Are Your Feelings Good or Bad?
A teaching from Swami Shankarananda
They came to pass
When temptations or untruths come, let us be beholders. If we bear witness to the truth, we will not give power to untruth.
Let come what may. Let all the feelings and impressions stored in the heart well up into awareness. They come for but one reason: to pass. “And it came to pass.” The impressions will come until they have all passed away.
While they are flashing on the screen of the conscious mind, we do not need to be dragged down by them. We can just watch them pass without giving them a label such as good or bad.
When we can look through the untruth, it fades away. We can observe it disappear as we keep knowing the truth about it. Thus, we do not engage in fighting or resisting the temptation, although we still have a sense of struggle to remain aware of the truth.
“When we can look through the untruth, it fades away. We can observe it disappear as we keep knowing the truth about it.”
We finally become so totally established in the truth, in seeing the Divine, that regardless of the apparition, appearance, or temptation, we immediately choose not to identify with it or to be influenced by it. We choose not to resist it, but to let it pass away. Each time we consciously make that choice, we purify the heart and empty the cup of our heart of false impressions.
Working with nature
Since the nature of the heart is to be full, when we let go of those false impressions, the grace of God will flow in and fill the heart to overflowing. We will dwell all the days of our life in the house of God; and our cup runneth over in divine bliss. Indeed, blessed are the pure in heart.
To begin realizing that purity, let us act from the standpoint, “I am pure,” not, “I will be pure.” Our soul, the presence of God within us, is always pure, for God is purity.
Abide in the consciousness of purity. Feel the purity of God within. Purity is healing; purity is holy.
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