Divine Thoughts !!!
"As one thinks, so he becomes" these thoughts of mine were today reinforced by the great saint and teacher "H.H. Paramhansa Prajnanananda" who happened to visit XIMB campus today. There were many takeaways from the talk. Although we know most of what he talked about but the way he explained the same with the help of nice anecdotes and short stories made it imprinted in our minds.
The agenda of the talk was “Peace, Harmony and Living a Positive Life”. He started with the example of the shiva family wherein Lord Shiva, Goddess parvati, Lord Ganesha and Lord kartikeya although have a lot of disimilarlty among themselves still they live in harmony. The point he want to underline was that there has to be acceptance and respect for others no matter of whether there is a clash of interests or ideas. Every person is unique and you have to respect the uniqueness of every individual. It is generally seen that we want everybody to be in the same lines as we are. And we reject and abhor people who do not fall in line with our expectations.
He also underscored the point that we have come empty handed in this world and will go empty handed as well. So falling prey to materialistic desires is something one should avoid. Also he said that we have come on this earth with a purpose. when yaddi asked that what is the aim in life, he very rightly said that it should be peace, harmony, love, care, happiness. No matter how much money one earns, if he is not in peace, if he is not happy, if he is not getting love then his/her aim in life is not fulfilled. he will not feel the inner satisfaction.
I was discussing with Aftab about What is success and how to define it ? he said success is a very relative term. Take example of our placements. Before placements we thought that if we get a 5 lac + job that will be great. but what happened after that. Again the relative thing has made many not very satisfied. we try to compare with others and make ourself unhappy in the whole process. why is my happiness dependent on others. why cant i set my own benchmarks for sucess and not relative to others. There may be 100 things for which we can feel sad about but there are atleast 5 things for which we can feel happy. and we should try to enjoy the happy things in our life and forget the sad part.
Again, It is said that we should be content with what we have. There is a counterpoint to it as well. if we become content ,we will never strive for betterment which will hamper our growth. but my question is why do we strive for betterment ? probably so that we will feel happy after we achieve it. but what about the process? the whole process we are unhappy..we are discontented, frustrated with ourselves. I beleive that "Happiness is the whole journey and not the destination". we should be happy all through the process of betterment. we should be contented and happy with what we have and as swamiji told that the desrire to learn should never die no matter what the age is.so, we should keep learning and improving but not at the cost of our happiness. we should enjoy whatever we do. This is what should be the aim of life :)
The simile of air, cool breeze and storm with the breathing process of ours was again a nice way to make us understand that we should never resort to anger, fear, etc as it is going to harm us as the storm does. we should try to make a steady breath so that we feel the cool breeze and be happy always :)Nihilism, pessimism, optimism and mysticism was again beautifully explained by the glass and water example.
To end with i would like to again quote Swamiji as he said that God first thought about the creation of mankind and everything and only then it was realised. similarly the various inventions,discoveries were first created in mind and then finally took a shape. so thoughts are very important and one should always try to have positive thoughts because "As one thinks, so he becomes"
Be Happy and Positive always :D
The agenda of the talk was “Peace, Harmony and Living a Positive Life”. He started with the example of the shiva family wherein Lord Shiva, Goddess parvati, Lord Ganesha and Lord kartikeya although have a lot of disimilarlty among themselves still they live in harmony. The point he want to underline was that there has to be acceptance and respect for others no matter of whether there is a clash of interests or ideas. Every person is unique and you have to respect the uniqueness of every individual. It is generally seen that we want everybody to be in the same lines as we are. And we reject and abhor people who do not fall in line with our expectations.
He also underscored the point that we have come empty handed in this world and will go empty handed as well. So falling prey to materialistic desires is something one should avoid. Also he said that we have come on this earth with a purpose. when yaddi asked that what is the aim in life, he very rightly said that it should be peace, harmony, love, care, happiness. No matter how much money one earns, if he is not in peace, if he is not happy, if he is not getting love then his/her aim in life is not fulfilled. he will not feel the inner satisfaction.
I was discussing with Aftab about What is success and how to define it ? he said success is a very relative term. Take example of our placements. Before placements we thought that if we get a 5 lac + job that will be great. but what happened after that. Again the relative thing has made many not very satisfied. we try to compare with others and make ourself unhappy in the whole process. why is my happiness dependent on others. why cant i set my own benchmarks for sucess and not relative to others. There may be 100 things for which we can feel sad about but there are atleast 5 things for which we can feel happy. and we should try to enjoy the happy things in our life and forget the sad part.
Again, It is said that we should be content with what we have. There is a counterpoint to it as well. if we become content ,we will never strive for betterment which will hamper our growth. but my question is why do we strive for betterment ? probably so that we will feel happy after we achieve it. but what about the process? the whole process we are unhappy..we are discontented, frustrated with ourselves. I beleive that "Happiness is the whole journey and not the destination". we should be happy all through the process of betterment. we should be contented and happy with what we have and as swamiji told that the desrire to learn should never die no matter what the age is.so, we should keep learning and improving but not at the cost of our happiness. we should enjoy whatever we do. This is what should be the aim of life :)
The simile of air, cool breeze and storm with the breathing process of ours was again a nice way to make us understand that we should never resort to anger, fear, etc as it is going to harm us as the storm does. we should try to make a steady breath so that we feel the cool breeze and be happy always :)Nihilism, pessimism, optimism and mysticism was again beautifully explained by the glass and water example.
To end with i would like to again quote Swamiji as he said that God first thought about the creation of mankind and everything and only then it was realised. similarly the various inventions,discoveries were first created in mind and then finally took a shape. so thoughts are very important and one should always try to have positive thoughts because "As one thinks, so he becomes"
Be Happy and Positive always :D
posted by Anand Jalan | 2/16/2006 04:36:00 AM
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