Body, senses, mind and spirit, the four vehicles of happiness

We need not to take care of multiple things to be happy and contented. In delusion and ignorance, we try multiple stuffs to acquire happiness and ecstasy in our life. Our multifarious attempts, without discernment, invite numerous anxieties and stress. Happiness and worry are never co-dwellers. We try something new, something esoteric to attract happiness, but in the veneer of temporary happiness, we find abundance to despondency. Naturally, we try to covet something outside or somewhere which is absent in this moment and place. If something, what we need, is available with us or in front of us, we need not to go anywhere for its hankering. Similarly, we spend our time, energy and money in the search of peace and happiness outside. Searching peace and happiness outside is just like a mirage, it appears, but in reality, it is not there. …. If not there, then where it is ?  ….. It is within us. We find it, once we search it inside with diligence and sincerely.

Hoping to reach the desired destination with wrong map in hands is no more than inane. Without steady thought, we cannot get wisdom about right and wrong, and without wisdom and knowledge, we cannot get peace, and without peace, happiness is a far-fetched dream.

For acquiring the steadiness, peace and ecstasy, the health of body, senses, mind and spirit should be taken care with utmost attention. Just four things, not multiple things, are needed to heed, the rest would be our obedient.

In order to maintain the good health of body, senses, mind and spirit, we need to provide nutritious food to them. For physical health, the grains, fruits etc. and viable exercise are required. The senses (hear, sight, smell, taste and touch) can be controlled by immense practice on its behavior.  The food of mind is reading, learning, positive thoughts. The mind is the cause for the intelligence takes place within us. This can be acquired by the daily discipline to keep it healthy and functional. The secret of the health of spirit is meditation, contemplation, truthfulness, purity of heart and mind.

The senses are greater than our physical body, the mind is greater than the senses, the intelligence is greater than the mind, and the spirit is greater than intelligence. The spirit and intelligence are eternal, and the rest others are mortal. In case of dubious, take care of the priority factor. And above all the spirit should be given more priority, which is your true self. Only four things are needed to be taken care in human`s life to attract a fortune, and to grant steadiness in distress.

We need not to take care of multiple things to be happy and contented. In delusion and ignorance, we try multiple stuffs to acquire happiness and ecstasy in our life. Our multifarious attempts, without discernment, invite numerous anxieties and stress. Happiness and worry are never co-dwellers. We try something new, something esoteric to attract happiness, but in the veneer of temporary happiness, we find abundance to despondency. Naturally, we try to covet something outside or somewhere which is absent in this moment and place. If something, what we need, is available with us or in front of us, we need not to go anywhere for its hankering. Similarly, we spend our time, energy and money in the search of peace and happiness outside. Searching peace and happiness outside is just like a mirage, it appears, but in reality, it is not there. …. If not there, then where it is ?  ….. It is within us. We find it, once we search it inside with diligence and sincerely.

Hoping to reach the desired destination with wrong map in hands is no more than inane. Without steady thought, we cannot get wisdom about right and wrong, and without wisdom and knowledge, we cannot get peace, and without peace, happiness is a far-fetched dream.

For acquiring the steadiness, peace and ecstasy, the health of body, senses, mind and spirit should be taken care with utmost attention. Just four things, not multiple things, are needed to heed, the rest would be our obedient.

In order to maintain the good health of body, senses, mind and spirit, we need to provide nutritious food to them. For physical health, the grains, fruits etc. and viable exercise are required. The senses (hear, sight, smell, taste and touch) can be controlled by immense practice on its behavior.  The food of mind is reading, learning, positive thoughts. The mind is the cause for the intelligence takes place within us. This can be acquired by the daily discipline to keep it healthy and functional. The secret of the health of spirit is meditation, contemplation, purity of heart and mind.

The senses are greater than our physical body, the mind is greater than the senses, the intelligence is greater than the mind, and the spirit is greater than intelligence. The spirit and intelligence are eternal, and the rest others are mortal. In case of dubious, take care of the priority factor. And above all the spirit should be given more priority, which is your true self. Only four things are needed to be taken care in human`s life to attract a fortune, and to grant steadiness in distress.

