People ask me, “Swamiji, there is so much of suffering around us. Why is this so?” I tell you, this is all nonsense. First of all, there is not so much suffering as you make it out to be. There is suffering alright, but it is magnified by your own mind. If you take a proper statistics and see, you will understand how much your mind plays in these things. It has become a casual social talk to say all these things and magnify the whole thing. Secondly, there is suffering because our faith has disappeared, that’s all. We have become avaricious, driven by our unconscious ways.
See understand: Existence simply orchestrates the happenings in the Universe. All the events are so synchronously conducted that the more aware you are, the more you can perceive the amazing order in what now seems to be chaotic to you. We just need to be aware of this and play our part accordingly; life will then flow like music.
When you become sensitive to this phenomenon, from small events to larger ones, you will start realizing how things are being re-arranged and made to happen with you being a simple instrument in the whole process. The power of coincidence will start revealing itself to you in its entire splendor. You will become aware that you are part of a macrocosmic orchestra wherein you just need to flow with the music and enjoy it! It is only when you fight the flow, when you try to go against it, does the problem start.
A small story:
One day, people came rushing to one man and told him that his wife had fallen into the river and was being washed away by it.
The man immediately ran to the river, took off his clothes and plunged into it and swam upstream.
The people screamed, “Why are you swimming upstream? She would have obviously been washed away downstream.”
The man screamed back, “Only I know my wife…Even in the river, she would have gone only against the current, not with it!”
(Lots of laughter!)
When we fight the flow, the problem starts, because it means that we have allowed our ego to step in between Existence and ourselves. On the other hand, if we understand the flow of Existence and go with it, we will be so spontaneous; we will be able to take on everything that comes our way and we will expand with gratitude.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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