…there are four important factors that influence our mind
- Place
- Time
- Past Impressions
- Company or Associations
Time is another factor – You might have noticed your mind has great influence by time. Ancient people from the vedic tradition have calculated it. Once every 12 years the jupiter is in the 8th house of your chart, your head goes crazy, not for the whole year, but few months, people will have a lot of doubts, nothing would seem to work.
Wisdom will be clouded. And similarly when someone has a lot of obstacles and success does not happen to them easily, it is said that jupiter is on the 8th house. So time has these sort of influences on our mind. Anyone’s behavior cannot be taken out of context – it should be seen with the context of space and time.
If your time is good your worst enemy will be friendly, if your time is bad your best friend behaves like an enemy to you. Instead of pointing fingers at anyone the wise people said – kalaya tasmai namaha – I surrender to time! I bow down to time!
There are some places where you are not affected by time and you can influence the time and that is meditation. When you meditate or chant you impact the time in a positive manner. You can reduce the negative impacts of time.
The past impressions have an impact on the mind. Awareness, alertness, knowledge and meditation help erase the past impressions.
Company or Associations – The people and events you are associated with do influence your mind. In the company of some people things appear very bright and positive. In the company of some other people, the whole world seems like a nasty place and everything seems negative. One is being part of a solution and the other is magnifying the problem. So the company you keep has an impact on your mind.