Worry is state of mind where currents and cross currents of disturbed thoughts keep on ploughing the mind raising in it many fears and apprehensions of difficulties at hand or expected to take place at a later date. Worst still some minds keep on raking up past mistakes and errors without realising that this tantamounts to digging one's own grave.
It is analogous to churning the water. It carries you nowhere. It may be likened to a farmers effort to raise crops out of a dry and barren piece of land. He may dig it to any depth but it will not yeild any result. What is needed is a tubewell which can make the land fertile enough to help plants and vegetation grow. A worrying mind , if it gets a direction and a purpose could by intensity of its desires achieve some useful ends.
Have you ever ridden a cycle? If its peddle chain is missing no amount of peddling will make it run. THe same position applies to a man given to a worries. He spends days and nights in the company of his torturing thoughts. Peddling them around if only he were turn the gloomy forbiddings to well knit ideas and give some coherence to them. He can hope to make progress in tackling the worries that are worrying them . There is story of father and his 3 sons . THe old man was worrying type. He dreamed that his youngest son was drowned in river. THe middle one was crushed under a train and the eldest died in plane accident. Day and night his mind was worried till he became bedridden. Doctors tried every possible means to restore him to health but to no effect. His mind was terribly upset and hallucinations were taking their tolls. DOctors ultimately gave up the treatment and pronounced the case as hopeless.
Life is what we make it. What we give to it will be returned. If we are particular about resisting the temptations which are harmful to us, we will sow good for ourselves. Material prosperity is much easier to obtain with all your tools intact. If your sword is sharp enough and your hands dextrous at handling it , the enemy will think twice before jumping into fray. If it dares do so, you would be much better fitted to make minced meat out of it.
Despite professions to the contrary , ingratitude is an innate quality of the human mind. A piece of wood in chimney on cold night provides you warmth but in the process burns itself to ashes. Nobody gives it second thought. It is replaced as soon as burnt out. Our mind tends to magnify the good we do but minimize the benefactions we receive, Like rain water sleeping of the umbrella top, it soon forgets the favours bestowed upon us by our well wishers. Why then worry about ingratitude. What others do to us we do to them. It is quits. If someone has been ungrateful for our sacrifices for him , may be we have behaved similarly towards those who have contributed to our well being . Our feelings for others can be compared to a lessons written by a teacher on the blackboard in his class, As soon as it has served his purpose it is wiped out and replaced by a new lesson.
Man is essentially a selfish animal. The instinct of selfishness is the strongest in a child By education and constant sermons his attitude undergoes some modifications as he grows up. Ingratitude is related to this instinct. Where there is a clash between self interest and gratitude the human mind has a tendency to lean to the former.
Old man and women are prone to develop an ache in their heart and feeling of destitution in their minds at their children not returning their love and being grateful for what they did for them, THey should realise that human beings are by nature born with and impulse to look forward and not backward. They would gladly do anything which would make their future secure. But if one expects them to remember and reciprocate what he did to them years ago, he is looking for disappointment. My advice to aged is to keep the purse strings in their hand wherever they possibly can. Those inclined to hand over everything to their children when retired , in the belief that it does not make any difference whether the control is in their or their childrens hand might live to rue their mistake. Not that all children would be inclined to place thier interests above their parents but possibility is always there.
It is analogous to churning the water. It carries you nowhere. It may be likened to a farmers effort to raise crops out of a dry and barren piece of land. He may dig it to any depth but it will not yeild any result. What is needed is a tubewell which can make the land fertile enough to help plants and vegetation grow. A worrying mind , if it gets a direction and a purpose could by intensity of its desires achieve some useful ends.
Have you ever ridden a cycle? If its peddle chain is missing no amount of peddling will make it run. THe same position applies to a man given to a worries. He spends days and nights in the company of his torturing thoughts. Peddling them around if only he were turn the gloomy forbiddings to well knit ideas and give some coherence to them. He can hope to make progress in tackling the worries that are worrying them . There is story of father and his 3 sons . THe old man was worrying type. He dreamed that his youngest son was drowned in river. THe middle one was crushed under a train and the eldest died in plane accident. Day and night his mind was worried till he became bedridden. Doctors tried every possible means to restore him to health but to no effect. His mind was terribly upset and hallucinations were taking their tolls. DOctors ultimately gave up the treatment and pronounced the case as hopeless.
Life is what we make it. What we give to it will be returned. If we are particular about resisting the temptations which are harmful to us, we will sow good for ourselves. Material prosperity is much easier to obtain with all your tools intact. If your sword is sharp enough and your hands dextrous at handling it , the enemy will think twice before jumping into fray. If it dares do so, you would be much better fitted to make minced meat out of it.
Despite professions to the contrary , ingratitude is an innate quality of the human mind. A piece of wood in chimney on cold night provides you warmth but in the process burns itself to ashes. Nobody gives it second thought. It is replaced as soon as burnt out. Our mind tends to magnify the good we do but minimize the benefactions we receive, Like rain water sleeping of the umbrella top, it soon forgets the favours bestowed upon us by our well wishers. Why then worry about ingratitude. What others do to us we do to them. It is quits. If someone has been ungrateful for our sacrifices for him , may be we have behaved similarly towards those who have contributed to our well being . Our feelings for others can be compared to a lessons written by a teacher on the blackboard in his class, As soon as it has served his purpose it is wiped out and replaced by a new lesson.
Man is essentially a selfish animal. The instinct of selfishness is the strongest in a child By education and constant sermons his attitude undergoes some modifications as he grows up. Ingratitude is related to this instinct. Where there is a clash between self interest and gratitude the human mind has a tendency to lean to the former.
Old man and women are prone to develop an ache in their heart and feeling of destitution in their minds at their children not returning their love and being grateful for what they did for them, THey should realise that human beings are by nature born with and impulse to look forward and not backward. They would gladly do anything which would make their future secure. But if one expects them to remember and reciprocate what he did to them years ago, he is looking for disappointment. My advice to aged is to keep the purse strings in their hand wherever they possibly can. Those inclined to hand over everything to their children when retired , in the belief that it does not make any difference whether the control is in their or their childrens hand might live to rue their mistake. Not that all children would be inclined to place thier interests above their parents but possibility is always there.
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