• You tend to think and act spontaneously, not based on fear or experiences from the past• You are able to enjoy each and every minute
• You lost the urge to have a judgment about others
• You don’t need it anymore to interpret all the others do
• You don’t want to have arguments anymore
• A growing ability not to worry anymore (that is a serious sign)
• Growing experience of gratitude and love and being connected with everything
• You have to laugh a lot
• You tend more and more to let the things happen that are necessary and not to force things to make them happen by yourself
• You open up more to the love people radiate towards you and you in return have the growing urge to radiate love too
These are the Symptoms of PEACE OF THE SOUL.
If you still haven’t found peace, then try to cultivate the above attitudes in your heart. God willing, peace will follow. Credit.
Experiencing this form of 'Inner Peace' in a society fraught with contradictions and evils turns this into plain and simple 'Apathy'.
ReplyDeleteMy soul is a part of a whole consisting of all souls. Till all are at peace and engage in undifferentiated mutual Love, 'Inner Peace' is an affront to the idea of Peace and Love itself. Thus, my soul will not engage in this self-indulgent experience of 'Inner Peace'. Thus, my soul will be at War till the above is realised.
Then, Peace.
Spirituality, on its own, is a socially approved drug as it enables all to peacefully kill each other in a myriad of dimensions every second of the day.
I think Inquisitor does not understand the meaning of the word peace.
ReplyDeleteI do not want to try to explain, as peace is an inner state of mind, not a thing you can rationalize about.
Only when every preson has an experience of this state of mind will there ever be peace on Earth.
The great religions of the World show us pathways to take towards obtaining this experience.
Good luck.
I can see both these points of view...
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, it is possible to get so engaged in developing oneself, and whatever spiritual qualities one desires, that one forgets about others. This type of person will go off and sit under a waterfall somewhere contemplating peace while all around him people are suffering and hurting one another, and the best you can say for him is that he's not actually hurting anyone.
On the other hand, I believe that the better person I can make myself, the more I can help others. If I'm not at peace with myself, my internal conflicts inevitably spill over into my relations with others, and anything I try to accomplish will be reduced in effect, perhaps seriously compromised.
"Inner peace" doesn't mean that I think everything is OK with the world. The Sufi way is the way of service. I want to work to make the world a better place, but I have to start by cleaning my own house.
Tiel!
ReplyDeleteI think you "hit the nail on the head" with your comment, crystalizing what both I and the Inquistor are trying to say in our comments.
Agreed. With Greta's summing up. Just an additional point,
ReplyDelete" I want to work to make the world a better place, but I have to start by cleaning my own house."
This has to be a dynamic process. I often thought that if i was to cleanse myself before engaging the world, the latter will never be as the former requires more than a lifetime.
Tiel isn't wrong in using the word 'start' though. The dynamics of such ablution-cum-engagement is indeed an interesting issue.
I suppose 'start' could mean, initially, 'knowing' that one's house needs 'cleaning'. Secondly, to pursue knowledge so as to appreciate, effectively, that 'our house' is a part of a global symbiotic whole. In other words, knowing that our house 'dirties' the world just as the world 'dirties' our house.(i.e. promoting 'spirituality' as an end in itself is a sin since it disables its practitioners and empowers its antithesis.) Thus, the first step would be to possess the knowledge relevant to stopping the inflow of 'dirt' from without to within.
We can, from this point, approach the world in a 'Buddhist' way, by looking for a nice shady tree and waiting for death. Whilst i must complement Buddhist Monks for the moral exemplar they provide us with, their posture must be seen as a stepping stone towards the realisation of peace on earth. This is where engagement comes in. The engagement with ourselves - 'cleaning up our house' - is a lifelong process, but the 'cleaner' we become, the more we will be able to aid in the cleansing of the world.
'Peace' is not an end in itself for the individual, rather it is 'divorce' from 'maya' (i.e. earthly temptations, etc). This is what i view as a NDE - near death experience - which is pregnant with potential when we acquire the knowledge and intelligence to counter the world. This is 'Peace Realised' - in the ideal sense of the word. If we cease at the 'peace' part, then it is pure selfishness. Not unlike a rich wo/man keeping all his material wealth to her/imself whilst the world starves.
'Sharing peace' requires much assiduous study and perseverence on our part. Without this, 'peace' becomes the opium which both the rich and poor take. It enables the rich to do unto others what they wouldn't want done unto them with a calm state of mind and a smile. The poor on the other hand are left to peacefully pray for a better day tomorrow and thank God for the crumbs that falls from the banquet table of the rich.
That is why i say to all who say 'Peace', 'War! then Peace'. I don't mean violence, i mean realising intelligent, long-term peace via present social and personal activism. Knowing that we will always be a part of the problem because we are born within this society and are socialised by it. Knowing that the devil will always inhabit us and trying our best to cleanse ourselves on a daily basis whilst engaging the evils in the world. Knowing that devil within us is strengthened by the devil outside us and vice versa. Thus, a bi-directional inquisitorial sword is required. And slowly we chip away, generation after generation. The more intelligent we 'spiritualists' become, the larger the chunks we can break away in our lifetime, thus making it easier for those who come after us.
Let's not talk about the devil. That makes him more real than he really is. This is plain intimidation!
ReplyDeleteLet's not talk about peace and love. It's a waste of time.
Let's talk about the weather!