We may have seen some crudely made videos
wherein the sound and the action are out of sync. Suppose a fight between a
hero and a villain is being depicted. Even before the hero’s fist hits the
villain’s jaw, we hear the sound of the blow and of the bone cracking. An
out-of-sync recording can make a serious scene seem humorous or even
ridiculous.
What is frivolous in reel-life can be
disastrous in real life. Important things can go dangerously wrong when our
thoughts are out of sync with our actions. When our mind is uncontrolled, being
buffeted by various desires and worries, then we end up thinking of things
other than what we are doing. Indeed, the mind tends to think of everything
except the thing that we are doing now. Aggravatingly, the mind thinks a lot
about that thing after we have done it – and done it wrong due to the mind’s
fickleness. Pertinently, the Bhagavad-gita (06.34) cautions that the mind is
restless, infatuated, forceful and obstinate – akin to a stormy wind. Due to
the mind’s restlessness, we are often active without being productive. Worse
still, we may be active and be destructive instead of productive.
Spiritual wisdom brings our thoughts and
actions in sync by revealing to us an inner center of stability and strength.
When we understand that we are at our core indestructible soul, we calm down.
When we further understand that God is ultimately in control and that we are
his parts whoa are meant to do our best in his service, we can restrain the
restless mind and focus on the task at hand, leaving the past and future in his
competent hands.
By thus syncing our thoughts with our
actions, spirituality helps us transform our activity into productivity.
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