How to keep a check on my arrogance when I feel successful and happy? What are the other ways to calm the mind and make it happy, other than meditation?

Q: How to keep a check on my arrogance when I feel successful and happy? What are the other ways to calm the mind and make it happy, other than meditation?

Guruji: Arrogant people are somewhere insecure. They don’t have enough knowledge. But when the context of your life expands, when it changes, then where is the place for arrogance? Once you see life from a holistic perspective, there is no arrogance.

Billions of people have come here and they’ve all died and gone, more people will come. What’s the big thing that you have done to be so arrogant? You’re going to go into the same mud like everybody. I think you are not aware that you are going to die. You should take a walk in the cemetery and know that this is where you are going to be one day.

No arrogance can stay on. Humility, a sense of belongingness is an automatic phenomenon. It is a simple awareness of our life. You don’t have to do something to make it happen.

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Material Comforts or Knowledge?

When a person indulges in material comforts, his entire attention and brain function gets diverted to the posterior part of the brain. So when you are enjoying something, the posterior part of the brain is more active and engaged at that time. But when you are studying or listening to knowledge, then the frontal lobe of the brain becomes more active.

So for those who are running behind wealth and material comforts, all their brain activity and energy gets channeled to the posterior part of the brain. They keep looking here and there and their mind is always restless. They do not have focus. That is why knowledge eludes one who is running behind material comforts all the time.

A sincere student, whose mind is engaged in knowledge and studies all the time, will never run behind getting material comforts. All his focus would be directed towards gaining knowledge.

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Once in a while the top management should have access to people all the way down while maintaining the dignity of all the other in-between layers.

Om Namah Shivay