Do you love your ‘self’?

Do you love your ‘self’?

What a silly question. If I do not love myself do you think I love you? First of all I love my self then my wife my children my parents my friends and relatives and so on the chain continues. Then what is the care that you take for it? I use branded attire for its elegance, costly scent for fragrance, rich food for its health enjoyment and entertainment for its mirth and so on. Suppose on a rainy day you took out your bike for a warranted ride. While you were going a lorry crossed you and spewed the muddy water on the road by its tiers. Your bike and you were dunked in that. What is your reaction? You will chase the lorry to catch hold of that fellow by accelerating the speed of my bike. I will catch hold and thrash that fellow.

Of course here are two possibilities. Suppose you have to go straight for your task and he turned left at the cross roads. You are already worried and now you are coupled with a dilemma. The other is, as you said you will thrash that fellow. In either case your mind is filled with anger, emotion and worry. But your thought process is more inclined on the external damage. Internally the incident is reacting on your brain, heart, nervous system, on kidneys lever etc. Your anger .with your children, a scuffle with your wife, a disgusting incident, hurting your ego, in the office. All these events make you much much worried. The chemicals used in your body spray may spoil your lungs in the long run.

With all these conditions making revolutions round your head do you think you are taking care of yourself and you love yourself. All these thing ultimately lead you to cancer, diabetes, blood pressure, margin and so on. How much vulnerable you are to your retrogress on the earth you determine.

So loving yourself means taking care of your emotion, your passion for unwanted things and your anger. This will enable you to keep yourself fit on an ongoing basis. There is a small poem in Sumathi Shataka Telugu advising you as to how you should spend your life.

తన కోపమె తన శత్రవు

తన శాంతమె తనకు రక్ష దయ చుట్టంబౌ

తన సంతోషమె స్వర్గము

తన దుఃఖమె నరకమండ్రు తథ్యము సుమతీ!

Your anger is your foe, your tranquility is your guard, your solicitude is your relative, your happiness is your heaven and your melancholy is your sin (Naraka).

Ego is the rout cause of all the evils that affects both the body and mind. You have to shun your EGO of all kinds.

This solely depends on eschewing: 1.your food habits like taking food outside, craziness for junk food, consumption, at home, of over-refined oils and irregular eating habits without proper exercise. This is only possible by self-control. That depends on your meditation and that is more dependent on your Satva guna. That is directly proportional to your day-today and dietary habits. Lessening your rajasic and tamasic qualities make you to think before you resort to do.

Hence when you love yourself you can keep fit to serve your house your society and your country.

Swasti