Mystic Mistake

It feels quite encouraging to find someone asking a question, the importance of which may not have occured to that asker, to of that reaching beyond the scope of the situation refered to in the question!!

Yes, people have been asking this “why” which spans over many lifetimes. Those famous verses of Aadi Shankara “Punarapi Jananam, punarapi maranam...” (Bhaja Govindam), is adequate enough to demonstrate the importance of this question.

Be that as it may, I would find it practical to begin from where we are, right now, and thus, went ahead to give a practical suggestion.

(Incidentally, the timing of this question-answer seems mystic too! I happen to be undergoing a rare process within, which may equip me later to maintain a dynamic equanimity in the face of situations, where actions or inactions do not matter at all!.... I would call it a process, because, the entire experience is beyond the reach of words, and somehow, seems to (me, to) relate to many dimensions.... yes... quite difficult to even believe that such experiences are possible at all! Quite a difficult phase, and hopefully enormously rewarding, if one were to climb over it. The only excuse that I can offer for mentioning this here at all, is that it does relate to the question “why do we repeat the same mistake again and again......” .... this process, hopefully, would afford a 'climbing over' from repetition of a significant mistake!)

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http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111105232642AAFZyoi

Why does a person make a same mistake again and again?

for example-Not studying for a Very difficult exam,when the person know he has failed once by not studying, and STILL doesn't study...and he know the consequences...(and the person is very much capable of passing)And the person wants to do it,even though he finds it boring.I mean this is maddness!!

Is this lack of passon?how does one increase it?
Or some disorder?what can one do to correct it?
Or is it some disorder

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it is depressing for that person!

thanks.

My answer:

It is because we "Mis-take" the priority.
When we become 'addicted' to a life-style, we lose our alertness, awareness, and our mind is completely overtaken by a pattern of response to a situation.
It is not a 'dis-order'. It is a "miss" of the correct order.
The moment we think of this as a disorder, we try to look at it as some 'medical' problem, and get rid of the feeling of 'response-ability' (not even accountability).
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To quickly overcome this lack of clarity about worthy priorities, a person should start with food habits, breathing pattern, situation around (healthy, supportive surrounding, people, ambiance, etc.)
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If a person is strongly bonded to a negative pattern for too long, the process of reversal is tough and time-consuming, but it is worth the effort... always.

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Please see, even a small child, if it learns a wrong spelling, it repeats that wrong spelling first, and then as an 'after-thought' that child 'corrects' oneself. So teachers (good teachers), parents, take care to teach a child the correct way, slowly, firmly , clearly, the first time itself.