Seven Golden Rule of Veda To Reduce Stress

Stress arises not due to external disturbances, but due to internal agitation. The scriptures offer a rich treasure of lessons from the histories of the great personalities who have encountered different difficult situations in their live, and have acted appropriately & inappropriately. These histories are not meant to be read and thrown like novels, but are meant for offering us practical guidance in our everyday life. The following tips are a few of them that can help us bring about a great transformation of consciousness. We would immensely benefit even if we adopt in our lives


Rule 1: Live in present:
Is it not surprising that grown up people become morose and suffers from stress, while small children seem to have no worries? This is because children always live in the present while adults torment themselves with the worries of the past & day dreams of the future. Thus the mind worries for what we don’t have. Once you get what you want wanted, the mind is fearful of losing it. Once you lose it, the mind laments for the loss. If you don’t lose it, the mind feels proud of possessing it. In this way, at all times the mind becomes filled with all these negatives thoughts-worry, fear, lamentation, pride etc. It is said the mind is like a bird that keeps flying with 2 wings of past and future. Cut off its wings; the mind bird will come to rest. Practice the following: eat while eat, read while you read, chant while you chant and sleep while you sleep. This means don’t carry office thoughts to home and home worries to office. When you lie down to sleep, concentrate on sleeping rather than worrying about the day’s events. When you have to study for GRE, then don’t dream about going abroad, but focus on study. All this is possible if you have will power. The will power can be easily obtained by Hare Krishna chant, mantra meditation on a regular basis. This is what we do in meditation.


Rule 2: Don’t regret the past:
Brooding over the past cause stress. Have you heard the saying, “worry may bury you”, “worry never relieves you of tomorrow’s sorrow’; it saps your vital strength today’. People sometimes deeply regret “why I did it or did not do it?” Why I behaved or spoke in that way and not this way?” For example a man regrets of a wife. A businessman laments that he could have made more money in another business. When software engineer gets severe headache due to radiation and work stress, he sometimes feels his life would have been far better and more peaceful, if he simply took to teaching career. A Professor laments that he missed out the opportunity to work for MNC and thus got stuck in such a simple profession as teaching with not so much reputation in society. A man or woman painfully regrets their aggressive or over-reactive behaviour that has led to distance/ broken relationships in office or at home. Past is Past. Allow it to die. Don’t waste your valuable energy in brooding over the past. Find out what is in your control. Sometimes anger relapses if you are again encountering the same person or the situation. In such cases it would be worthwhile to learn some valuable lessons from our old mistakes and be alert not to repeat them. Otherwise, past worries do no good; they only make stress go from bad to worse. The true leader, devotee of God, has the special advantage of the offering deep unpretentious sincere prayers of repentance to God, seeking forgiveness for the mistake committed, producing hot tear. Such hot tears of sincere repentance wipe out the sinful reactions besides making the heart feel light like cotton. It also reinforces their integrity and determination to tread the right path in future. As far as wrong decisions about the spouse or career are concerned, he has faith that nothing happens without God’s will. What is a use of a beautiful wife who never stays at home but wanders from one party to another? A devotee of the God is convinced that whatever position I am put in by God that is the best for my progress towards him. Thus they can cast away useless meaningless regrets.


Rule 3: Don’t day dream the future:
Do you know the 5 P’s that pinch you? Penny, Pleasures, People, Possessions & Position People hanker for these all the time in their hearts. One of the characteristics of achieving such objects of enjoyment in this world is that they always leave you with a craving or dissatisfaction to get something more in quantity and better in quality. By craving for future gains, we fail to enjoy what we do or what we have at the current moment. Thus, throughout your lifespan your craving for the future gains prevents you from enjoying whatever you have in the present. Thus you postpone your actual enjoyment. Apply this thought energy to bring out something’s positive. There is a story of a milkmaid, who dreamt that, she will sell all the milk, buy more cows, and sell more milk and thus will become a landlady before marriage. She thought to herself that if her husband would not comply with her options, she would just turn her face away and would not care for him. Thinking thus, when the milkmaid turned her face away, the milk-pot on her head fell to the ground breaking into pieces with all milk flowing hither and thither! Day-dreaming with no action plan only leads to high mental velocity, often leading to fatigue for no work done. Learn to be content and satisfied with your present lot and then make plans to progress further. A true Leader, devotee of God also make plans, but he has complete faith that without the God’s sanction, not even a blade of grass can move. Thus he does his best and leaves the rest to God. Look at Arjuna in the battle of Kurukshetra. He has handed over his life to Sri Krishna by handing over the reins of the horses in the Lords’ hands; at the same time he took the initiative to fight the battle. Such surrendering of the results to God frees our mind from all anxiety. Let us be convinced that we are not the ultimate controllers. It is not by our order that sun is rising; seasons are changing; moon is waxing and waning; rains are showering; flowers are blooming; cuckoos are singing; earth is yielding fruits and flowers. Lord Sri Krishna says in Bhagavad-Gita (9.10) ‘maya adhyakshena prakriti’ by my supervision the nature is performing her duties’. If Lord is ultimately in control, why take anxieties to our small head and stress us? Why not be like a carefree child in the lap of a mother?

