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or someone who has the same type of children but is patient,
or someone who has the same type of in-laws but is
grateful.
What is it that allows two people to experience the same
external situation but respond in two different ways? Our
own perspective. Our own perception. The key, then, is
not to try to change every situation in our life, but rather
to change the glasses through which we see the world.
Sure, if we have a fixable situation at the office or at home,
we should definitely do our best to improve it. But, what I
have seen is that if someone has the nature to be dissatisfied,
or the nature to be stressed, or the nature to be pained,
that person’s nature is not going to change simply by changing
the external situation.
A massage for the back, shoulder or legs or a chiropractic
or acupuncture treatment would not help the man in our
earlier example because it is his finger which is broken.
He could spend hundreds of dollars to ease the pain in his
body, but unless he puts his broken finger in a splint, he
will continue to experience pain every time that finger
touches the various parts of his body. Similarly, we run
around through life trying to “fix” our jobs or marriages
or family life, but frequently the reality is in our own perspective.
If we spend the same amount of energy “fixing”
our perspective as we spend trying to “fix” our spouse or
children, everything would be fine.
This is not to say that pains and troubles don’t really exist
in our day to day life. Of course they do. The man in our
example may also have a stiff back or sore shoulders. But
the excruciating pain he experienced was due not to the
minor aches and pains in his body, but due to the severely
broken finger with which he was touching them. Similarly,
our jobs and our families are taxing. They demand a lot
of us. However, the unbearable pain many of us experience
is due not to the demands and commands from without,
but due to the demands and commands from within
ourselves.
In the Gita it is said that we are our best friend and also
our own worst enemy, depending upon how we live our
lives.
Let us all take some time to examine what our own personal
“broken finger” is. What is it within ourselves that
causes us to experience pain in the world? What irrational
fear, what unfulfillable desire, what selfish motive, what
ego-driven need has broken the finger with which we feel
the world or has colored the glasses with which we see?
We spend so much time examining others, but very little
time examining our own selves.
The Source of all joy and peace lies within us. We are
blocked from that Source by a host of desires, fears and
ignorance. The key to finding and tapping into that Source
must come from within. Let us find the key within ourselves
and unleash the Ocean of Divine Bliss in our lives.
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