Greetings and welcome to Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.
Sister Shivani is with us. Welcome, Sister.
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti and welcome to Soul Reflections.
Thank you.
There is a beautiful quote on success.
Success is not about how much money you make.
It is about the difference you make in people's lives.
Perfect and that is what we have been trying to see in the last few episodes.
Many of our belief systems which are very deep rooted
But we have not paused and checked whether they are right or not.
We got them from our elders, from our environment
We learnt from somewhere.
We adopted it and made it our way of living.
And we continue to live with that belief system.
Why is belief system very important?
Because thoughts are created by belief systems.
Ok.
There are three sources for the thoughts that we create.
The three sources are information, past experiences and belief systems.
Past experiences can be of the previous birth of the present birth.
By doing something in the past I got a particular result.
Out of that past experience I created thoughts every time.
If that experience was pleasant I created a pleasant thought.
Otherwise I created an unpleasant thought.
So past experience plays a powerful role. Information also is very powerful.
And third is belief system.
With these 3 as the sources, thoughts are created.
From thoughts we create perception, attitude, action
Habit, personality, destiny.
So we're moving from belief system to destiny.
Even if one belief system is not right
Its effect will go all the way up to our destiny.
Last time we explored about happiness and found that
At every moment what is happiness dependent on?
On how we think in that situation.
But what was our earlier belief system? What was our happiness dependent on, as per it?
Outside.
Because of one wrong belief system what showed up in our destiny?
We were always looking for our happiness outside.
In objects, in travelling, in processing or in achieving
Because that was the belief system.
So what happened to the destiny is that we sought everything outside
And we did not pay attention to our thoughts.
Because it was not in our belief system that
Happiness is based on what thoughts I create.
Now we have changed this belief system.
And now we have fit it in the first stage as
Happiness is based on the thought we create at every moment in every situation.
Response to every situation and to every person
That determines happiness.
The moment we set this belief system there will be an impact on the entire chain.
Situations will arise but where will our focus be?
On our thoughts. That we should think right and send the right vibrations to the other person.
So I need to check and change my thoughts.
Destiny changes because of just one belief system.
Destiny changes by remaining stable.
The same situations may come again but we are happy.
We are stable.
Destiny has changed.
Based on belief system.
Likewise success.
You ask anyone including a small child, what they want in life. They want to be successful.
So I want to be successful is the need.
It is a requirement of every human being.
But if we do not check our belief system about what success means
And if we do not set it properly
It will also affect our destiny.
Wanting success is very good, just like wanting happiness.
But where was my happiness? In my every thought
To the way I responded to situations. This why not aware.
We thought happiness is here outside.
We searched for it outside and created a certain destiny.
Now let us fill in the blank - success is?
Where do we say success lies?
Career, earning money, building a house.
If we go by this belief system about what success means
That success means earning more, Rising in career, achieving more
In acquiring name and fame
If my belief system says success is this
And my deep desire is that I want to be successful
Both of them are set
Desire that I want success.
And the second line - what is success?
Achieving all these.
This is a programming on the soul.
If we do this programming
One is that I want success.
Second line - what is success?
The more marks I score, the more money I earn
More than others, and be number one
The further I go and achieve in my field - that is success.
If this is my belief system
Where will our focus be on, throughout our life?
Career and money and achievements.
The one who has more, the one who is ahead of others - he is more successful.
Belief system.
When this was the belief system, in which year were field we were
Any field, any profession or even a child at school
Wherever we were, what was our perspective throughout the day?
It was that we should go ahead of others.
Because that was perceived as success.
So everyone who was working with me or studying with me
They all became my competitors.
Not just competition, but there was almost a rivalry with them.
Because of two people believe
That success is based on who goes ahead of whom
So both of them will want to go ahead of each other.
If one manages to go a little ahead
The other will not feel nice about it.
And he will be ready to do anything to overtake the first person.
Correct.
He will not like the one who is ahead of him.
So what are the words that came into our vocabulary? Comparison
Competition and jealousy.
All these came because of one belief system.
The belief that the one who is ahead is the one who is successful.
This one belief system created all these words.
And now if we check these words
Comparison, competition, rivalry, jealousy
All of them will deplete soul power.
Why does comparison deplete soul power?
All the time we were thinking of what the other person is doing
And in the process we forgot the original soul qualities.
And our own specialties, virtues, qualities, skills and capacity
You cannot remain stable because all the time you are involved in comparison.
In the film industry, some people read articles about other artists. They don't read articles written about themselves.
The engage people to find out what other actors are up to - who has got a role, who is making a movie, who is beginning the new production
Who is doing well - all the time the focus is on the other person.
When the focus shifts from our self to other people
And whatever other people are doing, just to go ahead of them
We start living the way they are living.
