Nothing Will Bother You

 

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Nothing Will Bother You

We get so easily disturbed by occurrences which happen in our life – we question, “why should it happen with me all the time?” Our being is so in tune with our ego that we always feel hurt by even the littlest of things. We take offence, we are offended and keep question everyone and everything! We are unable to see that the problem is “me” – because we are not looking within, we are looking for external scapegoats!

Let’s suppose you are involved in an accident; you may have been trying to wrongly overtake and in the process lost control and caused the accident. But your ego will never let you accept that fact and you will end up blaming the other driver, and if no other driver is involved, you will blame the vehicle manufacturer, the road, or anything else – but not your ‘self’. Why is that? Acceptance of any situation is the core solution to all problems. Why me? is never a solution. Everything happens for a purpose – we are paying off our karmic debts; if we don’t accept the consequences and fight, we are just creating more karma. There we go into the vicious circle of action-consequence-action consequence. We have been doing this over several births – are we ever going to learn?

Nothing will bother you if your relationship with it is correct. Pain becomes evil because you don’t like it! Nothing will bother you; no one will bother you; nothing will harass you if your attitude is right. What is the right attitude?

It is important to realise and understand that no pain will come to you and affect you unless of course, you do something to deserve it. Before I ventured onto the spiritual path (I did have a strong inner voice), I used to do stuff knowing full well that I should not do it, but the thrill of doing it would always tempt me into doing it; I would completely enjoy those moments too but then the time to face the consequences would also come. Knowing in advance that my action had consequences, the fact that I enjoyed doing what I should not have done, easily made me accept the consequences too. In fact, now that I look back, I feel those were all karmic bonds that I had to endure. No harm in doing that, as long as you do whatever you are doing with complete awareness, knowing full well that you will have to bear the consequences too.

Pain does not come to us unless we have done something to deserve it. Whether it is pain or something good, it comes our way only if we deserve it – that is the way the karmic law functions. To transcend this law one needs to meditate and move out of duality and merge with universal consciousness – that is man’s ultimate goal. When we live in the moment, in the now – no karma accrues!