Our mind has the power to rule over matter but generally we allow things to happen the other way round — we allow matter to rule over our mind. We allow a good looking thing to make our mind happy and bad looking thing to make our mind feel bad. We let a favourable situation make our mind feel happy and an unfavourable one to make us feel sad. Our mind is an independent entity and has its own emotions. Unconsciously, it sets its own condition about happiness and sadness based on external factors. Even though it has the power to change external conditions and be happy all the time (even in adverse conditions), yet we allow it to feel happy or sad based on situations, circumstances, things, objects and comments.
When our mind is happy, it sends waves of happiness all around the universe and creates a connection with happy people and attracts them towards us. Similarly, when it is sad it emanates waves of sadness and attracts everything which increases our sadness, pains and sorrow. This is how our mind influences external situations and circumstances in our life. Let situations or circumstances or adverse comments not bother you and not allow the mind to emanate negative emotions. Such conviction will ensure happiness all the time. Even God has no power to make a person unhappy if the person has decided to be happy. God may have the power to create an unfavourable situation, but to suffer or not is our choice.
Sadguru Rameshji is a modern age spiritual guru and founder of Poorna Ananda, a centre for spiritual evolution and joyful living. Visit www.poornaananda.org
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