It is extremely advisable to choose your company with
utmost care. If you are associated with wrong companions, no matter whatever
your goal and objective and your desire
to achieve the same, you cannot accrue the expected results to your likings
because of negative influences exerted by your associates. If you plant a poor
quality rose in the midst of all high quality rose bushes, the poor quality may
not destroy the high quality one, but if a good quality comes into contact of
poor quality rose bushes, the charm and the fragrance of the good quality rose
will fade away or will not be blossomed as it should be. In the case of human
being, it is also the same. It is said that a person is known and acknowledged
by his company. For example, if you are desirous to be a wealthy person, you
must mingle with rich people frequently. With your mingling with various rich people, you will follow their
qualities, their thinking pattern, their habits and may other qualities, which
will ultimately help you to achieve your desire to become wealthy provided you
work relentlessly in that direction.. If you want to become a sports person,
you must develop a habit to mix with the sports people, watch the particular
game, learn the techniques, practice the particular game and continue to do
some painstaking preparations required to be a particular sports person. By
mixing with these types of people, you will make yourself more fit by toning
your muscles, doing regular exercise, consuming balance calorie food and
maintaining a disciplined lifestyle. Your close association with the sports
persons will not only make you to follow their regime of lifestyle, but also
you are heading to make yourself a
sports person. In the same way, if you want to be a spiritual person and
dedicate your life to God and are very much desired to serve the underprivileged
section of the society, you have to seek the company of the people who are
spiritual and able to devote their lives to serving God and others. If you spend
your quality time with a person who habitually meditates, obviously you will also
like to meditate. Initially, you will follow, but by increasing your mingling
with that particular person, you are bound to concentrate on this powerful
technique of doing meditation. It is very much advisable to keep company with
people, who value ethical living and practice noble virtues. This will help you
to act in the same way. In today’s glamorous and wealth conscious world, people
tend to mix with others based on their outward profile. But it is prudent to
select the company based on the inner profile. You must avoid the company of rich persons, who indulge in all unethical
life practice. Contrarily, a rich person with all noble qualities must be
considered as a role model for your mingling and follow his qualities. He must
be one of your ideal companions. So,
evaluation of your companions is a crucial exercise. Your friends only are instrumental in personal growth and you must focus your
attention to increase their numbers. You will always feel warm when you get
their association because they are your true friends in contributing your
growth. It is based on the concept of “like attracts like”, but the selection
is far more important.
Our lives in this universe are precious. We have a
limit of our living, up to the ages of 60, 70, 80 or even 90 years. In this
period, we must define the purpose of our lives. We must plan to achieve
selected goals and for that matter, it is a wise decision to select like minded
people. If you are in a company of naysayer all the time, you will lose the
purpose of life which you set forward. You will be motivated by their wrong
advices and slowly forget your own prosperous goal.
If we are lucky enough to be in the company of noble
and spiritual minded people, our lives will radiate the breath of spirituality.
Being in the company of such type of people, you will be able to focus your
wholehearted attention to spirituality and thereby you will be able to discriminate
between the company of good and bad.
A good companion never leaves anyone alone whether a situation is good or
bad. He always cares for the others, whether living or non-living beings, loves
them wholeheartedly and protects them from all troubles. Take an example of a
good shepherd. A good shepherd never leaves his sheep alone. Instead, he walks
ahead of the flock so that he can lead them safely. Suppose the shepherd has
hired a person, but he runs away when he sees a wolf is coming to chase the sheep. This hired person
abandons the sheep because they do not belong to him and does not care for the
lives of the sheep. And so, the wolf attacks them and scatters the flocks. The
hired man is leaving the sheep in the
teeth of danger because he is working only for money and does not really care
about the sheep. But if the shepherd gets a good person, who will equally care
for the sheep like his owner, then he is the true companion of the shepherd
despite knowing that the sheep do not
belong to him. Similarly, a good companion must be a person who never makes you
alone, protects you and shows a right path to follow. He will be always with you to encourage to practice all ethics and virtues to live a
spiritual life. A right companion is not the one, who makes you join the path
of darkness. He protects you, quarrels with you and advises you when you get indulged in any type of unethical
activities and then guides you to walk
in the path of “light”.
A wise selection of good companions is extremely
beneficial for your growth; be it social, financial or spiritual.
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