Monday, March 31, 2008

Belief and Prejudice

It may sound unrealistic, but I feel our belief and prejudice are governed to a large extent by our own ego and envy and distort the true nature of information.

It is very difficult to control ego and envy and very few people can achieve it. The reason being ego and envy are contagious diseases. The nearby person can sense ego and envy if not in words, in face and actions, no matter how you try to hide it. The person sensing it despises it, but ironically, these two evils get rooted in his own mind.

It is necessary therefore, to ignore ego and envy of other person rather than react to it, as the reaction itself develops self-ego.

One should be strict about himself but lineant about others. He should understand that people in general have ego and envy naturally as inherent characteristic.

Man always justifies his thinking and actions. We like those people who strengthen our ego, agree with our views and support our actions and console us for our failures by blaming others or the factors not in our hand. But we should understand that it is their strategy and in no way reflects their true feelings.

It is more important what others say about you rather than you say about yourself. Others, while talking to you will never expose what they really feel about you. They reveal their feelings about you to third person considering what he may like to hear. These are only strategies adopted by people to keep good relations with others.

Astrologers refine this normal phenomena to effective technique for creating trust and belief in the mind of customer. The mind reading and not star position based calculations give them this capability.

Prejudice is the environment created by previous experiences. It distorts the information that comes in mind through our senses. If prejudice is intentionally created ( nurtured) by developing habit through hard work like learning by formal education, the information gets blended into knowledge, but if it is through false promises and temptations, it turns into belief. Information, awareness, advertisement and propaganda can be considered as steps in developing prejudice.

Thus ego and envy of persons can be manipulated to change their thinking and behavior of persons to one’s advantage and therefore, it is necessary to examine its impact on information received before forming opinion about anything or any person.

Happiness lies in heart. It depends on how clean and pure, you keep your mind, control ego and envy.

Religions have developed a novel and effective way to remove ego and envy by assigning undisputable supremacy to God declaring it to be representation of pure mind. They also invariably emphasize that God can be found every person’s heart, if he can remove the darkness created by ego and envy.

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