Change your world by changing your biased perspectives....

In this world, we find people complaining about many types of misfortunes and feeling euphoric on insignificant occasions of pleasure. There are habitual pessimists blaming everyone for everything. Expressions like “This world is very bad”; “Times are bad”; “Honesty is a virtue of the past”; “Religion has been buried for good”- are very commonly bandied about.

 

If someone is in the habit of repeating such phrases, he is expressing only the impressions of his mind. Man has systematically built the image of his unhappy world by interacting with pessimistic people around himself.
If someone is in the habit of complaining about lack of opportunities for work, widespread unemployment, failure of good industries and non-availability of good jobs, take it for granted that his ideosphere is full of thick clouds of indolence, torpor and incompetence. This he finds reflected everywhere in the world.
If someone sees this world as full of self-centered hypocrites or sinners or evil and uncivilized persons, infer that the individual himself has an abundance of corresponding negative attributes in his own self. This world is like a magnificent large mirror, which faithfully reflects your ideosphere.

As mentioned earlier, elements of this world precipitate three types of qualitative attributes (Sat, Raj and Tam) in life. Whichever attribute dominates in the personality of an individual, it attracts its counterpart from the world at large.
Wherever a short-tempered person goes, he finds someone to quarrel with.
One who has hatred in mind will always find out an object to be hated.
To an unfair person everyone appears, ill-mannered, uncivil and worthy of punishment.
Whenever an individual interacts with someone, he/she views the latter in the same light with which his own personality is coloured. A person of impeccable morality rarely comes across a woman of fallen virtue. Scholars do get avenues for right information. Seekers of truth always find opportunities for quenching their thirst for wisdom. Enlightened souls have always been living on this earth.
Wherever they live, environment around them attracts virtuous persons. However, it is not our intention to prove that there is absolutely no evil on this earth and whatever good or bad we find here is totally a reflection of our own field of view. It has been repeatedly stated that in this world, good, average and bad (Sat, Raj and Tam) coexist and one receives what one gets tuned into.
There is that well known story of Rishi Dattatreya. As long as he continued to compare the bright and dark aspects of life he remained troubled and unhappy. When he concentrated only on the positive aspects of creation, he found that in this world all living creatures were sacred and adorable. He realized that he could learn something from each of them.

 

It is said that he acquired his spiritual insights from twenty-four beings (teachers). Amongst these were insignificant creatures like dog, cat, jackal, spider, fly, vulture, crow etc. He felt that no animate being was despicable, that each one had within it, the soul, which is a spark of that Super-Being, that each was a link in the spiraling chain of evolution.
When we make ourselves receptive to virtues, the field of vision changes. Shortcomings are overlapped by excellence, wickedness by goodness and prevalence of unhappiness by abundance of things of joy.
The world that we earlier thought to be full of wicked people now appears rich with decent, well-mannered, altruistic and aspiring persons. Each individual has his own personal perspective of people, places, things and events. On account of the confusion of perspective, one finds the world bad, whereas the other sees only goodness in it.
Throw away the cobwebs of your old biased perspectives. Use your third eye of wisdom to see through the illusions of your old world. Let your present wicked world (Kaliyug) destroy itself and in its place create your own Golden Age (Satyug) in your inner psyche. Stop being deluded by the darkness of the world (Tamogun) and focus your vision at the brightness (Satogun). You will find the world changing into heaven. When you change your field of vision, you will find your disobedient son/ daughter changing into an obedient one. Your worst enemies, quarrelsome wife and hypocritic neighbours will appear totally different. Actually, the factor of negativity in the character or behaviour of a person is usually very small.
-Source The Absolute Law of Karma (Received with gratitude from Govind Bhagwat)