Carrying forward the issue taken up in the previous issue, it is time now to look for how to restore orderly functioning of the mind. What does this call forIJ First, one needs to become aware of the true nature of mind construct, driving tools and their operative mechanism, as well as its chemistry. Knowing this, one becomes aware of how to drive the instrument of the mind to one’s best advantage.
Next comes becoming aware of the dynamics of life in holistic terms. It offers us a lesson in the ‘art of living’. For, one then becomes aware that this universe is a unified organism where no existence has a reality independent of the entirety. And that the existential order is set into an interdependent mechanism. In this scheme of things, all and sundry have to essentially complement and supplement the efforts of each other to together meet our existential needs. Had this not been true, every individual would have been capable of meeting one’s existential needs all by oneself. It thus becomes imperative upon us to improve our inter-personal relationship skills so as to relate well to all and sundry, overriding all individual limitations, and be in harmony with the rest. In this context, it is worth quoting Australian physicist Paul Davies: “For a naive realist, this world is a collection of objects. For a quantum physicist, it is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns, where no one component has a reality independent of the entirety, and included in that entirety is the observer.”
Here again, it needs to be appreciated that all form existences in this world find presence following play and interplay of progressively evolving energy chain excited by the ‘primordial source’. So, each being has ‘energy presence’, which makes the above quote quite relevant in practical terms. Remember, going by established scientific perception, energy and matter are inter-convertible.
Having of late lost the sense of ‘unity in diversity’, being the defining principle of the existential order, people are day by day becoming more and more self-centric, intolerant and impatient. That is how peace and harmony is missing in our family, society, and the world at large. The reason: Earlier, in the ancient days, making people aware of the dynamics of life used to be a part of curriculum, which in today’s time has been ignored.
It is pertinent to note here that just becoming academically aware of the above reality is not enough. The idea has to sink in the deep realm of our mind for it to spontaneously find reflection in our day-to-day conduct. The irony, however, is that our indwelling limitations of mind and aspirational urges, coming as they may as Karmic carryover from the past, do not let us easily move beyond their precincts. For they become a part of our habit. And habits die hard. In a way they seem to involuntarily create a security ring, which keeps pulling us back again and again, if we ever try to even explore beyond their confines.
Ordinarily, human minds remain entrapped in pushes and pulls between shadows of the past and futuristic aspirations. Caught up in this crossfire, the mind’s attention gets fractioned, whereby often it loses the sense of alert needed to invoke our most profound empowerment tool, buddhi, for due diligence.
Consequently, the mind’s orderly functioning gets compromised, whereby one often loses sense of direction. The mind then becomes a trickster. One thus becomes vulnerable to unmindfully picking up inappropriate leads, often at cross purposes with the callings of larger orderliness of nature. And our performing self becomes a natural casualty.
What’s the way out thenIJ First, one has to resolve to come out of inherent limitations of the mind. Second, one needs to invoke one’s faith element so as to believe and get motivated to carry forward the task. Third, detoxify one’s mind of all the negative memory imprints as would be habitually misleading us, and create fresh mind-space to add on fresh educative inputs. This, however, can’t come about easy just by oneself, as it is difficult to dispassionately identify one’s own infirmities for necessary correction. Also, standing on a plane, which holds the key to our frailties, would not offer us any lead beyond.
Here comes into play the role of a proven guru/mentor. He will first dispassionately let you see your true mirror image. He will then lead you through a course correction step by step. The process involves cleansing and strengthening of mind, sharpening intelligence, and learning the fundamentals of life in small digestible doses.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Write to him at G-5, Basement, Jungpura Extension, New Delhi 14 Tel: 9818037273/ 24310031 Email: pioneerqueries@bharatastro.comWebsite: www.bharatastro.com