You Are Your Thoughts

Posted on Feb 01, 2020 by Harsha Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer)

It is often understood that a school is for learning. How come we talk of Unlearning?

In this information age when we are being swept away with the bombardment of information, it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern what information to keep and what to discard. It is said that mankind has not shared as much information in the last 1000 years that we share in one year. We are constantly being fed information that we do not need yet we take note of many things that come our way depending on self interest. It is diluting our attention that could be used for useful purposes in our life. We are getting led away from our essential goals by a world that is designed for profits rather than service. The dice is loaded.

Like guinea pigs we are subjected to motivated information essentially carrying someone’s agenda. The information is made so appealing that their agendas become our dreams. How do they reach us? Are we living someone else’s programming? Why do they have to program us in the first place?

As we are being carried by the scruff of our neck, bound into a culture of consumerism for a sheer goal of money making, we forget the real ‘us’. Who are we? What was our purpose to be here? What is our essential calling? What would you do as in work if you didn’t have to earn any money?

We find ourselves increasingly getting divided and categorised into senseless groupings of age, religion, profession, money, lineage, country, hobbies, likes, dislikes and what not. We are constantly putting on new identities. The wise sages always said that our bane is that we identify ourselves with the body as us.

We further add that we not only identify ourselves as the body but also identify our personality by the common needs of the body. We extend our identity to the brands we wear, the kind of food we eat, the social clubs that we go to, the area we live in, the car we drive, the people we know, the common music choices that we have, the movies that we watch. The list goes on and on. The main idea I wish to convey is that a human mind is pliable and is constantly under threat to be led by circumstances. A society gulps down a man’s original self.