Shiva Sutras | Enthusiasm is a quality of life, yet some people find only boredom and unhappiness.
*Chapter 2 - Energy Centres*
*Day 12*
The mind is such that if we have to scold someone we pick up the phone right away and shout at him without caring what time of day or night it is.
You may not be aware if the person on the other end of the phone is listening or not. He may have hung up, but once you have shouted you are at peace.
The mind wants to do bad things right away. The energy in you that moves you to act, also will lead you to a state where you are a witness and do not even desire to act.
Consciousness blossoms when you are a witness. Then even amidst all your actions consciousness will continue to blossom. So drop all your concepts and put in your full efforts.
Suppose you are unable to do this because of weakness, or you do put in your 100%, but restlessness increases. When you direct your attention to your energy centers, the world that you have created disappears.
The question arises, if one rises to a higher position only by hard work, does this justify all those workers and businessmen who work continuously, sweating it out, night and day?
And for what purpose? Some
Profit? Do they find only profit by working so hard? Sometimes blood pressure rises or ulcers appear, or the world overwhelms them, and anger and hatred begin.
By working only to fulfill desires, you invite things that are undesired. When we look around and feel that others have more than what we have. life fills with jealousy.
Look at the jealousy in our schools children say, "She got higher marks than me, and even though we wrote the same answer, she came first while I came third."
Or if the person sitting next to you looks and smiles and has a conversation with a person sitting on the other side of you, then it is enough for you to become shocked and uncomfortable.
This world is in our own mind. We look only at the world that exists in our mind, which we imagine in our own way, though the world outside may be different.
70% of the problems in our life start because of our imagination. If you are unhappy or have had an unpleasant life, it is due to the world in your mind.
You have created such a universe. “Vishva” is a wonderful word - “Shiva” means either yesterday or tomorrow, and “Vishwa” means the special yesterday or tomorrow that we create in our m own mind.
In our mind, we imagine certain things as huge, though we are uncertain how they actually are. We are stuck in worries about yesterday and imaginings about tomorrow, which is why we lack enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is a quality of life, yet some people find only boredom and unhappiness. Observe, in what direction is your life moving- day by day, are you gaining enthusiasm or losing it?