When Hearts Embrace Hearts-7 | River flowing Directionless!

When Hearts Embrace Hearts-7

River flowing Directionless!

A head of a state visited a psychiatry facility. He went around with a senior official enquiring about its functioning. While visiting cells, he came across a man who was hitting his head on the iron bars and wailing loudly. The Head realized that the man might have lost his mind and filled with excruciating pain. He enquired the reason of his misery. The officer said, “He has been here for a long period. He loved a woman, but couldn’t marry her. That mentally shattered him and he couldn’t cope up with the loss.”

In the next cell, a man was howling abuses loudly. There was an image of a woman on the wall. He was shouting at her. “What’s his story?” the Head asked. 

“He married a woman loved by someone else, and their married life was never peaceful and pleasant. Due to remorse and regret, his mental state got disturbed,” the officer explained.

How true! So many reasons for the mind to be upset! Dangling to the wings of despair, the mind breaks down into bits and pieces. Despite all material possessions, lack of peace makes this short life go topsy-turvy. 

One seeks happiness in someone else. Desires all pleasures from that person! And, the other person? He is also edgy. He seeks the same from someone else. And in this process of feeling unsatisfied in one’s own condition, and looking for comfort in others, fritters away the good moments of life. It reminds about the journey of the first couple on earth defying and deviating, seeking what's forbidden, which costs them the heavenly life. Consequently, their generations on earth too lose happiness of life. 

Mind is like wasp burrows, says Narayana Guru. The wasps co-exist peacefully in their nests without stinging each other or quarrelling. If someone disturbs it, it will attack in groups. Similarly, if mind is content, with what lawfully belongs to them, it will find peace. And, if it deviates towards other’s domain, it loses its balance. It revolts collectively and collapses. Deviant relationships and expectations are like rivers flowing in the wrong direction. No idea where it would flow. When asked what is poison? Rumi replied, “Unlawful desires.”

One thinks that many personalities reside in one person and at various points, try to become a different personality. Sometimes, we travel on the horses of cardinal senses directionless. At times, we overcome all such cravings. At a point, our inner self is at peace. At another moment, it’s on massive turmoil. If we don’t control our desires, it will take control of our lives.