Liberation via loving others

Swami Rama
1. You cannot live without action;
2. You always receive the fruits of actions
3. You cannot live without doing your duties
4. The wrong attitude toward your duty makes you a slave.

So, in order to be free n liberated, learn to love your duties.

Before you can know truth, you have to learn ahimsa, or how to love.
Before you can lead a joyous life and live positively in the world, you have to learn to love.
Love means giving without any condition, constantly giving selflessly - because whenever you are truly selfless, you will enjoy life.
When you are not selfless, then the expectation that motivates you to give will actually create problems for you.

Soul - yea me not loving my job, not loving others, not loving myself.

Swami Rama
If u wants to help yourself, you need to understand the difference between habits and samskaras.

Your habits have made your personality. They make a mask for you and that is your outer shell, your external life.

Samskaras are the accumulation of impressions stored in the unconscious mind that motivates/drive you to do something again and again. Whatever you do, hear or see leaves an impression in the unconscious mind, where there are many layers and levels of samskaras. Every now and then these samskaras become active and then they motivate and control your mind and emotions.

You know how to culture and cultivate only a small part of the mind - the conscious mind. But the conscious mind is actually controlled by the unconscious mind, and that is why it is not easy to make spiritual progress.
The conscious mind functions through the senses and whenever an event takes place that relates to an impression already in your mind, then that impression or samskaras become active.
Thus your samskaras control your life. So to make progress, your samskaras need to be purified.

Soul - yeap, that is my objective since I walk this path 10 years back, to unravel my unconsciousness as the control mode in me cannot allow my unconscious to rule my life.

Swami Rama
There are 2 methods to purify your unconsciousness.
1. Renounce your desires; or
2. Fulfill your desires.

Renounce your desires and then reducing them to a minimum or by understanding which desires you want to fulfill and then by doing your duties. When you fulfill your desires by doing actions, however, you must remember that to do so, you must do your actions with love

Soul - my path is to fulfill my desire. Now I need to learn to love my duties with love.

Swami Rama
Renunciates and swamis purify their samskaras by offering them to the lightn to that great fire within - burning. them in the fire of knowledge. Samskaras are all mental expressions, there is nothing solid or material here. All these past impressions are brought up during meditation and burnt away. The goal is to expand the conscious aspect of the mind so that there is no unconsciousness

Another way, afer u have transcended ur desires, u can sit in deep meditation and use ur will power to tell ur mind and ur samskaras "At this time, my mind is only for meditation and learn to go beyond the mire of illusions and confusion created by the mind. Then u allow all the impressions to come forward and you don't get involved with them. This method is called 'inspection within' or introspection and slowly you learn to become a witness and transcend the samskaras.

Soul - I was using the second path of Introspection - journey within. Learning knowledge and opening all my unconscious doors. Cos by A Course in Miracles I have learnt that behind my fear is love. I have open many unconscious doors by learning from Krishnamurti about the mirror/projection and witnessing. But I guess I can only do so much alone. With the Divine help, meditation was brought to me. So, I will continue to expand my consciousness and at the same time start to share what I know.

Evening

Today a colleague said I should read the book - Eat, Pray and Love.
I told her I got the book. Actually I knew about the book about 1 year back but didn't have a chance.
I was thinking of reading Paul Coelho first or even Rabinadrath Tagore.
But since received another reminder, might as well start with the book Eat. Pray and Love. She said d book will remind me of myself.

I told her I have definitely eat more than enough and is now on praying.
I told her about Sadhguru coming to visit. She said if the guru is coming to me, that mean m ready.

Father, thank u for everything.