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Triggering the Mind

For example, if you take a glass of water and drink from it,
this is also an occasion that can trigger your mind. If you are
an awakened mind, you are bound to reflect on how water was
created. If you think how two gases could combine and form a
very useful liquid (H O), it would certainly trigger your mind.
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If you continue your thinking process, it is bound to lead to a
high level of spiritual development. Every moment you face such
experiences in the form of the rising of the sun in the morning,
the continuous supply of oxygen from air, the flying of birds in
the sky, green trees standing on the surface of earth, flowing
streams and so on. There are numerous such phenomena in
nature that may trigger your mind and give you a high kind of
spiritual food.

Anyone who wants to live as a spiritual person
must develop himself as a person who can
engage in tawassum.

The only condition is that you should be a prepared mind.
A prepared mind is like a loaded gun; if the gun is loaded then
the trigger will work, otherwise not. If you are a prepared mind
or an intellectually awakened person, then every experience or
observation is bound to trigger your mind and compel you to
take to serious contemplation. It will initiate a thinking process
in your mind. If you are not an awakened mind, then you will live
in the midst of experiences but fail to avail it as an opportunity
for spiritual development. You will live as a person who is blind
and due to his blindness the rising rays of the sun are not visible
to him.
Jesus Christ said the following prayer:
O Lord! Give us this day our daily bread (Mathew
6:11)

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