Tuesday, May 3, 2016

On gratitude and suffering





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In IIdg class giving example of ‘getting a bus no. 16’ (hope you all remember) I clearly explain how inspite of every sentence being right is actually wrong as per your requirement. We don’t change words to please the bus, but to fulfill our desire. Hope you all are with me here!





Why is it important to word it correctly? Because you get what you ask! Remember that and that is what is called as “your karma coming back to you”. So, inspite of being in pain, (since I assume you want to come out of present situation) sit quietly and do let go meditation and then sit in meditation and seek answer for question ‘where did I go wrong?’ you’ll see exactly ‘the words’ that you uttered which is forcing you to face today’s situation. That understanding is ‘accepting that you are responsible for where you are”. Unless you do it, you’ll end up feeling victimized and generate hatred for people you feel are responsible for your situation.


Next what I can infer from this situation is that out of so many students – most of whom are software people only couple of them responded. None of the others are grateful, don’t and can’t come to aid when needed and that too for the blog that I write to them. Blah, blah, blah. I can go on and on in this line of thought, when actually the cause can be something like a. since the request was in comments section, no one noticed b. because it was addressed to a person, others didn’t pitch in or any other. But an angry and expectant mind will not see any of these reasons. And it will take me on a journey no less painful than ‘hell’ and I cry and complain that ‘my students are useless, selfish etc’.


But this is a right way of reading this situation i.e., I got response immediately and exactly the way I wanted, so thank you reiki, thank you Guruji. I can feel grateful to Vaibhav and bless him for such good response. Why? Is it not his duty to do? NO. A big No!

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