!! SHRI SWAMI SAMARTH JAY JAY SWAMI SAMARTH !!
Before you read the article, kindly note that I am not an English speaking person. I am not familiar with colloquial language. Hence I request you to pay attention to the content of communication, and not to language proficiency. Purpose of presentation in English, is to approach the maximum number of personnel, around the world.
Lack of mental peace, or turbulent state of mind is a universal problem today. Majority of people suffer. Let us think loudly.
Man prominently notices absence of mental peace. He is restless because of mental instability. Man spends most of his time working. He appears to be busy thinking about his work. However he is engrossed with background thoughts, all 24 hours of day. Man thinks about past incidences from his life. Agonies, difficulties and sufferings; pleasures & happy moments from past are being repeatedly recollected and thought about. Expectations about future are generated by using imagination. Expectations turn into hopes, and ultimately convert to worries, and fear, on account of anxiety. All such background thoughts disturbs man mentally. He is eager because of worries. All this mental turbulence needs to be stopped, in order to perform work. Overcoming mental turbulence is very much stressful. Affects physical health also. Mostly he cannot get to sleep, on account of turbulence. Sleeping at proper time and waking up at proper time in fresh mood, has become a rare event. Disturbed and inadequate sleep affects physical health adversely. These health problems subsequently become hindrances for working. Only for subsistence or for earning livelihood, Man serves some where, OR works self employed. But job concentration, well defined direction, proper planning, defined work procedures, defined lifestyle, defined conduct pattern, all are missing. None reflect in his behavior. Day by day work procedures, work styles change rapidly. Even then no standard or ideal for conduct pattern, daily routine, or behavior has been decided till date. His life is unorganized. Because of disturbed mind, Man keeps on changing his conduct. Conduct is not influenced by knowledge base. It mainly reflects vim. Variations in conduct pattern affect the mental activity adversely. Direction is lacking. Deciding capacity of intellect is reducing day by day because of mental turbulence. Confidence about his own decision is missing. Knowledge base is rarely used for decision making. Target for life time achievement is not defined yet. Result is directionless behavior. He is wandering in absence of defined target. Efforts are not channelized, in absence of long term goal. Man therefore becomes more and more unsatisfied, at every event of life. He is never contented about his gains. Day starts in morning and ends in evening. Available lifespan reduces day by day. No gains during the day. No knowledge gain, no intellectual satisfaction, no entertainment. Happiness is far away, beyond reach. Do you have any action plans for gaining happiness? Correct knowledge about reaching happiness is missing. So is the action plan. Man spends his total life, only for subsistence, for earning livelihood. Takes birth one day and dies some day, unnoticed. Animals, birds live their life happily. They do not worry about future. They live in present. Man has intellect. But he is using it in wrong direction. Logical intellect is being wasted for thinking about past grievances. Imagination is being used for worrying about future. As a result he is gripped by fear complex. Awareness and alertness about present is missing.
Even after suffering from this mess, Man does not feel like investigating his mental situation and finding a solution. Mental health is taken for granted. He is not ready to accept mental illness and take proper treatment. He is under impression that this sort of life is normal. One should live life this way only. This inactivity about mental health is effect of Maya, the great illusion.
In case if he feels like improving, Man expects solution form someone else. But you yourself don’t know the details of turbulent activities in your mind. How can any other fellow understand & study your internal activities and suggest you a remedy? That stranger will naturally depend upon your narration only. So there is no way out but to observe yourself internally, either for narrating, or for finding a solution yourself. Self study or introspection is unavoidable. You are the best judge about yourself.
The stranger will provide an idea bias for guiding your thoughts towards correction. But the job of mending your mind, must be done by you only. Hence best way is to find out a solution yourself. Search appropriate knowledge and adopt as idea bias. Formulate affirmations and Hammer affirmations repeatedly, in order to mend your mind. Great patience and firm determination, both are needed badly. Try various affirmations and methods of convincing. You are sure to succeed. Luck does not play any role in these efforts.
Methods of introspection, knowledge about various solutions, various appropriate affirmations, etc. All are available with Adhyatma. Adhyatma means working on your own mind. Go ahead and learn the techniques. Then try them on your mind. Chances of success are much brighter, on account of use of proven methodology.