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Build the impregnable spiritual shield in your mind

We humans are a social animal. Everyday, we come across innumerable interactions with known and unknown people. Everybody has their own opinion about how things should work. We, also, as part of society, have to play different roles in every moment of our life. These are certain things which is completely unavoidable in the present era, and that is how it is going to remain. We have a tendency to get influenced by our surroundings, and we allow our surroundings and daily happenings to rule our mind and our thoughts. We allow others thinking to influence our own thinking. As a matter of fact, if you take statistical figures, surprisingly you will find that 99.9% of our thoughts are all about our surroundings, and about our daily chores. No wonder, we never give time to our mind to think the way it should and it is ought to think.

God has given us ( we humans ) a beautiful gift in the form of mind. No other creature has got this impeccable ability to think and decide, as much as we humans can do. Our mind is like a parachute, which starts working to its most beautiful core, once  it is left open. We cannot feed too many external things into our mind, and then expect it to give positive vibes to us and to our body. I am writing this article today, because surprisingly I was feeling very low today, because of various reasons. Feeling low is a very strange and rare phenomena for me. But this thought struck me - that so many people feel low at so many moments in life. Hence I am here writing this piece, trying to decipher why should we allow our mind to feel low ever. Our external mind is an extension of the subconscious soul, and our sub conscious soul is a part of that eternal bliss. So our natural flow should be to feel happy all the time. If we are not in an ecstatic mood all the time, then that means we are not on the right track - we are straying away from our own spiritual self.

So what to we need to do to protect ourselves from the vicious attack of depression or from external influences? We need to build a thick sheath or a covering to protect ourselves from all kinds of external attacks - be it somebody’s personal remarks, be it our financial conditions, be it somebody’s indifferent behavior, be it our own undoing, or for that matter anything else. This  sheath or shield has to be impregnable. We cannot and should not allow anything or anyone to pass through it. We have to practice to build a castle of positive spiritual energy/ vibes in our mind, the walls of which is so strong that it cannot be pierced by anything. We should always remember that external influences are momentary and we cannot allow these transients instances to effect the permanent entity in us - the soul. We should treat these external influences as all passing, and the spiritual vibes in us as all pervading. Point is, all externals should remain external, and internal should remain internal. The moment we start mixing external with the internal, all problems start to surface. The moment we learn to distinguish between external and internal influences, God provides us the power to think creatively, and the moment we start thinking creatively, all the solutions to our problems start flowing in.

But how do we train our minds to build these spiritual castles of thoughts? Initially we may need to retreat to seclusion, and spend some time on our own. Once our internal process goes to the next level, then we can see ourselves building these positive sheaths even in the midst of most crowded place - that is the beauty of this beautiful gift given by God. It can think, and it can think in seclusion as well in the most wildest place.  Then, we can build this spiritual sheath in our mind, which is totally oblivious to all external happenings, and it always lives in the trance of divine dance.