THE INNER VOICE

What should you do in your life? Life is nothing but summation of every moment you live .So the meaning of what you should do in life boils down to doing what you should do at any given moment in life. Sometimes it is easy to decide what to do. Like you should run from the house if it is on fire. Every cell, every instinct of your body directs you to doing that. No problem in choosing what you should do. But not at every point of life the decision making is so simple. Suppose you are attracted to two persons at the same time but you have to marry one. Or you have two job offers at the same time, and you have to choose one. Or the stake can be even greater. To marry or not to marry. To live and not to live.

You may or may not have time to think before you arrive at a decision. When you have time to think the general theory is that you should think about pros and cons before decision making. If the pros in one case is far greater than the other then the decision making is easy. But sometimes there is no time to think. Sometimes pros and cons are almost equal. Also sometimes it is difficult to judge what is pro and what is con. The reason is clarity of mind is not same all the time. When you are calm and collected your reasoning power is far greater than when you are not.

So what to do? The thing to do is to listen to your inner voice.

 Now what is this inner voice? Basically something in your consciousness will tell you to do or not do a certain thing. If you try to do something sometimes you will be filled with doubt. At first glance it may be the easiest and most profitable thing to do. But somehow you will feel bad if you try to do that. Suddenly your whole body and mind will be full of negative feelings, with negative vibes that what you are doing is not exactly right thing to do. On the other hand you may be drawn to do something very unprofitable and difficult at first glance but somehow you will feel good if you do that. Let me illustrate. Take the first example of choosing a marriage partner. It may so happen one is far more better looking than the other and far more well to do. You will perhaps be drawn to marry this person. However inner voice may tell you to do the other thing, to go for the worse looking and financially less endowed person. The right thing is to do what the inner voice says. Because although initially it may seem a wrong decision  in the basis of counting pros an cons, if you go by the inner voice suddenly your whole being will be lighted up with positive feeling, you will profoundly more confident and more at ease with yourself. Your whole being will begin to support your decision and the successful aftermath of your decision will be guaranteed. Subsequently at some point the hidden justification of doing that thing will become very clear to you.

It is hard to explain the inner voice. Actually it is the inner wisdom of every being.  It is the extract of all wisdom one has gathered through one’s genes, education, experience and thought process.

When you start doing a thing which is supported by that inner wisdom every part of your being starts to work in resonance and you feel happy in a very profound way.

I have said in the beginning that the thing to do when a house is on fire is to run away from it. Well, sometimes not. It may so happen that when the house is on fire some one else is trapped and burning in front of you. Your inner voice may tell you to rescue that person first even at the expense of risking or even sacrificing your own life. Even then you should listen to your inner voice. Because if you do not your life will become worse than death with remorse and guilt. It is wiser even to die than to live if your inner voice tells you so.