Life
is full of mysteries. You have to handle many conflicts, but how you handle the
same with right choice; it depends on your experience and skill. Life provides us many choices. You have to ascertain which one is the
correct choice. Since, we have so many
choices, most of the time; we struggle between these various options. When you
are not able to choose, you psychologically get demurred and ultimately, it may
happen that you select the wrong option against your wish. In this way, instead
of reducing the conflict, the same aggravates more. Now, by selecting this
wrong option, you lose the precious opportunity and efforts to choose the right
one. So, your life becomes a chaotic, just because you ignore the right one and
select the wrong one out of your compulsion. So, come out of the conflict, it
is utmost important to select the option with a peaceful and analytical mind to
lessen the gravity of the conflict. Conflict in any situation makes us go round
and round. People always tell that life is mostly full of sorrow, conflicts and
ill feelings, but in reality, it is not correct. It is only our apprehension that
puts us in more conflicts. Whenever there is a conflict, maybe the same is
insignificant or negligible, our mental dilemmas evolve from our personalities
which always develops on duality and we exaggerate the whole situation.
The
Hindu religion teaches us of our qualities as Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and these
qualities influences our choice of actions to counter various conflicts. These
qualities fling us in different directions,
enabling us to become confused in these types of situations. The quality of Sattva
guides us towards harmony, peace, wisdom, integrity, fellow feeling and enlightenment.
When you have these qualities either acquired or you have got the same as
inborn, you are not bothered about your ego. You always try to ascertain the
truth and the transcendental values of life.
The
persons who possess more Rajas qualities, will be more interested to fulfill
their desires through capturing the urge of achievement, possession of
materialistic comfort and power. Ultimately, they become discontented most of
the time.
The
qualities of Tamas make you sluggish, idle, procrastinate and jealous and you
will not be motivated to do anything. Every
one of us has all these three qualities in various degrees and
proportions. If you always work for a
lot of money, name and fame, you may ultimately land into a phase, where you
will not be interested in all these outward conflicts and materialistic gain. Then
you will not be interested with your life.
Contrarily, a person who is focused to detach from all these outwards passions,
may sometimes get obsessive thoughts to cultivate the said qualities, of
course, at the cost of destroying his peace of mind. In the same way, if you are always engaged in
the conflict game of success and failure, you will be losing your harmony.
The
diverse nature of these qualities always makes you in psychological conflicts. Sometimes,
one of these qualities becomes more active and pulls the person from the other
two and engages their life around it. Once you pull on one quality, the other
two become not so significant. You may think that once you are inclined to one
quality and suppressing the other two qualities may resolve the conflicts you
face in your life; it is not so.
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In
our worldly state of affairs, the parents often encourage their children to
concentrate on the Sattva and Rajas qualities.
In this process, children are taught that they have to
achieve career goals, positions, power, name and fame devaluing
truthfulness and enlightenment to some extent. Though they are taught to embrace
upon Sattva qualities also but seeing their parents mostly following the Rajas
qualities, the children impersonate them. In this atmosphere, these children often lose their value of
idealism and then they suppress their innate temperament and run behind what
the world recognizes most. Of course, some children are influenced by Sattva
qualities from the beginning through the teachings of their parents, teachers
and societies and ultimately they follow the path of righteousness in their
adult lives. The Tamas qualities mostly are found in the people who always get
engaged in the uncivilized activities and
take pride in doing so.
In
order to understand the real meaning of various conflicts and its role, we must
understand the nitty-gritty of the same, interplay of these three qualities and
surmount the dual behavioral pattern in life. All these qualities are like
different streams of water that influence our mind. Be aware of the current of
this flow, and don’t get washed away with this flow. We have to identify these
qualities in details that govern us and our personality. When one particular quality tries to dominate
us and influences us; we must ponder why it is happening in this way. Once we
are able to identify the reason, we can counter the influence of one quality as
against the other two qualities, and in this way, we would be able to lessen
the gravity of various conflicts in our life. As stated above, all these three
qualities are present within us and we have to control our mind in such a way
that we get adapted to the influence of more Sattva and Rajas qualities. There
is nothing wrong to follow Tamas qualities unless the same deteriorates your
life’s charm. Apparently, this quality may look beneficiary to you, but in the
long run it is harmful for your growth.For example, anger is a bad quality, but
if you exercise this trait to fight against the corruption prevailing in the
society; at that particular time, if you raise voice or show anger, it is not harmful even though it is
classified as Tamasik.
You
must understand the conflict, its reason and then solve the same by exercising
the power of these three qualities either in isolation or in combination.
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