Caring the spiritual way
LIFE is meant for love. We are built to express and experience love. Human beings seek love. Love makes us happy – both giving and receiving.
However, studies show that ‘giving’ makes most people happier than ‘taking’. Just ask a mother. Taking provides a momentary experience of happiness or pleasure. But giving makes us happy for a long period of time.
Love is the root of a meaningful, satisfied life. Love makes life worth living. Without love there is no life.
However, love has become a commodity, a business deal of give and take. “If you give me this, I will love you.” We give love in hope of receiving it in return.
Care is a natural expression of love. Many of us care very much about the state of our world, about the family of humanity, about our loved ones. How can we care in a world where love has become a commodity, a business deal of give and mostly take? How can we care for the world and for others, when we seem only to have enough love to give to the few people we know and like?
At the Brahma Kumaris (a spiritual organisation), we consider a simple paradox true: when I care for myself, I care for the world. This seems a paradox because we live in a world where being busy taking care of others makes it seem selfish to care for the self.
However, to take care of myself is to ensure that I remain positive, light and generous. Only then am I able to offer precious positive energy to others. When I allow my inner reservoir of energy to be depleted, I find myself irritable, impatient or unkind. Then I become a beggar looking for love from others to fill my emptiness.
To care for myself means to check the quality of my inner world – my core energy. Is it positive or am I swirling in negative thoughts? Is it giving or do I want to take, take, and take? When I check my core energy I am able to see its quality and I can improve it by filling myself with love.
My capacity to care for myself and others expands each time I express care for the self. The greatest care is to fill myself with positive energy – from my own qualities and from God. Rather than trying to empty the mind, meditation serves as a tool to help me fill myself with pure energy.
Understanding how precious my energy is allows me to take care of myself, for a better world. The positive energy of hope, optimism, faith and stability is the most valuable resource on the planet.
Are you caring for your energy?