Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Dont Swim.... Float

What should I do? I have a boring job that I need to do daily and I am not satisfied.
What should I do? I am unhappy about my personal life.
What should I do? This daily routine is killing me. I have no self motivation left.
What Should I do? My ambitions are dead, I just cant see the future. It is all blank.

Answer: Dont Swim... Float (Tairo mat, baaho). People who try to swim against the tide are often, tired people. You cannot change the direction of storm/wind, you have lie low for a while till favorable times reappear. Wait for the sunny day. It will come. It has to come....
No single person on earth has ever faced unending misery or unending happiness. Life is a mix of both.

Secondly, you have to leave it to God sometimes. We should realise that the life that we live today is nowhere near to what we had planned for ourselves. That means the direction of life is not in our hands. Had it been in our hands, we would have definitely opted for "the best" for us in all spheres of life. So, if it is not in our hands why waste time in changing the course. It is a wasteful and tiresome exercise.

Some people just dont understand this. They try their best to change the course of their life, with all their might. They get tired during the stormy days. Finally when the sunny day appears, which would have happened irrespective of the so called human effort, these people feel very happy. They start telling stories about how valiantly they fought the storm and finally came out of it(Just look around the bookshelves, you will find many bestsellers on this subject). How can you stop a storm if you did not start it in the first place?. The storm would have gone because no storm stays for an infinite period. Even if the person would have waited for the storm to go and fora sunny day to appear, the storm would have taken exactly the same time to subside. Just that the person in this case, would have come out of it much happier, less tired, wiser and more humble.

When I give this simple advice " Dont Swim... float", some active people come up with a counter argument. Will things come to me if I dont do anything... ?Well, experiment it yourself... Take a leave from your job/profession/business and dont do anything for a week. Sit down at one place in your house without moving an inch. Stop thinking about anything... that is absolutely anything... Come back to me after a week and tell me what happened. Did you succeed in your attempt to do nothing... that is not moving an inch and not having a single thought. If the answer is yes, you already know it works... If the answer is no.. you will realise how difficult it is to do nothing... It is the most difficult thing to do in life....

Just do not believe anyone.. Experiment it yourself. If not anything, it will give you a clearcut idea about your life and will clear a misconception.. either ways. You will come to know whether you are responsible of each happening in your life or "it just happens".

The personal experience/result of your experiment is eagerly awaited...

1 comment:

  1. Life as truly said by Khalil Gibran " My life is like a flower, it sways in every direction the wind comes from , and finds pleasure in its swaying " By believing intuitely in the theory of Karma, with Self-belief and belief in God, relieves one from the pressures of expectations & demands...and leads to glory. Life is a continous path of self-realization...

    From my own experiences..
    Struggle years, winters of 2004 & 2005 Canada..
    Darpan

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