We always want to know how we have fared in our tests or interviews. The results keep us on tenterhooks and we crave to know it beforehand. Such is human nature.
We know if the results don’t come out then there will be disasters. Imagine the baby delaying for a few days after the due date, the mother goes through the most excruciating situation in her entire life. Similarly, your entrance exam results or SAT test results are in limbo and you are biting your fingernails away. Our excitement is not for curbing when we are waiting for the greatest moment in life. We become very impatient if there is even the slightest delay.
Sitting at the airport, we are counting the minutes of delay if the airlines were to say so. Our anger rises accordingly too. Then imagine getting to the airport three times and being told that there is no transit visa available and hence cannot fly. After all that, finally when I could fly on the third day from another country which doesn’t insist on a transit visa, sitting on a long haul flight for straight 16 hours without getting up or going for a bio break. The air hostesses thought of me as crazy. The patience needed to go through the ordeal for any ordinary person would have run out in the first few hours.
How do spiritual people go through these excruciating circumstances with no sweat? They are aware of the inevitable and give in to nature. What has to be will be so what is the point of getting frustrated at anything at all. If you have to go you will and nothing in this world can stop you. And if aren’t supposed to go then no one can push you to go.
I still remember roaming at Changi airport with my disciple. We were late and the airline sent the buggy to locate us. After we sat in our seats I told my disciple that the flight cannot take off without us. It is the simple inevitability that you have to understand in the spiritual world.
A man struggles too much thinking that he desires or deserves some things but if they aren’t supposed to come, they won’t. Spirituality teaches one patience and impermanence of this material world so hard you will find the sage getting upset or angry for things not happening at all. He is lost only in the divine permanence with absolute patience.
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