Golden rules for everlasting Inner Joy

There is no happiness in the world that the mind has created. Shedding off the mind can only lead us to our default state of "Absolute Happiness".

But, the whole point is, it is difficult for us to calm our mind. The mind with its increasing abilities to wander around and think about many things, will always try to observe things around and then judging things, people, etc even if we don't want to do so.

It compares, analyzes, judges, condemns and hangs over things and creates a lot of chaos and mess! We trust our mind more than anything else in the world. But finally, it lead us to nowhere else other than the state of depression, tension, anxiety, confusion and what not?

Surrendering the mind with full devotion is the key to the state of inner joy. When you surrender everything to the Divine Wish, you don't question anything or worry about anything. Then life can never become a burden!

How to surrender your mind? How to calm it and realize the inner peace and joy within?

Sri Madabusi Subramaniam gives simple practical rules which can be applied by anyone in their daily life. He says,

1. DO NOT observe anything happening around you.
2. Even if you fail in point 1, at least DO NOT judge about what you observe.
3. Even if you fail in points 1 & 2, at least DO NOT condemn anything or anyone based on your judgment
4. Even if you failed in all the above, at least DO NOT hangover!

The truth is, our default state of being is "Absolute Joy". Only when the mind starts wandering, we deviate from our default equilibrium state. It all starts there: OBSERVING. So, stopping it there is definitely easier. That is how you start your journey towards the "NO MIND" state or the "Ultimate Goal".

But many of us might wonder : "Then shouldn't we be using our brain at all? Shouldn't we observe and learn things around us?"

Sri Madabusi Subramaniam enlightens: "There is nothing called your brain or your knowledge! Learning or gaining! All we have is a choice: to be happy or not to be. And we can choose to be happy by just following these golden rules or we can choose to suffer by using our mind and analyzing things around us. Use your brain or mind only for earning your livelihood - in the office or in the school. For the rest, it has absolutely no use"

The whole point is, though we have this something called "MIND" which has lots of abilities to create its kingdom of emotions and pleasures and pain, we have to act as though it does not exist. Getting into the 'MIND' trap does not help in realizing the ULTIMATE GOAL!

But, we do have trouble changing overnight. Isn't it? So, even if you observe things around you, do not JUDGE! Do not conclude that something is right and something is wrong. Do not classify things as good or bad. Because, whatever is good for you today might become bad for you on some other day. People whom you like today may become your enemies tomorrow. What is right for you is not right for some body else. Judging introduces an imbalance in the state of mind. You lose your "understanding" because of judging. So, do not judge or conclude or classify things.

Next is, once we start judging, our mind just can't stop there. We want to condemn those things which we find as "bad" or "wrong". There we start introducing negative emotions into our mind. Good, bad, evil, right, wrong - all these are the products of MIND. In reality, they do not exist. What is there is Infinite Joy. And we have the choice to be happy or not to be.

Finally, the worst thing that we can do to ourselves is "hanging over" our own judgment. When we hangover, we strengthen our negative emotions and we destroy our own happiness. Hanging over creates lot of frustration, irritation, anger, depression and so on. Ultimately, none of these is going to make us happy.

So, it is better to control at the starting point itself: DO NOT OBSERVE!

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