The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 140: Dealing with Obstacles - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 140 🌹

🌴 Dealing with Obstacles - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Occasions for Growth - 2 🌻

A severe obstacle forces us to think deeper, more focused, so that we can hit upon a creative thought and perhaps even touch the planes of intuition. 

An idea can flash forth and give a solution. This is the reward of the obstacle. Therefore Master DK says: “Let pain bring due reward of Light and Love.”

The wisdom teachings explain that the obstacles on our way are nothing but the things we neglected in the past. What we are neglecting today is a problem of the future. 

Whatever we neglect, negate or repress today, will come back to be solved by us. If we neglect health today, we undergo sickness tomorrow. If we don’t care for riches today, we encounter poverty tomorrow. 

If we neglect people today, we encounter non-cooperation tomorrow. Thus every obstacle challenges us to stop, think, rectify and proceed.

If we don’t observe these fundamental things, we work against our knowledge, in spite of all our knowledge. The biggest hurdle on the way are we ourselves, the personality. It carries variety of personal thoughts, desires and emotions. 

It is like a big block, which prevents the soul to express through the body. Essentially we are the soul, the person. The personality, however, is the shadow of the soul, an aggregate of qualities. 

When we don’t put into practice our knowledge we get from the wisdom teachings, we remain caught in the structures of the personality. 

The aim isn’t to destroy the personality, but to adjust it to the demands of the soul. Then the radiance of the soul and its magnetic impact can express through the personality.

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Sources : Master K.P. Kumar: Saturn / Jupiter / notes from seminars / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Yoga of Patanjali.

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