About Positive Mind

Namaste


What is positivity? What is positive thinking?
Why is positivity so important?
Why is negative hated so much?
What is positivity and what is negativity?
Is there any plus or minus sign on the events,
people, thoughts, places, around us?


Despite of there is no sign on the objects,
How do we recognize this is positive and this is negative?
And how come one thing which is negative is positive for others?
And something positive is negative for others?


Negative or positive are not absolute characters in the nature.
They are two opposite poles of an infinite line 
These opposite poles can be called negative or positive
This imaginative line doesn’t have 
distinct negative or positive at any specific place.


On this imaginative line to decide these are two opposite sides 
You need to know the location of the center
But on the infinite line you cannot locate a center
Every point is a center on an infinite line.


Have any seen negative sign on a electron?
Has any seen positive sign on a proton?
Has any seen positive sign on a laughing face?
Has any seen negative sign on a bitter face?


From our experience we know
earth exists, earth has north and south pole
We know earth has magnetic character of south and north pole
But no one can point a location on the earth 
that from here north or south pole of magnet starts.


So negative?—?positive, good-bad, day-night they look like contrast
and they exists in our experience,
but our experiences are based on relativity.
Even after heavy use of this word “absolute”
There is nothing absolute in our experience!


How easy it is to say think positive
when you are in kitchen and boiling milk spill to the stove?
when you are drinking coffee and coffee falls on your new cloths?
when you are hungry; eating your food 
and that time your food plate falls from the table 
and there is nothing else in the kitchen?


when you were rejected by interviewer in the last round?
when you missed your flight for a critical business meeting?
when your customer gives you zero rating 
for your work, product or service?


when you hear from your partner or children, 
what you have done for me?
when somebody hits your car, abuses you, beats you 
and wants compensation because he is big person 
and his big car also got damaged as yours?


If we cannot think positive in these situations, then
for what purpose this positive thinking preach is given?


Is positive thinking about hoping for happening which you wish?
Is positive thinking about hoping against all the hope?
Can positive thinking be enforced?
Can positive thinking mind be cultivated temporarily?


Is it like new or normal functioning of mind?
Is it about stopping old negative thinking habit of a mind?
Is it possible to stop negative thinking? How?
Does your mind even know what is positive or what is negative?


Mind is a faculty like heart or lungs or eyes.
It works on inputs, without bothering what is the input.
It is the Dharma (nature/duty) of mind to think.
It is the Dharma of lungs to clean the inhaled breath.
It is the dharma of heart to pump the blood to body parts.
Mind, lungs and hearts process whatever is available to them.


Is it possible to have a positive mind 
without developing a habit of deeper thinking?
Without understanding the deeper meaning of events, 
objects and relations around?
Foolishly people think deeper thinking causes problem.


A child was eating groundnuts from a bowl and bowl fall on the ground.
Bowl is broken, groundnuts spread on the entire room and child is crying.
Mother says don’t worry, 
I will fix that but can you tell me many groundnut I gave to you?
Child says wait I will count.
Boy counts and collects all groundnut in another bowl.
Mother cleans the floor
Child learned to see the meaning of event.


Kitchen is just cleaned,
A housewife preparing tea for her family
tea spill over the stove and makes entire area dirty
finally not enough tea for all members.
Mother says, you have not offered food to fire since long.
Today if one cup of tea is offered to fire then feel blessed.
After Havan we need to clean the floor. 
So, we can clean the kitchen in that spirit.
She further says sharing, when you have less is sign of love.
Anybody can share when it is enough
So the lady redistribute the same quantity among all
Lady learned to see the meaning of event.


A person who was out of job for six months
Was rejected in his fiftieth interview
He comes home and write his diary
Thank you god for letting me know that
before I get the best job for me
I should know these things also
which my interviewer told me
That person is learning to see the meaning of event.


We need to understand the difference between
hoping against the hope and positivity.
We need to understand, taking everything in our control 
and then expecting now things will happen 
as we want is not about positivity.


We need to understand, leaving everything to god
and then quoting from poems of great devotees and philosophers
that god will do everything
This is not positivity.


Positive mind is neither lives in helplessness.
Neither it is endless waiting and hoping for what you want.
Positive mind is not about being foolishly happy.


Positive mind is cultivated by your 
own long, continuous, sustained efforts.
Positive mind is cultivated when you start 
giving joyful meaning to the events.
Positive mind is about how to be joyful 
in whatever is happening around us.
Positive mind is about how to 
look events from different perspective.
Positive mind is about how to seek 
and then give larger meaning 
to the events happening around.


Positive mind is about never becoming bitter for anything 
no matter how dangerous was that.
Positive mind is about thinking constructively 
and giving a befitting reply without being 
bitter or attached to some event or person.


Positive mind is not about surrender to situation.
Positive mind is not about devotee’s mind or enemy’s mind.
A mind which uses past and memories 
but never get hooked to past in some nostalgia.


A mind which uses future and imagination 
but never get hooked to fear, anxiety and excitement
A positive mind is a stable mind.
So, don’t become prejudice to your mind
And expect it shall do something and shall not do others.
Don’t expect mediation will solve the problem


Oh, mind don’t think negative.
Oh, mind think positive.
Oh, mind stop thinking.
Nor giving these kinds of instructions really helps.


O God, O Gurus now I am out of control of my mind. 
So you take control of my mind!
In the extreme situation it can work.
But on day to day basis never let your mind to be slave
of other’s thought and ideas
and don’t allow your mind to surrender.
Surrendering ego is completely different thing.


All this is possible if your mind is mind of seeker
A mind who is ready to learn
A mind who do not want to test others
A mind who is unconditionally interested 
in the inner joy of mind & life.


O Pratibimba, know what kind of mind you are!
Why you become bore when people are not around you?
Why you get angry when things do not happen as per your wish?
Why you become anxious about the future?
Why you miss that this moment when you are reading these words
is the only true moments and all other 
are your just memories and imaginations.
So, develop a mind who is always joyful.


Hari Om Tat Sat
Your Truely Hari


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