Being firm is not being adamant; it means being
uncompromising. But, we say, we cannot survive without making compromises.
That, undoubtedly, is correct. For our physical survival, we have to make many
compromises as we cannot get all that we ‘want’. Maybe, we do not have to make
many compromises for arranging what we actually ‘need’ for our physical
survival. It has been our constant experience that our ‘wants’ increase in
geometrical proportion of our ‘desires’. This implies that if we minimize our
needs, we will be less compromising.
Our
desires are at the lowest rung of what differentiates us from other living
beings. After our ‘desires’, then comes our ‘mind’, our ‘intellect that is
linked to the physical world’ and our ‘intellect that tries to go beyond the
physical world’; ultimately, we enter into the realm of our soul that is
perhaps linked to our universal consciousness according to our understanding.
Our understanding about our soul may, of course, be limited in many ways.
If
we imagine ourselves climbing up the leader because we are ‘human beings’, we
come face to face with the big question, “Should we be compromising in the
matters of the soul?” While trying to find an answer to this question we must
keep in mind that we are more or less ignorant about the matters of the soul.
There
is no doubt that the lesser we compromise more contended we are, even at the
lowest rungs of our physical being. We have also experienced when we climb up
the ladder we attach more value to sticking to our ground. For example, we feel
more satisfied with retaining our truthfulness than if we are constrained to
eat a little less than what we are accustomed to. Each one of us has a different
perception about our spiritual existence, but all of us view it as something
more sacred than other things in our life. We may confidently say that being
less vacillating mentally, intellectually and spiritually is being more firm.
While trying to be firm, we find that reducing our wants provides substantial
help in our efforts for remaining uncompromising on the issues related to our
mind, intellect and soul. If we have never tried to experience our lives from
the above stated point of view, we must do it; that way we will come to know
much more than what has been briefly discussed in this article. There are
theories that can be properly understood through experiencing and analyzing our
experiences.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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