We cannot avoid finding ourselves placed in the
mid of the situations and circumstances that compel us to react. With time,
many among us are able to develop stereotyped responses that, in most cases,
save us from reacting in manners that may harm us. We are told and made to
believe that we have gained experience. Finding it to be safe, we continue to
react to almost all external stimulants in preconceived defensive manners
without realizing that being experienced often means leaving many opportunities
to grow in life.
It is said that the life offers to all of us
opportunities to grow and elevate ourselves to higher levels. Does it mean that
we, of our own, deny many opportunities to grow and pass all the blame to our
circumstances, as if, all those who grow, get some special opportunities,
thanks to their destiny.
We must learn to
respond to the external world on the basis of what we have learned in our lives
through our exploratory efforts to know the truth of things, instead of
reacting according to the commands of our vacillating minds that have often
been conditioned to save us from the hazards that the physical world offers
and/or our sensory desires to please us. The former offers us opportunities for
us to experiment with what we have learned, paving the way to know more than
what we have learned. Growth in life is not possible without making necessary
efforts. Life in human form is a rare opportunity for making efforts using one’s
intellect.
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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