Who is it that is sitting in meditation? It is the soul, within the body. The soul is the living energy of light. In meditation, the soul, through thoughts, connects with the Supreme Soul, the source of all spiritual power. The Supreme Soul is incorporeal, the ocean of knowledge, purity and peace. The act of sitting in meditation in this way gives the soul power, and transformation takes place so that words, thoughts and actions become elevated.
First, the soul has to have a clear intellect. The mind needs to be pure. A clear intellect with a clear and clean mind creates stillness for a clear reflection of God’s signals. It is like the example of still water creating a perfect reflection of the moon, the sun, or nature — to the extent the water is still and clear, accordingly is the quality of the reflection. In the same way, our mind needs to be clean, still, with focused connection, without disturbance in between.
In order to make my mind clean, I have to work with thoughts. I have to clear negative thoughts and keep my mind occupied with pure thoughts. My focus should be on virtuous and powerful thoughts.
Some might experience that there is a lot of rubbish in the mind, and during meditation, many waste thoughts and weak thoughts come up. So, the intellect focuses on how much the mind is full of rubbish. Let us say there is a big garbage drum filled with rubbish. If you know that at the bottom of this drum there is a diamond, your focus will be, “I need to get to the diamond.” So, even though the rubbish is there, what are you seeing with your intellect? Are you seeing the rubbish or are you seeing the diamond? The focus has to be on pure and powerful thoughts. I focus on what is pure and powerful.
To receive power from God, The Supreme Soul, and begin to remove the rubbish of the soul and experience cleanliness and purity is to invoke God’s energy, with the determined thought that God is the purifier, the remover of sorrow, and the sun of knowledge. With this thought, you naturally begin to invoke the positive, powerful energy of God. Do not focus on the waste thoughts that come. For example, when we place a container under a running tap for cleaning, the rubbish stuck inside, and even around it, begins to come up. So, do not pay attention to any of the negative thoughts coming up, and continue with your effort.
It is not only in my thoughts that I am a pure and peaceful soul. With determination, I have to practise with a constant flow of positive energy, so that it will start working more and more on both, my thoughts and my words. These pure, powerful and positive thoughts will be expressed through my vision for myself as well as for others. It is not that I am the only pure and peaceful soul; whoever I speak to is also a pure and peaceful soul.
To make a thought a reality, you have to put it into action. It is not that we become fed up with someone and then say, “Although they have this personality, I will still have very pure and powerful thoughts for them.” Can it work that way? When there is any kind of mixture, and rubbish is coming out while we are trying to build a flow of good wishes for others, our thoughts will not be effective. This is why there is no power in the words when you say, ‘I have forgiven the person, and yet continue to feel sorrow’.
When my mind is engaged in my own weaknesses, my own situations, my own problems, there is interference, and I cannot, then, connect with God. It is the same as when clouds form: even though the sun is shining, I cannot catch the rays. So, when I begin the practice of connecting with the Supreme Soul, God, then my mind and intellect become cleaner and clearer and all my thoughts become powerful so that my life begins to change.
B.K. Sudesh is director of the Brahma Kumaris’ services in Europe.
