Can we honestly claim
that we are living in harmony? We are not, much as we wish to, much as we want
to believe otherwise. Why so? We find people around us under constant pressure.
Maybe we have lost the art of forgetting. Why is it that we remember vividly
the late arrival of train, the day the boss was less-than-friendly and all such
unfavourable situations while we forget the number of days the train arrived on
time, the boss’s generosity and the innumerable situations which were
beneficial. Our mind is filled with data
– most of which are junk data or the negative thoughts. They corrupt our mind. Just
as we remove the junk from the computer, we need to constantly get rid of
the negative thoughts that play havoc
and ruin our life.
Fill the mind with
abundant love and affection. Live and let live. Pre-judging people, reading too
much into others’ behaviour, needless analysis crowd our mind. Have we ever
tried to forget and forgive? Just think about it. Most of the times we begin to
rationalize the behaviour, actions, emotions of others. Why did he say that?
What made him do it? And myriad such thoughts plague our mind and we lose focus
on important things in life. Our priorities go haywire. While one part of our
mind constantly reminds us to stay calm and composed, the other part is equally
active in directing our thought process to undesirable and unhealthy path. (Un)knowingly
we fall prey to devilish designs of our mind!
We need to realize that
each one is unique, having views which are not necessarily the same as that of
others. We need to learn to respect differing views. Only when we respect
others’ views can there be meaningful discussion, debate. It is not about
winning the debate. Let us not reduce life to a mere race to be won. If we do
that we would be missing the cake for the wrapper. It is more about the life
lessons that we need to embrace rather than trivia.
A weak mind takes the
easy way out, blaming the circumstances, framing excuses instead of going through
the process, the hard grind thereby missing the missing the bigger picture. Let
our mind be an ocean of love and affection, compassion and humility which will
pave the way for ‘living in harmony’.
