Live Fully Always

An analogy was used at Brahma Kumaris organization to help us understand why attachment was an emotional deficiency. Twins that are born physically attached to each other are separated by doctors through a surgery. Why? A normal life is not feasible when two bodies are attached. Even when we tie two people with a rope, they cannot function efficiently or effectively. Similarly when a person attaches themselves emotionally to another person, then it ties both and results in suffocation. We as spirits are comfortable when we have full freedom. Attachment captivates us, and it leads to worry and fear. What causes the deficiency, attachment, to emerge in us? All human souls desires love because it generates a feeling of comfort in them when they experience love. Who doesn’t want to feel comfortable? A soul has the ability to independently create love and experience love through its thoughts. We start relying on people for love when we forget our identity and its abilities. The soul fe...

I recollect a profound real life story that I had read in a book few years back. A teenager boy and his little sister were swinging,  and all of a sudden the 6 year old girl tried to stand up on the swing. She lost her balance and fell down. She was terribly hurt, and the brother started yelling at her for being so dumb. The girl was shocked at her brother’s temper that she even forgot her pain. The young adult later realized his insensitive and merciless behavior towards his small sister. He kept pondering what caused him to go so volatile because his little sister was just being a kid and trying new things. Just then, he recollected being yelled by his father for doing the same thing. Another realization point hit the young adult, and he ran towards his father. He comprehended that his father’s might have inherited the trait of anger from his grandfather. The boy felt that his father deserved mercy because he grew in an environment filled with anger. It must have been hard ...

A quote from Gandhiji, ‘There is enough in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed’ describes the content of this topic really well. Our bodies need food, water, and a comfortable place to live. The word ‘need’ in the last sentence describes the necessities of life, without which life is difficult and sometimes can even end. In essence some desires are necessities of life. In today’s world many of the ‘wants’ are described as necessities of life. Few decades back, not every family in India had a landline phone. In contrast, most people in today’s India have multiple mobile phones (private, public, office, etc). These people will try to convince you that having multiple phones is a necessity of life. Is it really? Desires in themselves are not a problem, infact they are necessary to give us a sense of purpose and direction in life. Wouldn’t life feel burdensome if we did not have a desire to live. At Brahma Kumaris, I was taught when desires shift from being a power to becom...