Trust what your soul tell you..

We all seek happiness desperately in our lives . In fact , that is the sole moto we all are pursuing as we live our lives . They say - “ Life is 10% of what happens to you & 90 % of how you respond to what happens to you “. This 90% proportion is predominantly determined by decisions what we take to deal with what happens to you . So decisions that you take as you deal with what happens to you or even otherwise play key role in bringing happiness quotient of all our life .

Nana ji ( maternal grand father ) & me were very close & he was one of the very few person who influenced & shaped my thinking . Just to give his brief background, He was freedom fighter prior to our freedom . After our freedom , he involved himself into social work for upliftment poor & suppressed with sole principle of his life what he used mention being “ Living life irrespective of power, money & fame .” After his strong initial reluctance ,he agreed to accept ‘ Padmashree ‘ in 1991 responding to family members request & insistence.

Whenever he came to live with us he would take me along for his evening walk in my childhood days . I remember he would to tell me so many of his stories about his interactions with our great freedom leaders including Gandhiji & I used to ask him so many questions . One day I asked “ How we should take decision in life ? “ He answered in his uncomplicated way .. as always . “See three things are involved in decision making . Your soul ( antaratma / sadsadvivekbuddhi ) ,Your intelligence ( buddhi ) ,Your mind ( mann ) . You question each of these three to arrive at your decision even as you listen to their answers . While making decision as you analyse , listen last to your mind (mann) whatever is it’s decision because it’s nature is very chanchal (unstable) & tends to make you get influenced by short term gains . Second, due importance needs to be given to intelligence (buddhi) but with due care as sometime it can get you to do wrong things & get you into problems as intelligence can make do wrong things by false justification harming you & others around you . The prime importance needs to be given to your own soul ( sadsadvivekbuddhi / antaratma ) . Somehow it knows what is right for you & others around in given situation in which you need to take the decision “.

He continued -“ Best decision is decision where all three of them your soul , your intelligence & your mind unanimously agrees on decision you take . Second best decision combination is soul and intelligence atleast both agree on but not the mind . Never ever take that decision which only mind says to take & other two (soul & intelligence) do not agree upon . If mind & intelligence are together agrees on decision , but soul (antaratma ) is telling you otherwise , in such circumstances only & only you trust -listen to SOUL . Only such decision will make you always happy in the end even if initial path may be harder “ .

I still remember my nana ji fondly every time I have to make an important decision for his life changing teaching . & yes , I am very happy today because of those decisions & I am very sure I will continue to be ..

-Krantikumar R Rathod .