Thought for the day four

As thoughts are the seeds of all actions, let me plant only good, pure seeds so that the fruit will be the best

We grow what we sow is a very true saying any day. If we plant mango seed, we get a mango plant. Likewise if we sow neem seed, we get a neem plant.

I am referring to the above two because one is synonym with sweetness and the other with bitterness.

So, if our talk is sweet, most of the times we get sweet words back. (There are always exceptions to this sentence. But, we are not interested in exception in this article!)

Like they say in computer language, ‘Garbage in – garbage out’.

When we feed in garbage, we get garbage comes out.

Let me take two instances in puranas about planting a great thought.

Hiranya Kashipu, the demon during Satya yuga does a terrific penance to get a boon from Brahma and to become invincible. His wife Kayaadu was pregnant. Lord of Devas Indra thought that the child of Hiranya Kashipu would harm him and took the decision to kill Kayadu and her still unborn child. Sage Narada comes and rescues Kayadu and takes her to his Ashram. There, to keep her calm, he tells her the story of Lord Narayana. Kayadu falls to sleep and the Kid (later Prahlada, the most ardent devotee of Narayana) starts responding to sage Narada’s narration of stories of Narayana. So, even before he was born, Prahlada was fed with the good deeds. This he continued till his last day on the earth.

Lord Krishna, the avatar of Narayana in Dwapara yuga, was talking to his sister Subhadra during her pregnancy. She asks about a specific army trick Chakravyuha. Krishna would explain, Subhadra was asleep, and the kid Abhimanyu started responding. Mahabharata says that Abhimanyu learnt about Chakravyuha before his birth.

Don’t we see the truth of the first sentence? If the seed is healthy, then the plant would be healthy.

The other saying idle mind is devil’s workshop could be remembered here. Idle mind would always have some bad seeds of thoughts. When it is sown in the empty space of the brain, many bad deeds happen.

Duryodhana in Mahabharata was always sowing bad seeds. This resulted in victory for him for sometimes. But later it boomeranged on him.

Like Newton’s third law – every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

We can tell more stories. A boy was sitting on her mother’s shoulder while walking on the road. The boy stole a banana from a fruit vendor who was passing them. The banana vendor did not even know that he lost one banana from his basket which he was keeping on his head. When the boy showed the banana to his mother, she smiled. The smile encouraged the boy and he went on thieving things in his life. One day he was caught by the police. When asked how he would justify his action of theft, the man (the boy has grown to a man now) said, “It is because of my mother, I am in this position. She did not stop me when I stole a banana from a vendor. Today I am standing here because my mother did not teach me that stealing is a crime”

So true!

When we need a healthy business tree we have to ensure that the roots are honesty and integrity. If we sow a seed of cheat, mistrust and cunning, the tree would obviously be unhealthy business tree.

The human mind has to be treated in such a way that a person does things right even when no one is watching. This is the right method.

Instead of this, if we start thinking nobody is a criminal until he is proven guilty, then we always think of taking chances, trying to commit mistakes and ensuring that we are not caught.

But any day, crime does not pay. Crime has a punishment. So, it is always better to be a good person and try to do things right always.