Better Mind Better Life

Before starting today’s discussion let me ask you a question, ‘Do you have a goal in your life?’ almost every youngsters of the world cherish big dreams in their mind. And probably you are not an exception. Though we have big dreams in our life many times we feel that we don’t have enough energy to proceed towards our goal. When we face very serious problem while preceding towards our goal we realise that to watching YouTube videos or making New year’s resolution is not the actual way to reach our destination. Everyone who are reading this article this till this point will definitely ask a question in their mind, “then what to do in this case? how to achieve our targets in life?” well before answering that question let me say you the factor which is preventing you from smooth journey towards your destination, is none other than one and only Laziness!! Or More Specifically TAMAS ( a state of mind and body when you lose enthusiasm, become dull and your anger, greed increases)

Sounds stupid right? But actually if investigate well you will come to the same conclusion. When we are in Extreme Laziness or TAMAS , we lose the sharpness of Intellect and the power of executing any noble idea. Even an nursery student knows that an empty mind is Devil’s workshop but how to turn this mind from Devil’s workshop to Intellect’s Workshop? The only way to get rid of Tamas is to work! But which work? There are three categories of work to remove TAMAS.

1/ Physical Exercise, Keeping the Body engaged in something noble etc remove the TAMAS of Body

2/ Reading, Researching upon new things, exploring Unknown Facts, Studying Scriptures, Writing Articles etc., Remove the TAMAS of Mind.

3/ Breathing Control, Pranayama etc. Activities remove TAMAS of Life Energy or Prana.

But we should customise our works according to our roles. If someone is student, he must not explore Distracting things like , Social Media strategy etc. Our scriptures says , “ Chhatranam Adhyayanam Tapah”. A student should be always engaged in studying and try to enrich his/her academic life.

I told before that, mere listening to Advices cannot change Life. Then? Would we quit listening to the Great Masters or Acharyas? No, but we should add 2 more dimensions to that activity.

1/ Start writing points while listening to any Noble Thing.

2/ Think upon those points sincerely.

While you are reading books, do ACTIVE READING. i.e, underline, highlight the Key points, take notes on the Margin of Book, Think upon every paragraph, Come up with new interpretations. After all of that, think the topic sincerely, what you read, what you learnt. Try to DOWNLOAD the knowledge into to your daily life.

When you Activate your Body, Mind , Life Energy, you gain the power of Understanding or Executing any subtle Idea, Advice.

( class summary of Mayer Katha class by Swami Samarpanananda )