Suppose a person while driving a car starts fiddling with electronic gadgets or take out his phone to text someone or starts looking outside the window at billboards and misses his attention for driving then he may crash. Everyday, distracted driving kills more than 15 people and injures more than 1200 in US. Distraction doesn't happen only while driving but at all times if we are not careful enough about giving attention. A student during preparation leaves attends parties and movies then he may fail in exams. A little distraction while cooking may burn hand and there are so many other examples of distraction.
Distraction is a thing, a thought, a person which prevent us from concentrating on our specific goal. Distractions sucks away our time, energy and money. Absence of focus causes distraction. There are primarily 2 types of distractions, external and internal. People, things or for that matter any object which takes away our focus comes under external distractions. Internal distractions are created by our mind which is preloaded with past conditionings, impressions and thoughts which are again results of external distractions. A thing which doesn't lead to our goal is considered to be only a distraction.
Now someone may say my distraction is not so serious, I am aware of my duties and goal, I just get little bit diverted by my Facebook, what's app, twitter notifications, how big destruction it can make?? But please take not that whatever we do or whatever we see it's image is formed in the mind in the form of impressions. These impressions can't be deleted easily, they last for long. And whenever we are in important work they just pop up within mind, for eg. a person siting in office may start thinking about movie scenes, or student in class start imagining about fun in picnic, that may lead to his work efficiency and consume his time and energy without productivity. And again to get mind back to its work it's a bit tedious task. So ask yourself is this helping me in my purpose if not then don't let it consume your energy and mind space which is already filled with so much junk.
Not only our material life but also spiritual life gets affected by distractions. Lord krishna talks about the distractions due to visaya, the sense objects which causes a destruction of our spiritual life(Gita 2.62-63). There were so many in the past(Viswamithra, Saubhari, King Bharata etc) gives a proof of that. Just like thought or thing may become cause of fatal accident similarly these sense objects may distract us on our sojourn towards spiritual perfection causing a spiritual death.
By Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
www.iskcondesiretree.com
Distraction is a thing, a thought, a person which prevent us from concentrating on our specific goal. Distractions sucks away our time, energy and money. Absence of focus causes distraction. There are primarily 2 types of distractions, external and internal. People, things or for that matter any object which takes away our focus comes under external distractions. Internal distractions are created by our mind which is preloaded with past conditionings, impressions and thoughts which are again results of external distractions. A thing which doesn't lead to our goal is considered to be only a distraction.
Now someone may say my distraction is not so serious, I am aware of my duties and goal, I just get little bit diverted by my Facebook, what's app, twitter notifications, how big destruction it can make?? But please take not that whatever we do or whatever we see it's image is formed in the mind in the form of impressions. These impressions can't be deleted easily, they last for long. And whenever we are in important work they just pop up within mind, for eg. a person siting in office may start thinking about movie scenes, or student in class start imagining about fun in picnic, that may lead to his work efficiency and consume his time and energy without productivity. And again to get mind back to its work it's a bit tedious task. So ask yourself is this helping me in my purpose if not then don't let it consume your energy and mind space which is already filled with so much junk.
Not only our material life but also spiritual life gets affected by distractions. Lord krishna talks about the distractions due to visaya, the sense objects which causes a destruction of our spiritual life(Gita 2.62-63). There were so many in the past(Viswamithra, Saubhari, King Bharata etc) gives a proof of that. Just like thought or thing may become cause of fatal accident similarly these sense objects may distract us on our sojourn towards spiritual perfection causing a spiritual death.
By Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
www.iskcondesiretree.com
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