Ethics In Profession-Part III

Swami Chinmayananda

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By Priya Devi

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:15

Your inner personality dynamism is the program that you have overlooked, which may lead even to physical debility and illness like blood pressure, thrombosis, ulcers, haemorrhage etc arising from mental tensions and lack of equanimity. We can see hundreds of such examples.

Medical treatment will not help in such cases. The only remedy is development of equanimity by avoiding wrong approach to problems, through right values. Right values have to be cultivated by contemplating upon such higher values. These values like love, tolerance, compassion, mercy, kindness, loyalty, faithfulness, are ideas and it is difficult to contemplate on them.

You cannot live the values until you can think of a noble person - a hero, who is an embodiment of those values, whom you can try to emulate. You cannot contemplate on them without these values arising in your mind, for example you cannot think of Mahatma Gandhi without the idea of non-violence arising, Buddha brings to your mind peace and tranquillity. On the other hand when you think of Hitler, there will arise in your mind his cruelty and atrocious crimes committed by him against Jews who were killed in millions. So the method to be followed is Saguna upasana - contemplating on some Deity or ideal like Sri Rama, Krishna, Hanuman, Ganesha, Shiva, Vishnu, Buddha, Jesus etc

If you have a Lord of devotion on your altar and you are bowing down to Him morning and evening and remembering Him at all times, as though he is just behind you, looking over your shoulders. watching over what you are doing from morning to evening that is upasana. The concept is that He is supervising whatever I do, He sees everything, He is guiding me, leading me - may I always do things in such a way that I get a nod of approval from Him. If you do upasana in this manner, His qualities come automatically to the mind and in due course, you will find that your values have changed. I am not saying that values can be changed over-night. But you have the ideal in front of you and remember it continuously.

Slowly these values will get fixed in your mind, your values have changed and the pattern of thoughts in your mind changes. When the pattern of thoughts changes, the texture and quality of your performance change.

Some people say that this upasana is mere superstition, like some Guru telling that if you go to a Shiva temple and pray regularly, your problems will be solved. But if you think over it, you will find that it is the faith which you have in the Guru's words that has been responsible in quietening the mind and making it more dynamic. When your mind is calmed, your actions will be more sensible and intelligent; your actions and reactions will thus be right. What has actually happened is that you yourself have changed and have met the problem successfully.

So we can say that ethical and moral principles have to be followed in every profession. An individual who has been living such values will be conserving mental energy. Any work done by him will be excellent. Higher and nobler values of life will integrate your personality. Wrong values will bring about disintegration. A disintegrated personality cannot cope with problems or properly meet situations as they come. Once you are integrated, nothing disturbs you. You are able to handle any situation with calmness.

So friends, in the world of constant change, you must learn to keep your balance. This balance will come from your mental quality. The quality of the mind is determined by the values of life. You hold on to hale and healthy values of life. Nothing can disturb you. Under all circumstances, you will be at the top of the world ruling and controlling over the situation, smiling away through the bumps of life. Life itself becomes a sport, a game to be enjoyed at all times!