Self contentment can be developed when one maintains complete awareness and alertness, when one acts in all circumstances ( favorable and unfavorable ) and in everything without any infatuation or hate ( રાગ-દ્વેષ ), with complete understanding, inner love and contemplating about God. On your own never create a desire to get physical things or obtain certain incidents and circumstances. If you succeed at it, then there will not be any difficulty in achieving quietude of mind. Continue to live your life with contentment in whatever you have and make under all situations and circumstances. At the same time try to understand the purpose of God behind these situations. When you live your life in this context then only it is appropriate and worth.
We should continue to function with the spirit of maintaining mental peace, contentment, certain easiness and joy, by whatever means it is possible. Be content if someone takes something from you. Ask for forgiveness with heartfelt humility, if you commit injustice to anybody. If certain item is causing arguments then relinquish with love. If you experience attachment and jealousy in certain associations, then understand it and with this understanding try avoiding it to reduce such future problems. You should accept with heartfelt joy, all incidents as God given, understanding it as such and act without any expectations of the results. Think of it as an opportunity to build your life. All this is possible if higher aspiration dawns in your heart at difficult times.
One who lives in plenty or scarcity, yet gets satisfaction and happiness with only few things, is a true happy person. One who in spite of having plenty, continues to aspire for new and more, is unhappy and poor.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan manthan,
Edition 3; pages 184 - 186.
We should continue to function with the spirit of maintaining mental peace, contentment, certain easiness and joy, by whatever means it is possible. Be content if someone takes something from you. Ask for forgiveness with heartfelt humility, if you commit injustice to anybody. If certain item is causing arguments then relinquish with love. If you experience attachment and jealousy in certain associations, then understand it and with this understanding try avoiding it to reduce such future problems. You should accept with heartfelt joy, all incidents as God given, understanding it as such and act without any expectations of the results. Think of it as an opportunity to build your life. All this is possible if higher aspiration dawns in your heart at difficult times.
One who lives in plenty or scarcity, yet gets satisfaction and happiness with only few things, is a true happy person. One who in spite of having plenty, continues to aspire for new and more, is unhappy and poor.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan manthan,
Edition 3; pages 184 - 186.
