THINKING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

[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.

 

THINKING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE: We all have things about us that could

be used for condemnation or redemption. Everything is a matter of

viewing point. We can make or break our lives with the positive or

negative thoughts. An anecdote from Paul Brunton's classic A Search in

Secret India is instructive here: " A large group of visitors and

devotees are in the Maharshi's hall when someone arrives with the news

that a certain man, whose criminal reputation is a byword in the town,

is dead. Immediately, there is some discussion about him, and as is

the wont of human nature, various people get engaged in recalling some

of his crimes and the more dastardly phases of his character. When the

discussion appears to have ended, Maharshi opens his mouth for the

first time and quietly observes, `Yes, but he kept himself very clean,

for he bathed two or three times a day!' "