How To Bring Eternal Bliss Into Your Life? Part 4, Understand Your Mind And System

Continues from How To Bring Eternal Happiness Into Your Life? Part 3, Tame Your Mind And Desire

But the question is how to tame this mind. In Bhagavadgītā, the Arjuna asks Śrī Kṛṣṇa, that he finds controlling mind even tougher than controlling air. Yes, of course controlling mind is tough.

In order to control mind you need to understand some basic things about how the mind functions. Our mind makes all decisions based on the inputs we feed into our system. It is just like if you put 1000 apples and 600 oranges before someone, there is more probability of him picking up an apple. Similarly, whether your mind thinks in the right way or not depends upon the concentration of right or wrong things you have fed inside your system so far. As you sow, so you reap.

Your mind produces desires based on the level of attachment you have with something. You cannot expect yourself taking a right decision when you have never fed anything right into your mind.

By inputs or feed of mind, I refer to impressions that are created upon you when you perform some work. Even speaking, talking, singing etc. have high level of impact on your mind.

Your mind takes decisions based on information and their concentration you have fed into your system so far.

Continue with How To Bring Eternal Bliss Into Your Life? Part 5, Recognize Your Attachments

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