Human Mind

Posted from forwarded mail, nice to read.........

The Human Mind cannot live in guilt. Therefore it creates a lie and then goes on repeating the lit to itself until it believes it.

A gang of monkeys once sat in discussion, "Man is so powerful. He has subjugated all species on land, water and has even conquered the moon. We need to find the secret of his power".

One monkey said, "Well, I think I know what the secret is. They fast on the sacred day of Ekadasi and at the end ask for a boon from their favourite deity, who then grants them the boon. That's their secret". Everyone was thrilled at the prospect of acquiring new powers and decided to go on a fast until the next day. The chief monkey forewarned the rest of them. "Remember the rule no one should look at the fruits, lest you may be tempted to eat them. Keep you eyes fixed to the ground". Everyone followed the orders.

After a few minutes a monkey said, "How long can we stare at the barren grounds?

We should not look at the fruits, but surely we could enjoy the beauty of the vast sky, the waterfall and nature". All of them agreed and began admiring the beauty around, trying to shun their vision from the fruits alone.

"What's the harm in look at the fruits? After all, we are not going to eat them", said another one. It made sense and the fruit was also included to their nature-watching list. A restless silence followed the next ten minutes as all the monkeys engaged themselves in watching the countryside panorama. "Hey, what if we don't have enough strength to get to those fruits by tomorrow when we complete our fast? Why don't we just sit at the beginning of a fruit branch?"

The brilliant suggestion given by another fellow monkey was immediately executed. All the monkeys rushed to the nearest fruit branch and there the nature watching continued.

Hunger slowly started creeping in their empty stomachs. "What if these branches do not have ripe fruits? Then we would have to go in search of another tree, when all our energy is drained. Why don't we select the ripe fruits and sit near those branches?" Yes, nobody had thought about it! All of them patted the little monkey for his thoughtfulness and scurried in search of ripe fruits and occupied those branches.

By now their stomach had begun to make noises. "What if the fruits are not tasty or has worms? Even then we would have to search for other ones", shouted another young monkey. After a short contemplating pause the chief monkey said, "OK. Probably we could just taste the fruits, but remember, no one should swallow it! All of you should spit it out immediately:. All monkeys excitedly ran to the end of their branches, plucked a fruit and took a bite. Soon spat it out but some swallowed it ‘unknowingly'. With the fruits in their hands all of them looked at each other with their eyes swaying end-to-end expecting someone to say something. Then one monkey declared, "Why take a risk? Lets eat enough today so that we could fast the whole day tomorrow effortlessly". They all agreed unanimously and pounced on the fruits.

While the fact remained that the monkeys wanted to eat the fruits, not able to confront this truth, it cooked up various theories and explanations to believe that it is not so, drowning once again in self-complacency.

Man too is involved in a similar task, don't you think? Out of a 100 lies spoken by a man, 90 lies he speaks to himself. We have a few values in life, which, due to a variety of reason we are not able to follow. We have created an ideal ‘me' and are constantly trying to fit our actions and thoughts into those self-created images. When truth goes against these images, not being able to accept it, we create lies and begin to believe it to be true. This is the game man is playing.

"The human mind cannot live in guilt. Therefore it creates a lie and then goes on repeating the lie to itself until it believes in it".

All problems in human life, whether internal or external, begin here with the inability to confront the truth of oneself.

The mind has a secret hidden agenda behind every one of its thoughts. A simple guileless act of praising somebody, lending a helping hand to someone in need or fetching a glass of water could have far-fetched reasons behind it. Though this is not visible superficially, for anyone who is in touch with himself this truth would be as clear as a crystal. It all sums back to being integral in the inner world.