{"id":1155,"date":"2025-08-01T18:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:24:39","slug":"rise-above-the-two-moods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/featured\/rise-above-the-two-moods\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise Above the Two Moods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Receive all things with equanimity<\/em>. Worry less. Laugh more.<\/em> – Swami Sivananda<\/p>\n

In the lessons of Vedanta there are only two kinds of moods – joy, exultation, exhilaration… or grief, depression. There is joy and five minutes later there is depression – the currents alternate. They belong to the sad Urmis experiencing the six waves, i.e. grief, delusion, hunger, thirst, decay and death.<\/p>\n

People of gloomy moods attract gloomy thoughts from others and from the Akashic\u00a0 records in the psychic ether.<\/p>\n

Persons with hope, cheerfulness and confidence attract similar thoughts from others. They are always successful in their attempts.<\/p>\n

People with negative moods of depression, anger and hatred do harm to others – and great damage to the thought world.<\/p>\n

Try to eradicate grief, anger, hatred and depression through prayer, meditation, counter thoughts of joy, chanting Om, self inquiry and singing divine songs. There are various causes for depression – cloudy day, associating with evil persons, indigestion, influence of astral spirits and revival of old impressions of depression.<\/p>\n

A liberated being is free from all moods. In Atman – the higher Self – there are no moods, there is only pure consciousness. Identify with the Atman and you will easily destroy all moods.<\/p>\n

There is one good mood – the meditative mood. When this manifests, immediately give up reading, writing, talking and begin to meditate. Watch for this kind of mood – when meditation comes by itself, without effort.<\/p>\n

Laugh and smile.<\/p>\n

Try to be happy always. Happiness is your true nature. The spirit of cheerfulness must be cultivated by all aspirants.<\/p>\n

When you get into a talking mood – practice mouna-silence at once. When you are in a mood of hatred – develop the opposite virtue, love for all and the mood will pass quickly. When you feel selfishness arise – do selfless Karma Yoga work. When you are in the mood of separateness – mix with others, through service, love, kindness and forgiveness. If you feel lazy – do some active work.<\/p>\n

Having mastery over the mind. Free yourself from the world of perceptions and opinions<\/em> so that you may consist of Jnana – experiential wisdom. Though surrounded by pleasurable or painful objects, which disturb the equilibrium of your mind, remain rock like and receive all things with equanimity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Receive all things with equanimity. Worry less. Laugh more. – Swami Sivananda In the lessons of Vedanta there are only two kinds of moods – joy, exultation, exhilaration… or grief, depression. There is joy and five minutes later there is depression – the currents alternate. They belong to the sad Urmis experiencing the six waves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,7],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-1155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-4-paths-of-yoga","8":"category-featured","9":"category-jnana-yoga","10":"tag-swami-sivananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}