Haven’t you experienced in your own life, you are frustrated about something, suddenly you become aware that you are frustrated, and you now want to get rid of frustration. The harder you try to get rid of frustration, the intense your frustration becomes. If seems that any action you take to get rid of frustration, or anger or sorrow or whatever it may be that bothers you, does not work, instead it adds to it.
This insight or lesson from the University of Life can change your life.
There are two different dimensions to our life. The outer and the inner. The outer is the world out there, the inner is within us. And there are different ways or different set of rules for both dimensions.
The easiest way to notice this is with sleep. If by chance someday you stay awake till late night, and suddenly you get this idea that you must sleep. And because you want to sleep, you try to sleep. The harder you try, the harder it becomes to sleep. Haven’t you experienced it?
So what do you do when you feel thirsty?
You feel thirst as a form of discomfort in your body. So you go to the place where water is, you take it inside you and you feel comfortable again. Same is the case with hunger. In fact this is the only way to get things done. You want a thing or you want something to happen, so you take some action, appropriate action and you get it. You want money so you work, the harder and smarter you work, the more money you get. You want a position, work harder, you want good grades in examinations, take action, no other way.
So whenever we want something, we take some action. The harder the action, better the chances that we get what we want. Look around yourself, everybody does the same thing. But before you endorse taking action as the only way in this world, let me remind you of the man who was drowning in Ganges. He was also taking actions, in fact harder that anybody else, because his life was at stake. But as long as he took actions, he was not able to stay afloat. It was only when he was dead and his actions stopped, that his body came to the surface, floating, as if nothing has ever happened. |
