By: Yogesh Sharda
Source: The Daily Guardian https://epaper.thedailyguardian.com/2025/11/07/delhi-08-november-2025/
Dated: November 8th, 2025
What we experience and term as ‘reality’ is actually limited by our sense perceptions. That reality is being shaped by something beyond our senses, our inner awareness. The power of our inner world is actually shaping our outer reality. Those of us who have no perception of this, live lives of finger-pointing – blaming situations, circumstances, and people who we accuse of robbing us of our happiness.
There are three approaches to life:
- Passenger - those who feel like passengers in life feel as though life is driving them, life decides what happens to them. They feel like helpless victims.
- Fighter – those who are always fighting life see injustice everywhere; in their own personal lives and the things they hear about the world. They fight it all; first in their minds, then in words, and often in their behaviour and the actions they take. It creates tension in their minds, and it is draining for others to be in their company.
When we step onto the path of spirituality, we understand that our inner self is creating the outer reality. We know that we can alter our life experience, but it has to start with the inner self; our awareness and our power of thought. We take the third approach to life.
3. Explorer – these people want to understand the subtle mechanisms that make life work. They want to know why things happen the way they do. This exploration is within two contexts: a) the power of our attitude; b) the power of our vision.
This is a very simple and deep definition of spirituality – upgrading our attitude and vision. As is our vision, so is our world. When we begin to upgrade our attitude and vision, we begin transmitting very different and positive messages to life around us and our reality begins to be transformed into something more wonderful.
Meditators are always working on these two aspects. There are those who meditate, and there are meditators. Some meditate each day to have moments of calm and be more relaxed about life, and this could be enough. However, to be a meditator means to be naturally vigilant throughout the whole day, checking our attitude, vision, and the power of thought. They take care not to waste inner power, and face problems and obstacles by seeing the entirety of the situation and their own part in it, and begin to find solutions. They are not overwhelmed by what is going on, because they are accumulating the power of thought.
It is common to hear people talking about the problems they have in their lives. These conversations revolve around pointing fingers at who is ‘to blame’. Yet all the things we say that cause us stress and anxiety; traffic, politicians, noise, disrespect, injustice, irresponsibility, dishonesty (and there are more) are simply beyond our control. The only things we have control over is our response, our attitude, our words, and our thoughts – we have 100 per cent control over these. It takes time to learn this, and time to overcome habit patterns that have embedded themselves deep in our subconscious. However, by living a spiritual lifestyle, even though I may not be able to choose whatever is to appear before me, I can choose what I permit to impact and influence me; the choice is mine.
This is the whole study of Rajyoga meditation – learning to reinforce our self-respect and living in the awareness that my peace of mind and my happiness are my personal property and absolutely non-negotiable. We learn, with practice, to own our inner peace. If I can stay in my dignity and true self-respect in whatever situation I find myself in, then the way people treat me will begin to change. Each one of us has tremendous thought power, but we have to respect it and learn to use it well. We need to study the laws and principles of spirituality, turn our thinking to the highest quality, based on our spiritual identity, and watch as our outer reality is shaped by that inner awareness.
Yogesh Sharda is the National Coordinator
of the Brahma Kumaris’ services in Turkey.
