Fwd: How to Maintain Calmness ?

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Hare Krsna.

 

 

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a

person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust

develops, and from lust anger arises.

 

From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion

bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is

lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the

material pool.

 

One who can control his senses by practicing the

regulated principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the

Lord and thus become free from all attachment and aversion.

 

For one who is so situated in the Divine

consciousness, the threefold miseries of material existence exist no

longer; in such a happy state, one's intelligence soon becomes steady.

 

One who is not in transcendental consciousness can

have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which

there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness

without peace?

 

As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong

wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a

man's intelligence.

 

Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.

GITA 2:62/68

 

Basically,You must believe that you are naturally calm. You must

believe that you are by the very form of yourself- the happiness

itself! THAT IS THE KEY. Saadhaks should ponder on this fact

continuously and there is no doubt he ultimately will be convinced

that, he is stagnant while happy or unhappy circumstances have been

coming and going. Once you are convinced inside you, there shall arise

in you a natural peace! Just have right beliefs in you! Ask yourself-

where is agitation? It was not yesterday, it is not going to be

tomorrow and now also it is getting away from you! How it is you? How

you are agitated or tense!

 

Where is the suffering now in the backdrop of above? We are not here to

suffer – believe me – We have not at all come in this world to suffer!

How can in the World made by God so lovingly for his children an

element called" suffering" can exist ? We are simply having

circumstances or situations arising before us based on our past Karmas

– which situations arise only to end! Why we should suffer then?

Some times there are good times, some times there are bad – what is

there to enjoy or suffer when no situation is going to remain for ever?

 

 

It is our stupidity that we label a particular situation or incidence

or state as "Good" or as "Bad". The suffering is in our stupidity , it

is in our mind and no where else! Same

incidence is viewed by different people in different manner! It is our

daily and dirct experience! It is mind and only mind which creates so

called emotions of "pleasures" or "pains"! And that mind is guided by

DESIRES! You have sorrows only because you have "desire for happiness"!

Leave that desire- fully understanding that by desiring alone you shall

not be able to achieve any thing in this world. If by desiring it is

possible to get happiness , then no body on this earth would have

remained deficient.(Who does not desire to be happy? Who does not

desire to be multi millionaire? )

 

So by desire you get nothing! What then do you get by desiring….. only

sorrows! Hence stop desiring, your all sorrows are hidden there! Desire

of even Baap ( Father ) of Lord Rama was not fulfilled ! Who are we

then? Be desireless and and be happy. The good things in life

will not stop coming to you because you have stopped desiring. But sorrow shall cease!

 

Stop believing "Each of us is undergoing some level of suffering"! Stop

believing that "in this material world evils are on top and humanity is

suffering miserably"! They are not suffering because of their Karmas –

they are suffering because of their STUPIDITY! They are suffering

because of their MIND! They are suffering because they want

happiness!You stop being stupid and stop desiring- the EQUANIMITY shall

come unto you automatically.

 

There is no need for any efforts. What efforts are going to do…. When

by the very form of SELF – you are ANANDA, happiness itself! Simply

stop getting dictated by the MIND , simply stop desiring…. The world

shall appear to you to "BHAGVAT SWAROOP" ( Very form of God). You

Desire and the world will start appearing to you to be "full of evils

and DUKHALAYA" ! Y- it is ou want the world to appear as BHAGAVAT

SWAROOP or AS DUKHALAY – it is purely in your hands!

 

That is Gitaji"s teachings to you- that is what is called YOGA, that is

what is called Equanimity! That is summary of what is stated in Gitaji-

2:62 to 2: 68!