Suppose one person is running this way and another is also doing the same thing.
If one of them has cheated and is running
And the second person wants to overtake him
Then he will also adopt the same technique of cheating.
He will also cheat.
By doing that, soul power reduces.
When we compare ourselves with people
What happens to our specialties, skills and talents?
We will not appreciate these things. But whatever we see in the other person
We will get busy trying to copy them.
Because we want to go ahead of that person.
If we had used our specialties
We don't know how far ahead we would have reached.
There is another subtle aspect
If I have scored 2 marks less than somebody
I am behind him
I feel inferior.
And I develop an inferiority complex. I question - how come he has a 100 crore worth business, whereas mine is only worth 90 crores
Very important.
Does it mean I am not that good?
Which means the person is not happy even after doing a business worth of 90 crore rupees.
Because he is not ahead of somebody else.
Why is he not happy?
Because of the belief system that
The one who is ahead of others is successful.
What can this do to the soul?
Disturbed, totally disturbed.
Whoever holds this belief system
The more ahead you are of others, the more successful you are
That soul can never be contented.
How can he be contented?
Contentment can never come.
Because that soul will always remain in fear and insecurity.
Even if he is the number one
He will still fear or feel insecure that somebody else might get ahead of him.
So he cannot be happy or contented despite being the number one.
He will not be powerful despite being number one.
Because fear will be a constant companion of that person.
I met a very popular actor
He asked me if I was going for a shooting. I told him I was going to enjoy dinner with my family.
He said he was going for a shooting.
I asked him if he was leaving for shooting at 10 p.m.?
I asked him why he was working so hard despite achieving so much.
He said what if other people will get ahead of him.
The fear that other actors may get ahead of him.
Deep, deep, deep ingrained belief system.
These are the words of many of us.
That when people get ahead of me then they are more successful than me.
We were once doing a workshop for a company.
We asked them what is the cause of their stress.
When they are number one in the industry then what is the stress about?
That they always want to remain at number 1 every year.
So they are stressed about it.
So we created a hypothetical situation for them.
We asked them what is their target for the next year.
X amount is the target for next year.
We told them to visualise that the target of X which they have set for next year
Visualise that day I achieve double of that amount.
They were suddenly very happy.
Because they had X in mind but achieved the double.
Visualise how are you feeling - happy.
But somebody else has achieved more than you and you are not number one.
Visualise how are you feeling.
Very confused.
They were looking at Each Other not knowing how to react. They have achieved double the target.
But they are not the first.
Should they be happy or unhappy about it?
Somebody else achieve more than our double target.
But we achieved twice of what we had planned.
The potential and capacity which we had imagined that we have
We achieved double of that.
The target we had set and the marks that had expected to score in this examination.
I scored more than that.
But somebody else scored more than what I scored.
Now I don't know if I should be happy or not.
Because my belief system says they are more successful than me.
Definition. And by doing this
Soul power gets depleted and we will remain jealous.
When we are jealous of somebody
Every thought that radiates to that person from us
It will not make that soul happy or peaceful.
In a very subtle sense we hold a desire
That they should somehow get behind.
Having a desire that somebody should lag behind
Wanting that they face an obstacle on their path
Or that they give up - if we have such a desire
If we feel uncomfortable or bad to see them progress
Or if we think they don't deserve whatever they got
That I deserve more than them
What kind of Karma are all these?
Bad Karma.
What is the original nature of the soul?
Caring and cooperation.
Cooperation and competition are completely opposite words.
If we are in competition with somebody we will not co-operate with them.
Some people spend money to bribe someone
To get a licence
And someone else said - I will pay you what you want, but you should delay that person's licence.
What Karmic account is getting created?
What do these Karma send thoughts do to the soul?
When we understand that happiness is a feeling experienced by I the soul
I the soul experience peace
I the soul experience respect
Likewise I the soul experience success.
We have associated the word success with - having plenty of something.
It is true that success means somebody has plenty.
Who is the 'I' who needs to have plenty to be successful?
Who is that 'I'?
I am not sure if it is the soul or the body.
Who am I? I, the soul.
I want to be successful.
I is not the name anymore, it is 'my' name.
'I' is not the name or the profession.
I want to excel in my profession is a beautiful thing.
I want success.
I want a lot of success, I want to be filled with success.
Who is that 'I'?
I the soul.
Let everyone of us visualise - pause and check
I the soul should be successful.
Visualise what it should contain - three words - I, Soul, Success.
For the Soul what qualifies as success?
For the Soul it will be that I will be very very very successful in my business.
When a businessman acquired more and more in his profession, we called that as success.
What will be success for the soul?
By sharing soul qualities like love, peace
Power, knowledge, bliss
As these qualities increase
When I come back to those original qualities
So when will we say the soul is successful?
