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CONSERVATION OF HUMAN ENERGY:-
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We are exposed to a number of opportunities for contributing to conservation in our own immediate and simple Environments leave alone in the distant and complicated ones. Our simple and immediate environments can be of home, office, family, children, friends, etc. .Our most immediate environment can be we ourselves.
Every human being is an environment.
There is lot to be practiced in the case of conservation of human energy. This does not touch on abstinence, dieting, eating less, fasting, etc.
Can any of you think of anything more marvelous than the HUMAN SYSTEM in the creation??
HUMAN SYSTEM COMPRISES OF THE VARIOUS ASPECTS NAMELY THE BODY ,THE MIND ,NERVOUS SYSTEM, BRAIN ,SECRETARY ORGANS ,LIMBS, HEART, LUNG, CLEANSING ORGANS AND MANY OTHER THINGS RELATED TO THE HUMAN BEING
In the human system we have the engineering aspects of pressure control ,temperature control, volume control ,weight control, concentration control for compositions namely of sugar, hemoglobin ,oxygen ,CO2, urea, albumin ,RBC, WBC, etc. This in total involves the complicated material and energy balance built into it, similar to any chemical engineering systems or other engineering systems.
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Here , we will deal with conservation of energy at the human level ie. at the level of BODY, MIND, and INTELLECT ; then at PERCEIVER, FEELER and THINKER ; as well as at OBJECTS, EMOTIONS and THOUGHTS and the Energy Conservation through THOUGHTS, WORDS and DEEDS .
Human Energy is an abundantly available resource. Any activity of the human being is generally packed with three broad categories of elements namely THOUGHTS, WORDS and DEEDS. Human activity is nothing but interactions at the various levels of THOUGHTS, WORDS and DEEDS.
All these interactions are to be done with a purpose. If a human being or an individual is considered as an industry, then the thoughts, words and deeds are very important resources, which have to be effectively utilized. Naturally these will have to be conserved; otherwise there will be unnecessary dissipation of energy and wastages related to these resources.
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THOUGHTS:-
Adding unwanted thoughts to the human system is akin to burning unnecessarily excess fuel in the furnace , which dissipates as useless heat to outside , leading to losses and environmental degradation. Unwanted thoughts are responsible for converting gentleman into a doubting Thomas, replacing Love by hatred and making a villain out of a hero. Since thoughts are internal interactions or discussions, a large amount of internal energy is wasted by unwanted thoughts. Hence think of only what is essential.
BUT HOW TO DO THIS IN PRACTICE?
IT IS VERY SIMPLE TO SAY, BUT BECOMES SIMPLER THAN SAYING IF ONE STARTS THE PRACTICE.
For this to happen one has to make a beginning and that is a must. Practice living in the present. Do not worry too much about the past and do not become over anxious about the future. You must think and plan for your future action, but you should not think so much that the future ends up as a past by the time you come to practice.
When the thoughts get distracted, one must just become aware of it. When the thoughts get distracted one must just become aware of it. Correction comes up automatically and one will find considerable transformation in the thoughts and considerable reduction in unwanted thoughts. There is no end point for this practice. This is an approach and it leads to continual improvement in the thought process of the human system.
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WORDS:-
IN ORDER TO HAVE THE LEAST ENERGY DISSIPATION THAT IS FOR THE SAKE OF ENSURING THE MAXIMUM HUMAN ENERGY CONSERVATION THE WORDS SHALL BE IN TUNE WITH THE THOUGHT -
I AM STRESSING THOUGHT AND NOT THOUGHTS. THIS SHALL BE THE RIGHT THOUGHT (CORRECT THOUGHT).
This, I am highlighting because, too many thoughts or unwanted thoughts for a particular situation or moment is nothing but a waste of human energy, as already pointed out. If the words are in tune with the thought, there would be no internal conflict. Internal conflicts in the mind or the conscience is nothing but an element of fiction and we all know how much of unwanted heat and wasteful dissipation of energy is caused by friction. ( You can Think of any energy draining situations in your life which you would have experienced, when you had consciously expressed untruth or told lie to someone very close to you or whenever you had expressed something opposite of what you were consciously thinking.
Now think of a situation when an individual has integrity of Thoughts and Words . This would lead to a state of INTERNAL NO CONFLICT CONDITION in the individual. If such a condition prevails in an organization or society, please think as to how serene and how high an energy level it will be maintaining? In such an environment all the activities and transactions will progress with the minimum expense of human energy. All unwanted formal talks and speeches, which have no element of heart or involvement, will come to an end . There will only be purposeful thought and the corresponding essential word transacted in the human system.
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DEEDS :-
THERE IS NO NEED OF A THOUGHT AND THE CORRESPONDING WORD, UNLESS THEY LEAD FINALLY TO RELEVANT DEED.
