Raghunath was a wealthy man. He was rich materially and spiritually. One night he was robbed. His close friend visited him and expressed his sympathy. Raghunath said, "They have robbed me of my material wealth but not my real wealth. They have robbed me of my perishable wealth but not my imperishable wealth". Real wealth is love, devotion and purity. With these, one will experience life differently. God gives us problems to humble us and not to tumble us. When bad things happen to good people they become better, not bitter. Raghunath further elaborated to his friend, "All the wealth that I had was a loan from the Lord. I was only a trustee. Nothing is mine; everything is His. He has the right to take it whenever he wants". The power of detachment is a great wealth. The power of devotion is an asset. Why don't we work for such wealth? This is because the mind has not been purified. With impure mind one craves for impure things. With pure mind one is committed for pure things. Mantras help us to purify the mind. Yoga uplifts. Wealth and power without pure mind is like providing a knife to a mad man. He can even kill himself. The object of yoga is to free you of psychological mess. The condition of your mind really determines the quality of your life. To a good body, everyone says 'yes'. But to a good mind, people say 'no'. This ignorance is adversely affecting the quality of life. Our mind has the capacity to imagine. This can be good or bad. Our imagination projects a reality. This projected reality appears to be the only reality. This projected reality is superimposed on the external reality. The internal projected reality is superimposed on the external reality. Now the external reality is not seen and only the projected reality is seen. It is in this confusion that one lives and suffers.
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An individual expects his partner to be like this or that. This is a projected reality. But the fact is that the object reality is different. The husband is disappointed with his wife or vice versa, not for what she is but for what she should be. External reality does not fit into his subjective reality. Many suffer from this. So all this happens in a world that is within us, our mind. Mantras chanted with devotion and understanding purify the mind. If we leave un-checked this imaginary processes, they become mechanical. A negative system is created. These negative systems in turn take over our lives. We lose control. You will become more unconscious and suffer from this mechanical process. For example, if one goes on seeing unpleasant things in life, it becomes a habit. Then a negative system is created. Then one will helplessly see the negative. The system will start justifying why one is doing what one is doing. The system will try to protect itself. The system gets into a survival mode. Then you will not live in the cosmos but in chaos. Yoga is a wonderful science to dismantle this negative system and create a great inner order. When the inner world of our mind is orderly then we will see the external order as being more orderly.
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