How to Know Priority: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar

Introduction
Sometimes it is easy to know our priority but often it is not. If we are in acute pain, then spontaneously we react. But often there are many things, which clutter our mind and we are at a loss to know our priority. If we learn how to know our priority, then our life becomes more satisfying and more fulfilling. If you are not comfortable with yourself or if you harbor low esteem about yourself, then try the following and live a dignified and fulfilling life.

Steps
1. Evaluate your the degree of happiness in an option in front of you.
2. Ask yourself, which of the options gives you maximally intense satisfaction.
3. Ask yourself which of the options gives you satisfaction that lasts for maximum time.
4. Ask yourself, which of the options gives you satisfaction that can be shared with maximum people.
5. Choose the option that gives you maximally intense satisfaction that lasts for maximum time and can be shared with maximum people.
6. Verify whether your choice is correct by practicing it.
7. If one choice turns out to be wrong then try other choices.
8. This way you can list your choices in order of priority on the basis of the degree of satisfaction you get.
9. Verify these choices and reinforce your findings.

Tips
• Priority is never a fixed phenomenon. From time to time it has to be re-explored and reconfirmed.
• This is because we keep on growing and maturing
• This is also because the environment also keeps on changing.
• To overcome the changing "I" and the "changing environment" and know priority accurately, a simple traditional mediation called NAMASMARAN i.e. remembering the name of God proves useful. It can be done in any condition, in any situation, by any one belonging to any religion and any ideology (even atheist).

Warnings
• Change a priority if it causes harm to yourself or others instantly.
• Try to find out where you went wrong and rectify yourself with the same method described above.