Suffering, Suppression, Karma, Destiny????
I love this story of our great Indian mystic Sri Ramkrishna Paramhans that is mentioned by Yogi, Mystic and Visionary Sadguru in a Yogi's guide is :- on a certain evening, two friends were walking together to visit prostitute. While they were walking, they heard a voice delivering a discourse on the Bhagavad Gita. One friend decided to attend the lecture as he seized by guilt but the other man left him there and went ahead.
Now the man sitting in the lecture found his thoughts were full of his friend who is with the prostitute and he began to envy him. The other man also has his mind was full of his friend who is attending lecture with admiration.
After reading this story a question comes to my mind that who is suffering more?????
Definitely the man at the Gita is he who suffered........ Why??????
Because although Karma denotes action of body, mind and energy, it is not about action alone. The man who went to the prostitute did not pile up as much karma as his friend because his friend believed that by going to discourse he would get one step closer to heaven. That calculation meant an acquisition of Karma. On the othe hand man with prostitute, was seized by a sense of the limitation of his experience. He didn't make a calculation and that would have impelled him in the future to seek something more.
Now the other question is what is Suffering?????
Suffering is psychological, produced by you. It is a hundred percent self manufactured. It is not the physical situation that causes misery. It is the way you react to it. Your Karma is not in what is happening to you; your karma is in the way you respond to what is happening to you. Human beings are capable of suffering just about anything. Your suffering is not because of your circumstances. Your suffering is the because of the way you have made yourself.
Another question related with suffering is,,,,, What is mean by Suppression??????
Suppression simply means you are experiencing life half - heartedly. To live fully is to allow yourself to experience something totally. If you avoid any experience - whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy - it is big karma. But if you go through the experience with it resisting it, the karma dissolves. This way Krishna in the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.
Today, in the name of civilization and etiquette, educated people often do not experience any of their emotions fully. They cannot cry and laugh loudly and fully. Their karmic accumulation also increase. Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of Karma.
What is Karma????????
Karma means action......... Whose action??????? My action........ Whose responsibility???????? My responsibility.........
If you understand this simple formulation, Karma will fall into place. "The way i am right now is of my making. The way I will be tomorrow will also be my making." This is Karma.
However, when each of us realizes the enormous consequences of our volition, thoughts and actions, it could be the dawn of a great possibility: a conscious planet. We could now turn not merely into architects of our own destiny but into collaborators in the collective destiny of the human race.
Destiny?????? Fate?????? Kismat???????
What you call fate is just a life situation you have created for yourself unconsciously. Your destiny is what you have crafted in unawareness.
For every action that we perform there is a consequence. So, some deeds you performed unconsciously many years ago may have their consequences today. You may choose to call it Fate. But you could just as well as call it your Karma, your responsibility. Since fate is your unconscious creation, it is extremely important that every aspect of your life happen consciously. Otherwise you could go about poisoning your life without a clue about the damage you are inflicting on yourself. The fact is that people make their own lives and societies write their own self - destructive narratives. People can always find reasons that seem perfectly justifiay. But after years of doing - routinely losing their temper, considering perfectly natural to get angry five times a day and suppressing their emotions, is it any wonder that so many get high blood pressure, hypertension, and clogged heart's???????????
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