Aarav Makan

Sometimes, my mind gets filled up with this thought that 99% of the time what I think or what I plan to achieve or get… it never really happens. I don't know, and I don't really care if this happens with everyone around. But what I am really feeling these days is just to think less or just stop thinking because no matter what, what I think about is never gonna happen in my life.

What the mind does is, it gets an idea first. Then, it starts to generate stories around that idea. For example, a thought came into your mind. Now what my mind will do is, it starts to generate more ideas around that thought, more stories around it. And this whole process is very, very, very fast. Even faster than the speed of light. Literally! And I know that all this meditation stuff is built to stop this. I have tried that. It works, but not for someone who can't stay consistent in things.

But nowadays, as I have started observing these patterns of "myself," then again my mind came up with a new thought. Perhaps, Aarav, maybe it's not about forcing, but attraction. And this is not the type of attraction you're thinking about.

Now, this is something important that I have realized but not implemented or experienced yet. Attraction is also a type of force, but this one is about becoming that deserving individual. And that deserving individual generates a type of force that pulls everything towards him. This is the attraction I am talking about. When that man builds up that force inside him, just because he built himself into a deserving one, his force becomes so strong that it pulls everything towards him. And none of his force makes anything come towards him. Because he has become the force.

This is what I have realized, and I don't know how much of this is true, but it is a really, very, very powerful thought.

If you have read this till now, then drop your thoughts below. Maybe I will get to know something new. Till then, take care!

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देवों और असुरों द्वारा समुद्र मंथन के दौरान, हला-हला, समुद्र से विष का घड़ा भी निकला। इसने देवों और असुरों को भयभीत कर दिया क्योंकि विष इतना विषैला था कि इसके प्रभाव से पूरी सृष्टि का सफाया हो जाता। भगवान विष्णु की सलाह पर, देवताओं ने मदद और सुरक्षा के लिए महादेव से संपर्क किया क्योंकि केवल वे ही बिना प्रभावित हुए इसे निगल सकते थे। देवताओं के अनुरोध पर और जीवों के प्रति करुणावश, भगवान शिव ने विष पी लिया। हालाँकि, देवी पार्वती शिव की पत्नी ने उनकी गर्दन दबा दी ताकि विष उनके पेट तक न पहुँचे। इस प्रकार, यह उनके गले में न तो ऊपर जा रहा था और न ही नीचे जा रहा था और शिव अस्वस्थ रहे। जहर इतना शक्तिशाली था कि इसने महादेव की गर्दन का रंग बदलकर नीला कर दिया। इस कारण से, भगवान शिव को नीलकंठ (नीली गर्दन वाला) भी कहा जाता है, जहाँ 'नीला' का अर्थ नीला और 'कंठ' का अर्थ गर्दन या कंठ होता है। जहर के प्रभाव का प्रतिकार करने के लिए भगवान शिव को रात के समय जागना चाहिए था। इस प्रकार, देवताओं ने भगवान शिव के चिंतन में एक जागरण रखा। शिव को खुश करने और उन्हें जगाए रखने के लिए, देवताओं ने बारी-बारी से विभिन्न नृत्य और संगीत बजाए। जैसे ही दिन निकला, भगवान शिव ने उनकी भक्ति से प्रसन्न होकर उन सभी को आशीर्वाद दिया। महा शिवरात्रि इस घटना का उत्सव है जिसके द्वारा शिव ने दुनिया को बचाया। तब से, इस दिन और रात में - भक्त उपवास करते हैं, जागते रहते हैं, भगवान शिव की महिमा गाते हैं और ध्यान करते हैं। 

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