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Ten Steps for a Better You
We continue to nurse agitations, resentments and sorrows and hope for peace and happiness! There was a person who was grossly overweight and complained that he was not losing weight. He made no effort to change his diet pattern or do exercises. In fact, the only exercise he did was to get on to the weighing machine and down every day.
How will any change come about unless we transform our way of life?
If we truly wish to transform our lives, we have to do something about it. We don't live our life in years or months. We live only one day at a time. We can plan for a year or even a whole life, but we can live only one day at a time. Our daily life has to be changed if we wish to change our lives. In fact, we live only one moment at a time. That is why our memories consist of moments of our life - moments of intense sorrow or extreme joy, or life transforming moments. If we lose a precious moment, it doesn't come back. Opportunity doesn't knock twice. If we wish to transform our lives we have to begin by transforming this day, this moment.
In Srimad Bhagavatam there is a beautiful sloka, which tells us how to change our lives for the better.
The Vedas, water, people, place, time, actions, birth, meditation, mantra and samskara - these are the ten factors that determine our personality.
Ten points are given here for our consideration. I will give only the simple meanings that we can easily apply in our lives. They have a much deeper meaning in the context that they are written in the Bhagavatam.
Agama
The
first
is
'Agama',
which
means
the
Vedas.
In
our
context
we
can
call
it
literature.
The
kind
of
books
we
read
and
the
kind
of
television
programmes
we
watch
will
determine
the
texture
of
our
l
lives.
Among
the
older
generation,
we
know
of
people
who
could
not
read
or
write,
but
knew
the
verses
from
the
Ramayana
by
heart.
They
put
the
wisdom
contained
in
those
verses
to
practice
in
their
daily
lives.
When
they
faced
adversities,
they
considered
them
to
be
the
result
of
their
earlier
karmas
and
tried
to
correct
their
own
shortcomings.
They
did
not
go
'into
depression
and
run
to
a
psychiatrist.
They
were
not
literate,
but
they
went
to
satsang
and
heard
good
things.
In
the
Vedas
it
is
said,
'a
no
bhadrah
kratavo
yantu
visvatah
-
may
good
thoughts
come
to
us
from
all
sides.' What
we
read
or
hear
has
major
impact
on
our
minds.
Reading
gossip
magazines
and
books
that
extol
a
materialistic
and
sensuous
way
of
life,
seeing
movies
depicting
crime
and
violence
-
these
will
definitely
have
a
detrimental
effect
and
leave
toxic
impressions
on
our
minds.
We
have
to
take
care
that
the
inputs
through
the
eyes
and
ears
are
good.
Apah
'Apah' means water. Some drink mineral water, some prefer soft drinks, and others quench their thirst by drinking beer. The food and drink we consume have a marked impact on the body and the mind. We have to regulate our intake very carefully. All of us know it, but we fail to put our knowledge into practice. We have to keep reminding ourselves of these basic things. We forget very easily. A patient went to the doctor and said, 'Doctor, I have two complaints. Firstly, I am very forgetful, I can't seem to remember anything.' The doctor asked what his second complaint was. The puzzled reply came, 'Which second?"
About the author
Swami
Tejomayananda
Swami
Tejomayananda,
the
Chairman
and
spiritual
head
of
Chinmaya
Mission
worldwide,
is
one
of
the
foremost
disciples
of
Swami
Chinmayananda.
He
is
an
outstanding
teacher
of
Vedanta
and
an
accomplished
poet,
author,
and
composer.
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