Monday, February 19, 2007

Spiritual way to get rid of: SORROW


If you are unhappy, you better check if one or all of these is lacking:

Ø Penance
Ø Dispassion
Ø Surrender

Penance is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of all pleasant or unpleasant situations. Dispassion means I want nothing and I am nothing. Surrender is I am here for you, for your joy. If you are grumbling, then these are lacking. When you accept the situation, when you take it as penance, you cannot grumble; when you come from a state of dispassion (I don’t want anything), you don’t grumble; and if you are surrendered, you will have no complaints.
If you don’t do it willingly, you will do it later in desperation. First you will say, “Nothing can be done.” Then later in anger and desperation you will say, “I give up, I want nothing, I have no choice—to hell with it!”

All these three—penance, dispassion, and surrender—they purify your mind and uplift you in joy.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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