[Sudhani]

In earthly terms, power is the ability to get things done. At a deeper level that is both spiritual and practical, power is based on principle and integrity. An understanding of Universal Principles gives you power. Universal Principles teach you to live from the inside out, to refrain from attachment, and to live in alignment with who you are.

You can become great, by earthly standards, by using force to gain riches or popularity. You can achieve earthly greatness by cultivating powerful beliefs and still choose not to acknowledge your Source. In either case, you can fool yourself into thinking that your personality has power, exclusive of any Higher Power. This kind of success makes you dependent on outside factors for your well-being.

The person who finds his power in money loses his power when the money is gone. The movie star who finds success through a beautiful appearance and popularity loses her feeling of power when the body changes or when popularity wanes. If money, popularity, or other external factors drive you, then you fear losing them. Your fear causes you to think, act, and speak in ways incongruent with your inner being. This is not power at all, since you are owned by whatever outside factors you think you must have.

You may use spiritual principles to get money. If the money is your source of well being, then you are owned by it. If money is your god it will surely fail you. People owned by their money, or owned by their desire for money, are powerless. Their well-being is subject to the rise and fall of their fortunes. This is not true well-being.

Power and well being based on spiritual strength are not subject to outside factors. There is no fear of loss to a person with spiritual power. Money may come and go, but the source always provides what is needed. Money, fame, pleasure, or physical prowess may bring enjoyment, but they are only forms of well being. Forms change; essence stays. True personal power recognises this and does not invest its well being in the form. True well-being always comes from within.


Our ability to align with Universal Principles will have us in our power. There are many Universal principles.
Here are five that have held special meaning for me:

1. There is only one power and one source from which all good flows. This power is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.

2. All life comes under the law of cause and effect. You will reap what you sow.

3. You are continuously sustained by the love of the creator. The only reason you experience something other than love and well being is that you block this pure positive energy.

4. What you resist, persists. Your being upset over something increases its power to affect you.

5. Means and ends are the same. The essence underlying your words and actions will be reflected in the result. These principles teach us to not be attached to any form. Non attachment to results is power.
By William Frank Diedrich
Source - The Times of India