HUMAN LIFE : A BLESSING & A CURSE DEPENDING UPON YOUR MINDSET
What is mind.What’s the the role and importance of mind in our day to day
life.How we relate and what is the role of mind in our life.This is very important to
know.
Human mind is very delicate and complex.Brain is not the only part of our mind
but some other entities like heart,soul,experience,wish and will also influence our
mindset.Sometimes our brain guides us to do a particular thing in a particular way
but we do exactly the opposite.Schizophrenia is nothing but a conflict between
various states of mind.Except brain no other constituent of mind is known till
day.Even anyother factor associated with human body which has some impact or
control over our thinking is not prooven yet.
Mind has no shape or form.It is not a thing to be seen with with eyes.We can only
understand and feel it.Mind is responsible for all our sorrows and joys.We can
revolutionalise our life and surroundings if only we can understand our mind
completely.Mind never rests.It passes through various satages but no stage is
stable.To understand the how to live and the very purpose of life,we have to first
understand our mind.
Conscious Mind : The first and foremost stage of mind is conscious mind.This is
a state of mind which continuously thinks about past and future.This mind hardly
and slightly lives in present.But the real and true life is in the present and not in
the past or future.This is a solid and somewhat bitter truth.We feel as if we are
living but the true/real fact is that we pass our entire life by remaining away from
the present.
Conscious mind wastes a lot of our body’s energy and mental sickness is also
associated with this.Anger,fear,tension,anxiety all develop in our coscious mind.In
this stage of mind the speed of thoughts is very fast.Different thoughts occupy
and surround our mind all the time.Due to pressure of these thoughts we become
mentally sick.Psychiatrists too agree that 80% of diseases and sicknesses are
mental and can be stopped even before developing and appearance of signs and
symptoms.
If not all,99% human beings live in conscious mind forever during their entire life
and this very fact is the reason behind our all pains and sorrows.
Sub-conscious Mind : The second stage of mind is the sub-conscious mind and
this mostly works when we are asleep.Dreams come out from this stage of
mind.There are many other reasons for dreams but the dreams of sub-conscious
mind are always fearfull and meaningless.
Un-conscious Mind : The next stage is unconscious mind.The person who first
discovered and understood the functioning of this mind has immensely and
hugely cntributed to the life of human beings only by making it
understandable.This is nine times larger than the conscious mind.In this mind the
baseles and meaningles thoughts and ideas are rare.So it do not wastes our
energy.The man who realises and understands this mind feels more fit and
contented.Such persons usually live alone and are always
happy.Poets,writers,philosophers normally live in this stage.Pious and just
motivation and innovative ideas begin from this mind.In this mind things mostly
happen without logic.We can’t clearly demarcate conscious and unconscious
mind.The uncoscious mind is the state/stage of mind hidden behind the
conscious mind.
In reality both these states of mind can mix with each other.We do it and the way
is also very easy.Whatever we decide in our conscious mind becomes practical
and gets completed only when it reaches the unconscious mind.This is the
reason that we can’t leave our vices and bad habbits easily because we try to get
rid of them in conscious state of mind which is very small comparatively.We can
never overcome or over rule our unconscious mind.Whenever there is a fight
between these two states,uncoscious mind always emerge victorious.Sexual
desire also develops in unconscious mind and can’t be stopped so easily.
So conscious mind can win only by following the unconscious mind.This is a very
pity situation.We think ourselves very intelligent and understanding but when
subcnscious and unconscious minds overcome our thoughts and decisions,our
no logic or intelligence works.Try to understand your entire innerself as much as
you can.At the initial stage you will only see darknes inside you but slowly it will
start vanishing.Due this initial experience a kind of fear develops and we can’t sit,
understand and concentrate about deepest states of unconscious mind because
it doesn’t allow us to do so.Mind continues to think all the time and making it
blank even for a fraction of a second is not easy.Both conscious and unconscious
mind are makers of lowest levels of our present life.
Enlightened Mind : This is a stage of mind which is above the conscious state
and equals the unconscious state.When someone reaches this stage of mind,the
deepest realities of life become clear like death,love,agony and emotions.
Cosmic Mind : We can call this state of mind which thinks beyond general and
common things.It thinks beyond life,death,birth and worldly things.We can also
call it a saints mind.This mind thinks beyond normal human thoughts.Acording to
Guru Nanak,the first sikh guru,this is the state of mind which should be called
"fully conscious".
We have discussed five stages of mind namely
Conscious,Sub-conscious,Unconscious,Enlightened and Cosmic or Saint’s
mind.Conscious mind is the state which is mostly known to us.If we move even
below conscious mind,it will lead to darkness and degradation of life.If we move
upwards,the picture of life becomes more clear.We can move both ways because
the way/path is the same.This thing needs understanding.Going there is easy.We
know the way but we have forgotten it.Still we can easily find the way only if we
have the will and the wish to find and follow it.
These states of mind differentiate us from animals.Human life is greatest of all
other lives known to us which are present on the planet earth.
The human life is a glory,a blessing and a curse,all depending upon our mindset.
– DR.NAVRAJ SINGH SANDHU
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