Very interesting! Vedic Approach To Stress
According to various Vedic scriptures, it has been established that a
healthy mind leads to a healthy body; conversely, an unhealthy mind can
lead to an unhealthy body. If the mind is in a state of good health, it can
move on undeterred after every troubling situation. A good mind is a
product of good thoughts. Good thoughts are that which are free of
selfishness and greed. Hope and fear are nothing but figments of human
imagination. When we fear, we affect our mind in a negative way; when we
hope, we seek for viable alternatives. As a matter of fact, an indifferent
mind, It seeks to do good things not just for oneself or one's family, but
for the whole world. Yet, it's detached from the fruits of its action. When
the fruit is good, it may be happy but when otherwise, it isn't bothered
much. This uproots all scope for stress or crisis. Since it is bereft of
stress and any positive or negative emotion, such a mind is well suited to
handle crises, not just at an individual's level, but at an institutional
level as well. It looks at the situation objectively. It assesses
objectives, but never clings on to sentiments, negative or positive, since
it hasn't one. When stuck in a crisis, people often look for readymade
solutions, or some kind of a magic wand. They look for leadership without
knowledge of leadership qualities. According to the Bhagavad Gita, "One who
is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligate is
the true yogi, not he who lights no fire and performs no duty."
According to the philosophy of karma, all the actions that we see in
the world, all the movements in human society, all the works that we have
around us, are simply the display of thought, the manifestation of the will
of man. Also, says the philosophy of karma, everything is determined by
karma, or work. Nothing is achieved unless earned; this is an eternal law.
Our karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are
responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be; we have
the power to make ourselves. Work for work's sake. They work because they
think that it is good enough. Unselfishness is more rewarding than
selfishness, only people lack patience to practice it.
*Mandukya Upanishad, Acharya Gaudapada *states:
*सर्वभिलापविपगत**: **सर्वचिन्तासमुत्थित**: *
*| **सुप्रशान्त**: **सकृज्ज्योति**: **समाधिरलोऽभय**: **|| *We are always
independent of this body and mind. When our mind realizes this truth, it
begins experiencing perpetual tranquil, everlasting effulgence, eternal
bliss, persists unassailably and becomes completely fearless. When the
thoughts are without any trace of fear, that thought is *Sattva *or *Sattvic.
*When our thoughts are engrossed in fear with partial objectivity and
focus, such thoughts are *Rajo *or *Rajasic. *When our thoughts are
entirely overwhelmed by fear and without any trace of hope, that is
undoubtedly a *Tamas *or *Tamasic *thought. The mind has four essential
functions *Observe, Understand, Think *and *Act. *In a mind afflicted by
*Chinta the *ability to *Understand* and *Think* are often absent. It is
indeed a travesty that humans, who pride in their ability to think, have
often acted more out of impulses, only to make their life miserable. Even
though the thought may not guarantee the expected outcome, without thoughts
even a predicted result may not be nearly as good enough as expected to
hope for.
How to benefit from stress: How many of you have ever been
under stress? How many of you have liked being under stress? How many of
you have benefitted from being under stress? Very good, then you know that
stress is good, stress is strengthening. Don’t be taken in by the medical
profession that is selling all kinds of drugs on the pretext that stress is
a bad thing. Drugs don’t give you strength to meet life’s difficulties.
They are weakening. You don’t want to be born and be in a cradle all of
your life and have everything go nicely and pass on into the Devaloka in a
worse condition than before you were born. That will happen to you unless
you are under stress, some kind of challenge. Stress is strengthening if
you continually rise up to meet it. Why do you go on pilgrimage in an
inconvenient, uncomfortable way? Because you want to put yourself under
stress to bring the spiritual aspect of you forth, to let the karmas
manifest in your life that you have come into this birth to face and
resolve. FACE THE STRESS. AS OSCAR WILD E SAID IT YIELD TO STRESS (HE SAID
DIFFRENTLY).
Your imagination alone enlarges the volume of the stress as you
are incapable of managing it. Resting is not a stress buster. Engaging
oneself is all the time, even in sleep. Go to REM. When you are throbbed by
someone’s bossism ( you only thought that he is bossing ,but never he said
it so) either obey if one is blank about the matter ; or explain if the
other lends his ears; or try to absorb the idea to expand in your style; or
simply determine to implement it in toto. When one thinks that the other is
a boss and I wont listen to him, makes one stressful. In other words, one
stress buster is to immediately switch over to another work; and come back
later to continue; switches, never expressed the stress, when you are
handling them 10000 times.
Stretching the nerve system: Stress is good. Don’t be taken in
by television advertising that tells you that stress is a terrible thing.
But you have to handle stress. How do you handle it? Like anything else.
