Psychology of Enlightenment

SR No.: 001807
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chitrabhanu
Publisher: New York Dodd Made & Company
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Dhyan
File Size: 5 MB

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Mulādhāra---The Seat of Security
someday they may lose their possessions. They do not realize that eventually possessions must go because it is their nature to go. No matter how carefully you collect and preserve your wealth, it will one day leave you. If it does not first leave you, you know that you yourself will inevitably depart. One of the two things will happen.
In effect, we are investing our energy in the fear of future want. Our habit of comparing what we have now with what others possess produces this sense of insecurity, which denies us the capacity to enjoy what we have already. It is a kind of addiction which brings anxiety and drives us to amass more than we need. With this mental addiction to achieving a sense of security through possession of more and more things, man no longer remembers what he originally meant by “more.” The word "more" is all right, but how much more? He does not know. Wealth and security are always relative terms, and they seem always just out of reach.
When we judge ourselves by other people's standards, we foster feelings of insecurity. Somehow, we haven't learned that we will never find peace as long as we worry about what others may think of us. Why bother about them? Can we not let go and give them liberty to think what they will of us? If they become happy thinking ill of us, let them be happy.
When you learn the art of living, you will know that as long as you do not think negatively of yourself, negativity is not going to affect you. The law is this: Negativity hurts only those who think negatively of themselves. We are hurt only by our own low opinion of ourselves. The whole prob
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