Adversity - an Opportunity

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 Adversity – an Opportunity

In every adversity there is opportunity. We fail because we only see the adversity. Because of our fragmented mind we do not recognise the opportunity.

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Adversity is an opportunity to grow. As everyone says, this life is a trial of faith. We can be broken by adversity or we can become stronger. Each one of us has our own difficulties, but the outcome depends on our attitude and how we deal with it.

Another thing is that adversity is an opportunity to change. The very opportunity for us to face adversity and affliction is part of the evidence of the Divine’s infinite love. God gave us the gift of living in mortality so that we could be prepared to receive the greatest of all the gifts of God, which is eternal life.

Karma is not only action of the physical body, but also action of the mind, and the mind’s action is on a more subtle level, but it is still action. If the mind is regulated and put into a proper channel with the help of meditation, then we automatically draw on Grace. It works in a cycle. The more we draw Grace, the better our actions become, and more the Grace in our lives. That is how man evolves and finds greater and greater happiness until he achieves totality, self-realisation.

When self-realised, a man becomes law unto himself, because he is not touched by any form of karma. When events occur, he is unaffected by them because he has developed integration which brings non-attachment. It is attachment that brings suffering. Attachment produces expectations, and when expectations are not fulfilled it produces suffering and that is what we call karma.

Karma does not only mean pain it also means pleasure. Good karma within its range will bring you good results. Bad karma within its same range will bring you bad results. When man has become non-attached, then he has risen above both. He has risen to the level where there is no polarity left and all is oneness, and that is the stage where everything is just accepted. That is the stage when he sees no evil, hears no evil, and speaks no evil, because he is apart from it and yet a part of it. This may sound very paradoxical, but the greatest truths are paradoxical, because a truth is a wholeness.