Thursday 25 December 2014

44. Listen to Heart – Undesirable Is An Inevitable Facet of Life…

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44. Listen to Heart – Undesirable Is An Inevitable Facet of Life…


We know that there are always two paths. One could be synonym to what we want and what is desirable according to us and other could be antonym to what we want and what is undesirable according to us. What is synonym and what is antonym? A synonym can be defined as a word with similar meaning. It comes from Greek which mean as ‘Syn’ is ‘with’ and ‘onoma’ is ‘name’. It is also called metonym and poecilonym.  Antonym is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite meaning. A word may have more than one antonym.

We all like to like to go with desirable and avoid the undesirable.  A desirable is one that we want which is called desire. An undesirable is one that we did not expect and is unwanted. Generally one always desires for trustworthiness, foresightedness, confidence, intelligence, winning situation / moments, encouraging situations, non-dependable, self-confident, motivational thoughts, etc., in general as per his wish and plan which gives him positive vibrations with mental peace and in materialistic world with Profit. On the other hand one does not desire for being loner. He avoids loneness as we are human beings. One does not like to be in irritable situations. One does not expect ruthlessness. No one should dictate him. He does not like egocentric people and non-cooperative people as all this gives negative vibrations and in this materialist world all this will lead to Loss.

The universe is always in the phase of changing. The changes could be physical and chemical. The changes could be desirable and undesirable. When the changes are not as per our wish then the changes become undesirable because our desires (vasanas) were not fulfilled. The changes become undesirable when it harms the environment and our feelings.

I studied during my student life that impurities are present during steel manufacturing. The undesirable is not fully eliminated. During manufacturing of steel impurities are undesirable for which actions are taken to avoid undesirable results. In final steel chemistry in addition to high levels of oxygen, the crude steel tapped from the converter also contains impurities which are not desired the steelmaking process relies on raw materials from a number of sources such as iron ore, coke, limestone and recycled steel scrap. These materials contain impurities which when added to the steelmaking process inevitably result in low levels of elements not desired in the final steel chemistry being found in the steel. One of the trace elements that is present during the steel making process and is generally undesirable is sulphur. The presence of free sulphur in a steel product is detrimental to its properties, especially toughness. The presence of elongated MnS inclusions in the rolled / forged / drawn steel can present a problem for the manufacturing / fabrication / finishing stage of steel processing. This is especially true for strip steels that are going to be deep drawn into drinks cans. The reason for this is that the deep drawing process occurs at room temperature where the MnS inclusions are no longer soft enough to deform. As the steel blank is drawn into the can shape the wall thickness of the can is reduced to ~6 µm. MnS inclusions can be several microns in length and this can cause failure of the can through tearing.

I was going through an article about global warming which I would like to share that as we have to deal with the desirables and undesirables and its affects as changes which occur. We go through climatic and environmental changes continuously. Human beings have to learn the skill to accept and adapt the climatic changes. The changes are very easily adaptable by species. Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on earth. Species adjust or go extinct, and both have happened. Individual mobile organisms migrate as an adjustment to climate. Plants and other non-mobile species adjust by having seeds. Wind, water, and animals provide the major transportation. If the rate of environmental change is too fast, populations cannot adjust and go extinct. Dealing with environmental change has always been part of being alive for our life. The more technologically and legally advanced a civilization, the greater the need and desire for environmental stability, for a balance of nature. Rather than claim the world is constant except for our sinful interference with it, we need to acknowledge and work out ways to live with environmental change. Achieving short-term stability at the cost of long-term fragility is a trade-off.

We have discussed that change is the only constant in all spheres of life and environment in “Listen to Heart – Change is the only constant….” We need to adjust and be happy about it. We should learn to live with it so that it gives positive energy and positive vibrations around and within us as you can only change yourself. Hence “Change yourself rather changing others….” During performing our karma and duties we have to go through happiness and unhappiness in our life. This unhappiness would give rise to distress in our life which we have to control as happiness and unhappiness are never permanent in nature. It keeps on changing.

·        “To improve is to Change, To be perfect is to change often” – Winston Chruchill

There are different seasons around the year. We all as human beings have a habit of having a desire for which we do not have. In the season of summer when we go through extreme heat and humidity we wish from the Lord that please relieves us from this by giving rains. During rainy season the roads become dirty due to water logging it gives us irritation then we wish from the Lord that please relieve us from this. Then the season of winter comes. We all like it but as the temperature starts dropping we go through pains due to joint pains and all. We again start praying to the Lord that please relieves us from this cold. We always look for better. We need to learn to be satisfied.

In the Hindu calendar of tropical and subtropical India, there are six seasons or Ritu that are calendar-based in the sense of having fixed dates: Vasanta (spring), Greeshma (summer), Varsha (monsoon), Sharad (autumn), Hemanta (early winter), and Shishira (prevernal or late winter). The six seasons are ascribed to two months each of the twelve months in the Hindu calendar. The rough correspondences are:

Hindu season
Start
End
Hindu Months
Mapping to English Names
mid-March
mid-May
Spring
Greeshma
mid-May
mid-July
Summer
Varsha
mid-July
mid-September
Monsoon
Sharad
mid-September
mid-November
Autumn
Hemanta
mid-November
mid-January
early winter
Shishira
mid-January
mid-March
prevernal or late winter


Krishna says to Arjuna, “O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.”
Krishan addresses Arjuna as Kaunteya and Bharat. Kaunteya means ‘son of Kunti’ and Bharat means belonging to or descend from country of Bharat or India or Hindustan.

We can say that one cannot stay without synonym and antonym. The world is formed of pair of opposites. The world gives us the experience of heat and cold, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. The experience could be internal and external. The life goes through different experience of birth and death, war and peace, good and bad, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour, profit and loss, love and hatred and so on. The life continuously flow of feelings and experience in positive and negative direction in the similar pattern of some curve. It is never permanent in nature. It keeps on changing. Nothing is permanent in nature.
·        We should accept the unavoidable
·        We should believe in the unavoidable is temporary
·        Concentration of our energy on inner change provides rich returns

The word ‘titiksa’ means endurance, patience and forbearance. One should learn to face the opposites and desirables and undesirables. One should understand the undesirable as an inevitable facet of life. We should make corrections to set it right. Practice ‘titiksa’ with philosophical outlook. Let us believe and practice that ‘even this will pass away’.





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 14, www.google.com, Wikipedia. www.krishna.com, www.krishna.org, en.wikipedia.or, www.matter.org.uk/steelmatter/steelmakin, www.scientificamerican.com

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