Keep
the pollution away. And I don't mean only environmental pollution. That is an
obvious fact. There are other forms. For example, what a polluted mind can do
is not apparent even when our own mind does it. We should be so much aware,
actually, that even if a polluted thought enters your mind, you ask for
forgiveness immediately. Excessive? Not at all!
You
will notice that we all have formulated very "artful" ways of
overlooking the pollution in our minds. Take humor. One always knew of laughter
being the best medicine, as avid Readers’ Digest readers believed laughter to
be. But how much dislike and aversion can humor be laced with is something we
all have seen many a time. Right? In fact, every night, at bedtime, if you
recap every detailed thought, word and deed honestly to yourself, some
pollution will be visible. Some negative thought about something, someone...even
you. (You are equally important, if not more). Or, some emotions that lashed
out uncontrollably because someone else was at fault and "did that to
you"...when you know that no one can do anything to you unless you permit
it...and some acts also that we try to palm off on some incident or people ,
acts that we are not really proud of.
One
way to reduce this pollution is to keep the mind outside of you. Examine it
minutely and see what thinks is and what it says to you. And take the positive
in and keep the rest out. With a little practice, you will see a difference.
Once you know you can do this successfully, you will want to do this exercise
again and again like a child because you will start feeling so good about
yourself that you will never want to regress to that pollution stage again.
Surekha
Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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