“Most of us live a life that is like a faulty computer output. Now, it is not the brain itself that is wrong, apart from a few cases; it is the program in the mind. In other words, if we are to live meaningful lives we have to reprogram our minds. It is the incorrect mental program that we have slowly developed since birth that is causing us all our unhappiness and anguish in life. Reprogram the mind and you will start to live a life that has deep meaning and that is happy. A well programmed mind can make this world a veritable heaven on earth. A badly programmed mind can make this world a hell on earth.
The reason of our unhappiness is our mental programming. This makes us seek happiness through making money, obtaining a nice new car that is bigger and better than any other, obtaining status, drinking and chasing after so many other things that give a flush of transitory pleasure. In short, we can say that we try to gain happiness to gain happiness through satisfying or boosting the ego. What’s the result of this method of seeking happiness? It makes us use other people or our own selfish ends. If they get in our way we use all kinds of gross or subtle ways of bypassing or pushing them out of our way. The result is hatred, fear, jealousy, anxiety, tension and so on. Our continual chase after these ways of attaining happiness actually causes the opposite result; we become mentally tense and thus unhappy. If we don’t obtain our objectives, our objects of desire, then we suffer mental tension, boredom and unhappiness.
Though these things don’t give us happiness, we continue to chase after them. Why? The answer is that we are following the program that we have constructed for ourselves. We have programmed ourselves to chase after these things, even though they don’t bring any kind of lasting happiness. Now a computer program can be changed. In the same way, the mind program can be changed if we make the necessary effort. We can reprogram ourselves so that we react in a different way to our environment, so we don’t depend on ‘ego trips’ and desire for happiness. If we can reprogram our mind, we will start to tune in with our environment and meditation will take place automatically, without effort. Our consciousness will start to expand. When we harmonize our mind with the pattern of our surroundings, then we will automatically become happy. HAPPINESS LIES IN THE MIND, not in manipulating the world to suit our desires. By reprogramming our mind we will be able to find permanent happiness in our own being.
If one wants relaxation and a happy life, one must change the mind, not the outside world or other people. A happy and healthy life comes from changing the mind and its reactions to the outside world. Meditate and reprogram your mind if you want a healthy and disease free life.”
Inspired/Stated By: Satyananda Saraswati
* This is not a replacement for medical care by your physician.
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