Vedanta - Storm Ends in Peace

ARUP MITRA





For some people, offence is the best defence. The Gita says one who remains unmoved by praise and criticism is called sthita-pragya, one who is stable and steady . In econometrics, we talk about outliers, the observations that lie beyond certain acceptable ranges. Their existence introduces distortion to a relationship one is expecting.If we allow the praise and adverse remarks to influence us, we will tend to deviate from what we are supposed to pursue. On being asked why he did not respond to someone who criticised him, Buddha replied that silence means non-acceptance. When a person abuses you, it only reflects his disturbed mental state.Therefore, he may need your kindness; not wrath.
It is a unique rule of the nature that one who tries to harass another unnecessarily falls into the trap he has created for others. It is only a matter of time. We are always bothered about finite time horizon and, therefore, cannot afford to wait for the phenomenon to take place and, in the process, we get disturbed and try to give up what we thought to be right.
That is the reason there is the need to forget and move on.Let nature do its own course of action while we pursue our own efforts without bothering to know what happened to the one who tried to harm us.
The best way to let the mind avoid the volatility is to remember the vastness within.Within my limited sphere, there lies the unbound universe. All storms end ultimately in peace, irrespective of their intensity .