When we are in some trouble, our first and
foremost concern is somehow getting rid of it. Once the trouble is over we are
left with an experience of a few ways that can help us in getting rid of
similar troubles if and when they recur. We rarely concentrate on finding the
root causes that pushed us into the kinds of troubles that we had to face. We remain
as uneducated about the basic causes of our troubles as ever.
The
perpetual state of unhappiness in our lives that we so frequently complain
about is because of our ignorance about the reasons of our varying kinds of
troubles we are forced to encounter while trying to achieve and acquire what is
not essential in, irrelevant to or inconsistent with life. We are accustomed to
correcting our errors externally and superficially. We never try to understand
the basic nature of our errors and the flawed process of experiencing, thinking
and conducting that we have inherited or acquired. We only try to manipulate
the external circumstances to get rid of the troubles we are faced with, that
too, only for the time being, because we hardly have any ability to change our
circumstances for long duration. Our circumstances depend on our conduct and
our conduct depends on our circumstances. We keep on oscillating from one type
of ignorance to another, believing that we are learning to change us and our
circumstances. We fail to realize that our beliefs are pivoted on illusions we
create owing to our ignorance.
The
troubles we face and the problems we encounter in our respective lives offer
valuable opportunities to learn just as any great teacher does. It is only the
flawed learning process, we have inherited or acquired that we remain ignorant
or acquire shallow or superficial knowledge of our life’s exterior. Maybe, the
first thing we have to learn is to patiently bear with our pains, a little
longer than we usually do, and contemplate over the root causes of our worldly
troubles, if we want to become better students of the science of life.
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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