Thought for the day two

What was the future happens now, what happens now becomes the past – so why worry?

Here the philosophy is Tena vina truna mapi na chalati which means without Your help even a grass won’t move. The writer is meaning God when he says You.

Destiny and fate are words connected with the happenings in our lives.

When we get something good out of turn, we say it’s our destiny. On the other hand, if something bad happens (which we never want to happen!) we say it’s our fate.

Of course, there are people who say that if we work hard, we can change our destiny. Fate is not available for changing.

There are many people who worry too much about their future and promptly spoil their present. If we observe the sentence again, what we feel is future will be on us before we count one, two, three.

In the same way, the present becomes a thing of the past.

There is a saying in Sanskrit language.

Chitaayaastu chintaayaastu bindu maatram vishishyate

Chitaa dahati nirjeevam, chintaa dahati sajeevam.

When you say the word Chitaa and the word Chintaa we may observe that there is the additional ‘n’ in between. Chitaa means the pyre. Chintaa means the worry. Can you make out the difference? Vast!

The saying says further that the Chitaa (pyre) burns the dead body and the Chintaa (worry) burns a living person.

Is this called for? No, more you worry about a problem, more you go away from a possible solution. The worry clouds the thinking mind and shrouds our judgment. We end up getting into problems.

Honi ko kaun Taal sakta hai? is a saying in Hindi language. This means what is going to happen cannot be stopped by anyone. In fact there is a philosophy that everything is destined. In fact, all the incidents happening in our lives are already written (like a drama). We are all players. We have to only play our roles till we are alive. Then it is in the hands of the God who will decide where to send whom – whether to give him salvation or send him to go through the next birth.

It may not be completely true say some people. They believe in efforts. In fact, we write our destiny ourselves, by putting effort is what they insist.

Lord Sri Krishna says the same thing in the ‘Song of the Lord’ Bhagavad Gita. You are bound by your karma (deeds) and you have no right on the result. It is completely at my discretion he says.

Some sort of contradiction. But still, we need to be alert while doing our karma. We should ensure that we should not harm others, even if we can’t help others. We have no right to throw a spanner in somebody else’s life’s works.

If you think a little deeply, the shape of our body, color of our skin and the way our face looks are not in our hands. This is given by God or nature - depending upon you are a devotee or a scientist!

That means the physical thing is out of our hands. But, the mind and intellect are under our control.  We can control our actions while talking to others. We can avoid hurting them. We can make their life happy when we meet them.

There is a saying ‘Some people bring happiness when they come and some others when they go’

So, we can keep ourselves happy by bringing happiness to others. We can make them feel happy in the present and make them feel secure in the future.

Where there is happiness, there is no worry. Where there is no worry, there is peace of mind. This leads to satisfaction in life.

After all, except for the materialistic money, all other things what we always want are not in physical form.