More than a year ago when all hell broke lose in my life I decided to bring about some changes in it. Weird as those changes were they made me extremely unsocial, and I had no idea that would be the case. Firstly, I decided to give up non vegetarian food, so when friends decided to go to a kabab place or even Edgeware road to have kababs and sheesha I usually made silly excuses not to join them. Secondly, I decided that no alcohol or any other intoxicating substances would ever enter my self worshiped body. That meant no pubs after work or late Saturday nights. Lastly as insane as I was, I became vegan and a health freak. So no milk and milk products, eggs or even cooked food! Yeah I survived on raw salads for atleast ten months (not anymore thankfully!) and eating out was always a blunder at that time. So yes I made life very hard for myself and forced the beast out of me. It costed me most parties, social gatherings and funny remarks like "are you planning to kill yourself?" Or "are you sick?" or " do you have an eating disorder?" oh this ones the best "are you detoxing your life?" I had no intentions to explain myself coz I wasn't in the frame of mind, however I believed i needed it. So becoming a total social disaster I carried on. Just a week ago I read this and I couldn't help not sharing this with you all on my blog, as now I do have an answer.
Arjuna asks lord Krishna:
What is the definition of a man of steady wisdom?
Keshava (lord krishna) replies:
When a man gives up all desires of the mind and himself delights in his self, then he said to be a man of steady wisdom
He who is unperturbed in misery and free from desires amidst pleasures, who is devoid of all attachment, fear and anger, that sage is said to be of steady wisdom.
He who is free from affection everywhere, and who neither welcomes or hates good or evils has steady wisdom.
The one who sits in meditation, has self control on his senses has steady wisdom as for a person thinking of sense-objects grows an attachment for them; attachment arises desire; desire results in anger; from anger comes delusion; delusion results confusion of memory which further destroys intelligence and hence the man perishes!
Lastly, for an uncontrolled person there is no knowledge and meditation, and for the unmeditative person there is no peace, and if there is no peace how can there be any happiness?
Text from Shrimad Bhagwad Gita
So that brings us back to my story, I took those drastic steps to save myself from getting perished! It also makes you realise that there is such a fine line between pleasure and pain, as something that was so painful for me just last year has now become my strength. It really is all in the mind. Peace.
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