Monday,
11 March 2019
Retaining
Self-Control
The
Speaking Tree | India | ET
By P
VAIDYANATHAN
Do you
like to lose control of yourself ? Most people would answer with a big no. No
one wants to voluntarily lose control of himself. We all lose control of
ourselves at some time or the other, but it is something that none of us really
enjoys; it just happens.
If we
don’t really like to lose control, why is it that our anger is triggered by
certain people, remarks and events? When we get angry, and when we start
screaming and shouting, or even physically assaulting someone, it is obvious
that we have lost control.
When we
don’t like to lose control, why do we? As human beings, we are always wanting
to feel good, happy, safe. And the only way we know to do this is mostly by
manipulating the external environment.
When the
external environment is conducive, when people are cooperative or follow our
preferences and desires, when people behave the way we want them to, we feel
peaceful, happy, settled. But this peace is an artificial peace, totally
dependent on outside forces that are beyond our control.
The next
time when someone cuts you on the road or your someone doesn’t listen to you,
stop for a moment, pause, and challenge that part of you that wants to scream,
shout, abuse and lose control. Stop and think if you can do something
different.
Stop and
see if you can act from love, rather than from fear.
See if
you can change your perception about the remark, person or event. And when you
are able to respond in a manner that is different, you will have broken some of
the power that your ego holds over you.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the True Charm and Power
First of
all, we should from an ideal, because few people have their ideals. We think
that we possess the highest ideal, but that may be only for a short time next
moment, perhaps, the idea is vanished and we do not know the purpose of life or
why we are here. Therefore, our mode of expression is very poor and it proceeds
entirely from selfishness. We do not know the laws, nor do we understand how we
ought to live. We look after ourselves and take care fo ourselves, because that
is the nearest thing to us. But we must not forget that any person in any
country possessing a fear amount of earnestness and sincerity will get from
this practice of Karam Yoga the wonderful and most beneficial results in this
life and hereafter, if he knows the ideal and if he follows it at every moment
of his life. On the country , if we consider that the work which we are performing,
is the highest aim of life and that there is no further ideal, then our life
and that there is no furtherer ideal then our life will not be worth living .
but whosoever holds the highest ideal and walks in the path of unselfishness is
virtuous , unselfish righteous and spiritual. Courtesy Vedanta in Daily Life
But, if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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