Grow
Spiritually
Part - I
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By
Dinyar Keki Bharucha
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In order to grow spiritually, you must have total control over your
thoughts, words and deeds.
Good Thoughts - You should enrich your mind with noble thoughts
because a man is a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that
he becomes. Great and noble thoughts reduced to practice become
great and noble acts; therefore let noble thoughts come to you from
all directions.
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate
result of your life. Your mind grows on what it feeds on, so change
your thoughts and you change your life. Be not, a traitor in your
thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts; and you shall
surely succeed. Remember, happiness does not depend upon what you
are or what you have, it depends upon what you think. Thinking is
easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thought in action is
the most difficult thing in this world.
Zarathushtra said, "One who wishes ill of others achieves nothing
worthwhile. No sooner he does one evil, then hundred evils recoil
upon his own self". He further said "When a man makes an honest
effort to cleanse himself day by day of his evil thoughts, evil
words and evil deeds, then will follow in their wake as the day
follows the night good thoughts, good words and good deeds".
Lord Ahuramazda has conferred upon human beings, when He made in
His own image, the power of choosing and exercising any of the pairs
of the opposite characteristic, therefore always choose the positive
and the constructive aspect. Remember thought is deeper than speech
and they are never alone, who are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Good Words: Always speak soft and soothing words, for the words
are the clothes that thoughts wear. The oldest and the shortest
words - Yes and No - are those which require the most thought.
Words are the most powerful drugs used by the mankind. You have
no idea, how forcible are right words! He who cannot know the force
of words cannot know men. A word to the wise is sufficient. Be careful
of what you speak for words once spoken can never be recalled and
can cause more wound than the sword. Remember, words and eggs have
to be handled with ease and care, for words once spoken and eggs
once broken are the hardest things to repair.
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all situations
of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful
our judgment is likely to be.
Think before you speak for the most vicious of all men's weapons
is the tongue. The tongue has no bones but it is often the cause
of breaking the bones:
The following rules are helpful regarding the control of our tongue:
- Reflect
before speaking.
- Know how
to speak by silence.
- Restrain
the tongue when the heart is agitated.
- Be silent,
when you feel too great to desire to speak.
- Speak
after others.
- Always
speak well of others, never against others.
- Speak
always with modesty.
- Never
speak against truth.
- Always
speak with discretion.
- Refrain
from talking about your wrongs.
- Control
the tone of the voice.
- Never
seek information through curiosity.
- Make it
a point to complain of nothing, neither person, events or things.
- Do not
speak of yourself, or of your personal affairs.
- Say little
of your works less about your troubles. Confide these to very
few people. 16. The right word may be effective, but no word was
ever as effective as rightly timed pause.
The knowledge
of words is the gate of scholarship, for all words are pegs to hang
ideas on. Remember, colour fades, temples crumble, empires fall
but wise words endure all.
Here, I would like to write a paraphrase on words from Delight in
knowledge - By Fr. Charles Menezes.
WORDS
Keep
watch on your words my loved ones,
For words are wonderful things.
They are sweet, like the Bee's fresh honey
Like the bees, they have terrible stings,
They can bless, like the warm glad sunshine
And brighten a lonely life.
They can cut in the strife of anger,
Like an open two-edged knife.
Keep them back, if they are cold and cruel,
Under bar and lock and seal,
The wounds they make are very deep
And always slow to heal.
May peace guard your lips and ever
May your heart be free from reproof
May the words that you daily utter,
Be the words of BEAUTIFUL TRUTH.
So dear friends, when you speak, speak the truth and shame the devil.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. Remember don't lie - unless you
are in bed.
Good Deeds: Good thoughts are saplings, good words are leaves
and good deeds are the fruits.
Good thoughts, good words and good deeds are compliments of each
other. One cannot do, without another. A good deed cannot come out
of nothing; it must be preceded by good thought. A good deed is
never lost. A noble deed is a step towards God.
The only things in life, on which we can be said to have any property,
are our actions and the best way to keep good acts in memory is
to refresh them with new. No man is true, in the truest sense of
the word, but he, who is true in word, in deed and in thought. The
true perfection of man lies in not what a man has, but what a man
is.
He who sees action in inaction and inaction in action, he is wise,
he is yogi, he is the man who knows what is work. Remember, Heaven
never helps the man who will not act. Nobody can become perfect
by merely ceasing to act. Begin your day not with a programme but
with a good deed. We live in deeds not years, in thoughts not breaths.
Remember, our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Actions are ours; consequences belong to heaven. Be concerned, with
actions only, never with its results.
All actions are judged by the motives prompting them. Therefore,
let not the fruits of actions be the motive of your action, otherwise
you might be disappointed and leave the path of right action. Actions
may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without
action. He, who knows action and knowledge, overcomes death with
action and with knowledge reaches immorality.
Remember, noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed in the
eyes of God. Hence, do as many good deeds for the sake of doing
and do not tell anyone about it.
When you were born you were crying, while others around you celebrated
the occasion with laughter and mirth. Live your life so nobly that
at the time of your passing away, you smile over a life well lived;
while others cry out of sorrow.
Dinyar
Keki Bharucha
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