Emotional Maturity - Swami Dayhanand Saraswati

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Anger is a reaction – Seek help.

 

A person does not get depressed by choice. It just happens. There is no pint in

advising someone not to get depressed.

 

When we adv9se someone not to get angry, he or she gets more angry because, it

is not that a person wants to be angry. Anger happens.

 

It takes a lot of courage to accept helplessness. Unless I have the courage to

accept helplessness, I can never grow out of it. I will not seek help even if it

is available.

 

I seek help from the source, which can help: which should be free from the

limitations I have. That source is Iswara, God.

 

What or Who is God?

 

This world is an intelligent assembly serving a definite purpose and therefore

it is a creation. The maker of a given thing must have the knowledge of that

thing. The creator of everything must be sarvagna, i.e. omniscient.

 

Since heaved is also a part of the creation, heaven could not have been

therefore the creation. So where was God before the creation of heaven?

 

Dream is even a better model to explain the creation of the world where the Lord

is both the Maker and the Material., In dream you create a world merely by

sankalpa, by thought. You think of an object, that object is.

 

If space is a part of creation, space cannot be separate from its material

cause. The lord is the material cause for this universe. So what is space? Space

is the Lord. Time is also the Lord. Air, water, fire, earth, all these are the

Lord. The sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, all of these is the Lord. Your

physical body, which is made up of the five elements, is again the Lord. The

breath is the Lord is the Lord, the sense organs are the Lord, the mind is the

Lord, and the consciousness behind them all is also the Lord.

 

God is to be understood and not believed in, Isvara is not a matter for belief.

Isvara is to be understood.

 

You do not require only a particular altar to invoke the Lord. Yu can invoke him

anywhere because what is that which is not the Lord? The whole order is the

Lord, all the laws are the Lord.

 

The Lord is called “He” from the standpoint of the maker and called “She” from

the standpoint of the material. In fact, we use “He” and “She” interchangeably

and use “It” to indicate the truth of them both.

 

If God is different from you, He does not include you, which means that God is

mighty but not Almighty.

 

There is only God and so if someone invokes Him as Rama or Krishna, that is

fine, if someone invokes Him as Allah, that is fine and if someone invokes him

as Jesus, that is also fine. Only when God is understood does this fact become

obvious.

 

If some cannot accept the fact of the people invoking God in different names and

forms, it is their problem. We have no problems because we do not have many

Gods, we do not even have one God, we have only God.

Action and their Results

Nobody can perform action without expecting results. Even a fool will not

undertake something without a certain end in mind. Lord Krishna makes a

statement of fact: You have a choice with respect to performing an action but

not with reference to its result. This is not advice, it is a fact.

 

Only four types of results are possible:

The result is in keeping with your expectation,

You get more than what you expected

You get less than what you expected

You get just the opposite of your expectation.

 

Should you not be prepared for any one of these four results? You better be! It

is immature not to be prepared for them.

 

Can there be sameness in the result? When actins are different, the results are

going to be different. Then where can there by samatwam? It can only be with

reference to our attitude towards the results of an action.

 

Isvara is the karmaphala-hetu, cause for result of an action, whilst you are the

karma-hetu, cause for action, the result that an action produces, whether it is

more or less, equal or opposite, the result comes from Isvara. It is prasada

because it comes from the Lord.

 

It is wrong to think that one becomes submissive by accepting the situation as

prasada. In fact you will become dynamic and be able to accept the result as it

is and proceed.

 

There is sameness of mind with respect to the results of action because it is

prasada from the Lord.

 

Failure can only be there when success is in your hands, when you call all the

shots. When that is not the case, there is no failure. No one is a failure.

Everyone is learning.

 

We learn from experiences and so there is no regard.

 

Learning from experience is the mature way of responding to the unfolding facts

of life.

 

While a yogi can be skilful, a skilful person is not necessarily a yogi. If so,

a skilful thief or pickpocket would be a yogi.

 

 

 

 

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