TENSIONS OF LIFE.. HOW TO FIGHT THEM CONSTRUCTIVELY?

"People often advise me saying don't be selfish. What's wrong in being selfish within the limits of law of the land? Anyhow law permits that!"

"Agreed, you can express there with your full freedom but do want to experience greater freedom or limit yourself?"

"What? I am already living my life with full freedom.  What greater freedom am I missing here?"

"Are you free from tensions of life?"

"They come and go. That's natural. I need to do nothing and can't do anything too!"

"If you can do something?"

"Ahh! What are you saying? A person having taken human birth can't be free of tensions!"

"I agree to what you say. But, don't you feel happy if I tell you a better way to take tensions of our life as they surface!"

"I don't get it!"

"Yes, dear.. None can escape from tensions of life whatever one does there. But one can always equip himself/herself to face them as they attack and remain as much calm!"

"How?"

"That happens when the self in me qualifies itself to face that!"

"How?

The Great Personality said..

"When the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest or the weakest man/woman whom you may have seen and ask yourself, if the step you are going to contemplate is going to be of any use to him/her. Will he/she gain anything out of it?"

"If I can really do something in this direction that is feasible for me in reducing my self, it's worth doing it!"

Keywords: LIFE, TENSIONS