Your Behaviour is the secret to your Quality of Life

Let's not brand anybody as good or bad. if you operate from a lower state of consciousness, then your actions may not be proper. if you operate from a higher state of cons-ciousness , then your actions may be different.

Our inner states of consciousness are constantly changing. So depending upon your state of being, your inner state correlate to your actions. We should constantly look at our behaviour, at the state we are in within. This also helps us in softening the other's inappropriate or erratic behaviour. The erratic behaviour may be due to their states of being.

More than any amount of attitudinal change, it is behavioural change that enhances the quality of life. Without behavioural change, there is no real change. Behaviour change alone brings about true change.

Its highly acclaimed that we have to be calm and serene irrespective of situations. Only such an individual is closer to enlightenment who remains calm. The greatest discipline is in keeping our minds calm in spite of external turbulent situations. This is the core teaching of the Gita as well.

A Zen master was asked about the secret of his being always happy. He replied: "When i wake up in the morning, i ask myself whether i want to be in heaven or hell. Then I decide to be in heaven. The moment i decide to be in heaven, i create heaven in every moment of my life".

if you want to be happy, first decide to be happy. Ultimately it is your decision. And the moment you decide, things will be very different.

The law of three is a beautiful teaching. The first law states that you make your effort... it is called ‘A' force. Every action has equal and opposite reactions. The moment you make positive action, invariably a negative force will come into the picture. Then a second force, ‘B', comes into focus. if you continue to put in efforts, then the third force ‘C' will descend and support the effort. Grace will descend. What we perceive as negative will start supporting our endeavour to be positive.

Until that time we need to have patience and perseverance. The choice we make in our lives is that we let ourselves come either from commitment or complaint. invariably we find that the people who are powerful are those who operate from commitment. And those who are powerless, always ope-rate from complaint. Your state of being will be powerful if you operate from commitment.

Another dimension is to operate from selflessness. When we do something that is selfless, we find unknown forces mysteriously strengthen our hands. Patanjali who was a great yogi says: "Do something good... be in the path of goodness, and... you will find forces that mysteriously help you". We look at life from our structure of thoughts and, therefore, find the world imperfect.

A selfish person does not understand the language of the selfless person. Every monk, for instance, is invariably criti-cised because all enlightened masters wake up people from their slumber, which is seen as disturbing. Let us learn to operate from what is beyond our own selves