Desire, the cause of re-birth

Until and unless all of your desires are fulfilled, your soul cannot get liberation. Our present birth is the cause of our unfulfilled desires of the past lives. It is merely our responsibility to fulfill our authentic and pulsating desire. That is not the original desires which are acquired by the influence of the others or societies, these desires create illusion in our life. We may have an unlimited fluctuated desire, which create numerous problems in our life.  All the desires are not worthy to be fulfilled, the horrid desires create nasty consequences, which propel us to enmesh in an unlimited anxieties and worries. The suffering of humans is unauthentic and unwanted desires.

Various desires take birth from the thought and get strength from continuous contemplation on that. Later these desires get converted into lust, and by hook and crook you want to fulfill your desire, in such  way, you lose your discernment about the consequences, and right and wrong. In the intoxication of possessing the desired things, you commit numerous sins, which work as a fuel in degrading your soul. To repay those sins or Karma, without any alternative, your soul takes birth in distinct body again and again.

Humans are not clear about their mission and its consequences. They are not clear about which desires should be fostered and which one should be incinerated into ashes. Everyone has got enough time and life to fulfill all his authentic and pulsating desire, and to get the liberation from the cycle of continuous birth and death.

Our present body and mind cannot remember our last birth, but our spirit has all the records of its previous births, and the knowledge of the major purpose of the self in this life and in this form. The realization of the authenticity takes place on starting an inward journey. Once someone realizes these becomes  an enlightened one. The enlightened one never gropes into darkness, everything is clear before him, and the rest of his life, he spends in fulfilling his pulsating due desires and discarding unwanted ones.

There have been always an equivalent talent and prowess shrouded within you for your authentic and pulsating desire. Life is too short to squander on bickering. Recognize your pulsating desire, and do not be mean, be sane, unravel your latent potential to fulfill your desire and free your soul from all kinds of bondages.

Bhagawat Gita (8:6) says,” of whatever being thinking at the end a man leaves the body, to him alone, he goes because of his constant thought of that being.” It means, you get the re-birth according to your pending desires.

You are incomparable …

Jealousy is one of the prominent causes for our suffering and unhappiness. The jealousy starts with comparing ourselves with others. The more we compare, the more we become jealous. The jealousy never does harm to others but the holders only. More than ninety percent of the population is suffering from this heinous disease. The comparison with others impede our potential. We start thinking more about others than the self. We think others are very happy and I am not. His problem is surmountable but not mine. Why others are happy, I am not. Why that person is possessing this and that, and I am not. Any kind of comparison with others will never allow you to be happy. It does not matter, how much you are possession, you would not be happy.

In the first place, comparison of any kind  with anyone or anything is wrong, this is unnatural. There is always a suffering hidden in an unnatural and wrong deeds. Every human is unique, he is incomparable. No one has been in the past like you, and no one is existing like you in the present, and no one would be existing like you in the future as well. We are a beautiful creation of the same almighty God, and God never produces duplicates.

Your real beauty is hidden within you. Once you come to know about your true self, then you will never wish to be anyone, the comparison is very far. To know your true self, you have to accept your existence first. You have to accept that you are not mind or body, you are a spirit, which is eternal and primeval. Mind and body are temporary for some period of time. Once you stop comparing, your jealousy or any other negativities disappear. Once your all negativities disappear, the beauty of the inner self can be experienced. Then you always  be in exaltation and ecstasy.

If you want to compare, then compare with the older version of the self, which will definitely help you to eliminate your weaknesses. Your life on the earth is not for competition or comparison, but for creation. The creation takes place by knowing the self. What you have got, you have got as per your capabilities. Enhance your eligibility and capabilities to excel and soar in your life. Do not limit your potential by comparing with others.

Dying Ravana shared his knowledge with Rama

In the Ramayana, Rama got 14 years of forest exile along with his wife Sita and younger brother Laxman to keep the word of his father king Dasharath. In the last year of his exile, the demon king Ravana of Lanka abducted his wife Sita rather deceitfully to take the vengeance of the humiliation of his sister Surpanakha. The resultant, the war took place between Rama and Ravana for getting Sita back from the entanglement of Ravana.

