Monday, 08
July 2019
Positive
Thinking
The
Speaking Tree , India | ET
By R
SHIVA KUMAR
We create
our entire world by the way we think. Thoughts are the causes and conditions
are the effects. Our circumstances and conditions are not dictated by the world
outside; it is the world inside us that creates the outside.
Self-awareness
comes from the mind, which means soul. Mind is the sum total of the states of
consciousness grouped under thought, will and feeling. Besides
self-consciousness, we have the power to choose and think.
Krishna
says, “No man resteth a moment inactive.” Even when inactive on the bodily
plane, we are all the time acting on the thought plane. Therefore, if we
observe ourselves, we can easily mould our thoughts. If our thoughts are pure
and noble, naturally, actions follow the same. If our thoughts are filled with
jealousy, hatred and greed, our actions will be the same.
Karmically,
however, thought or intent is more responsible and dynamic than an act. One may
perform a charitable act, but if he does not think charitably and is doing the
act just for the sake of gain and glory, it is his thoughts that will determine
the result.
Theosophy
teaches us that every thought, no matter how fleeting, leaves a seed in the
mind of the thinker. These small seeds together go to make up a large thought
seed and determine one’s general character.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the true charm and power of Vedanta
Let us se
how what the Gita says about the characteristics of an illumined person.
The illumined
sages , like all of us, use their sense organs in order to work, but unlike us,
they never forget the goal. They are always aware that the senses are there servants
and they the masters . it is this fact that we forget; we are pulled wherever
the senses drag us. One of the Upanishads says that the Self is the maser
riding a chariot. The body is the chariot; the senses are its horses and the mind
their reins. The intellect, with the reins in hand, is the charioteer who is guiding
the horses on the path full of sense objects. The destination is knowledge and peace,
if the charioteer remains level-headed because of good training , he or she can
manoeuvre these mad horses properly even on a dangerous road . Otherwise the
horses disregard the reins and go by any path they like, at times even toppling
the chariot upside down. The pure intellect directs the horses properly to the destination.
But the impure intellect, bound by desire and greed, surrenders to the horses
and advances on the path to total destruction?
Another characteristic
of the illumined is that they remain serene in both joy and sorrow. In contrast
, we are selfish and mad for our own personal pleasures. Even a little sorrow
throws us off the balance. Taking the trouble to help strangers is out of the
question-we remain carefree even if our neighbour is afflicted by the plague. Look
at the numerous famines we have in India. What are we doing about it? If this
were to happen anywhere in the West, the whole country would have been agitated
. People would have said, “Why should there be such famines? Why should
millions dies in our country for want of food?” they would have dedicated their
lives to eliminate the problem. In these matters we Indians are inactive. We are
full of inertia(tamas) In practical life we are utterly lazy, Someone wrote
recently that the number of Indians who have died because of famines in the
last nineteen years is four times those who have died in wars throughout the
world in the last 107 years . how awful
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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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.
