Meditation and Mind techniques are the rage today and there are any number of ashrams and schools all over the world propagating various aspects of sadhana.
My view is - anytime you move away from the natural state of our mind and body, you have to be careful of the side effects.
In one incident a lady in the USA committed suicide due to heavy anxiety after a 10 day vipasana meditation.
Some others have experienced psychotic episodes and other side effects.
Our scriptures talk about our lives in this world as a karmabhoomi and hence our duty is to go through our karma.
In this process if we change our mind and subconscious to overcome our emotions then we will be impacting the "Karma fabric".
Our karmic struggles are performed by the huge upheavels in life - ups and downs of our emotions. So if one were to overcome the fear completely then he or she will no longer struggle on a daily basis. So they will end up with much bigger issues like accidents or legal etc..
For e.g. take the earlier example of the Brahmin. the Kings gold he was carrying was stolen by a thief and he was distraught on how to explain this to the king. The thief in the meanwhile loses his life to the lion which wanted the gold.
This is part of his karmic struggle. Now if he were to be more resilient then he would have hardly struggled when he lost the Kings gold. Or he would have fought back the thief and held on to the gold.
In which case he would have sufferered some other disaster or he may have died at the hands of the lion !!
So in a karmabhoomi, building resilience, being very brave, getting tough emotionally, becoming stress free, being famous, super rich etc.. (all the western thoughts) are all a curse because you will end up with bigger suffering !! Refer my earlier post on - Cosmic theory.
You can see this for yourselves. Generally the weak will not suffer any major issues in life but they struggle a lot on minor issues. The strong on the other hand scales great heights in their life but will also suffer major issues.
This is why I said over-happiness is a curse and one will in the end struggle more !!
Moderation is the key in everything. And don't change ones nature except for minor adjustments!!
My view is - anytime you move away from the natural state of our mind and body, you have to be careful of the side effects.
In one incident a lady in the USA committed suicide due to heavy anxiety after a 10 day vipasana meditation.
Some others have experienced psychotic episodes and other side effects.
Our scriptures talk about our lives in this world as a karmabhoomi and hence our duty is to go through our karma.
In this process if we change our mind and subconscious to overcome our emotions then we will be impacting the "Karma fabric".
Our karmic struggles are performed by the huge upheavels in life - ups and downs of our emotions. So if one were to overcome the fear completely then he or she will no longer struggle on a daily basis. So they will end up with much bigger issues like accidents or legal etc..
For e.g. take the earlier example of the Brahmin. the Kings gold he was carrying was stolen by a thief and he was distraught on how to explain this to the king. The thief in the meanwhile loses his life to the lion which wanted the gold.
This is part of his karmic struggle. Now if he were to be more resilient then he would have hardly struggled when he lost the Kings gold. Or he would have fought back the thief and held on to the gold.
In which case he would have sufferered some other disaster or he may have died at the hands of the lion !!
So in a karmabhoomi, building resilience, being very brave, getting tough emotionally, becoming stress free, being famous, super rich etc.. (all the western thoughts) are all a curse because you will end up with bigger suffering !! Refer my earlier post on - Cosmic theory.
You can see this for yourselves. Generally the weak will not suffer any major issues in life but they struggle a lot on minor issues. The strong on the other hand scales great heights in their life but will also suffer major issues.
This is why I said over-happiness is a curse and one will in the end struggle more !!
Moderation is the key in everything. And don't change ones nature except for minor adjustments!!