Teachers everybody - Me, My Guru

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At every moment, you’ll be given a choice to be ‘Rama’ or ‘Ravana’. Choose wisely because every choice you make decides your fate and what you receive, whom you meet and what you experience in your life. Don’t envy others at a later day. They are where they are because of their choices. Just the same, you are where you are because of what you choose. What you choose decides who you are ultimately and before you know you’ve sculpted yourself either as Rama or Ravana! Then you declare it was destined that ‘I am to be Ravana’” she fell silent suddenly. She kept staring at the floor and we too went inward to soak all that she just said. Yes, so much seemed repetitive. But it was also true that inspite of it being so; it wasn’t accepted, applied and imbibed in our lives. We left it where we heard it. We were short of accepting ‘who we were yet’. We still found reason to fail, falter in external world. We held our circumstances, family, spouse, society responsible for what we experienced. We still shunned from accepting our role in our destiny.

Acceptance that was the key word and pray what was it?

Acceptance

When we don't accept an undesired event, it becomes *Anger*;
when we accept it, it becomes *Tolerance.*

When we don't accept uncertainty, it becomes *Fear*;
when we accept it, it becomes *Adventure.*

When we don't accept other's bad behaviour towards us, it becomes *Hatred;*
when we accept it, it becomes *Forgiveness.*

When we don't accept other's Success, it becomes *Jealousy;* when we accept it, it becomes *Inspiration.*

Acceptance is the key to handling life well – now and ever!

How she saw that in Salman’s interview was beyond me! But am I glad she does and then passes it to us! If after repeated lecture, we still were where we were, I shudder to think our positions if we were left to go by her. If her hope had given way, what would be our fate? I shuddered at that thought. I thanked God that she had this patience to still work on us. What she said was true – we each had choice to be who we wanted to be inspite of circumstances. She chooses to be ‘herself’ inspite of ‘us’ being us! By setting such an example she lived what she said or taught! She like her example of Salman and Rajnikanth was proving that you can act beyond your temptations. You need not bulge to them. She set up high moral standards. And she said ‘Look at me. If I can, you can too!’ if she didn’t give up on us and kept working, where did we get an excuse to lose heart and stop working on chasing our dreams, our relationships and our ethics?

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