Welcome. In progress On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, 04:23 Jambunathan Iyer, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Respected Mr. KRJi > > Good Morning. Thanks for the detailed response to my mail on Mind and a > useful information and Thak to you. > > Hope you have recovered and take care , be safe > > Thanks > > N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004 > > *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you > become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to > a goal, not to people or things "* > > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 9:50 AM, Rajaram Krishnamurthy < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The Bhagavad Gita tells us that the mind becomes the best friend of a >> person who is successful in controlling it. But for a person who has failed >> to do so, it becomes his greatest enemy. In fact, the mind is our only >> enemy. >> >> How to overcome the mind which bothers me? >> >> Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: That is its nature. >> >> Do you know you are bigger than the mind? Wake up. Let the mind be there. >> >> Gurudev, how do I recognize my soul mate? >> >> Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: First you should recognize your soul and then your >> soul mate. >> >> You don’t know yourself, you don’t know who you are. You don’t know >> anything about yourself. You don’t know your mind; your own mind drives you >> crazy. >> >> One minute it wants something and the next minute it wants something >> else. The mind keeps changing its mind all the time, and it gets caught up. >> >> That is why in the Bhagavad Gita, there is a saying, 'Your own mind is >> responsible for your bondage and for your liberation,' there is nothing >> else. >> >> Your own mind, if it acts like your friend, it also acts like your enemy. >> >> If your mind is trained well through Sadhana (spiritual practices), it >> befriends you, and it helps you. Otherwise your own mind behaves like an >> enemy. Isn't this so true? It is so true! >> >> There are twelve constellations and nine planets according to Vedic >> astrology. >> >> It is said that when Jupiter transits in the eighth place from the time >> you are born, it has an impact on your mind. >> >> Similarly, when Saturn transits the eighth place, it makes your emotions >> go topsy-turvy. >> >> When Jupiter is in the eighth place, you lose all your wisdom. But that >> is only for eleven months, and in these eleven months, it is only for three >> months that it makes you so miserable. Unless and until you are in deep >> spiritual knowledge or enlightened, this will definitely affect your mind. >> >> But if you know, 'These are the three months that are going to be a >> little difficult on my mind and emotions', then you will not take >> decisions, or do thing in those months. >> >> Similarly, every two and a half days, the mood of the mind changes. >> >> If you are miserable, it won't exceed two and half days. There will be a >> break and then it may come again. >> >> Like this, the cosmos has an influence on the mind. >> >> What can protect you from this influence is satsang, meditation, >> chanting. All this is like putting on an armour. >> >> An arrow was coming, but you have an armor, so it didn't really hit you. >> >> So, singing and chanting 'Om Namah Shivaya' so many times makes an armour >> around you and protects you from being affected by all these crazy things. >> >> Where do the thoughts come from? >> >> Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: This thought came to you just now? Where did this >> thought come from? It came in you, so why don’t you sit and see, where it >> is coming from? >> >> The moment you sit and think what is the origin of thought the mind goes >> blank. That indicates from where thoughts are coming. >> >> You are the source from where thoughts, ideas and emotions come – that >> inner space. >> >> It is like someone asking, 'Where do the clouds come from?' >> >> Clouds are just hovering in the sky. In the same way, in our inner sky, >> there are three akashas – one is the outer space, the second is the inner >> space where thoughts and emotion come, and there is the third space which >> is a witness. Where there is nothing, just bliss. >> >> >> >> How to get a faith that never shakes? >> >> Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: If it is true faith, let it shake. >> >> Truth will never go, and if the faith is with the truth, let it shake. It >> will never get lost. >> >> In fact, you should doubt as much as possible. >> >> You can say, 'Don’t doubt', only when a thing is not a genuine thing. >> >> If it is genuine gold, I tell you, go on scratching as much as possible. >> But if it is just rolled in gold, or gold polish, then you say, 'Don’t >> scratch too much because it will disappear.' >> >> With true gold, any amount of scratching will not make it go away. >> >> Doubt is simply lack of energy. When you are high in energy, where is the >> doubt? >> >> Doubt comes when the energy is low. True faith is that which you shake a >> hundred times and it still stays on. That is true faith, and it will remain. >> >> Our scriptures also describe the story of Hiranyakasipu a powerful >> demoniac king in the Satya Yuga, who following the death of his brother >> Hiranyaksha, was overcome with envy for Lord Vishnu. He could not restrain >> his senses and overcome by arrogance, pride, and greed he did rigorous >> Tapasya to achieve powers so that he could defeat Lord Vishnu. He then >> committed great atrocities and troubled people. Eventually, he was killed >> by Lord Narasimha, a half-man, a half-lion avatar of Lord Vishnu. So again >> we see that when the mind is swayed by the senses, due to bewilderment, the >> intelligence fails and we commit sins. >> >> On the other hand, when the mind is re-strained, there could be wonders. >> Haridas Thakura an exalted Vaishnava saint could transform the heart of a >> fallen woman, simply by his exemplary behavior. Despite extreme >> temptations, he restrained his senses with a controlled mind, transformed >> her heart and she became a devotee. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, >> >> bandhur ātmātmanas tasya yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ >> >> anātmanas tu śatrutve vartetātmaiva śatru-vat >> >> For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but >> for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. >> [Srimad Bhagavad Gita 6.6] >> >> K Rajaram IRS 5325 >> >> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 04:49, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> *“A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; he can also >>> degrade himself by his own mind. Because the mind is the friend and the >>> enemy of the self.”* >>> >>> >>> N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004 >>> >>> *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you >>> become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to >>> a goal, not to people or things "* >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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