Mental Makeup – Rationalists – Spends the
time in understanding the true purport of matter and energy.
Mental Makeup - Service Oriented - Carries out duty for universal greatest happiness
of the greatest number.
Mental Makeup – Devotional - ritual minded, religious,
like to chant. Carries out duty with the
intention of self-serving and sometimes selfless service. As he progresses in
his devotion, he starts carrying out selfless service for universal greatest
happiness of the greatest number. This transformation happens without the
person being aware of that transformation. The devotional person when attains
heights level of devotion continues carry out the selfless work thinking it is a
part of ritual or religious direction.
These mental makeups coexist in every
individual being. It is the question of which is predominant. To recognize it and
to start the life journey based on that mental makeup. As the journey progresses
often one finds transgressing now and then in other two mental makeups and it
is perfectly normal to happen.
Since we have time at our disposal, we should
strive to pass this time in a way which gives joy. If we don’t take control and
wait for the time to pass then we are bound to be plagued by bad quality of
life resulting in unhappiness. The aim of each one of us is to spend the time
in such a way so as to maximize happiness and minimize sadness and pain. To
achieve this, we have to select one of the three ways to lead the life. To do
this one has to discern the mental makeup. This can only be achieved by
spending some time thinking on self and observing oneself.
Animals also pass the time but there is a
qualitative difference between passing time without knowing about it and spending
time with full consciousness. If we don’t have a purpose, then it is difficult to
spend available. It is much more difficult to spend time if there is a mismatch
between the mental makeup of the individual and the actions the individual does
to fill the time. On the contrary if there is complete synchronization of the
mental makeup and our actions then the resultant passing of time is very joyous.
One finds artists engrossed in art, scientist engrossed in research, businessmen
in business, saints in preaching and so on. This is as per the individual
mental makeups. If one sees the path of each individual from birth to death or
from start of reaction to end of reaction, it is only one common path - the
path of passing time. How consciously one passes the time, is of importance
rather than what was done to pass the time. Every passing moment should be
filled with that conscious action which gives joy to self and a remembrance to
other. Once engrossed in such an action the time passes on its own.
Sometimes we get entrapped in such circumstances
in life that we feel as if we are stuck in a traffic jam. In traffic jam, although the vehicle has
power to propel and we have capability to drive, we cannot use this power and
capability to come out of traffic jam on our own. The one who is stuck in a
traffic jam would have to bear it and experience a slow boring run ahead. It is
same for our life. If we get entrapped in adverse situations, we are forced to
maintain a low profile even if we have ability and talent, till the adverse
circumstances are mitigated. Let us call it a traffic jam syndrome. In case of traffic
jam syndrome - best is to keep cool and chant the name in which one has faith. Nothing
else to do, wait for the traffic jam to clear.
To be continued……. Keep reading…….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 comment:
You gave a simple explanation of the satva,rajas and tamasic gunas in man. The traffic jam example is a nice way of dealing with difficult situations in life. Most of the times we get so disturbed that it doesn't occur to us how simply we can confront adversities. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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