Pupil: Sometimes our own near and dear ones say something that hurts
and pinches us so much that we get irritated and intend to react immediately in
the same tone. Several times we do so, but that spoils the mood and our day gets
lost somewhere because those words keep on haunting our mind. Whenever we think
to enjoy our present time, those words of the past appear before our inward eye
and dance like specters horrible.
What is the solution to it?
Teacher: What do you want?
Pupil: I want peace of mind. I want to enjoy my present time quite
oblivious of the unsavoury things.
Teacher: Then, why do you complain about this. Forget the incident
and enjoy your present.
Pupil: I want to set him or her right?
Teacher: How can you set others right without setting yourself right?
Pupil: I have not understood your point Guruji.
Teacher: It is very simple. Suppose you react at once in the same
tone to make him or her irritated because you yourself have got the one. It would
not decrease your irritation, rather the Satan in you will be pleased and he will
keep on inciting you to do such negative activities.
On the other hand, if you console yourself by making you understand
that that person has very little sense of behaviour. He or she has not got broad
mind to behave with people in a courteous manner. So it is not his or her fault.
So why make myself irritated?
Pupil. Thank you Guruji. I would follow it now and make my life go
smoothly and peacefully.
