Your life—whether good or bad—is a result of what YOU have made it
Whatsoever happens, we are the sowers of the seeds, but we sow the
seeds unconsciously, that’s why we think that some accident has
happened. Accidents never happen, nothing is ever accidental. It is a
cosmos, it is not a chaos.
Everything is absolutely based on a
fundamental ultimate law: nothing ever goes wrong. Yes, sometimes it
looks as if it has, because we were expecting something else. That is
one of the problems of the human mind to be solved: we do one thing, we
sow one seed and we expect something else.
We sow the seeds of one
kind of flower and we expect some other kind of flower, so when the
flowers come, we are frustrated. But flowers come through the seeds, not
our wishes.
So always remember it: we constantly create our
world. There are people who are constantly afraid that something wrong
is going to happen, then it happens! And when it happens, they are
proved right.
But, in fact, they have made it happen. It is not
vice versa: that it has happened and they are proved right. Because they
were thinking, constantly thinking, constantly creating the pulsation
of it, the seed of it, it has happened.
People who are afraid
will always find situations in which fear grips them. People who are
loving will always find situations where love blooms. Because this
existence goes on giving you that which you project.
Life is man’s
project. We are our life’s creators. God has created man, but as
freedom. So there is an essential freedom inside you; now it is up to
you to choose what you would like to happen to you in life and then you
will see that it starts happening.
One thing is linked with
another, one thing leads to another, and slowly, slowly you have taken a
certain route; then all other alternatives are dropped.
When a
child is born, all the alternatives are open; he is utterly free. He can
be a musician, he can be a poet, he can be a wrestler, he can be a
politician, he can be anything… an Adolf Hitler, a Gautam Buddha;
anything is possible.
But sooner or later choices start coming
and he starts moving in a certain direction. Then that direction remains
his world. So always remember: whatsoever has happened to you, you have
been the cause of it.
Sometimes it hurts that you are the cause
of all the misery that has happened to you; you feel sad. But there is
no need to feel sad, because through it, you come to an understanding,
and then things need not happen the same way again to you. You can
change; you can manage your life in a different way.
You can live
in a different way; you can be a different person—a totally different
person!And the second thing to be remembered: for whatsoever happens
whether it hurts, gives pain, or whether it makes you happy, always feel
thankful. Because sometimes pain is needed for growth; pleasure is not.
So whatsoever happens, make it an opportunity to grow. Use that
opportunity as a jumping board for something higher. A friend dies,
there is pain, there is anguish and misery, but use that opportunity.
Meditate on death. Everybody is going to die. So remember that death is
always there; don’t forget it. Your friend’s death has reminded you of a
very, very significant phenomenon that death is there.
Don’t
arrange your life without taking note of death that is the reminder in
it. Maybe god has given you a message to get ready: the friend is gone,
you will be gone one day, so prepare for death!
One has to learn
from death as much or even more than one has to learn from life, because
life is small, death is vast. Life is a small affair; a seventy-year
affair in which one-third will be gone in sleep, another one-third will
be gone in earning bread and butter, another one-third in other
stupidities…. Nothing much is left! It is not a big thing, it is a very
small phenomenon; compared to death it is nothing. Death is eternity.
And
we prepare for life, we send the children to the school and the college
and the university, for twenty-five years. If they are going to live to
seventy-five, we give one-third for preparation. What preparation do we
make for death?
And we are going on such a long journey. What
provisions are there? How are we ready for it? So when a friend dies, it
is a reminder to now become aware, death is there you cannot just
forget it. And by forgetting, nothing is helped, it is bound to come!
Don’t be like the ostrich.
You can hide yourself from death but
death is going to come; whether you hide or not makes no difference. In
fact, if you don’t hide yourself you may be better able to face it, to
live it. And those who have lived death have attained to the immortal,
because the immortal can be known only through death.
It is only
in death that one comes to see that there is something inside, which
never dies.So when a friend dies, meditate over death. Think about your
own life, think about the priorities again, how you have been wasting
your life.
Rearrange it; give it a new style and a new shape in
which death becomes a prominent thing. Let it be arranged around death,
and then you have used the opportunity. So even if sometimes you feel
that things are not as they should be, use that opportunity. This is
what I call the creative way of the sannyasin: using all kinds of possibilities and transforming their quality.
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