Carry Your Own Cross

 In this world, there is always a play of positive and negative. Some problems and challenges come, and solutions also follow them. The ancients would simply focus on keeping their energy high. If your energy is high and people come to you, their problems will get solved. What happens when people talk to you about their problems? You get steeped in their problems. You get carried away. So just try this. Let everybody come and complain 100 things to you, you simply keep your energy high, your sight inwards, your mind inwards as though nothing has happened. You will realise that there is freedom within you. Try this: anybody can complain about anything, let the world go topsy-turvy, but hold on to the idea, I am going to keep my energy high. You just take one such step and then see. Instead of turning the mind inwards when problems come, we chase the problem and get completely drawn in that direction, and then our energy goes down and we collapse. Many a times, in the name of compassion and sympathy, you get drowned. Your compassion does not really help in solving the problem. It may sound very shocking but in compassion, the problem multiplies and doesn’t get solved. Problems come so that a person can turn inwards and look inside, get into a state of dispassion and calmness. Instead, you give reasons and try to pacify the person. Pacifying a person in a problem is the worst thing. You should not pacify them. Let everybody carry their own cross. Bear their karma. If you are miserable or happy, it is your karma. So you change your karma.

Economic Times: 6/08/2019