A little but important experience.

                             A little but important experience.

 

It is an experience a very simple experience, but I think it's worth sharing, sometimes we do unplanned things and unplanned things turned out to be the extraordinary things, isn't it very beautiful? yesterday after the office I went for a walk with my colleagues on the Bank of the river, we visited a place way two rivers meet it is called Sangam. after sitting there for a while and seeing what the people are doing over there, I sit and observed myself keenly, I observed the waves of the water, the mixing of the water of the two rivers, the beautiful phenomena which catches the attention of everybody was the bouncing back of the water end touching the feet of the people who are sitting on the stairs.

We said there for some time and then we decided to visit the temple nearby, it's a beautiful temple in ancient temple, its name is Rudra Nath temple dedicated to the him to the Shiv in Hindu mythology. I have visited that please number of times earlier also and I remember that every time I enjoyed a lot, it's very much clear that I don't believe in any particular ideology of faith but I enjoy being there at some places, observing the people what they are doing, the belief of the people the practices of the people etc. because of the covid there was no one there, except sadhu who was sitting there. we set under the banyan tree and observed what was happening around us, there were in number of monkeys jumping from one branch of the tree to another and some boys who are the students at the Sanskrit college nearby they were shooing the monkeys away.

My colleague started discussing things with themselves, I moved a few steps ahead and started chatting with the sadhu who was sitting under the Peepal tree, I wish him namaste my folding my hands and he replied with a beautiful smile on his face, there was a lot of innocence and humility in his reply I could easily saw the kind of serenity he has in his eyes. I was stunned by his reply in the expression he made, I am deficient of the words which can explain his innocent expression. I recall the story of Kabir in which he describes that how his guru Ramanand, ask Kabir ramaram when Ramanand feet hit Kabir who was lying on the Ghats of the Ganga.

I was thinking and I get lost in the deep thoughts that how A sadhu who has nothing of his own unlike many people who possesses a lot of material wealth. but he has a wealth which is called simplicity and humility.

after a few minutes we left for our homes, I reached the home in 15 minutes, when I reached I checked for my phone, to my surprise the phone was not there in my bag, I immediately thought that oh, I kept the phone on the bench in front of the temple, in the normal condition I could have been in the panic, but I just smile little and left for the temple to get the phone, during the journey number of thoughts was talking my mind which were mostly pushing me towards the instability of the mind, but I was thinking very consciously and I was following the pattern of the thoughts, sometimes my thoughts are pushing me into the future, with some fears, worries and anxieties, but I kept myself stable and thought that whatever will happen I will handle. it took around 13 to 14 minutes to reach the temple, I was constantly observing myself when I was asking that it's okay. this keep me calm, stable and I could think very clearly, somehow, we can say that it was the present mindedness. my long study of the psychology and philosophical aspects of the mind and the practice over the years help meet me a bit capable of handling the situations.

Well, I reached the temple and looked for my phone, in the first sight I could not find that on the bench, but within a minute the phone was in my hand. a student at the Sanskrit college has kept it safely and he was waiting for me that when I will come to fetch my mobile phone. I took my phone from him and thanked him number of times.

from this whole story I learnt something which are worth sharing, whatever will be the situation we should always take the decisions consciously, we should always put reasons in our thinking, we should always keep ourselves mentally stable. Something which has already happened, you cannot change that, your haste, your rush, your mental instability will do nothing but aggravate the problem further.

Another important thing is that you can take good decisions only when you are in in a calm state of mind. And continues meditation and observing ourselves help us to become capable of keeping ourselves mentally stable and calm in difficult or problematic situations.

I came home, sat for a while and thought that hoe powerful the stability of mind and reasonings are? It was a great learning experience.

 

 

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