By: Indu Guilliani
Source: The Daily Guardian https://epaper.thedailyguardian.com/view/1958/the-daily-guardian%09/15
Dated: January 25th, 2025

When we consider the purpose of embarking on a spiritual path, the application of spiritual principles in our lives, we see that our aim is to manifest our perfect or original selves. Visualisation and meditation are powerful practices that are essential components of the journey. We need to keep the image of our aim in front of us, and we need power to keep working towards that, through many different forms of challenge. Both visualisation and meditation require an inner ‘seeing’, the ability of the soul to reflect and ‘see’ where it wants to go and what it wants to be. However, because we are spiritual beings, living in a physical body, we are much more accustomed to seeing or taking notice of that which is physical. What we see every day with our physical eyes has the potential to cause us sorrow and create waste, negative and disheartening thoughts that can cloud the image we are holding of our aim.

The secret of manifesting what we want to be lies in our state of mind. When we meditate and visualise, it is the state of mind that will influence the direction of thought. Raja Yoga meditation teaches us this on a very deep level. When we use the sentence beginning, “I am …” how we end that sentence determines our reality. The quality of our thought has to be very high, very elevated. The most elevated thought is “I am a soul, not the body”. Any action taken, based on that elevated thought, will reap powerful results. To start each day with that thought and the positive and powerful feelings that thought generates, will form the basis of the day to come. But to sustain those kinds of thoughts, of the spiritual identity of peace and awareness, we need to keep giving power to the consciousness; in quiet times when alone and in the bustle of the day. We need a reliable source of sustainable energy. That reliable source, call it what you will, of the Divine, the Supreme Being, the Light or God, is something we must create a living relationship with. 

There will be times that this connection with the Supreme Being seems difficult to sustain. That will be because the quality of our thinking has dropped and we may be feeling down, hopeless. There are three things that will help us regain our natural, peaceful state of consciousness. 

1. Faith – the manifestation of faith is absolutely necessary. Faith in what? That I am a soul, a spiritual child of the Supreme Soul and because of this, I cannot fail.
2. Courage – anything less than courage is hopelessness. I can do anything when I have the Supreme Power with me. I am not alone. I am victorious and will achieve what I want to achieve.
3. Honesty – I must be completely honest with myself. Shining a light on the things that need working on, and humbly accepting the talents and skills I have been given for my role in the world. 

One more ingredient is needed when manifesting a new reality. If I am sure that the manifestation is for the greater good, and not for selfish purposes, then it will work.  As I enter into deep silence in the connection with the Supreme, a silence with no negative thoughts, then sooner or later, the higher self will manifest.

Indu Guilliani is the Coordinator
of the Brahma Kumaris center in Leicester, UK.