Rule 4: Our material life is game; nothing is really important:
People who think that they are this material body and life ends with death, they hurry and worry, trying to identify themselves with some small material ambitions, trying to live out as much as they can. I once saw a man in a small shop with a prominent board, ‘Proprietor’ along with his name. There were telephones on both his ears most of the time. He proudly believed that all results of his work was in his hands alone God had no say in his life. Considering himself to be the doer of all business, criticizing everyone and everything around except himself, this workaholic was increasing his stress and burning himself out only to show others how busy he was. Actually life is to be lead with a goal of purification of hear to become eligible to enter the kingdom of God after death. Life is not to be lived as a race to accumulate possession or positions in this world that will vanish at death. From that point of view, there are five P’s that pinch us in this world- penny, people, pleasures, positions and possessions. People racing minds that impel them to chase after these temporary, passing away things forgetting ultimate goal of life. In one sense material life or external life is not as important as spiritual life or internal life, because material life is some 80 years dream. If you seen material life as a game and spiritual life as the real life, then you will not be affected by successes and failures.

Rule 5: Life is like a train journey:
Imagine when you travel from one place to another, sometimes you have a comfortable journey in an AC coach, at other times in a crowded bogie with lot of vendors passing by hawking. Sometimes the bus ride is on smooth roads and at others times on bumpy roads. Similarly according to our previous life karmic results, we have got a body that offers certain facilities and subjected to that offers certain inconveniences. Just as a train journey is not a permanent one, similarly our stay in this material body is not permanent. Our real duty is in the spiritual world as a loving servant of god. Remembering that material life is a temporarily situation like the passing seasons and tolerating the turn of events which come and go, we can easily pass our life keeping the eternal life in the eye of our mind.


Rule 6: Give up false ego:
Vedavyas says in mahabharata that there are two words that cause our bondage in this world, "aham" and “mama" which mean, "I" and "Mine". Lord Sri Krishna says in the 12th chapter of Bhagavadgita that his devotees are free from these two tendencies: "nirmamo nirahankara sama dukha sukha kshmi". A common man who is devoid of knowledge of the science of god gets such feelings as mentioned below:
I was the first one to launch this product in the market
I was the only one to win this particular award. No one in the past or future can.
I have been a chairman of this company for the last twenty years.
He believes himself to be superior to one and all. He has no regard or respect for others' knowledge and experience. He becomes intoxicated with the wrong egoistic feeling that he excels everyone in everything and that no one is equal to him or better than him, actually the supreme personality of godhead, Sri Krishna is addressed by the name,"asamaurdhva" which means he has no one equal to him or greater than him. Now if an ordinary living entity like us imagines that we are in the same position, it simply means we want to occupy the post of god. It is a ridiculous proposition. Such people don't care about others existence around them. Driven with selfish motives of name, fame, position, pride, prestige, status etc one's mind is constantly agitated leading one to enormous stress. The person has to feel stress as he is trying to prove himself to be God. What he actually is not. It is like a cat trying to prove to the world that he is a tiger. You can imagine the kind of struggle that he will have to undergo to do the same! An egoistic person also becomes attached and excited about his temporary material obligations. As credits or fruits are involved, he becomes greedy to acquire them in terms of monetary benefits or fame. In such cases, the ‘I’ sticks out more than his work. You will see how much people hanker for reward, recognition, position, credit etc to impress the other people of the world. A leader has to give up false ego and assume true ego which is, “I am not God; I am a servant of the God I am a co worker with God. I will endeavour and if God sanctions, great things can happen.” This was the humble mood of Hanuman who simply by uttering Lord Rama’s names, performed the formidable task of crossing the ocean between India and Sri Lanka.

Rule 7: Don’t stress yourself to impress others:
I heard an interesting saying that ‘a man spends money that he does not earn, to buy things that he does not need, to impress people whom he does not like’! People buy all sorts of things nowadays – beginning with blonds hair dye up to million-dollar cricket bat or a kerchief signed by a star – with their credit cards, just because they have to show to their rivals. There is no question, whether they need it or not, be it – mobiles, fashionable cars, bungalows, fashionable costly new car, his friend may superficially smile while concealing his deep rooted envy in his heart wondering, “ How this fool has become so rich!” Thus by trying to impress others, we only earn their heart-burnings, not hearts blessings! Try to act for the pleasure of God, as Hanuman did, as Arjuna did, as all great devotees do. I hear once Akbar went with Tansen to meet a pure devotee of Lord Sri Krishna – Saint Mirabai. That pure devotee in the dim light was playing an instrument while singing a deep melancholy expressing her longing for the Lord; Akbar was moved to tears. On his way back, he asked Tansen, his professional official musician how this pure devotee’s singing could move him to tears, while Tansen could never sing in that manner. Honest Tansen admitted saying, “My dear master, that pure devotee sings for Lord’s pleasure and I sing for the remuneration that you give me. That is the difference.” Now you decide for whose pleasure you want to live your life. God is your eternal master, who always loves you and will never leave you. But if we try to impress the society, friends and colleagues we lose time, energy, money including peace of mind, inviting only our enemy, stress.


Modern man unfortunately has complicated his life by going too far from God and Nature. Instead of warring against nature and God, if we can learn to harmonize our lives with nature and God, and learn to lead a simple life of Krishna consciousness, adopting the above principles, we can attain true happiness now and forever.

Life as it comes

Life as it comes, is the new movie i saw few days back.
Thinking about it, tell me how true it is.

As it comes, means i have no Idea on whats going to happen to me
in next few minutes so atleast i can do it enjoy this very moment.



SO I would like to Live in present: Don’t regret the past:and Don’t day dream the future:

Lets see if it works or not.

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