Gita on How to Keep Your Home’s Energy Positive - Even Around Negative People
Riya Kumari | Apr 14, 2025, 23:58 IST
Let’s get real. There’s a special kind of spiritual exhaustion that comes from trying to keep your living room zen while someone’s out here radiating the emotional equivalent of a parking ticket. You light a candle, someone blows it out. You play Lata Mangeshkar or Frank Ocean (whatever your inner peace sounds like), and someone counters it with the hum of judgment and unsolicited advice.
There will always be noise. The question is—will it enter your home, or just knock at the door?
If you’ve ever tried to keep your space peaceful while someone else is radiating negativity like it’s their part-time job, you know it’s not easy. You water the plants, open the windows, let the sun in—but someone’s energy still feels like a thundercloud in your hallway. It’s not always dramatic. Sometimes it’s just a sigh. A cold tone. A never-ending stream of complaints that fills up the air like dust. So what do you do? Move out? Tune out? Scream into a cushion? Or… you go inward. Because that’s what the Bhagavad Gita teaches. Not to run from the world, but to remain untouched by it.
1. Your energy is your responsibility. No one else will protect it for you
When Arjuna stood overwhelmed on the battlefield, Krishna didn’t tell him to wait for better circumstances. He told him to act from the inside out—to find clarity within and let that guide his actions, no matter what chaos surrounded him. “A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires—that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still—can alone achieve peace.” (Gita 2.70)
In everyday terms? You may not control the noise, the moods, or the sharp words—but you can choose not to absorb them. Your mind, like your home, deserves boundaries.
2. Silence isn’t defeat. It’s spiritual strength
You don’t have to argue. You don’t have to fix them. You don’t even have to explain why you’re not reacting. The Gita calls this equanimity—a calmness that doesn’t depend on others behaving better, but on you knowing better. “One who is equal to friends and enemies… who is free from attachment… is very dear to Me.” (Gita 12.18–19)
What if your stillness is the wisdom someone else needs—but can’t yet understand? Let them misread you. You’re not here to be interpreted. You’re here to be at peace.
3. Clean your home like it’s a prayer, not a chore
The Gita doesn’t speak about mopping floors, but it speaks a lot about sattva—the quality of purity, harmony, and lightness. This isn’t just about a clean room. It’s about removing what’s stale: old resentments, unspoken irritation, the energy left behind by arguments, by restlessness, by heavy thoughts. Light a lamp not just for decoration, but to declare: this is a space of light.
A clean home doesn’t make everything better—but it reminds you that clarity is possible. Even when life feels foggy.
4. Do good, even when it feels pointless. Especially then.
When you’re around someone who constantly complains or drains the room, it’s easy to shrink. You stop playing music. You stop lighting candles. You even stop smiling. But the Gita says—act, not for reward, but because action itself refines the soul. “You have a right to perform your duties, but never to the fruits of your actions.” (Gita 2.47)
You make tea because you like warm things. You arrange flowers because beauty matters. You keep things soft, even if others are hard. That is spiritual resilience. That is devotion in daily life.
5. Don’t try to change people. Change how deeply they can touch you
This isn’t about emotional walls—it’s about inner space. The Gita speaks again and again about the self as untouched, whole, eternal. The soul is not stained by other people’s emotions. You feel them, but you don’t have to carry them.
Let their unhappiness pass through the room, not stay in your heart.
6. Peace isn’t something you find. It’s something you build
Not in the Himalayas. Not in perfect silence. But here—in this house, in this moment, in this messy, loud, imperfect life. “Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty, abandon attachment, and remain the same in success and failure.” (Gita 2.48)
In other words: light your incense. Take a breath. Do your work. Laugh even when it’s awkward. Love even when it’s difficult. Protect your space not with force, but with grace. Again and again. Not because it’s easy—but because it’s yours.
Let it linger
The world will always be noisy. People will carry their pain into rooms like shadows trailing behind them. But your home is your temple. And your energy? That’s the flame at the center of it. Let the Gita remind you: You don’t have to fight every battle. Sometimes the highest act is simply to not become what you’re surrounded by. And if you do that, quietly, steadily, with love? You’ve already changed everything.
If you’ve ever tried to keep your space peaceful while someone else is radiating negativity like it’s their part-time job, you know it’s not easy. You water the plants, open the windows, let the sun in—but someone’s energy still feels like a thundercloud in your hallway. It’s not always dramatic. Sometimes it’s just a sigh. A cold tone. A never-ending stream of complaints that fills up the air like dust. So what do you do? Move out? Tune out? Scream into a cushion? Or… you go inward. Because that’s what the Bhagavad Gita teaches. Not to run from the world, but to remain untouched by it.
1. Your energy is your responsibility. No one else will protect it for you
In everyday terms? You may not control the noise, the moods, or the sharp words—but you can choose not to absorb them. Your mind, like your home, deserves boundaries.
2. Silence isn’t defeat. It’s spiritual strength
What if your stillness is the wisdom someone else needs—but can’t yet understand? Let them misread you. You’re not here to be interpreted. You’re here to be at peace.
3. Clean your home like it’s a prayer, not a chore
A clean home doesn’t make everything better—but it reminds you that clarity is possible. Even when life feels foggy.
4. Do good, even when it feels pointless. Especially then.
You make tea because you like warm things. You arrange flowers because beauty matters. You keep things soft, even if others are hard. That is spiritual resilience. That is devotion in daily life.
5. Don’t try to change people. Change how deeply they can touch you
Let their unhappiness pass through the room, not stay in your heart.
6. Peace isn’t something you find. It’s something you build
In other words: light your incense. Take a breath. Do your work. Laugh even when it’s awkward. Love even when it’s difficult. Protect your space not with force, but with grace. Again and again. Not because it’s easy—but because it’s yours.