Maybe I did not express myself clearly enough.
As I said, is there anything like absolute Truth? So I would not dare to say I found or realized the truth. It is more like an ongoing experience, a journey which is bringing me a thrill. It doesn't really matter to me whether I ever reach the ultimate Truth. My joy is in the process.
The experiences that I got from my experiments with the basic concepts of the BK knowledge, namely the soul, God, the understanding of karma and The Cycle, whether in meditation or in my daily activities, as well as my following the basic disciplines of early rise, pure food and celibacy, have been very positive and very soothing. My health improved tremendously as well as the quality of my relationships with others and my capacity to love unconditionally.
Before my BK life, I was a Peace activist and I had a great interest for the life of Gandhi and the practice of Non-Violence which calls for loving even your enemies. I knew the theory but couldn't figure out how to do that, how to change my feelings for someone. Quite a few times since I became BK did I succeed in turning around a difficult relationship into a genuinely friendly one.
These are the kind of truths that I am looking for in my life. I like to think that I am an eternal soul and that I have Yoga with God but it doesn't really matter whether it is really so or not. What matters is the experiences and the results i get from it. I cannot prove that I am a soul but I know in my heart how much benefit I got from my practice of soul consciousness. I know in my heart how much I get from my practice of remembering God.
For several years now, the feeling of truth has been one of my favorite experience in Yoga and it has helped me to bring more truth into my practical life and to become emotionally stronger.
Trying to understand the self and God is part of my experiment with Truth. Discovering brahmakumaris.info has brought a new dimension to this and I am excited about it. The facts that are revealed here, the questions that are raised on the Forum, the reflexions and experiences that are shared are invaluable to me.
The point that Jannisder brought up in starting this thread is ringing a bell in me. On one hand I have all these experiences to support my faith that this is God teaching but on the other hand when I look at all the selfishness and arrogance within the BK world, all the lies, the lack of care and compassion, etc ... When even God tells lies ...
I don't have all the answers in a little box. I am on a journey ... and it is exciting.
Thanks to all of you here!
As I said, is there anything like absolute Truth? So I would not dare to say I found or realized the truth. It is more like an ongoing experience, a journey which is bringing me a thrill. It doesn't really matter to me whether I ever reach the ultimate Truth. My joy is in the process.
The experiences that I got from my experiments with the basic concepts of the BK knowledge, namely the soul, God, the understanding of karma and The Cycle, whether in meditation or in my daily activities, as well as my following the basic disciplines of early rise, pure food and celibacy, have been very positive and very soothing. My health improved tremendously as well as the quality of my relationships with others and my capacity to love unconditionally.
Before my BK life, I was a Peace activist and I had a great interest for the life of Gandhi and the practice of Non-Violence which calls for loving even your enemies. I knew the theory but couldn't figure out how to do that, how to change my feelings for someone. Quite a few times since I became BK did I succeed in turning around a difficult relationship into a genuinely friendly one.
These are the kind of truths that I am looking for in my life. I like to think that I am an eternal soul and that I have Yoga with God but it doesn't really matter whether it is really so or not. What matters is the experiences and the results i get from it. I cannot prove that I am a soul but I know in my heart how much benefit I got from my practice of soul consciousness. I know in my heart how much I get from my practice of remembering God.
For several years now, the feeling of truth has been one of my favorite experience in Yoga and it has helped me to bring more truth into my practical life and to become emotionally stronger.
Trying to understand the self and God is part of my experiment with Truth. Discovering brahmakumaris.info has brought a new dimension to this and I am excited about it. The facts that are revealed here, the questions that are raised on the Forum, the reflexions and experiences that are shared are invaluable to me.
The point that Jannisder brought up in starting this thread is ringing a bell in me. On one hand I have all these experiences to support my faith that this is God teaching but on the other hand when I look at all the selfishness and arrogance within the BK world, all the lies, the lack of care and compassion, etc ... When even God tells lies ...
I don't have all the answers in a little box. I am on a journey ... and it is exciting.
Thanks to all of you here!