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Message From: Raman Bharadwaj |
Total Posts: 33 |
Join Date: 06/06/2006 |
| Rank: Executive |
Post Date: 27/07/2006 12:17:12 |
Points: 210 |
Location: India |
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Attitude Creates The Altitude
By Raman Bharadwaj
Everyday I get asked by several, “how was your day yesterday? “
The first thing I do is to laugh heartily and, my reply to all of them goes the same way every time - “It was great, couldn’t have been better, I’m the master of my day - no one can mess it up nor will I go to mess up anyone’s.”
The secret of happiness lies in understanding what you have and being grateful for that.
Attitude is, and no one can ever dispute that fact, the most important tool in one’s life.
An attitude without commitment is like a nice beautiful and a power car without brakes.
A monk was asked about the secret of his happiness. He said, “When I get up in the morning I ask myself do I want to be in heaven or hell? What I do is always to choose to be in heaven. Hence I create heaven in every moment of my day, that adds up to being in heaven throughout my life.”
The attitude of being happy is an important education.
Happiness is in one’s attitude. It is not in the circumstances we are in. This is a great insight. The art of being happy is understanding that there are infinite things we have and there are infinite things we can don’t have. If we learn to focus on what we have and rejoice with a sense of gratitude, then happiness will be circulating in every cell of our being. Thoughts can be given as an infection or affection. Learn to give thoughts of affection even to a stranger, even to the one’s you don’t see, the one’s who are on the electronic mail, the one’s who are behind the call that comes into you through the telephone. That’s the way you can find happiness filling your soul.
You might then ask me, “What are the causes of miseries in the lives of many?”
Well this isn’t an easy question to answer, however the least that can be said is to benefit from a good advice requires more wisdom than to give a good advice.
A complete human is one who includes success and failure, praise and criticism, happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain. A man of wisdom is a complete man.
People are miserable and so they will be because they want to be perfect. A perfect state involves absence of growth and thus it becomes imperfect.
We are caught in the comparison trap and develop a comparative consciousness. This is like living in total darkness when you have eyes to see, and there is nothing wrong with your eye sight. To compare is an ordinary. consciousness.
In this competitive world of today, you might ask me, “what is wrong with comparison?”
And to this my answer would be “Nothing wrong as such.”
We should compare ourselves with people whom we think are complete.
And my wisdom tells me no one is ever complete on this planet, then whom are we comparing ourselves with.
Are we therefore comparing with incompletion?”
If so we are declaring ourselves as incomplete. An incomplete human deletes and invalidates oneself.
This would surmount to death in the mind - a psychological death, because it involves our inability to accept change.
We ought to understand that in every change, there is fullness hidden … it is here and now.
The state of completion involves accepting both bondage and freedom. In this state one will become available to a mysterious learning. Our higher centers are constantly communicating with each other but the lower center’s can’t receive them as they are filled with ego or ignorance. To eliminate ignorance and to shed one’s ego is to become open to the mystery of life which is the sign of a complete human
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