The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 139 : Dealing with Obstacles - 1

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 139 🌹

🌴 Dealing with Obstacles - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Occasions for Growth - 1 🌻

The progress in evolution doesn’t happen automatically. We mostly learn by our own mistakes, and we thus try to realign our way of life and our attitudes. If we want to advance in life, inevitably also impediments arise. 

Wherever we experience in the outer an obstacle, a deception or a delay, this is a hint that something in the inner system has to be realigned. If we react in a disgruntled, irritated or depressed way, this shows our inability to accept situations.

When somebody says, “My living conditions aren’t good”, this means that the existing living conditions are seen as something bad. 

We regard something as good or as bad because of our impressions. The circumstances exist in our mind and not in our environment. 

What we perceive as outer obstacles are only our own definitions of obstacles. Where we see an obstacle, someone else achieves success. We can transform difficult situations from their quality of an obstacle to the quality of steps of progress. 

However, as long as we don’t know how to deal with the situation, it stands in our way of progress. Thus problems showing up in the outer provide an opportunity for inner growth.

The obstacles in life have a purpose. Every problem holds a present, which we can obtain with the right attitude and humility. Obstacles enable us to reflect more deeply, sometimes even at the cost of sleep.

 Without obstacles man seldom thinks, he falls into a routine and follows it like a sheep. Obstacles can awaken us and help to introspect, to retrospect and to look ahead. 

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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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