Living in harmony

 

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’.