Resisting False Attractions In Actions

Resisting False Attractions In Actions

 

 All that glitters is not gold. Life presents you with many illusionary scenes, scenes in which what may be visible may not be the truth. These scenes cause desires to be born inside you to achieve something unnecessary for your prosperity or other types of fulfilments. These can be illusions that make you believe that you will gain something from a situation or person, without the same being true. Thus, you waste time going down a path that not only leads you to disappointment; but you also waste the resource of your thoughts and energy and as a result you tire yourself out emotionally and mentally. If the intellect is polluted, you make incorrect judgments and are easily deceived by situations or people. Thus, you will make incorrect choices, dishonest or illogical decisions. You will justify dishonesty and improper actions and you will be incapable of differentiating between the real and the imaginary.

A person with a pure, clear, clean and powerful intellect will act with honesty and sincerity. When your intellect is polluted, you may act against your own conscience or against your better judgment; you also may be insensitive. A person with a doubtful intellect will always justify a dishonest act. Meditation is the process of purifying and cleaning the intellect, because in meditation we connect with the purest intellect, the intellect of the Supreme Allah. Meditation is also a process of inner awakening and strengthening of your conscience. Being awake means to realize, and being strong means to act according to what you have realized.

Clarity of Thoughts is very important in our life. We will be meeting different type of people in our life; some of them may even try to confuse us for their selfish motto. We should think twice & analyze the details before taking a decision – to live a Happy Life!

Hurting The Ego

Hurting The Ego

Almost every day we come across a situation when someone says something to us which is not very pleasurable or we chose to perceive it to be so. In either case, we feel insulted and get upset as a result. In some cases we react and display our feelings. In some, we don’t. In either case, the result is depreciation (decrease) in our happiness index. Why does this happen? It’s because you have created, attached to and identified with an image of yourself in your mind that does not match with how the other sees or perceives you, as a result of which you believe you have been insulted and you get upset.

As long as people’s perception of you matches the image that you have created inside your mind of yourself, you are content with them, but as soon as the opposite happens, even if it’s to a very small extent, you become disturbed, because you are attached to that image The more the attachment, the greater the hurt, the disturbance or reaction. You could examine this phenomenon very closely, taking place inside yourself every day. This kind of attachment mentioned above is called ego. That’s why the phenomenon explained above is called in common language “hurting the ego.”

The ego is the claimant within you. Your ego claims the body-mind-intellect and their respective functions and objects. EGO claims your worldly possessions. My wealth, my family, my house, my children, my reputation, my image etc. These assertions and arrogations are made by the EGO. It claims “it is my perception”, “my action” or “I am the actor”, “my feeling”, “my thinking”, “my point of view”, and “my ideas”. These assertions and arrogations of your EGO need to be governed and controlled.

The ego is often misunderstood to be something negative, something detrimental. The truth is that the ego, by itself, is not detrimental. On the contrary, it is a potent, benevolent entity within you, provided you know the technique of using it. Lack of control over the ego, your inability to use the ego rightly, renders the ego detrimental. An uncontrolled, undisciplined ego is harmful. It develops arrogance in you. On the contrary a controlled, disciplined use of the ego is beneficial. It develops self-esteemed self worth in you. Self-esteem is an essential ingredient of success and progress. The ego in you, if not supervised, causes devastation and destruction of human harmony within as well as without. Uncontrolled and undisciplined ego is a saboteur. It sabotages your career, your relationship, your peace of mind and your goal.

This is posted as a reminder to me and everyone who will not get offended by it. It is applicable to all human beings, irrespective of religion, caste or creed.