Name:dattaswami •
Title: How to enjoy worry •
Date posted: 05/18/07 17:58
Q: How to enjoy worry
Never allow the worry to enter your heart in difficult times. When it knocks the door, shout at it to go away. Don’t open the doors of the mind. If you allow it, it is a thief which steals away your energy. It is like the dog that steals away your food. It is like the cat that steals away your milk. Food is your energy and milk is your courage. When you loose courage and energy tension is created, which is the source of all chronic diseases. Doctors say that the tension raises the level of lactic acid in the blood, which opens all the doors for all the chronic diseases. The physical health is spoiled because the mind and body are related to each other. The illness in the body affects the mind. The tension in the mind affects the body. Such tension results in the loss of memory and loss of intelligence.
In such state you are completely inefficient to plan for the solution. Your body is incapable of executing any plan. The worry cannot solve the problem and moreover it weakens you so that you will become permanently incapable to solve the problem.
Therefore neither should you run away from the life nor should allow the worry to enter your mind. If your realization about the unreality of the cinema, which is this life, continues, instead of worry, you can enjoy the problem in your life, which is as good as a tragic scene in the cinema. You may argue that you are involved in the life and not standing outside the life to be a spectator. This argument is not correct. The answer for your argument is that you can enjoy the tragic scene even if you are involved in it just like an actor acting in a drama.
If you are aware that the drama is unreal and if you are aware that you are only acting the role which is also unreal, you can still enjoy the drama as a spectator of the cinema even though you are involved in it.
Whenever you face difficulties and if you have not realized the unreality of the world (forms and feelings), there are two ways to solve your problem. One way is in natural level and the other way is in super natural level. The nature is the separated power from the Lord, which follows the rules of the logic and is called as Prakruti. The nature is separated because it becomes the separate object to be observed by God who is the spectator. God created this universe to see it for His entertainment. Even if He enters the world as human incarnation the spectatorship and entertainment continues because there is no difference between cinema and drama as far as its unreality is considered. Therefore if your problem is at the level of the nature, try to solve it using your courage and energy without allowing the worry into your mind which steals both these.
If your problem is beyond the level of the nature, then also you cannot solve it by allowing the worry. In such case the super power (Maya) has to enter into this world sent by God. The Maya is never separated from God unlike the Prakruti. Now, only the super power of the God can solve your problem and for this you must concentrate on God. For such concentration also, you need the energy and therefore you should not allow the worry to enter your mind even in this case. For doing concentration on God, you require the congenial atmosphere of real devotees around you. Therefore whenever the problem that requires the super power to interfere enters your life, you have to immediately prevent the entry of the worry into your mind and you have to enter into the association of real devotees so that you can concentrate on God for help.
If you remain in the association of the ordinary human beings, they will magnify the impossibility of the solution and force the worry to enter your mind. If you leave the association of these dirty people, who do not want to solve your problem and if you enter into the association of real devotees, you can easily concentrate on God for help. God will give an immediate stay because the problem cannot be cancelled forever due to the cycle of deeds presided by justice. However, the temporary stay has the possibility of permanent solution also. After the stay, there may be a chance for you to become a liberated soul by entering into the service of the God in which case your file may be condemned permanently.
If you are ungrateful to the help which involves the super power of God, your file will be opened after some time and the punishment can be given to you in some other form so that your impression about the cancelling of that problem by God is not disturbed. Therefore, at every step of your life, become grateful to God and transform yourself as a liberated soul through service to Him which alone can give the permanent solution.
You may be compensated regarding your loss in course of time. Thus you may recover the loss but the time you spent in worry can never be compensated. Since your lifetime is a fixed quantum, the loss of time cannot be compensated. If you entertain yourself with enjoyment even during the time of loss, the time is not lost. When the loss is compensated you have gained both the time and the lost thing.
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami
Anil Antony
www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace [email protected]
Name:Panluna •
Date: 05/19/07 16:41
A: Worrying burns up alot of energy and doesn't solve anything.
Name:Anchorite •
Date: 05/22/07 0:43
A: THE BUYER
I'm here for my drugs
Gimme my drugs
I'm here for a fix
Licking my lips
I want you should sell
Me heaven and hell
I'm knocking the door
And ringing the bell
~Anchorite
Name:dattaswami •
Date: 05/22/07 16:47
A: Panluna ;
The devotee can become the Lord in all aspects except the aspect of creation, maintenance and destruction of universe. The other aspects are not at all disturbed due to absence of the last aspect. Suppose a producer of a film is enjoying His own picture. Though you are not the producer, you can enjoy the cinema in equal status with the producer. You can enjoy just like the producer because you are enjoying the same cinema without taking the laborious efforts of its production. Therefore you should not say that since he is the producer, he is enjoying.
People often say that since the human incarnation is Lord, He can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema. Do you mean that the producer only can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema? Any spectator can enjoy the tragic scenes of the cinema. The only requirement for such continuous enjoyment of comic and tragic scenes of the cinema is only the realization of the nature of the cinema. If you know that the cinema is unreal, you can enjoy even the tragic scene.
Whether the spectator is a producer of the film or an ordinary human being the requirement for the continuous enjoyment of the cinema is only the knowledge about the unreality of the cinema. Therefore you need not run away from the problems of the life and leaving the theater is committing suicide. Therefore do not say that Rama, Krishna etc are God and so could stand unperturbed during the difficult times in life. The argument is completely wrong and what you lack is the knowledge of the reality of this creation (forms and feelings) and not the producer-ship of this creation.
