“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together…”How to face sufferings in life...(Part one)

We all want to understand life in the simplest words. Poets, writers, philosophers have defined it in different ways. But still, no definition about life is complete.

That’s why it is so complicated!

The more we grow in age and gain experiences, the more we try to explore the mysteries of life to understand   and define it. The more we try to define it, the more complicated it becomes!

Dear friends, don’t worry!

We shall try to define and understand it in fragments.

Let’s take one but very common aspect of life.

We all like joys, and dislike sorrows. Almost all of us do not want knowingly to invite sorrows and troubles to come in our life. But they do come and make our life gloomy and sad.

In that situation, the need is to face sorrows boldly and wait anxiously for the joys to come in our life.

It will be sheer foolishness on our part if we start weeping and blaming ourselves or the people for sorrows we have to face.
Many people believe that the sufferings in this life are the outcome of our bad 'Karmas' (bad actions) in the previous life. Some of them were already faced by us in the previous life and the remaining we have to face in the present life. In the same way, we will face the result of our bad actions in the present life. It the number of our bad action is more and then the punishment given to us by God will be carried on in the next life to come.

This theory, maybe based on superstition, yet it is very helpful in making us strong to face the sufferings in the present life.

Going through the process of facing sorrows in life is similar to passing through the shroud of fog in the atmosphere while driving a car. We are unable to see the way clearly. We have to be careful in driving in that situation and also we have to show our immense patience to stand victorious in the end. If we stop driving the car in the tunnel, we cannot go ahead. Similarly if we keep on lamenting over sufferings, we will create so many other problems for our body and mind. One has to face them boldly and try to get out of them as early as possible. 

But after sometime, the visibility is restored as the sun appears in the sky and the fog disappears and we feel as if the fog had not been there at all around us.

Similarly sorrows and sufferings also disappear from our life and we feel as if they had never existed in our life. When joys come in our life, we become the same person again.

Without sorrows and sufferings, we do not know the value of joys. That’s why; these have their due place in life.

In this context, I remember a very famous line of Shakespeare.

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together…”

When we are facing sufferings and sorrows, we should start finding the reason or the cause that has created that adverse situation for us. Once we find it, we should try to make efforts in damage-control. In this way, we improve our inner-being by knowing our mistakes and remembering it never to be repeated.

Sometimes, we face adverse situations in life because of others. In that case, we may ignore them and forget what they did or say to us. It’s not sane to keep on mourning over and inviting gloom in our life just because of others. If we do, it is their victory as they want to see us in gloom of sadness. 
Let not the satanic forces win.