You go to God on the inside; you go to God in the temple and finally you
get rid of your stress, from the inside out, and you are a better person
because of it, because you have had to expand your nerve system. You have
had to stretch your nerve system. You have had to use brain cells that you
never used before, to stretch out your mind, awaken new capacities. It is
not easy.
chanting *“AUM”* for 10 minutes has a positive effect on mood and
social cognition. Further research found the chant to provide calm and
peace to a stressed mind, helping reduce symptoms of social anxiety. “Om is
considered as the primordial sound of the universe. Another mantra
,pronounced slowly and calmly ,removing the stress is,Shanti Mantra in
Sanskrit: ॐ द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शा न्ति:, पृथ्वी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय:
शान्ति: । वनस्पतय: शान्तिर्विश्वे देवा: शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्ति:, सर्वँ शा
र्वँ न्ति:, शान्तिरेव शा न्ति:, सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥ ॐ शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति:
॥ : Om Dyau Shanti-Rantariksha-Gwam Shantih, Prithvi Shanti-Rapah
Shanti-Roshadhayah Shantih। Vanas-Patayah Shanti-Vishwed Devah
Shanti-Brahma Shantih, Sarvag-Wam Shantih Shanti-Reva Shantih Sa Ma
ShantiRedhi॥ Om Shantih Shantih Shantih Om॥ : ॐ द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शा
न्ति:, May harmony transmit there in the entire sky just as in the
tremendous ethereal space all over the place. पृथ्वी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय:
शान्ति: । May harmony rule all over this world, in water and in all herbs,
trees and creepers. वनस्पतय: शान्तिर्विश्वे देवा: शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्ति:,
May harmony stream over the entire universe. May harmony be in the Supreme
Being Brahman. सर्वँ शा र्वँ न्ति:, शान्तिरेव शा न्ति:, सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥
Also, may there consistently exist in all harmony and harmony alone. ॐ
शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति: ॥ Aum harmony, harmony, and harmony to us and all
creatures!. At the point when recited, the Shanti mantra can soothingly
affect the psyche and lead to profound unwinding.? Through the Shanti
Mantra, we look for assurance from ध तापा: (three scorchers) of the idea
of - अध्या त्मि-क (inconvenience caused 'inside' oneself at the body level
and psyche level) आधिभौति- inconvenience brought about by observed
substances for example people around us) आधिदैविक (inconvenience brought
about by 'inconspicuous' for example which comes to us from natural
disasters,
The following additional disciplines will also be helpful in
combating stress and tension:
1. Keeping the Five Precepts conscientiously. The feeling of guilt
increases stress. By observing the precepts, a person leads a blameless
life and thereby enjoys freedom from the nagging sense of guilt that
harasses one who violates the basic rules of morality. A guilty conscience
is a vexing companion during the day, an uncomfortable bedfellow at night.
2. Sense control. The mind is constantly attracted to pleasant sense
objects and repelled by unpleasant objects. Wandering recklessly among the
objective fields, it becomes scattered and distraught. By guarding the
sense doors, this wasteful agitation is checked. The mind becomes calm and
settled, and as a result one experiences an unblemished happiness.
3. Meditation. Meditation, or bhavana, purifies the mind. As the mind is
gradually cleansed, one can see with greater clarity the true nature of
life. One then becomes increasingly detached from worldly things and
develops an equanimity that cannot be shaken by the fluctuations of fortune.
4. Cultivating the four sublime attitudes. The four sublime attitudes
(brahmavihara) are loving kindness, compassion, altruistic joy, and
equanimity. These are enlightened emotions that reduce the stress and
strain of daily life, improve interpersonal relationships at home and in
the workplace, promote racial accord and amity, help in the development of
an even mind, and increase calm and inner peace.{Art of mindfulness}.
KR IRS 28//29/1/23
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 17:34, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Mar*The Tension Ridden Mind and Body-Environmental Pollution
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> Science has developed the habit of repudiating, one’s partnership with
> nature in perception and contemplation. For the scientific mind, one
> ignores nature, one ignores the basic fact that one is part of the planet
> earth, and that one cannot avoid one’s rhythm with nature while living. But
> nature is not bias. Nature is one’s macro anatomy.
>
> Even today, after so much of poisoning of nature, when one thinks, one
> makes one’s mind blank and often closes one’s eyes, stops hearing and even
> smelling, expecting nature to flash ideas. It is impossible for one to be
> an outside observer of nature, or leave nature, as impossible as the
> attempt to leave one’s body as one’s self in the day today life.
>
> In free, lush and luxuriant nature, one enters rapture as contemplation,
> as rapture gives a better experience, than merely closing the eyes and
> making the mind blank. In total rapture one becomes unaware of everything;
> the mind closes the manufacture of thoughts. It becomes open for the flash
> of brilliant ideas or revelations from nature. Nature in totality thinks.
> One participates in the nature that is continuously thinking, as a partner
> in nature’s contemplation.
>
> Planet earth is Bhoodevi, Gaia, the thinking organism. A Sage strives
> throughout his life to live as part of nature, tries to become healthy and
> happy in healthy and happy nature.Wounding, polluting and poisoning nature
> is sin for him. Every cell in his body complements the work of nature.
> Feeling emotionally as nature and not merely noting information about
> nature, is his life.
>
> Thanks to science and technology, we live the economic life, where the
> destruction of nature is basic. Absolute insensitivity to nature is the
> scientific mind. Every machine wounds and harms nature. In fact when one
> uses a machine to do the work of a limb, one is making the limb gradually
> dysfunctional. The cells in the limb no longer participate in the living.
>
> Today, we cannot even conceptualize what happiness really feels like. For
> complete happiness one needs happy nature to partner.Today, continuous
> caution has become life. Caution and rapture do not go together. Caution
> means that every cell in one’s body becomes stunted by hesitations, the
> hormones fail to give clear guidance.
>
> Once, management was participation in nature’s symbiotic
> certainties.Today, uncertainty and probability is the basic property of
> nature, according to science. Uncertainty and neurosis go together.
>
> Go to nature, still allowed to exist, to partner emotionally, so that you
> get a bit of the real happiness which once existed. In the name of
> education, every university is promoting technology. Technology
> automatically harms nature.
>
> YM
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