ECSTASY OF 'MIND'

[Submitted by Mr. Gholam Syedain Khan,
Final Year, B.Com (Hons.),
Kolkata]

November 3, 2006

Minds are always filled with different thoughts, some thoughts give us reason to be happy but some thoughts make us unpleasant. Mind is like an empty computer whatever you puts; it will reciprocate to you. Therefore, it is rather necessary to feed our mind with good thoughts so that our minds always think positive and acts accordingly.

Now the question arises how we can put good thoughts in our mind. A good thought always comes from reading good books specially books of morals and ethics. Evaluation of books helps our mind to grow quickly it works like carbohydrate for our mind. The maturity of mind depends on how much we are familiar with this world we live, the society we are in etc. and these all we can get by reading lots of different varieties of books.  Only cramming with our syllabus books are not well enough for our mind to grow although some times our minds are fed up to take all sorts of analogous variety of information that is why it is necessary to feed our mind with different types of interesting information for the sake of its growth.

Mind is directly related to our soul therefore to keep healthy mind we should always keep our soul pure from any evil distraction, which comes from putting unnecessary information into our mind. Mind is reluctantly receiving that information and the consequences bear by our soul that affects our entire behavioral pattern. To make it simpler I remember a very apt maxim, which I am quoting here "Doing good is having good manners. Doing evil is what troubles you inside and what you would not like others to know about".

One should also go through their religious books on daily basis to rejuvenate their soul and give them the most perfect information that is related to our Creator. Soul of our body is directly related to its creator, the Omni Potent, so receiving information of its creator is the precise repast for our soul. In addition, reading biographies of some great men enthuses young men and they are inspired to sustain their sanguinity in thoughts. Moreover, today peoples are obsessed of television therefore they should watch some enlightening programs rather than watching any unfruitful programs which harms more to eyes than anything else.

Like your body, your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings of great men, scholars, and pious peoples. To possess a robust mind, always content with your life though if you cannot get thing as much as you desire. One should always engage themselves in progressive work rather than wasting time in mere gossips. After completing your daily routine work, a bit of chat with your friends, kith and kin are necessary to refresh your mind however that too should not exceed the limit that it hold up your important work. As the mind needs refreshment from daily hectic work therefore these kind of chatting helps one's mind to invigorate with beautiful thoughts.

Everyone has a desire to become something which draws attention of everybody, that desire is the ultimate goal of one's life and one should have to be very focus to attain that goal of his life. To make your mind to work in a focus area which is your ultimate goal, one should always keep on dreaming about that particular ambition every day as it gives your mind a reminder of becoming that one. Moreover, dream always gives you inspiration to twig with your ambition and in your perception there is a feeling of happiness, which your mind feels while visualizing one's ambition. It is rightly said by a person "For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win". Positive dreaming signifies your optimism towards life however one should not only lay his mind in dreaming whole day; one must start from the day one whilst planning his career. Nevertheless reverie should be avoided as it stagnant the state of mind. Always avoid extra talk as its make your personality weak and debase the intellect of the mind. Here I remember a very immortal dictum "The wiser a man is; the less talkative will he be". It is quite evident that the fool speaks louder and the wise man speak lesser thus it is justify to say "A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind".

Like the memory of a computer system which contain lots of information in its microchip, hence mind of a person also contain lots of information concerning the persons' personal matter, economic dealings, relationships and many more which one cannot counts it.  When we put lots of chaotic information into the computer the memory of the computer gets slow or sometime it breakdown, same thing happens to our mind; when we hassled our mind with baseless arguments and try to suit our mind with inapt environment which leads to depression of our mind and it stop working properly. Therefore, it is necessary to make our mind free from any undue stress and try to keep your mind in congenial environment surrounding with your dear ones. Making lots of good friends, who truly care for you, is good for the pleasant mind as the true friend is the only one who will help you in your misery. It is said that "The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects". Here is an excerpt of ideology of a 'pious person' which is very poignant indeed, "Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds). Do not make friendship with a fool because when he will try to do you good he will do you harm; do not make a miser your friend because he will run away from you at the time of your dire need; do not be friendly with a vicious and wicked person because he will sell you and your friendship at the cheapest price and do not make friend of a liar because like a mirage he will make you visualize very near the things which lie at a great distance and will make you see at the great distance the things which are near to you".

Thus, the modus operandi of the exuberance of mind is to follows those ethics & principles which is mentioned above and you would never be depressed in your life.