Who will be able to send his own mind to a cool rest while furious storm and raging waves are working in his surroundings ? Only that one who can take rein of his own mind in his own hands and drive it out from his self.
When one hear this above mentioned statement, he/she might retaliate saying that as a social being every human being has to be influenced by each and every social as well as natural phenomenons and has to react to it
Yes, of course, then what sort should the influence be and what sort should the reaction be?
The furious storm and waves affected the twelve and Jesus in different ways. The twelve were, at that particular moment, like either a boat in a lake without rowers or a hanged long cloth on a cloth lane. They went along the directions of wind swaying in this and that directions. what did they cry to Jesus? "We are going to drown". Storm took them to such a condition and they followed.
Jesus was not influenced by this natural phenomenon as it influenced the twelve. He was influenced by the fearful and anxious call of his disciples-the twelve.The dangerous turbulent natural phenomenon didn't affect him but the psychological or mental phenomenon - fear - of his disciples affected him. He woke up and controlled the nature. Why couldn't the twelve do the same ? They didn't have the rein of their mind in their own hand. But Jesus had it. Only such a person can control situations. The twelve were, at that moment, influenced by negative emotion , fear. So they couldn't influence situation positively. Otherwise the problem generated a negative emotion, fear, in the minds of the twelve. But that was not possible in the mind of Jesus.
His mind was enjoying the peak of peace and cool calm, that is why he slept even in such a turbulent situation. Such a mind is the shrine where the divine power prevails. Look into his mind, what kind of emotion was there at that time? Love! love towards his disciples. Another peculiarity, a calm and peaceful mind carries other positive emotions like love, compassion, kindness, faith, hope........! Miracles are possible only with these emotions or qualities. With these qualities we can build, create, change........ with other emotions like fear, angry, revenge, jealousy ; we can demolish, destruct, block.......... , we cannot do anything good. We know now why the twelve couldn't create a peaceful situation. So now we know how to be influenced and how to react.
Why these destructive emotions come and make nests in our mind? Let us look into this situation. The twelve had fear in their mind. why? They were going to drown. They thought about themselves. When we think about ourselves we will have many negative emotions. So, 'self ' is the problem. A mind without self - self denial - is a spring of all positive emotions. Whenever we forget ourselves, the divine power sleeping in us will rise up and work miraculously. Whenever we have the awareness about our "self", that "self "will have to work along with the negatives and these positive qualities and the following power will sleep very peacefully.
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