Our Minds Are Strong, Our Souls Are Weak.
When starting out with divine love, we find that our minds are strong and our souls are weak. Living in soul consciousness is not easy. Our powerful material minds don’t readily give way to our developing soulful state. Some in the world understand this basic human dilemma and try to discipline the power of their minds through meditation.
Whatever we do, most of us will find it hard to regularly be in a soulful state that brings divine love into one’s soul. Perseverance is key. Our material minds are dominant, and soul awareness develops only slowly. We’ve been trained since birth to live in mindful consciousness, so we shouldn’t be disheartened when we struggle to make the progress we’d like. The soul is so unlike our material minds that it can be hard to recognise its gentle nature and promptings or to be aware of the progress we are making.
We can take solace from the fact that receiving divine love is not an arbitrary process. Our prayers for divine love succeed when they are heartfelt, coming from deep inside us. This earnestness ensures our souls are open and receptive to God’s love. When we pray in this manner, we will invariably invoke God’s law of activation and will always receive divine love. It may be accompanied by a physical sensation, which is most often felt in the solar plexus region.
As a result of all our efforts, we will start to experience brief moments of soul consciousness and a deep feeling of God’s love. These precious events will incentivise us to go further. Unfortunately, life tends to get in the way and so each individual experience may not last very long.
We need to reflect deeply on why this is and what’s required to increase the frequency of being in a spiritual state of grace. The problem is that we try to exist in two different worlds, the material and the spiritual, and so we split our time between them in accordance with our individual circumstances and desires. In this way, we segment all our experiences into one of these two distinct categories rather than experiencing everything from a single place of consciousness.
Unifying the different centres of consciousness within us requires us to choose between what God wants for us, which is known primarily by the soul, and what we want for ourselves. Our daily battle ground is the no-man’s land between the mind and the soul. The soul has to come into ascendancy over the material mind for this union to occur. It’s not possible to integrate soul consciousness into the material mind – it has to be the other way around because the soul is the most fundamental part of us. Without some degree of acknowledgement and integration of the developing soul mind then there is a limit to how far we can travel on the divine path.
We can connect to God simply by having an earnest intention to do so. We receive divine love by making ourselves open, vulnerable and susceptible to it. It’s the same with connecting to our growing divine consciousness. Even though it transcends our normal consciousness and is therefore difficult to relate to, if we have a sincere desire to step into this new awareness then at some point we will do so.
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