How to Understand Others’ Sentiments
How to Understand Others’ Sentiments
Life would become even more beautiful if we start understanding the feelings of others. Such ability to share and understand the emotions of others is known as ‘empathy’. It involves self-awareness and this virtue is crucial because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can respond wisely to the situation.
This will make our day-to-day life more easygoing.
Now, we can become able to understand others’ sentiments if we have a subtle mind. Intelligence will emerge in us and we’d become able to grasp delicate matters of life when our minds turn into a subtle entity.
Understand Delicate Matters of Life
The Bhagavad Gita teaches how to make the mind subtle and how to make it fine, so that we may easily understand delicate matters of life. In that case, we also become able to understand the sentiments of others and also understand what is going on in the inner world of a person.
Ordinarily, our mind grasps just the physical world. It is just a physical mind; through it, we understand only those things that are visible to our eyes. But, what’s going on in the mind, what’s happening in the surrounding, what’s going on in a subtle world, we can’t grasp them with such a gross mind.
Mostly, people live at the level of the body only. They only think about the body. There are such people who live only at the level of the body. They eat, drink and take a rest. There are no other things for them, neither any knowledge, nor any artistic attribute, nor any other aspect enhancing their intelligence or knowledge.
Touch the Pranic Level
We can rise above the level of the physical form and start touching the Pranic level, through concentrating on our breath and practicing Pranayam. During that time our mind begins to understand the Pranic energy that lies within us. Now the mind understands the energy level that is present around us. Such a man would deeply understand what type of energy is present in fellow human beings- positive or negative.
Now such a person comprehends finer things instantly. But when the mind is involved just in the materialistic world, such a mind always thinks about how much wealth has been acquired, how to create wealth anyhow. The mind of that person remains gross. The person whose life would focus just on money and the materialistic world and in acquiring wealth, the person with such a gross mind can never touch the Pranic level.
So, we have to develop ourselves at the level of the mind. We should not waste our life just by sticking to the materialistic desires and their attainment. Rather, we should try to touch the Pranic level through meditation and Pranayam in order to possess a subtle mind and get able to understand others’ sentiments and feelings. This will make our day-to-day life a lot easier.
