Man is responsible for his own miseries

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Man responsible for his own miseries

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"We must learn that nothing can happen to us unless we

make ourselves susceptible to it. No disease can come

to me unless the body is ready; it does not depend

alone on the germs, but upon a certain predisposition

which is already in the body. We get only that for

which we are fitted. Let us give up our pride and

understand this, that never is misery undeserved.

 

There never has been a blow undeserved; there never

has been an evil for which I did not pave the way with

my own hands. We ought to know that. Analyse

yourselves and you will find that every blow you have

received came to you because you prepared yourselves

for it. You did half and the external world did the

other half: that is how the blow came.

 

At the same time, from this very analysis will come a

note of hope, and the note of hope is this: "I have no

control of the external world, but that which is in me

and nearer unto me, my own world, is in my control. If

the two together are necessary to give me a blow, I

will not contribute the one which is in my keeping;

and how then can the blow come?

 

If I get real control of myself, the blow will never

come."

 

- Swami vivekananda

 

Hari Aum !!!