Dear all...one question and one answer...
(many think that i create question and answer too...No...during talks, discussions or over phone and chat people ask me such questions...and i answer them too...and share it here!!)
Question....'You keep saying 05 basic things for life. Two among them are contradictory...i.e contentment and self acutalisation or success...the first one is being with 'enough is enough' 'I have enough. Nothing more i need!' mentality...but success or self actualisation is against this in the sense that it tells you to keep asking for more and more. What do you say on this?'
Answer...I keep saying that 05 basic things essential in life are PEACE, HEALTH, HAPPINESS, CONTENTMENT AND SELF ACTUALISATION.
We have a body and mind. Both these have needs and wants. 'Needs' are basic things for survival and 'wants' are the comforts which we keep craving for and which spoils our peace, as it gives only short lived pleasures and not happiness. So, it progressively takes away the health.
Now 'contentment' is related to body and not mind. I have said many times earlier that all body needs like food, water, air, shelter, clothes, sex etc are never ending till death and therefore have the craving desire to have, to possess for life time. So, these bring all the negatives in our life for variety, possessiveness and a biggggggggg list of many negative thinking, emotions and behaviours. So, all the 05 i listed above will be taken away from us if we base our life on the body 'needs' and 'wants' i mentioned above. Unfortunately our culture, life and living is all based on body needs and wants. Therefore, we have lost all these 05 in our family, organisational, social and personal life/living.
But is it possible to live without these body needs and wants?....No, is it not?
Because these are survival needs.
Because these are survival needs.
But if we want those 05 basic things of life, then we need to pitch our life on the mind needs!!...For this we have to change our culture, way we life, way we define our life. I have been describing this in almost all my posts. I.e a life based on sixth sense of cause and effect studies on everything and anything on earth in a scientific way, a life based on 'service for others and needy' with 'love all like mother teresa' policyand self actualisation (i.e taking interest in many areas of arts, science, engg, management or anything which you like in the big domain of knowledge-skills-wisdom-experience, mastering it, becoming an authority in that while retaining the 05 basic things in life). When we base our life on this 'mind' needs, automatically our body needs will reduce, get regulated, we will come out of that 'animal' need feeling, we will have only divine needs with respect to our body needs, we will get all those 05 basic things, we will live like mahans while being CEOs or top notch scientists or professors, we will become spiritual, enlightened and attain nirvana state.
Obviously we will get contentment in our life while we self actualise.
Therefore, the crux is
1. Contentment is with respect to the body and not mind.
2. Body craves and mind longs!...Craving is bad for all 05 basics. Longing is good for getting all 05. Longing is 'aasha' and craving leads to 'greed'. Craving of the body drives the mind to madly run behind the body needs and wants and to attain and possess them for life time. Craving makes the mind to plan all negative strategies, black mailing, threatening, control, etc so that it can meet the body needs and wants.
3. Basing the life and living on mind needs reduces the craving for body needs and brings contentment. It makes the person to enjoy divine experience with respect to all body needs.
4. So, don't have contentment with respect to the mind, keep longing towards and working 'towards' (and not 'for') knowledge, skills, experience, wisdom, and all that i have mentioned above.
Hope the question is answered!!
peacefully yours....rams...
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