The practicing aspects of philosophies is represented by the word DEED. This deed does not stand for some work to fill the time available. This should essentially be the deed that corresponds to the relevant word guided by that specific thought. This is called ABSOLUTE INTEGRITY OF THOUGHT, WORD AND DEED. Sometimes there can be situations when a thought directly leads to action without passing through the word phase.
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WHAT EXIST IN REALITY IN AND AROUND US :-
What is generally used in real life practice is absolute dis- integrity among thoughts, words and deeds. We often observe on public platforms, the wide gap ie. the gap between preach and practice. As long as the deeds are not in tune with the word, which in turn with the thought, we will continue to live in CHAOS in the society or in the organisation or in the state or in the nation or in the universe. Chaos represent a system where there is very heavy entropy change, which in turn means that there is dissipation of too much unutilised energy.
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THE SOLUTION:-
The only solution to minimize the human entropy change and to reduce the dissipated human energy to zero level is by integrating every thought with a specific word and the specific word with the relevant deed.
THIS MEANS ABSOLUTE INTEGRITY IN THOUGHT, WORD AND DEED LEVELS.
If an individual possesses this, he or she remains in a highly energy conserved state. If all the individuals in a society or an organization or a state follow this principle, think as to how high an energy level WE will be living in? When the human energy level is high, there would not be any anxiety, anger, conflicts or deficiencies.
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HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS??
The first step is for an individual to become aware that he or she does or does not possess the integrity in thought, word and deed. If he / she does possess this , there is nothing to worry since he /she is already conserving the energy. But, if you feel and you become aware that you do not possess the integrity of thought, word and deed, please do become aware of this consciously.
That is what you have to do. The change in you will come by its own accord in the positive direction. If everyone can achieve this total integrity of thought, word and deed, you can experience and witness for yourself, Heaven descending to the Earth.
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BONUS POINTS ON CONSERVATION:-
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There are certain other negative qualities which consume considerable energy - human energy. If one can develop deep awareness into these, he or she is definitely bound to save a lot of energy from getting wasted or dissipated. Some of the prime negative qualities which consume excessive energy are anger, fear, jealousy, hatred, guilt feeling and activities carried out without involvement.
If one becomes aware of the existence of these from time to time, the correction takes place
automatically. There are also certain methods available, which can be practiced to improve
awareness and this will help one to keep oneself calm. The more calm and peaceful one feels, the higher is his or her energy level, which means a lot of human energy is being conserved. This condition certainly induces an energizing effect on the surroundings i.e. on the persons and things in the environment.
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ANGER - AN ENERGY DRAINER:-
One of the high energy consuming activities which drains one fully out of his or her energy is anger. Let us view Anger as a network and see how it is interrelated with other aspects like a spider's web.
• The Thoughts of objects lead to Attachment
• From Attachment , Desire is born
• From Desire , Anger arises due to unfulfilled expectations
• From Anger , Comes loss of memory
• From loss of memory , arises the Destruction of Discrimination
• From Destruction of Discrimination, one Perishes
ANGER is a wave of unpleasant feelings that arise from inner instrument , when one gets displeased with another. It is in other words, a modification of Desire or Passion. Irritation, Frowning, Resentment, Indignation, Rage , Fury and Wrath are all varieties of anger according to the degree or intensity. Anger is a manifestation of energy. Sometimes anger is used to correct someone else. This is OK. This is called RIGHTEOUS ANGER. One can be angry with a Criminal. It is normal . It is normal for teacher to get angry to correct a student. But we notice that in most cases, anger crops out of negative feelings involving the undue expansion and enlargement of one's ego , desires, expectations, etc.
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ON CHECKING ANGER:-
ANGER GAINS STRENGTH BY REPETITION.
If anger is checked then and there, the person gets immense strength of will. Where anger is controlled it becomes transmitted into spiritual energy that can move the Three Worlds. Just as heat or light is changed into electricity, so also anger becomes changed into OJAS or Spiritual energy.
Control of anger is really control of mind. When anger assumes a grave form it becomes difficult to control. Anger should therefore be controlled even when it is in the form of a small ripple in the subconscious mind. Be careful and vigilant and watch the ripples. Only then, you are safe.
If you take sincere efforts to subdue anger, then hatred will cease. Whenever there is irritability, stop all conversations - inner as well as outer- and observe silence. Daily practice of silence will help to control anger. Develop inner awareness and in the calmed down condition you will find out the real cause of your anger and then you can eradicate it. One should control anger by all the different means, develop patience, forbearance, compassion, tolerance, mercy and love.
PRACTICE SELF ANALYSIS AND INTROSPECTION. THE MIND WILL BECOME CALM AS TIME GOES ON AND THE BURNING CAUSED BY ANGER WILL SUBSIDE
QUOTE FROM SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA
" IF YOU HAVE TO BE ANGRY ,
BE ANGRY WITH ANGER ITSELF"
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By
Dr NSankaran
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