Soul Sustenance

Situation Proofing Yourself (Part 1) 

We all belong to a group of pupils (or learners) who are always learning a lesson at every step of our respective lives. The real life situations are our lessons in disguise which come to teach us something or the other in a short span of time and bring in front of us questions in the form of – How will I ever live a life without a loved one, lost due to death or due to differences in opinions or Why did this particular event ever have to happen to me like an illness or a sudden financial loss at the workplace or When will I achieve the desired success in a difficult scene full of events that dare to challenge my mental security or What did I do in my past births the results of which I am seeing in the form of a loved one not looking at me with the love and respect that I deserve? 

You have obviously heard of water-proofing. A rain coat worn in the rains does that. We create a new term in this message, a term which you will love to relate to and not commonly used – we call it situation-proofing, a term created based on our experiences after having lived many years a lifestyle based on what we learn everyday at the Brahma Kumaris and realized through meditation, introspection (looking inwards) and self-study. The situations are there, who ever said that they will not raise their ugly head from time to time, but the term we have created is based on the wisdom shared at the Brahma Kumaris. A life with the Brahma Kumaris does not mean that life does not have its share of ups and downs. The same applies to living a life without spirituality. A spiritual lifestyle or what we call alokik (in Hindi) life, does not mean no difficult situations either, because you live in the same world as outside, you only re-mould the way you live your life and make significant positive changes in the way you perceive difficult situations and become situation-proof and free of worry. Life for all of us does involve different types of challenging situations, sometimes in the form of a temporary rise of a sanskara or a personality trait like anger or jealousy or ego; sometimes in the form of lack of respect by a work colleague; sometimes just a challenging or difficult work task in the sphere of action; sometimes in the form of difficult relationships with people, when nothing is wrong with the other but just a clash of personalities of two people, when what is required is just a sacrifice of the I and my or sometimes in the form of a temporary setback in the physical body, etc. 

(To be continued tomorrow …)