My thoughts used to run wild and my stomach craved for anything
and everything I saw. I wanted to control my mind. So, all this while I was
madly in search of that place where no mind stays or goes.
Today, I have understood how important the mind is. I have learnt
to honour it. I didn't create the mind. It has always been there. It is
immortal like the soul. It has something very charming in it. The mind connects
everything. It gives meaning to life. Yes, it's the mind that wanders in all
directions and causes grief. But, it's the same mind that removes us from the
world of appearances and guides us to the real world of bhakti and jnaana.
The rather new gift, as I keep saying, that I have received is the
religion that I was born into. It is never too late to know, explore, learn,
and live. When I used to say, I want to control my mind...it was the ego
speaking. CONTROL - should have told me the story but it didn’t.
Now, I can see how beautiful a creation the mind is. God has given
me a mind like he has given you a mind. My mind and your mind can obviously not
work on the same conditions. But by understanding that everything is given to
us by Him and that He is the Lord of all, there will be peace in the world.
"Religion is not a department of life;
it is something that enters the whole of it."
I’m only hoping that my mind grows in the direction that it is
growing. I hope and pray that religion is not ‘just a phase’ of my life…but my
life itself.
2 comments:
"The mind connects everything"- How true! I wrote a similar post recently from the Buddhist perspective.
and strangely enough....at first, I had titled this post "Life is more than what you make of it." :D
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