Power of attitude in life

The success lies in happiness. Means, with the state of mind. State of mind play a great role in life. That determines the  life and future of a person. State of mind or attitude towards  social as well as natural environment determines what a man is.

Let us look into Bible. Genesis 4: 3-7  . Abel offered a portion what he produced and Cain also did so. But Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering. But he didn't looked with favor on Cain. Why? Both offered  portions of what had Lord given them. Then the problem was not  on what they offered. Then what? Lord knew before hand that Cain had the habit of maintaining  negative emotions and mental states,that are destructive, in his life . So Lord was not only testing Cain  but also proving that this negativism takes men to destruction. Lord didn't blame Cain before he became angry. When he got angry, what did lord ask?  "7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?" Look into the grammar of this sentence. The question is not like this" If you did what is right........."  That means the problem was not on what he offered, but on what he continues doing, the habit, the character  --Getting angry and envy. When the things were not favorable, he found reason on his brother. He might have thought that Abel did a better job than he did, that was the problem. No, Abel had positive attitudes that God approved as fruits of spirit. Lord warned Cain saying" But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” This  mean that, if Cain had changed his attitude even at that moment, even after the warning, he also would have been favorable for God.

So do whatever we do with a positive attitude. Not focusing on what others doing or to defeat others. Cain last decided to defeat Abel, what was the result? And don't compare our work and performance with others, that is the result of Cain-complex. We can compare our work and performance with our yesterday's work and performance and thereby improve ourselves. We are blessed  or we succeed not only by what we do, but by  the mentality, the state of mind or the attitude we maintain in life . 

Look into the life of Gandhi. He did everything with a sacrificial mind. Even at the time of sufferings he found utmost satisfaction in his life. He succeeded in his fight without wealth, without weapons even without trained men. The reason, he fought with positive mind and great faith. He was not fighting against anyone, he fought for freedom that was the right of a nation. The British were not his enemies.   He had not been endeavoring to become a world leader or even a national leader defeating some one else, but at last  he became so. 

I needn't mention the life of Jesus here to explain the same. So the real change, development or improvement is the result of maintaining positive attitude always. When we try to prosper or improve we should not posses Cain-complex, encroaching on others. Cain was a farmer, he might have encroached upon  nature as well as Abel . God mightn't have liked that also. Today we face many environmental problems because of selfish encroachment on nature,Cain-complex, defeat or destroy nature to have comforts.

Try  to maintain positive mentality for a certain period, the result will be beyond our expectation.  No doubt.

Role of Quality and Quantity in Change and development

John 12:24

Let us examine the change of wheat kernel described in this verse. The wheat kernel buried in ground under goes changes. Changes begin in its quality. Gradually it gives up its existing qualities in small quantities and achieve some new qualities .  This process will not continue infinitely, at a particular point, this seed entirely giving up its old existence, acquire a qualitatively quite new existence, transforms to new life as a sprout. It dies as a seed and lives as a sprout,comes to a new stage. Continue this process and goes through different stages and at last it multiplies. Sprout becomes sapling, then plant, then blooms and bears fruit. At each stage a death happens and new self comes to existence. At each stage the quality-change leads it to its death of one stage and birth of another stage.

This is true not only in the life of personal life but also in social, political as well as economical life of human beings. The transformation of personality depends upon quantity of quality-change, other wise rate of change of quality. That is, quantity changes quality and quality changes quantity, but quality is primary and quantity is secondary.  

In our life at some stages we will have to give up many things in our life to enter in to the next stage of growth, some times it might be character, possessions, some kind of relations etc, and accept quite new ones in place of   these given ups. Those succeed in doing so are the successful persons in life. The situations always compel us to make such adjustments to go to next stage of growth or transformation. We have the choice before us to either go through the required process to have change or remain unchanged, being unwilling to go through these molding process. 

Problems are the process which help us to kill or give up our existing self and acquire new one in the development of our lives. So those who are wise enough to use the problems shall  enter to the stages of development one after  another very easily and reach their goals. 

Personal change, two aspects

Mark 2: 21-22  (Click here for online bible verses)

what verse 22 says is a common law in society as well as in nature. Whenever content changes there will be a corresponding change in structure.It is true in personal life also. Personal changes begins from  inner being. and when change of inner being culminated to a particular level, there should be a corresponding change on outer being. Inner-changes inevitably leads  outer to changes, to get transformed according to  inner being, and newly transformed inner and outer together perform  as a new creation. Content and structure are correlatives. So any change in content reflects on structure. If it doesn't occur so, conflicts will take place and that may ruin both. We can see this principle works in every sector of human life; polity, economy and society.

We can see two aspects of personal changes from these verses. A person begins his personal change from his inner being. Taking decision to make changes itself is the first step of changes of inner being. when  inner- changes culminated to a specific level it will inevitably reflects on one's outer life. If it doesn't happen so, there will be a conflict between his mentality and activity. This might leads to psychological disorders and neither his thought nor his life style can be saved, both go to astray. The opposite is also true. Without enough inner- change, one should not begin to perform to become one among a specific group or society. Some vested interests may lead people to do so but at last that will results in undesirable psychological effects on the personality.

Second thing as the verse 21 says, the person who decided to make changes in his life himself is an inner being in his society. To continue his personal change and development, he needs an outer, a suitable background, to stick on. He needs some like-minded people, in the way he thinks, to cooperate. A person who made changes in his life cannot continue or exist in his old group or background where he existed before his reformation. Either this group will harm him or his presence in the group will results in undesirable effects.

Look into the life of men of success as well as men of failure.Each and every one's relations have played great role in their success or failure. The unity of like-minded people helps each one of them to change and develop himself perfectly. So as persons we have to be like new wine in new wine-skin and as social being we have not to be a new patch on old cloth. New patch on new cloth, building new relations with like-minded people. Then only success is possible in personal as well as social life. Personal life is not independent of social life and vice versa is also true.