Embracing Adversity

 

Embracing Adversity

We face a lot of challenges in life as we grow up – the mark of a person is how he/she faces the challenge. Sometimes the challenge is so daunting that one mentally gives up even before trying. If you take sports or adventure sports then the challenge is something to be achieved. It was said in the early days that the four-minute mile barrier would never be broken – till Roger Bannister came along and proved them wrong. Mount Everest could never be conquered till Hillary and Tenzing reached the peak! Human spirit rises to every challenge – you get strength and courage to overcome and overpower such challenges, you have to have faith and belief in yourself, and you find yourself overcoming near impossible tasks!

The moment you feel scared that challenge becomes a problem, that adversity becomes an issue – that is because your mind has taken a negative turn, you are now afraid! The fear is in the mind, fear is a thought which comes from a negative bent of mind. Forget the fear and you find a solution to your problem. Fear only helps you find an excuse to run away, but you can run away once, twice but the third time you will be forced to face the adversity. And this time, because you ran away the first two times, the intensity will be ten times as severe and you now do not have the option to run. This causes severe stress and pressure on both the person and the family. Stress invariably affects one’s health, so the best strategy is to embrace the adversity.

Regular meditation helps one remain balanced and focused, so when life throws any challenges, you are ready to take them on – when you do that you make adversity your friend, you use it as a stepping stone to rise above yourself and move ahead in life! Meditation under the guidance of a realised Master helps you move from the gross to the subtle, and as you progress you realise that life’s adversities actually help you in working out your karma. On the path of liberation, these adversities are nothing but past life karmas which you have to overcome and extinguish so as to elevate yourself to the next level. After a point you do not feel any so-called adversity to be that – it becomes just another phase of life which you face and move on. With each such phase you find yourself becoming calmer and calmer as you find yourself becoming one with your own self!

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