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Swami Chinmaynanda wrote thus...........

 

When the expectation is false, disappointment is natural. To expect a

glass of cold water in Sahara desert would mean sure disappointment.

Life is

miserable because our expectation is false. The fundamental mistake of

everyone is

that we wish to be permanently happy in this world of continous change.

The

world is nothing but a play of pairs of opposites. If heat is there,

cold

must be there.

 

Joy has meaning only with relationship to sorrow. Darkness and light,

pain and pleasure, all of them are unavoidable - like the poles of a

magnet -

inseperable.

 

"I want only the north pole". Try cutting off the south pole of the

magnet! Where it was cut, there is another south pole. Cut it smaller,

and still

smaller. As long as the magnet exists, the two poles are there. It is

unavoidable. The great masters understood and remained unperturbed.

 

But in the heart of the magnet is the soft iron piece that has neither

the north pole nor the south pole. It neither attracts nor repels. DROP

the magnetism of the ego - the attraction and repulsion of the raaga and

dwesha (likes and dislikes) in you.

An iron piece, when rubbed against a magnet, becomes a magnet with two

poles. To remove the magnetism, drop it on the ground again and again:

the

magnetism is lost. When we transact with the world through the ego and

egocentric

desires, the magnetism of the ego increases. The consequent likes and

dislikes

create joy and sorrow.

 

Do not run away. Face the world and get hit by the world. Let the world

drop you again and again. It is the means to destroy the ego. "Turn

towards Me

and fight" is the call of the Bhagawad Geeta.

 

The magnetism is lost; the pure soft iron remains