On
any particular day, you cannot remain the same person throughout with respect
to your mood, temperament and emotions. You will pass through the day amidst
various changes and that is the fundamental norms of life. At one moment,
something good happens; we feel elated, energetic and jubilant. The next moment,
we crumble with bad information and we
become gloomy. Immediately thereafter, when we are just coming out from the
cloistered phase of despondency, we receive a payment in the mailbox
unexpectedly and we are again energized with a beaming face and address anybody
gleefully at that particular time. Again, during your return from the office to
home, a swanky car from behind almost kisses your car and whisked past making
you enraged and you start mumbling
slangs with a sibilant. Reaching home, you are immediately invited to the
drawing room with a surprise of your son, winning a trophy in school sports. Your
irritating feeling and change in your mood because of the other car and that
driver’s irrational behavior gets
drowned after you observe the accolade
of your son. So, in a day, we find a
variety of moods and emotions playing out and those emotions have an effect on
our behavior. When we get bad information,
some of us are not able to cope up and we get depressed for a longer period of
time. The effect of this bad information keeps us in a sad mood and we lose all
our hope. During this phase, we torture us either by working more or get
addicted to smoking or drinking or simply sleeping and whittling away the
time. By taking the path of drug
addiction, some want to get relieved of their pain with a feeling that they
will never be happy. But one thing is clear that the bad and the good period
are a cyclic formation and governed by working pattern of life. A bad phase
will be followed by a good one and this process is bound to be continued
indefinitely. One must know how to
surmount and have patience to do so. The
common people are the most victims of the bad phase as they are emotionally
very much distressed and imbalance and in this situation, behave like an
imbecile. Because of their less assertiveness, some are not able to cross the
barriers of the bad phase easily and are sloughed in distress for a long
time. If you compare us with the saints
and monks, you will find how they are different. One must admit they are also after all human
beings. The only difference is that
saints consider that the soul is eternal and changeless. Life is like a drama;
curtain will up and go down. It is a
period of some defined years, but the soul is the silent watcher and observing
all the incidents being performed by us.
Sometimes,
we see happy periods and some other times, we feel very sad. In this way, we always feel the ups and downs
and the cyclic norms of good and bad in our lives. Sitting in the room with an idle mindset, if
you want to solve the mysterious ways of life and think why various pleasant
and unpleasant things happen, you won’t be able to reach any conclusion. Your
instinct will provide you an answer what are the good things and what are the
bad, but how you can control and take
remedial actions, no one will be able to tell you. You have to support yourself
by working religiously and rigorously. In this process, you will face many
constraints. If you always want to be
happy and not want to face any sorrow, it is not possible in worldly affairs. You
may be a very pious, firm believer of God and His power and then also, you
cannot guarantee that you will be always happy.
Happiness and sorrow are the two sides of a coin.
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Of
course in some people’s life, sorrow is more and blissfulness is less. But by your perseverance, patience, affinity
for spirit and tenacity for working hard with integrity, you can convert your
sorrow in happiness to some extent. Our
life is full of illusion. One can compare the same with the sky. One day, the
sky is clear. Then a dark cloud hovers the sky, making the sun disappear and
its light gets pale. Then the dark cloud passes away and the sky is clear. In a
similar way, our lives are prone to many opportunities and constraints and one
needs to be constantly monitoring the same for the betterment. The bad and good
periods which will appear and disappear.
How you tackle it, depends on your caliber. Our approach to life must be
to accept everything with calmness. The revealing fact is that our true self is
the soul. The soul, a traveler in the
physical world wears a body and a mind
and make us to experience the nature of our existence. Life is a theatre. We flock here to play our roles. Once the
roles are over, we go back to our origin from where we appear. As the play progresses, there will be so much
so dramatization of various events conforming to our roles. We will have happy events and sad
events. We have to take these events as
one after another like cloud overcast the sky and gets bright. Nobody likes to be gloomy for ever, but it
will vanish. We have to take them as a
passing phase and do our duty. We should not be very sensitive and get rid of
our responsibilities. We need to have perseverance, so that sad events are
moved away. Instead of reacting
proactively to various events, we must remain subdued. As the play of our life which comprises happy
and bad events evolve, we must show our calmness. Automatically, they will not bother. We must focus our endeavors to the blessings
of God and spend a certain amount of time reminiscing Him every day. We must be seekers and not the getters and
then only, we can experience joy and mirth.
We must understand the fact that clouded sky will be again brighter and
so, we must perform all our duties accordingly and accept both the periods of
good and bad considering the same as God’s wish and advice.
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