When a soul has these seven qualities in abundance.
Success means a Soul having high soul power.
Which means that soul has
Love, happiness, peace
Wisdom and purity in abundance
That soul is filled with soul power
That soul is full and abundant
So success for soul will be based on
How happy will the person be then.
Yes, we saw that he will be happy.
She will be so joyful when the soul is full and abundant with such qualities.
Full of happiness, love, compassion
Full of power and knowledge
How happy would he be.
But today we said the person who has a huge bank balance
He will be successful.
A person who has the power of position
He will be successful.
A person who has several degrees of qualification
He will be successful.
A person who has several objects of comfort
He will be successful.
But now when we look at soul and success we understand that
A person who doesn't have a very good bank balance
But he has a big treasure of soul qualities.
A person who has a big treasure of blessings he has earned from other people
We need to earn blessings.
Because the money we earn will take care of this body and things related to it.
But how will soul qualities improve?
When we earn blessings from people.
And also when you are connected to God.
That is when soul qualities will increase.
But after connecting to god we need to do Karmas which
Which will earn blessings from others.
That is why the quote you read says - success is not about how much you have achieved here
Success is about the difference you have made in other people's life.
It means from the Treasure you have within you
How many souls in the world did you give happiness, love and peace?
And made a difference in their life
And in return you earned so many blessings
In proportion to that you are successful.
I remembered a point as we are discussing. You said success is
About how much difference you make in other people's life
If I achieve success in business by destroying somebody's life
And I am successful in business
I am making the opposite of difference in somebody's life.
I am spoiling the life of another person.
And that means I am going towards the opposite of success.
Because what happens to Soul power with that?
Because by that Karma what happens to Soul power?
It gets depleted. That means the inner Treasure of the soul here is depleting
The Treasure outside is increasing.
The Treasure inside is decreasing.
The bank balance is increasing outside but internally we are getting emptier.
Are we successful? No.
When we were getting depleted here, we radiated those vibrations here.
The body started becoming ill.
When we were getting depleted here, conflicts in relationship increased
Relationships got affected.
When we were getting depleted here, vibrations radiated to the world.
The world started becoming Tamasik.
And while all this was happening the soul left the body in a moment.
So what did the soul carry along with it?
What a bad Karmic account it carried with it.
Can we call this soul successful?
Whose ever business he spoiled, got their licences delayed
People take away managers from one organisation into theirs.
They lure them with twice the salary and take away efficient technicians or other staff from one organisation.
Even if somebody doesn't go to that extreme
But even if we do not create right thoughts towards somebody
If we do not feel good looking at somebody's progress
If we feel jealous
And if we create low self esteem
What will happen to the success of the soul after all this?
I was reading in a magazine about a person
He kept earning and earning. He was stressed and tired of doing so much to remain among the top 100 wealthiest
He was going mad to maintain his status.
Finally he donated everything that he had.
He just gave up everything, went somewhere and lived in peace.
Again, it does not mean that we have to stop achieving.
We need to achieve a lot.
But we need to remember the definition of success.
We can say - today I have this position, this name
I have a bank balance of this much, today I have this turnover in my business.
It's all very good.
Achieve more.
But while achieving all this we need to check
Am I the soul, successful?
Success does not depend on the balance I have outside
My success depends on the balance I have here of my original soul qualities
When we remember this, even while we do everything else outside
We will take care of this - what is happening inside.
But somebody added into the belief system
Scoring more marks, having a higher turnover - that is success
We had stopped taking care of here.
All our attention went outwards.
If we remember that success means how full we are internally
One who is full here will be able to give them to everyone
If somebody is scoring more marks than me
I will not have a problem here inside
Because I know what is the definition of success.
So I will say - I am successful
He or she has got more marks than me.
I will not say he or she is more successful than me.
So the belief system itself changes.
The way we live will change.
So when we remember that a successful soul
Is one who is full here and gives his inner treasure to other people.
But when our vocabulary was the opposite - we said successful is one who accumulates a lot outside
Actually successful is one who goes on giving whatever he has within him inside here.
If we remember about success here
We would have cooperated with everyone in our life
We would take others also forward
Because they are going ahead, would not feel like we have failed.
You would have felt it is our success that we have helped them go ahead.
We would have felt good.
But if we thought success means being ahead of others
Then be prevented others from going ahead of us.
And by doing that what did we do to the success of the soul?
We depleted it.
Pause - stop - check - change
Let us today understand and change the definition of success for our self.
We cannot change the definition created by the society
We can change our belief system.
Our destiny will change.
Today for parent or a leader of an organisation sets a correct the definition of success for themselves
They can change the belief system and destiny of their children or their organisation.
Thank you so much, Sister.
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti.
Thank you.
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