How is it that people who have been friends for life can, in one situation, become enemies? What about all the good association and connection that was experienced before? Gone. Due to one circumstance, one situation. All the good that was cultivated as friends is destroyed by one sentence; and it is that sentence which hangs on with people until the end of their days. This is the tamasic nature of the mind. You want the good and the beautiful, yet you identify with the bad. You want what is beautiful, what is good, but you do not identify with that. You only want it; you only desire it. Twenty years of goodness goes instantly in half an hour of aggression. This is a clear indication that although people desire sattwa, purity and goodness, their identification is with tamas. This is part of smriti, the memory that comes to the surface and is used by people to justify their tamasic behavior. You should try to think of your actual memories of your own past experiences as a vritti so that you can derive the best from it. If you can identify with the goodness of the past, the great times that you have shared with others, that memory will be an inspiration. Today, that memory will connect two people no matter how far apart they are and there will always be a close connection with that person. This is what has to be done to develop your present life.

 

 

Ηowever, if you live in the past, ignore the present and worry about the future, you do not get anywhere. People do not get anywhere as they are continuously thinking, ‘This happened to me there, this is happening to me here, that happened to me there, that happened to me here.’ People are living in the past. Many times elderly people talk about the golden, olden days. They are stuck in those memories, which they consider to be the golden days of their life. Why is today not a golden day? It is and it can become brilliant and golden, provided you know how to derive the best from your own memories and experiences.
You do not have to dwell upon the past and abuse the future or the present. You can take a sankalpa to wait for your golden days in the future rather than believing that you have gone through the golden days in your youth. Just be in the present moment, not in the past and not in the future. Enjoy and learn from the present. Receive guidance from past experiences but why think about what has happened and why think about what is going to happen tomorrow? In life, you have to always improve the present moment.

From the book Volume 8 : On the Wings of the Swan, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
https://satyamyogaprasad.net/ebooks

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How is it that people who have been friends for life can, in one situation, become enemies? What about all the good association and connection that was experienced before? Gone. Due to one circumstance, one situation. All the good that was cultivated as friends is destroyed by one sentence; and it is that sentence which hangs on with people until the end of their days. This is the tamasic nature of the mind. You want the good and the beautiful, yet you identify with the bad. You want what is beautiful, what is good, but you do not identify with that. You only want it; you only desire it. Twenty years of goodness goes instantly in half an hour of aggression. This is a clear indication that although people desire sattwa, purity and goodness, their identification is with tamas. This is part of smriti, the memory that comes to the surface and is used by people to justify their tamasic behavior. You should try to think of your actual memories of your own past experiences as a vritti so that you can derive the best from it. If you can identify with the goodness of the past, the great times that you have shared with others, that memory will be an inspiration. Today, that memory will connect two people no matter how far apart they are and there will always be a close connection with that person. This is what has to be done to develop your present life.

 

 

Ηowever, if you live in the past, ignore the present and worry about the future, you do not get anywhere. People do not get anywhere as they are continuously thinking, ‘This happened to me there, this is happening to me here, that happened to me there, that happened to me here.’ People are living in the past. Many times elderly people talk about the golden, olden days. They are stuck in those memories, which they consider to be the golden days of their life. Why is today not a golden day? It is and it can become brilliant and golden, provided you know how to derive the best from your own memories and experiences.
You do not have to dwell upon the past and abuse the future or the present. You can take a sankalpa to wait for your golden days in the future rather than believing that you have gone through the golden days in your youth. Just be in the present moment, not in the past and not in the future. Enjoy and learn from the present. Receive guidance from past experiences but why think about what has happened and why think about what is going to happen tomorrow? In life, you have to always improve the present moment.

From the book Volume 8 : On the Wings of the Swan, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
https://satyamyogaprasad.net/ebooks