When you get contended for various issues in your life, you become
satisfied and your countenance is pervaded with a smile and then you land in the lap of happiness. In
today’s world, which is full of grandeur, we always ponder causes to incur
expenses either for daily needs or for status quo symbol. You are assessed by “How
much money you do have?” “ how many gadgets you possess?” & “how much material
comfort you can bring to your family, relatives or friends? These all are the
yardsticks of your success. This is
known as hedonism and this is the prevailing norms of the society to measure
your importance. But the path of more hedonism will bring, the more destruction
for you though apparently by your acquiring
all the luxuries, it will ripple a satisfactory feeling to you. The need for
more becomes unending and today most of us will swirl in the convolutions of these
illusory material comforts. It gives rise for a thirst of more fame and
power. We don’t want to recognize the
fact that we are on the wrong track, because hedonism only ruins us. Guided by this ism, people start working
more, run pillar to post to accomplish the desired goals, and burn midnight
lamps to finish the pending jobs. While
doing this, we feel that we become more creative and showing our enthusiasm to prosper by hook or crook. True, but if your purpose to do all this is to
keep in pace with hedonism then, the same is awful. Mostly, we do the same and at the end are not able to lead a peaceful
life and ultimately, become unhappy.
You must draw a line and say, “That’s it, I won’t
exert myself anymore.” Instead of hedonism, if you follow the path of renunciation,
the same will lead you to the path of spirituality. But if it is misunderstood
and utilized wrongly, then there will be a depravity and the same will infuse the
seeds of various desires into the subconscious mind. Ultimately, you will be provoked to satiate
these desires by various ways, which you will try to access to implement. As already informed that
we are fully satisfied when we accomplish our objectives. But our contentment
is always not static. Some people are
more ambitious than others or have greater appetites than their friends or
colleagues. The reason is completely neurological. The hypothalamus, which is located in the
vicinity of pituitary gland causes some people more active and full of energy
always. The ventral portion of this hypothalamus is the location of groups of
neurons, which are the root cause of some people showing extra alert and
grasping power. These neurons are also the deciding factor of our gratifications. But the moot point is that can we come out of
the shackles of this neurological pattern of behavior and lead lives according
to our requirement without becoming too
ambitious to achieve unrealistic goals. If we can do this, perhaps we will
remain always in bliss
Whether we should embrace upon renunciation or not,
it is a matter of debate for an individual. It is not a choice, which can be thrust
upon. If you are not mentally prepared
to accept this renunciation, the effect will be more disastrous. Our brain has an inbuilt program like a
computer and it can be reformatted to suit your operating system. So, if you have mentally accepted the fact of
renunciation, then you can easily follow the path of spirituality to become
perpetually blissful.
We are aware that the human brain is connected to the
frontal lobe and this lobe just sits above the hypothalamus. Exercising our willpower, we must transcend
the inbuilt program so as to write a new operating system for the benevolence
of self and the society, if possible. This free will to rewrite the new operating
system is known as the power of discrimination.
Through this power, you can make the discretion that can make you to unravel
the operating program. And, you will be able to identify your strength,
weakness, your power of wisdom and then through the power of discrimination,
you can reprogram the whole system of intelligence. It is intelligence that not only reprograms,
but also has the ability to realize its true nature.
Once you are able to identify the perceiver, you
can get the knowledge of the perceived.
The subject and object are just the identifications of the self. The
human brain is capable enough to identify any signals for the purpose of
identification and assess the duality existed in the life of all the human
beings. The human brain is also capable
to realize that it is a part of the whole and also the whole at the same time. From
various spiritual shlocks laid down in different scriptures, say Gita,
Upanishads and Mahabharat, the word Om has a terrific significance and it provides you a complete solace in all
aspects. From completeness only comes
completeness. If this completeness is taken out, the human being will be
afflicted with Neuro disease, which needs lots of introspection how it has
happened? But you should avoid hedonism just not to lose your completeness in
life.
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