Finding Our Own Path In Pain

The way we inflict pain to our souls

Pain is an inevitable feeling everyone has to suffer. It should rather be said that pain is an inevitable feeling everyone must suffer. As we grow we understand this but unfortunately we start living with it. Everyday, we don't do what our heart wants to do, we feel pain, resentment for ourselves and a disgust for what we said we would do but we didn't do. I believe these moments when we loose our integrity are the moments we give a part of our soul to the devil. And slowly bad things creeps into out minds and we lose our morality. Swami Anubhavananda said it in the given example,he said in the infamous incident when Draupadi, a woman character in epic Mahabharata, is disrobed and the people there were discussing whether it is right thing to do or not. That is a loss of morality. It is quite like the debate shows on TV, continuously they keep on talking crap , diverting from the main topics and always in nearly all the episodes, except few where the image or status quo of participating people or politicians isn't threatened, there is no proper conclusion reached . I mean , grow up there are people dying for every moment of delay in the decision and you are deciding on how will the coming decision will help you earn more?I mean, grow up! Instead of fighting for what is wrong and eradicating it, I never understood , why so called grown ups fight for who is wrong.

Well anyway, we can't change people unless they are ready to be taught. The cup should be emptied for . such moments. Then the information can be filled in.

Swami Anubhavannda says our life or our being has two aspects which makes us who we are. One is our actions and the second is our knowledge. Consider them to be two distinct lines emerging from one same point , that point is our true self. We know as we go away from the origin the distance between them grows and conversely we can when the distance increases between the lines two much , means we have come away from the origin. Similarly, when our actions are not directed according to our knowledge we drift away from our true self and eventually we come so far that we couldn't see our true self, the indomitable and perfect one as we continue to disobey our knowledge. That's when life starts taking toll of us.

Find your own way out...

In manager's text book there is one very awesome story. It says, once a company fell into a situation so bad that the company was about to be locked down. There was no way out and the doom's day was inevitable. The management board couldn't find a way. The star studded CEO s, CFO s were helpless like never. Finally, they called upon few workers of their company in the board room.They were people with no power making decisions for the company. they were given this true situation as a hypothetical one , and surprisingly the workers came up with the answer in matter of an hour or two. The Management Board was astound with the ease with which the answer was found by them. They were finally asked how? They said ," How does it matter to us? We were just asked for suggestion to a fantasy. So we gave it."

Often we fall in a positions where we feel that our problems are the biggest and we can never find a way out of these events. But if someone else was in similar situation we will easily, in a jiffy, would give them the path and the obvious solution.

This gives a beautiful idea of standing apart from oneself when in moments of anguish. The idea say, we ourselves stand apart from the problem and see at the problem as if someone else's and judge the event and find an apt solution. This helps because it never takes into consideration the emotional turmoil the person is passing through.By doing so, the bleak moments will brighten up and the path will be laid clear.

Try it. See if it works...

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