Rama`s army killed the army and family of Ravana. At last, Ravana came to the battlefield. Ravana was very vigor and valiant. Only Rama had the skill and strength to confront powerful Ravana. In the war, Ravana was defeated and was on the verge of demise lying on the battlefield. Exuberant Rama`s army was celebrating their triumph. But, Rama was quiet and pensive. He called his brother Laxman and asked him to go to lying Ravana and get the knowledge from him before he dies. Ravana is a king and a great scholar.

Reluctant Laxman approached Ravana and asked authoritatively to share his knowledge before he dies. Ravana did not speak anything and turned his head away.  Laxman went back to Rama and complained - Ravana is still as adamant as he was, he did not share anything. Rama asked, “Where had you stood while asking for the knowledge?” He said, “I had stood near his head so that I could hear his say.”  Rama told, “No, it is not the right way to seek knowledge from someone.”

Then, Rama approached Ravana casting his all weapons away and stood near his feet with folded hands and asked for the knowledge he had acquired through his experience for the better kingdom. Happily, forgetting everything, Ravana shared his knowledge with Rama, and repented if he would have got some more time to share some more knowledge with the recipient like Rama, and he died.

Rama is considered an ideal leader and king, not Laxman. He had a good vision about the importance of the knowledge one has acquired through his penance and exposure. The knowledge should not extinct with the end of the life of that person. So, he focused on documenting the knowledge for the future references and betterment for the coming generations.

In the corporate world, when one employee resigns and decides to leave the organization, at that time, the first focus of the leader should be on documenting the knowledge of that employee. The maximum knowledge can be extracted from the leaving employee by amiable behavior, not by animosity. By Rama method, not by Laxman method.

In most of the organization, the estranged employees are not treated fairly, and in this way, the employee quits the organization without sharing his knowledge. The resultant, the organization or the department bears the intellectual loss, although it is not visible, yet it is very important for a quick organizational growth.

Break-Down or Break-DAWN

It is tough to find even a single top-notch person who has not faced at least a deadly breakdown in his life. Breakdown in life is life is inevitable, it may be bigger or smaller. Your perspective life depends upon how you take this breakdown. If you take the temporary breakdown as a culmination of your career or life, then, yes it is; if you take it an opportunity for you to retrospect your deeds and activities and introspect yourself, then, it is a new dawn in your life. Humans are so busy with their day-to-day activities that they hardly get time for themselves and retrospection. They have caught a speed without pondering over the direction and destination. If it is not controlled, it would be perilous. The way speed breaker is needed to check our speed, similarly, the breakdown in our life is also needed to mold our lives in the right direction, if it is perverted.

Abraham Lincoln, former US president, lost his home due to the legal issue in his early age, he started his business, and failed twice and became bankrupt, he tried his law practice but he could not do well. His fiancée left him. He fought election eight times, but he got defeated in that also. He learnt from every breakdown, and kept accepting the challenges came across him, and eventually, he became an eligible president of the USA.

Andrew Carnegie, steel business tycoon, lost his home, he had nothing to start his business, he had a dream to have his own successful business despite his big breakdown.  He fought back with the breakdown and became a respected personality globally in steel business.

Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood millennium star, started his ABCL company, but this company could not do well and he was on the verge of bankruptcy. He was not getting much work in Bollywood, his films were getting flopped, everyone thought that the era of Amitabh is finished. He confronted this breakdown courageously, and made his comeback from the TV show, KBC, and it was a huge popular, and again Amitabh starts getting hit movies. He is now one of the busiest actors in Bollywood even in his 80s.

Sachin Tendular, a fabulous cricketer, suffered from his tennis elbow problem. Even, he was not able to lift the plastic bat. This was the big breakdown in his life, and he was on the verge of finishing his cricket career. People started talking about the end of his career. Despite all these, he kept practicing, and made an emphatic come back and created some more records in cricket.

