“Feed your mind wisely. What you nourish will flourish.” That is the quote of the day from Gaur Gopal Das, the monk, motivational speaker and former electrical engineer, as published by the Times of India.
Das, who left a job at Hewlett Packard in 1996 to join ISKCON, compares the mind to a living garden. Whatever gets steady attention usually grows stronger. Feed it learning, kindness, discipline and hope, and a person is likely to turn out thoughtful and steady. Feed it negativity, fear, comparison and constant distraction, and those grow too.
Most people, he points out, treat mental strength as a matter of willpower. Input counts as well. What we read, watch, listen to and repeat to ourselves matters more than we tend to admit, and over time it affects confidence, stress, focus and how we treat other people.
What we copy
The thought starts in childhood. Children pick up language, a way of walking, table manners, expressions and hand movements from whatever they see around them. Adults are no different. Our interests, habits, friends and the kind of content we consume online shape what grows in our minds and who we become.
The feed pushes back
Das says the online world makes this harder. There is too much information, and social media algorithms influence even career choices. Watch one category of videos, reels or images and the feed sends more of the same.
Modern life makes it easy to take in a lot of information and very little wisdom. Content can keep the mind busy without feeding it. The result, according to the Times of India’s account, is mental clutter: restlessness, impatience and a feeling of being emotionally drained. Das asks people to stop and ask whether their attention is helping them grow or just keeping them occupied.
Das was born in 1973 in Vambori, Maharashtra, and holds an electrical engineering diploma from Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology in Pune. He published Life’s Amazing Secrets in 2018. His social media accounts have more than 17 million followers combined.
Sources
- Quote of the day by Gaur Gopal Das: âFeed your mind wisely. What you nourish will flourishâ; What an engineer turned monk has to say on mindfully guarding our content choices
- Gaur Gopal Das – Wikipedia
