Emotional Health Ends Suffering
Connect the mind with its source. Once you do this, happiness flows. When you know the source, you become an elevated person in thought as well as in action. Consistent effort is required to make the connection. Aggression, for instance, can be overcome by the practice of sheetali and sheetkari pranayamas. But if aggression is part of your nature, learn to channelise it for positive purposes. Apply yourself to constructive and creative work. A man with an aggressive nature can be very dynamic. He can utilise his personality to bring about great positive changes in society. Emotions should be channelled to help us soar to higher realms of conscious ness. In order to sublimate and channelise emotions. you must turn to the path of bhakti yoga. Suffering is a relative term. Pain, happiness, joy and struggle are experiences of the mind. They are not actual happenings. People's reactions differ according to their state of mind.When we experi- ence joy, we are bubbly and expressive. When we are unhappy, we try to suppress our emotions and suffer alone. That is called depression. Down the ages. humankind has been subject to suppressions and, as a result, man's nature has become auto-suppressive. So we suffer. If, instead of trying to suppress our pain, we could accept it and experience it fully, it would go away. Try to detach yourself and look at whatever is happening from outside. Misery is an idea. It is one kind of experience, but you can have different experiences from the same idea, from the same event. Because your mind is conditioned, you are having only one experience from life's events, but if you widen your mind's vision, you will haveCay a different experience from pain. You can interchange the quality of experience also; from happiness you can get pain and from unhappiness, pleasure. Then you will find that life is a continual process of joy. The so-called sorrow and suffering are relative concepts. If there is anything in life, it is joy; it is bliss. The one who has evolved in consciousness does not suffer; if he is suffering, then he is not in a spiritual state. There are various forms of fear and there are so many that at every step of our life we face them-fear of disease, insult, death. losing money, etc. Fear rules our lives. The best way to remove a fear is to trace it back to its origin. And every time you will find that the source of fear is ignorance. When your consciousness is unable to penetrate deeper than the present state of mind, fear comes. A child has its own limitations of mind, and beyond them there is fear. If a child goes to the bathroom at night he is afraid because it is dark. but if I go to the bathroom I'm not afraid because I know there is nothing there. So the main cause of fear is lack of knowledge. Every human being has emotional potential and varieties of emotions within him. At certain stages he is aware of brotherly, platonic, marital and paternal love. And for the fulfilment of hese needs, different people come into his life. There comes a time in man's life when, despite all these relationships, he experiences a type of vacuum. This occurs when he has become aware of a higher and more refined state of emotional love called devotion. To fulfil himself, man needs two more relationships. One is the guru-disciple relationship and the other is the God-devotee relationship.
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Emotional Health Ends Suffering
Connect the mind with its source. Once you do this, happiness flows. When you know the source, you become an elevated person in thought as well as in action. Consistent effort is required to make the connection. Aggression, for instance, can be overcome by the practice of sheetali and sheetkari pranayamas. But if aggression is part of your nature, learn to channelise it for positive purposes. Apply yourself to constructive and creative work. A man with an aggressive nature can be very dynamic. He can utilise his personality to bring about great positive changes in society. Emotions should be channelled to help us soar to higher realms of conscious ness. In order to sublimate and channelise emotions. you must turn to the path of bhakti yoga. Suffering is a relative term. Pain, happiness, joy and struggle are experiences of the mind. They are not actual happenings. People's reactions differ according to their state of mind.When we experi- ence joy, we are bubbly and expressive. When we are unhappy, we try to suppress our emotions and suffer alone. That is called depression. Down the ages. humankind has been subject to suppressions and, as a result, man's nature has become auto-suppressive. So we suffer. If, instead of trying to suppress our pain, we could accept it and experience it fully, it would go away. Try to detach yourself and look at whatever is happening from outside. Misery is an idea. It is one kind of experience, but you can have different experiences from the same idea, from the same event. Because your mind is conditioned, you are having only one experience from life's events, but if you widen your mind's vision, you will haveCay a different experience from pain. You can interchange the quality of experience also; from happiness you can get pain and from unhappiness, pleasure. Then you will find that life is a continual process of joy. The so-called sorrow and suffering are relative concepts. If there is anything in life, it is joy; it is bliss. The one who has evolved in consciousness does not suffer; if he is suffering, then he is not in a spiritual state. There are various forms of fear and there are so many that at every step of our life we face them-fear of disease, insult, death. losing money, etc. Fear rules our lives. The best way to remove a fear is to trace it back to its origin. And every time you will find that the source of fear is ignorance. When your consciousness is unable to penetrate deeper than the present state of mind, fear comes. A child has its own limitations of mind, and beyond them there is fear. If a child goes to the bathroom at night he is afraid because it is dark. but if I go to the bathroom I'm not afraid because I know there is nothing there. So the main cause of fear is lack of knowledge. Every human being has emotional potential and varieties of emotions within him. At certain stages he is aware of brotherly, platonic, marital and paternal love. And for the fulfilment of hese needs, different people come into his life. There comes a time in man's life when, despite all these relationships, he experiences a type of vacuum. This occurs when he has become aware of a higher and more refined state of emotional love called devotion. To fulfil himself, man needs two more relationships. One is the guru-disciple relationship and the other is the God-devotee relationship.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Satyananda Saraswati kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Satyananda Saraswati Speaking Tree,Times of India