U MIND???

Many a times a, mostly when I am driving I get so many good points which I think I must post it in my blog. The moment I sit to post them I forget. It would be great if someone could invent a machine that can record what goes in the mind, jus like we record music or lectures (for geeks). With much difficulty I remembered to write something which was running in my mind yesterday. Rather than saying that it was running, it was literally bringing me down like anything. The frequency of my oscillating thoughts was terrific. Just like the weathering process, Mind was calm then restless, calm then again restless. Imagine this happening within a span of 30 to 40 seconds. I am sure that every one of us would have gone through such an emotional cum intellectual imbalance. A few incidents that happened for the past one month piled up together to show their full throttle on me. From no where I started getting angry on my friends. Why dint they do this?? Why dint they do that?? Why people lack gratitude, why don’t people understand Love? I dint know why these feelings were haunting me. I felt so lost, felt deceived, was in the depths of frustration. All this was for a few minutes the next few minutes I was in the state of dispassion. As if nothing around me has affected me. Then again back to the old feelings. Had I kept a cup of water near my brain, it would’ve started to boil, that intense was the heat of my mind. As I said before, its something which all of us would’ve come across. Mostly this happens when we fail in something which we longed for or when we are deeply hurt cos of something. The intensity of the depression is directly proportional to the amount of expectation we have. And only when we get hurt we know that we have been expecting so much. This is just one part that was troubling me I had many other doubts and questions which I don’t even remember now. I wanted to calm my mind , was searching for some meditation music badly, like how a drug addict searches for his shot. I was Literally a fish out of water. Then finally got a song sung by vikram hazra, “jaya govind hare”, and started to meditate. Slowly my engine started to stop, then I was ok. This has been the state of mind for many of us for many years. But its high time we did something about this. The issue boils down to this. How many of us are even aware of whether we are in a depressed or In an elevated state of mind?? The thing which we call ‘mind’ controls the whole life. As my teacher beautifully said ’The quality of our life depends on the state of our mind’. Is it not high time we do something for our mind?? We learn about what happened 2000yrs back in history, which area is famous for what in geography, how the pendulum swings in physics, but have we ever learnt about how the pendulum of life swings. I wish everyone can just ask ourselves this question sincerely, ’Who are we and what can we do to improve our quality of life?’ Well I have asked this to myself and I have found an answer. But I wont let the cat out of the bag. This is what call as the ‘Art of living’. Oops did I give u an answer???

- Bharath & Venkat