Taming our mind..

Is there anyone, who is not thinking? We all are thinking all the time and we are all having different thoughts. Sometimes pleasant thoughts sometimes bad thoughts and so on. We are not able to control the thinking process. We are never aware of this thinking process. It wanders from one thing to another like a free horse. You might have noticed the fact, that if you control your thoughts it comes back to with a great strength. You may be aware of the thing, that your emotions are backed by your thoughts. This thinking process takes a lot of energy. That is the reason why, people engaged in works requires a lot thinking get tired easily that a person who is doing physical work. Is it healthy to have a lot of unnecessary thoughts? Surely no…..

How can we control our thoughts?

Controlling of mind doesn’t mean suppression of thoughts and it will never help us to control the mind. We can control our mind to some extend by giving it a task. Normally when we read news papers, external thoughts may not disturb the reading. But the thought comes back once we stop reading. The best way to keep our mind engaged is to let the mind observe what it is doing. It means observing our own thoughts. Once, when we look at our mind, we can see our mind becomes thoughtless for a moment. What ever the thoughts is, become aware of our thinking, observe our thoughts, like we watch a movie on a projected screen. This will help us to see our thoughts and we can avoid unhealthy thoughts and distractions. Let this be the first step on controlling the uncontrollable....

A story told by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

A group of traders were trying to cross a desert and they arrived at an oasis and they decided to take rest for the night.Everybody were so tired, even the camels. When it was time to secure the camels, they found one of the hitching pin to tie the camels was missing. They tied all the camels except one. None of them wanted to stay awake watching the camel neither loose it by letting him free. Then one of the men came and took the rope and after he went through all the motions of tethering the animal to a pin- an imaginary pin. Afterwards, the camel was bedded down and he was convinced that it was securely bound and everybody went to sleep.

Next morning, the camels were released. Everyone made ready to continue there journey,except the camel, which was tied in the imaginary pin. It refused to get up and move. Everybody did all the possible things, but the camel didn't moved. Meanwhile the man who did the trick last day realised the reason for the animal's obstinacy. He went to the camel's imaginary hitching pin and went through all the usual motions of untying the rope and releasing the camel. Soon it stood up without any hesitation believing that it was now free.

We all are like this camel. Even if we are free as the untied camel, we like to compare ourselves with others and this will limit our potentials. In our life we limit our capacities and potentials misconceptions as we believe we are bound firmly. We all are free to explore ourselves,and develop our potentials to its best.

Some Aesthetic thoughts....

Almost all of us are concerned about our looks. If we are fair we try to tan, if we are dark we try to be fair, we try all our best to make us better than the way we are. But all the time we are unaware of the change that happens inside our body.In this way we manipulate our body for our appearance. Why we are not satisfied by the way we are? Why we need to change physically to be a better person?Why we think what other people think of us ?

Most women are fond of high heeled shoes, because they believe that their look changes and it gives them a better look. But they are not aware or sometimes ignoring the problems that can possibly have because of using high heeled shoes.It can manipulate the whole spine gradually as you use them. With in few years, it changes your spine. Now the back pain is common with women and unfortunately this is one reason.The problems becomes severe as you become older as you can find problems in your feet and even knee. Over the concerns of our looks, we will have physical problems when we become old. 

We must have to be proud of what we are. We don't have to change physically, but an intellectual growth is what we need to be attractive. Remember! most of the great people were not really attractive physically, but their thoughts and visions pulled us.

When we eat....

Our nature has given all kinds of food that we need to survive. Still, we are very concerned about our types of food and the their quality.Some of us are vegetarian some are non vegetarian. One thing is sure the food that we consume can influence our mind. Plants triggers less aggression than meat sure, that can be the reason why lions are more aggressive than the elephants even if it is smaller compared to the elephants.

Some people often contempt eating meat and they argue that the non veg people kills a living creature with feelings. How can we say that plants don't have feelings? Plants are also sensible like the animals but their world is different. An ivy plants is looking for a support to creep. Like that, plants have their own feelings. So criticism towards eating meat eating is point less, as one kind of life form is relying on the another kind of life form for food. That's how the food cycle is made.

Over all, there is something we must realise. It is not what we eat that matters, it is how much we eat. For the appetite.

Fear of Death

Death is a natural phenomena yet a mysterious thing.We all are looking, searching for and on a lot of subjects and topics in this world. But few people will be interested in the mysteries behind the death.

Death- The biggest fear of all.

When we tie our selves in this fear, we let us suffer. We are reluctant to leave the comforts of our body, but the body is never comfortable when we suffer. Unfortunately, we are very much attached to this perishable body. If we realize that death is just a door to another life, we could overcome this fear to a greater extend. Death will take us to another world and another experiences, according to a new script that nature decides on the basis of our actions, because we are in the cycle of life.

 

We have many lives, not just one. Then only nature can justify the sufferings of the people. No one is born for just suffering. If we are suffering now, it is because of the actions that we made in our previous lives or even this life.

Some people think suicide as an easy way to end their sufferance but it is not the fact. Except in all natural death, we just loose the physical body but we will have your consciousness stays in this world along with the astral and causal bodies.

Suicide is the worst thing someone can do to himself.

If you have the awareness of your life and can dis attach yourselves from the materiality of this world you can overcome the fear of death.

Remember, death is not the end.

Lord Ganesh.....an aspect we look for

Lord Ganesh, Hindu God with the  elephant head. The first God to be worshiped before the beginning of every good thing. He is the one who removes all the obstacles from your way and he is the one who gives you the knowledge and talents.Even his picture has a beautiful depiction.He is worshipped widely all over India.

Who is Ganesh?

Like all the Hindu Gods and Goddess, he is showing a unique philosophy. Whenever you want to acheive something you need confidence. If you are confident you can accomplish anything. We have to be confident like an elephant, then what obstacle can stay in our way??A confident person can use his knowledge and talents in a better way. Knowledge and talents without confidence is useless...

Believe in him.....he is there with in...Jai Ganesh

The Core of Problems

Our body often reflects our attitudes, emotions and so...all these things are coming from inside us. We can say it is from our soul or from our consciousness. All the problems are some kind of reaction of our own mental character.

For example, the gravitational pull of the earth lies with  the core of the earth, but all that, what it attracts hits the crust of the earth. So crust is something that reflects the real earth and we are just bothered about it.

So what ever we reflects in our physical body is what we create in our Psychic body.... We just have to realize the Core of the real physical problems.....It is just an instrument form the real experiences