BodyMindSoul Centre

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Contentment

If you live in a state of suffering, observe yourself minutely and ask yourself “ why”. Like burnt food which is inedible, until you prepare it again, your burning due to suffering also needs a new beginning. Would you relish burnt food ? Obviously not ! It goes into the garbage can instantaneously. So is your suffering meant for the garbage can. Why do you wallow in it when you can easily chuck it and start fresh ?

We think we love ourselves and feel entitled and deserving of everything good and comfortable. So, when we don’t get it , we suffer. But, actually, wants are indicative of a lack of self love. Self love simplifies everything because it is such a complete feeling , akin to affinity with our divine source.

The needs for survival are few and available to most people. Wants are a different story altogether. Every one of them increases your appetite for more. Whereas, a fulfilment of needs leads to , or SHOULD lead to contentment.

This is the reason suffering is said to be self inflicted. It is a personal choice a polluted mind makes for us. But, because we are not in control of ourselves, the mind reigns supreme and leads us into suffering. A clear mind cannot do that.

Surekha Kothari

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Thursday, 23 March 2023

Goodness

The deeper you go into yourself, the more you can understand your motives for your actions. An analysis can really shock you. Because you can see the stark truth. The mind has so many layers that we ourselves cannot fathom the deviousness of our actions which appear to arise out of “ goodness”. We fool ourselves many a time.

The moment there is a tendency to adhere to mere appearances, there develops a cleverness in the mind. Anything that comes from the heart will be real. But the heart is not used much. The brain largely has an upper hand .

We stand revealed to astute people who can decipher the reasons for the overt expressions of bonhomie. Perhaps, if we knew that, we would be careful and perhaps, even reform.

We are not meant to use virtues as tools, to be used sometimes and with some people only. Yes, wisdom does teach us boundaries so that goodness cannot be taken advantage of. At what personal cost is goodness , is a matter of debate .

However, goodness is certainly a matter of personal evaluation. No certificates required other than your own. Because you know the how and why of everything that transpires within your awareness. More than anyone can know about anyone else.

Unfortunately, our personal happiness depends on belonging to people , not to ourselves. This is the main cause of our compromising what we might actually believe in but cannot actualise in our life. Our needs for human contact determine our ability to balance our virtue with the demands of the external world.

If we work on ourselves continuously, at some point, the balance begins to get easier to achieve. But, it is undoubtedly hard work , to learn what does not work and relearn to become wiser with every experience.