34. Listen to Heart – Inner Satisfaction is Cure of Mental Paralysis...

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34. Listen to Heart – Inner Satisfaction is Cure of Mental Paralysis...

I happened to attend a seminar on benchmarking. It was a professional seminar. I was taught and made to understand; ‘Do not be satisfied. If a person is satisfied, he is blocking all the doors of growth and learning. He is not ready to progress in life. Set up target and once you achieve it then reset the target by raising the bar. Always keep yourself at stretchable to keep yourself active and motivated. Do not let the desire die. For their growth sky is the limit’.

I happened to attend a lecture of a spiritual master. He taught and made to understand; ‘Be satisfied. If you are not satisfied you are in aggression. Due to undisturbed state of mind you are blocking all the doors of growth and learning. You are not ready to progress in life. Set up the target for elevation and once you have achieved by practicing then take input from the master for elevation to the next step. Do not stop. Elevate the bar of elevation to understand the purpose of life. This would help you to be motivated and active with good mental and physical health. Do not let the desire of materialistic world take over. Control your desire of material and have desire of attaining humanity. For their growth the sky is the limit’.

The above two seminars are on the same topic but different way of looking at. The first one talks about material satisfaction and other talk of inner satisfaction. The talks were about growth and talks of sky as the limit for elevation. The first one is in reel life which we think it as real life and the second in real life which we think it as reel life. One does not listen to heart and the other listens to heart. One believes in motivation by motivation and the other believes in motivation by demotivation. One believes in only mind and the other believe in coordination of mind and heart.

This reminds me of one of my teachers at Scindia School. We used to have evening prayer and meditation. We had to attend ‘Asthachal, which is a special event practiced only at Scindia School. He used to share a thought for the evening every day. I would like to share one of the thought which somehow is registered. I do not say that I have achieved in practicing it but surely his thought reminds me and tells me to practice it. It was, “Anger is very valuable, I repeat, Anger is very valuable …Do not lose it”. I would like to thank my guru who tried to inject this into our system.

·        A devotee never takes the part of a particular party; therefore he is carefree.

People living and leading a spiritual life have challenges with people living for money. It has been passed by our ancestors to us and are passing to our next generations that money is the only thing in life or money nothing in life. Money is the root of all evil. Money does not make you happy. I belief, that money is part of life with spirituality. It is very much required by everyone. But do not get blind to achieve it as Dhritrashtra and Kauravas. There are two sides to a coin. Do your duty honestly and money would be there for you but do not do your duty for money with dishonesty because then money (Goddess Lakshmi) will not last for long. You may gain in short but will surely loose in long.

Old Beliefs	New Beliefs
Money is the root of all evil	Money is energy as input for other energy
I do not need much money; I have enough to survive	I deserve to receive riches and abundance
People with lots of money are greedy and selfish	People having lots of money enhances my positive energy and qualities and allows me to give greater service to society
Money is a necessity for our existence	Our existence is for making money to give services

There is nothing known as good and bad. It is path of action that makes it good or bad. It is the intention to towards the path of action which makes it good and bad. It is the way we look at. It is our state of mind. The inner satisfaction depends on our mind and heart. We need to be positive in our thoughts and practices. ‘Change yourself rather changing others….’ Do not harm anyone. Practice humanity. Help yourself by helping others. Do what you like and love to do. Do not enforce your thoughts on others. These are the basic which would always give inner satisfaction. The inner satisfaction discussed here is something different than what most have experienced and/or are lead to experience. It is not joy or pleasure as mind understands it. It is not found in any attachment of mind or what mind thinks and believes. It is not joy, pleasure or happiness in contrast to pain. One can be in a deep inner bliss and inner satisfaction even when in pain. In fact, the inner satisfaction can make the pain understandable and tolerable. This issue we face is engagement not detachment. It is about engaging life and what we experience in a very particular way. It is about engaging the truth of our being and living our truth in all ways in the world in which we find ourselves.

·        One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching - Anonymous

·        Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat - Malcolm S. Forbes

·        Be the change you want to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

·        Nobody can hurt me without my permission - Mahatma Gandhi

·        Whatever satisfies the soul is truth - Walt Whitman

Sanjay continued his narration to Dhrisrashtra. He said that Krishna was smiling and started addressing Arjuna. Krishna was smiling because of Arjuna’s reputation as great warrior of his time and his behavior as coward warrior. Arjuna had surrendered himself to Krishna for help. He was opening up for his advice. Krishna understood that he was in state of depression and fused state of mind regarding his duty. Krishna wanted to restores Arjuna’s true sense of duty and induce him to fight for righteousness. Arjuna had changed in mindset to openness for advice of Krishna. Arjuna had realized that he was not in a position mentally to take decision. Arjuna started realizing that he needs to realize his duty (Karma) and for this realization of his; Arjuna needed help from his friend Krishna whom he had accepted as his Master and Guru. So the process of Realization of Realization by Arjuna for the Realization of his Karma to realize the self-realization by God-Realization had started to achieve the inner satisfaction of having a specific cure for Arjuna’s mental paralysis could have brought a smile to his face.

All Glories to Lord Krishna & All His Loving Devotees….. Hari Bol……

Courtesy: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) , Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy  & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 2 : Text 10 , www.google.com, Wikipedia.