Learning New Lessons

In life, all of us face certain situations or challenges that are tough, almost impossible to resolve. Sometimes, in spite of our best, most sincere, honest and repeated efforts, we seem to make no progress or headway, in a situation or a relationship. We break our heads, we overthink, we seek advice from friends and family, we explore more and more options for resolution, we move heaven and earth, and yet, the challenge seems to remain the same. Is it possible that some situations, circumstances, relationships or challenges are not meant for resolution, not meant to be solved, set right or to become harmonious? Is it possible that these situations have been placed in our lives only for the purposes of our learning? We are born on this planet with a much lower consciousness than when we leave it. That change or rise in consciousness is brought about by learning lessons. The purpose of this life on earth, among other things, is also our spiritual evolution. But invariably what we do, or rather what we are conditioned to do, is to try and solve the problems, instead of trying to look for lessons in them. We miss the whole point, the raison d’être, of the problem. We rarely think, “Oh, this problem, which is seemingly unsolvable, might be here for my learning, not for a solution.” If we could realise, especially after we have made multiple attempts that this is a situation not amenable to resolution, but is something else, then we might be receptive to looking at it, from a point of view of learning something

Source: Economic Times, 25/10/2018