Save Your mind at any cost

                                                Seeing intention in mistakes

In this world of opposites, things which are haphazard keep on happening, the key word is happening. If we think the things which cause us inconvenience , problems, irritation are being done by someone, that too intentionally we start getting irritated, start blaming the person, or organization and want to do something which will irritate, cause problems back for that person or organization, i.e. take revenge so to say.

 There is a famous saying that not even a blade of grass can move without the will of the divine. If we just see that all that is 'happening' in this world, is just that, a 'happening' due to divine will, not a doing we can keep our mind cool and calm.

 For example , yesterday there was Earthquake in Bangkok and many buildings collapsed and  many people died, did we become angry? we did not because we could clearly see that it was a happening due to divine will , but if a small house had collapsed due to fault of a builder , our mind would have been so disturbed and shaken.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar says ' Your mind is so precious, Save your mind at any cost'                                                                     More info at this link  Save your mind at any cost

One simple technique to save the mind is given below

There are 3 aspects to life one is the positive and second is negative and third is neutral

Love, peace, happiness, joy, sharing, caring , growth, development, learning , creativity all come in the positive department

Anger , sadness, fear, lust , greed, hatred, confusion, irritation, criticizing, fault finding , destructive tendencies,  all come in the negative department

Silence comes in the neutral aspect.

Now it is for me to decide daily on which aspect, I want my mind to focus on every day.

It inevitably has a tendency to go in the negative department, it has instinctive liking / affinity/attraction to the negative

Whole journey of life is a movement from the negative to the positive. This is a mental journey, because the outside world of people , situations, and events is not in my control. I cant control what others will say or do , but what I can control is, how I will respond using positive aspect or negative aspect or at best using the neutral aspect.

Just this awareness that my focus should be on my response to the situation, using the above framework can work wonders. Till now there was no framework , and many of the things  which are negative, I feel are good, because they are giving a strong stimulation or a thrill. It gives a thrill to shout at someone when I am irritated , because I ( subconsiously) feel I am in control, I am showing my strength, etc. It is much more difficult to be silent when this happens. 

you can watch a short video by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar on anger @   Gurudev on Anger 

I have indulged in them enough, now it is time to go on the journey from the negative to the positive consciously. The neutral aspect of silence can be my biggest help in this , as positive aspects are more difficult, but silence or no response when a situation would have previously triggered a negative aspect  is more easier.

In summary being Neutral/ Silent in a situation where I would hav been previously in the negative zone can really help.  Regular practice of meditation and Sudarshan kriya can really help /train our mind to be in the neutral zone .

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 More info on Sudarshan kriya in this link what-is-sudarshan-kriya