If these persons would have thought, the breakdowns, as the end of their career or life, they would have scuppered in an unfathomable abyss of darkness, would have culminated their life in guilt and defeat.

Breakdown in the life is not an end, but a small respite for a new DAWN of life. The various successful person did amazingly great after the breakdown. Now they thank to those breakdowns, who gave them time to think and act differently to grasp the new knocking opportunity of the life. There is always a definite upheaval before a great change.

Body Speech and Mind are the vehicle of the success

The purity and agility of body, mind and speech determine the quality of the life you are living and the degree of the success you are carrying.  Ponder from any angle, you will find that these three factors are cause for any action you are indulged in. The activities of these three give the concept of body language and facial expression, which express the intention and personality of a person.

The defect and impurity in any of them reduces your changes to be a great achiever in your life at your chosen profession. Among them, the mind has the biggest influence on the life of the human, then speech and lastly the body. Anything bigger or smaller starts with an idea, and idea from thought, and thought from the mind. These thoughts affect our speech and body. Our speech and body becomes the vehicle to carry the generated idea to a realized wharf. In order to generate a good and healthy thought and idea, we must have a bridled, healthy and balanced mind.

Even an executed ordinary idea is invariably better than an un-executed extraordinary idea.

To execute the generated idea, it is equally important to have a controlled and healthy speech and body. The speech is compared with fire. A controlled fire help us to provide  a dainty food else have the capacity to incinerate everything into ashes. In the similar manner, if the speeches are used in a controlled way, it can change the foe to friend, and help you to pave the path for you to success. What, when, how and who to speak helps you to thrive drastically in your life. It is truly said, spoken words rule the world. Similarly, an uncontrolled and unhealthy body impedes the path of the success you deserve.

These are merely an individual responsibility to keep these trio healthy and sound for an ideal life. For healthy and pure mind, do meditation and keep it busy in positive and constructive activities and thoughts. Remember, thoughts are very powerful, it can change the entire life of yours. Monitoring what you are thinking on the daily basis is very important. For a controlled and purity of your speech, check your words, tone, voice, pitch, and practice truthfulness. For a healthy and obedient body, do regular exercise and involve in physical activities as much as possible.

A solid habit should be formed to maintain the health and purity of this trio. Sachin Tendular, a fabulous cricketer, is a vivid example of maintaining his mind, speech and body throughout his successful  career of 23 years.

How to fulfill your desire

A genuine desire is the determinant of the direction of any big achievement, and its accomplishment depends upon a meticulous plan and undaunted first step towards it. Even the creation of the cosmos is the result of God`s desire. The bigger the desire, the bigger the achievements. But the desire is never fulfilled with a hollow heart, weak effort and lack of faith. A desire backed by an unwavering faith with a single minded genuine effort never elude you.  If our desire is not getting fulfilled, it means, we are not fully aligned with our desire, we are not determined, we are in doubt or we are lacking in our effort.

One of the disciples of Socrate expressed his desire to him, “I want to become as knowledgeable and wise as you are, can you please tell me the way for that”. Socrates did not respond anything to him at that moment. One day, both were crossing a river. When both reached at the depth of their neck level, Socrates caught his neck and started doping him in the river. Obviously, that person was struggling his hardest to take the breath. At the last moment, Socrates left him. When he took his first breath, he asked the reason for the same. Socrates asked counter question, “ when I was doping you in the river, at that time, what you were thinking and looking for?”  He replied, “ I was only thinking and looking for the breath desperately without anything else in my mind”. In the similar way, if you desire to get the knowledge as I have you can get it.

Only keeping the desire is not enough. For getting your desire fulfilled, you have to put all your effort and all your potential the way that person was putting to get the breath. Desire is a very powerful. Make sure what the desire you are keeping for the life out of your numerous desires. All the desires do not give you the auspicious result if those get fulfilled.

Any desire, by proper planning and with an equivalent effort, you can achieve. If there is a desire, it means, the equivalent potential is already there within you. Just give a solid start to get it fulfilled. There may be delays, but definitely your effort would be awarded. Remember, no effort goes in vain. Just give an honest and genuine try.