Acharya Dr. Lokesh Muni
In life, a man sees many ups and downs. The challenge lies in balancing oneself well in both the phases. Many people walk ahead in life searching for reasons to be happy and motivated. In this process, what they really lack is the quality to admire things that they have in their hands.
Different people have different perceptions and ways to look at things. The challenge appears when things turn up differently and the process of acceptance becomes impossible. But people forget that this impossible term in itself says “I am possible”. This process of neglecting gives rise to overlooking of true facts which in turn allows a person to avoid his own actions and put blames on others.
Another hurdle in the way to realize your own actions is Desire. Desire which encourage growth both spiritually and socially are not a threat but desires that tend to hurt others around you and contribute to a demotivational factor demands a check. When one commits mistakes, one chooses to find reasons to back ones actions. However, one should rather try to analyze the reasons which led him to act this way.
The question is how to get rid of your desires? The answer lies what needs to be achieved in order to be self content in your life. Different people with different vision tend to pick up things to define success or rather content in their life. The ones who choose to walk ahead in life without getting affected by others and without affecting others in bad ways turn out to be winners.
When we go back to Indian Mythological Stories, many examples of Self Realization have been portrayed. Once Swami Vivekananda visited Kashmir in year 1989, he was shattered in pieces when he saw destruction of temples by Islamic Invaders. He asked God why he allowed Invaders to process such an action of Destruction. God plainly replied, what is your business with it anyways. Who are you to question about it? It is me who protect you and not you who protect me.
It immediately led Swami realize that actually a person is responsible for its own actions and we can only judge ourselves. Rest needs to be done by God. Another incident explains what a human sees and perceives. Once six blind men decide to find out what is an elephant. They start to sense one organ each.
The first man touches the Trunk of Elephant and concludes it resembles snake. The second man touches the ears of elephant and concludes it is like a hand fan. The third man senses his legs and concludes it is shaped as a pillar.
The fourth man touches his tail and concludes it is a pipe with brush at the end. The fifth man touches his body and concludes it is a flat wall. The sixth man touches the tusk of the elephant and finds it strong and concludes it is a strong pipe. The six then disagree with each other’s description and decide to consult a man who has eyes. To their surprise, they get to know that elephant is much more to what they found.
At the end, it is the perception which makes us different. A man who accepts things completely in a way they are moves ahead comfortably. In a goal oriented life, a man seeks salvation and sets parameters to achieve it. It now completely depends on how he does it. Whether he chooses to be on the right track of Self realization or prefers to remain lost.
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