The Way Out Of Sorrow – H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji
If your are unhappy you better check if one or all
of these are lacking: Tapa (penance), Vairagya (dispassion), and Sharanagati
(surrender).
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Tapas is
agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of pleasant or unpleasant
situations.
·
Vairagya
means I want nothing and I am nothing.
·
Sharanagati
is "I am here for You, for Your joy."
If you are grumbling then these are lacking,
because when you accept the situation you cannot grumble; when you take it as
Tapa you will not grumble; when you come from a state dispassion ("I don't
want anything") you don't grumble; and if you are surrendered you will
have no complaints.
All these three (Tapas, Vairagya and surrender)
purify your mind and uplift you in joy.
If you don’t do it willingly you will do it in
desperation. First you say, "Nothing can be done." Then in anger and
desperation you say, "I give up, I want nothing, I have no choice, to hell
with it!"
There can not be a better remedy than what is being offered by revered 'guru ji' in these lines. Sense of surrender coupled with the willingness to undertake 'tapas' in a dispassionate manner, can relieve u from your gloomy and painful state and give u ecstatic feel where ur happiness is not conditioned by external things but u turn yourself as the fountain of joy where it flows from within u without any interruption.
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