Art of Living

Human Personality:

A person is always in one of the following 3 states:

Lack: In this state, person is normally worried about his future needs and feels deprived of them. For example, he/she doesn’t have a house, material wealth, gentle partner, success or a healthy job. He may think how can he arrange money for the education of his children in future. He is said to be in  Lack (in Hindi ‘अभाव’).  
    

Influence: Here, in this state, person is influenced by others remarks (good or bad) or status and feels happy or sad accordingly. By this influence, he may create problems for himself. For eg. by looking the new valuable car of his neighbor, one may be willing to purchase a costly car, although his pocket doesn’t allow for that. A lady does not wear proper warm clothes in the winter marriage and may fall ill. He is in Influence (in Hindi ‘प्रभाव’).

Nature: Here, the person feels self-satisfied. He is said to be in his Nature (in Hindi ‘स्वभाव’). This is the state to be achieved by everybody.

-- Tapan Kumar Mishra (Art of Living)

Human Life:

Human life is structured like an atom. In atoms, at outer orbits, negative charge particles (electrons) are moving. In core, positive and neutral particles (protons and neutrons) exist. Similarly, in the outer world, we feel problems, worries and negative attitude everywhere. But if we develop an inner sight and observe deeply  then we realize the joy, enthusiasm, bliss and positive attitude. If we observe the human personality at the surface level only, we can find the weaknesses of a person. However, our inner sight can see the hidden source of virtues in each and every personality. Every human being is unique and can be transformed in such a way that he become useful for the society. For eg., at the time of Gautam Buddha, there was a cruel dacoit named as Anguli-maal. When Buddha changed his views, he became a wonderful propagandist of the Buddha. Similarly, a street-walker named Aamra-Pali did a great job to spread Buddhism.