Instruments of Peace

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Instruments of Peace

 

By Dadi Janki

 

The call of this time is a call for peace. In my early morning

meditations, I can hear the call of the peaceless world for peace –

not just for an end to conflict, but for a deep inner stillness and

calm, which all souls remember as our original state.

 

If we are to find peace, first we must teach ourselves to become

quiet and then we can become peaceful. Becoming peaceful means

seizing the reins of the out-of-control mind and bringing the runaway

thoughts to a halt. Once we have the mind's attention, we can begin

to coax it to take us into silence, a true silence; not the place

without sound, but the place in which we experience a deep sense of

peace and a pervasive awareness of our well-being.

 

It is not an empty mind that elicits this state of peace. To move

into this state of profound silence, we must train the intellect to

create pure, good thoughts. We must train it to concentrate. Our

wasteful thoughts burden us. Our habits of creating too many

thoughts and too many words exhaust the intellect. We must ask, " How

can I cultivate the habit of pure thought? "

 

Who is it that yearns to go into silence? It is I, the inner being,

the soul. As I detach from my body and from bodily things, and turn

away from the distractions of the world, I can face inwards to the

inner being. Like a perfectly calm lake when all whispers of wind

have stopped, the inner being shimmers, quietly reflecting the

intrinsic qualities of the soul. Feelings of peace and well-being

steal across my mind and, with them, thoughts of benevolence.

 

I let go of all thoughts of discontentment and am reminded of my

oldest, most intrinsic state of being. I remember this inner calm.

Though I have not been here recently, I remember it as my most

fundamental awareness, and a feeling of happiness and contentment

wells up inside of me. In this state I know every soul to be my

friend. I am my own friend. I am deeply quiet. I am silent and

utterly at peace.

 

This deep well of peace is the original state of the soul. When I am

in this state, I feel the flow of love for humanity and I feel a

state more elevated than what I would normally call happiness, a

state of bliss. It is when I attain this state that something truly

miraculous can happen. When I am in this state of complete soul-

conscious rest, I become aware that another energy is beginning to

flow into me. I feel strength and a power so expansive, that in this

moment I know there is nothing I cannot do, nowhere I cannot reach.

 

When this happens, I am experiencing the connection with the divine

energy and the flow of God's power into my inner being. If I stay

focused inwards, connected with this stream of divine power, even the

way I use the physical senses will be different. When I look at the

world, I will see through my original nature of benevolence and

experience compassion for the world.

 

It is in this experience that I know what silence power is. It is

this power that transforms me inside, making me pure and powerful.

When the soul and God are linked together, there is a power that

reaches me and then reaches invisibly across to others, bringing

about transformation in them, in nature, and in the world.

 

The secret of this power of silence is that I don't have to do the

work of transformation. Divine power automatically transforms. Let

me do the inner work. Let me go deeply into that experience of the

original state of the self, and let there be silence so that God is

able to do His work through me, His instrument.