I” is not something static, it is not something that we can say “this is Me.” But, when there is a “Me” then I can see the need for “salvation,” “effort,” and cut away sins and all negative words that we have been conditioned to believe exist.
Baba mentions about a “role being recorded in a soul.” Thus, what is that “I think” that we believe in, when the role (which are thoughts) “has been recorded already”?
Food for “thought.” 🙂
It is ME but it isn’t….at the same time.
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