Treat your mind like a child

Our mind is the world of various thoughts and several imaginations. It becomes difficult for anyone to handle it. Mind is nothing but the speedy child which cannot be controlled easily. You have to do particular Sanskaras to make it concentrate on what is important. Samarth Ramdas Swami asks people to use sweet words while talking to your mind to make it concentrate on everything which is important. Take an example of bad people, when you tell them that they are bad and they should change their behavior, they won’t change. But if you tell them that they are good but they can be better, then they try to be.

        In his second Shloka, Samarth Ramdas Swami calls mind as a “sajjana” that is a person who behaves so well. He doesn’t tell mind that you are misbehaving, he is just telling that you should follow the path of Shree Hari that is the path of spirituality, the path of divinity. If you do so, you’ll achieve your destination so easily, rather it’ll come to you. He makes us understand that choose your path wisely, so that the destination that path leads to, would be also beautiful. Further in the Shloka, he says that, whatever you find good in people around you, you should adopt it and whatever is bad, you should leave it.

        After reading the shloka, we realize that in one shloka, he has given us an insight of living whole life peacefully. He indirectly asks us to be acceptable enough to accept the people as they are. It’s in our hand that what we want to take from them. He guides us to be on the path of truth and that is the path of divinity and asks us to be wiser enough to take only good things that are around us. It actually guides us to be more patient and to feed our mind with optimism. When we start to live our life according to his suggestion, we would be happier in life always.