Peaceful Mind and Peaceful Existence III

A bird is flying up in the sky: You can see its movements but the wings are not flapping, it is just gliding. We know that the bird is flying but its flight is silent with a proper and adequate pace: No hurry! A silent movement is on, moment by moment in the sky! And so we usually say; ‘What a peaceful flight!' 

Yes!  That is right! The bird reached high up in the sky and is enjoying being there, feeling the vastness around its flying area as well as performing an effortless fight! What a peaceful flight! This is a natural phenomenon of bird life on our planet!

As humans, we have the mind for flying, freedom and fragrance! We all use it with our own responsibility as well as at our own risk! Here lies the key of our mind, its activities and its range! We are humans because of this mind evolved in us! Our existence on this earth has an evolutionary significance because of mind! The mind has widened the range of existence on this earth. However, the characteristic of the mind has some risk also with its evolutionary opening! The yogis and spiritualists have named this risk, habit! The mind has tremendous possibilities but it becomes habituated. This is the main risk together with its desires and demands; it creates an unknown risk of being unsteady!

We know that after manifestation of mind and its related activities life has become more meaningful to a point, with its expressive forms and progressive achievements! These are facts and we cannot deny! But, at the same time, we must accept that all our problems also started with these benefits and advancements of the mind! Our evolutionary processes affected life and living standards by new things and inventions.  We have tried to explore the mind! Mind and intelligence work together and its processes are known to be a complex matter because desire always pushes us into doing things and activating things with the help of intelligence and taking a lead in the process!

The Mind and intelligence have established ethical points of view, norms and regulations regarding societies and living for all! But, the games of power and ruling and possessing things are the drawbacks in the process of making things easy and available for all! We know that by the parallel thinking and expressing the reality we figure out things through so many creative people!  To find peace becomes a more and more complex matter because the process of gaining peace is different from the process of getting all the things regarding so called happiness and material gains! 

Yes, there may be more reasons to count or record man-made anti-peace elements. But these records have made it clear that peace, as well as peaceful mind is necessary. A peaceful mind can do something very different and far more positive. That is why we call a person a wise man if he has gained wisdom!

There would not be any kind of wisdom if humans had not recognized, searched, found and established peaceful mind actively on our planet! At the same time, such humans are rare now, and in this modern world, the need of peace is vastly increasing, because of inner imbalances occurring more frequently now in day-to-day life!

Perhaps we learn more about peace this way, by increasing un-peaceful activities and processes!!(?) Perhaps human mind realizes peace after certain kind of odd occurrences of un-peaceful situations!  Perhaps we are able to enter into to our deep zone when there comes a point when something goes very wrong.  Then we feel the need of peace in mind and so we start to think about peaceful mind!

Well we can say this is the irony of human life and fate, but there is a positive aspect of learning through experience! Let us put it this way; we have passed through these kinds of occurrences in order to gain peace and to gain and/or to retain the peaceful mind!

 Now let us prepare ourselves by this way:

O, Universal Mind!

Please hold off your vivid occurrences

Which are blowing (disturbing) our individual minds

And stop all nonlinear waves

To help peace penetrate inside

Each individual mind, in order to make them peaceful!

After all, that process will help  

For the betterment of manifestation of

The real upper mind in everyone!

                                Barin Mehta, February, 2007