In our life we have to face adverse situations many a time and we become disturbed by them to varying extent. But do we get benefited in any way by loosing our cool? None. In fact we loose our ability to think right and are likely to take wrong decisions or indecision which ultimately harm us, our families and society. Instead if we maintain our cool, we will be able to see things in right perspective and take right decision and action using all our resources.
Adverse situations are for our good!
Let's understand that this world is not created by our enemy. God, the creator of world is our greatest well wisher and as such he can never design or do anything with a purpose to harm us. Hence let us believeb thoroughly that any adverse situation is for our good and never for our harm. This belief itself will prevent us from losing our cool and allow us to think right for finding the right solution or best course of action. Adverse situations in fact make us think and act for finding the right solutions. They work wonders for our creativity and bring out the best in us. In any method of learning the learner is given more and more difficult problems to solve in order to increase his abilities till he becomes perfect. In the same way life provides us with difficult situations to bring out the best in us. Also it is mostly because of adverse things that there have been so many good inventions which have made our lives so easy and enjoyable.
No one else but we ourselves are responsible for the adverse events happening with us!
The law of Karma says that as you sow , so you reap. In our past we must have done some good or bad which manifest themselves as good or bad situation in our life. Hence instead of getting sad we should be happy in bad situation thinking that we are getting free of our past bad karma.
Never blame others for your misfortune!
It is very common that in any adverse situation we immediately start blaming someone else for that. But it follows from above that others only become a medium for our learning or for absolving us of our bad karma. Hence instead of hating others, we must be extremely thankful to them for becoming a medium for our good. This has another great benefit. When we have no ill feeling about others, they also have good feeling about us and soon start thinking and doing good for us.
Whatever is happening will pass away!
Another great fact to remember is that good or bad whatever is happening is very temporary and very soon will pass away. There is nothing in this world which is permanent. The only permanent thing is we ourselves as pure consciousness who remain unchanged witness of every thing else which is changing. So why be affected by these changing things. Instead we should enjoy watching them as we watch movies and do not consider them real.
Practice with patience and faith is the key to success!
Mere reading the above will never make us perfect. We need to practice the above thoughts in real life situations without falling prey to our spontaneous reactions which are so deep rooted in our minds that it is almost impossible to get rid of them. But to be successful we have to practice the above thoughts very consciously and very slowly we will start making progress and once we master this, no adverse situation will be able to disturb our mental peace and strength.
This is no mean achievement!
Achieving this ability is the greatest achievement of one's life. Every one wants to remain always happy in life. But life is such that bad situations will keep coming. If you have mastered the art of remaining happy in such situations then you can be always happy be it good time or bad time. The person who can maintain equanimity is the greatest yogi and perfect devotee of God. Let's all aim and strive to achieve this. Let's strive and find guru like Saint Asaram ji Bapu, whose main teaching is to achieve this equanimity. Also this is no different from the teaching of Gita where Krishna teaches Arjun how not to be affected by adversity and perform his duty with calm.
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