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 spectres
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.
