THE NEED FOR RIGHT ATTITUDE:

[Guest guest]

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

THE NEED FOR RIGHT ATTITUDE: The way we think and feel about things

imprisons or liberates us from captivity. Attitude offers an angle

through which we look at events, things and relationships. Our attitude

determines the nature and amount of our suffering. Attitude is slowly

formed in us, as the pearl in an oyster, through the study of

scriptures and philosophies, through contact with enlightened persons,

through contemplation on the nature of things and through thoughtful

analysis. Once formed, it enables us to see incidents in a new, lucid

way. The right attitude enables to cultivate dispassion or non-

attachment and a natural disinterestedness in the fruit of action. The

sand sculptor, for example, has no illusion about the nature of his

artistic creation. Artistic efforts of the sand sculptor are not

totally wasted. They reward him with the ability to take the futility

and wastage of his labour easy. – Dharnidhar Sahu