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People believe work causes
stress. This is not true. Stress arises from an ungoverned mind. The mind
comprises impulses, feelings, like and dislikes, it behave like a child.
The intellect is the thinking equipment, which reasons, discriminates and
judge. It is the adult in you. The adult must control the child. You cannot
afford to let your mind govern your actions.
The mind has no direction of
dimension. The intellect alone can direct and control the mind. If the
intellect is not available for guiding it or not powerful enough to control
it, the mind goes berserk and devastates the personality.
The mind may also be compared
to water flowing in a river and the intellect to its banks. The banks
control and direct the flow of water. The lands remain fertile as long as
water flows within the banks. But when the banks are weak and yield to the
pressure of water the fields become inundated. A blessing turns into a
curse.
Similarly, when the desires
of the mind are too many or too powerful and the intellect is weak, the
individual yields to their pressures which destroys his personality. Hence
the way to control desires is to strengthen the intellect, pitch up an ideal
and work for it.
Most humans tend to work with
selfish desires. Only a small percentage act unselfishly. And rarely indeed
does one act desirelessly, a selfish individual acts merely to fulfill his
egocentric desires. His motive to acquire and enjoy is directed all to
himself and perhaps his immediate family. No more. The mind of such a person
will ever be disturbed. He will suffer from continuous stress.
When a person fixes a high
ideal in life, he begins to work unselfishly. Serving a common cause, his
work is directed to the welfare of people at large. His activities no longer
centre around mere personal gain. His desires lose their selfish stigma. His
mind turns peaceful. He becomes relatively free from stress.
In the final stage of development, an individual becomes totally free from
the pressures of desires and motives. He works with a perfect sense of
detachment, merely does what he ought to do. He is not driven by any
desires. Neither is there any craving for the fruit of action. Revelling in
the Self within, he enjoys absolute freedom from stress. |
