How to Deal with Insult and Injury

January 24, 2016

Adapt, Adjust and Accommodate

It is easy to sit and meditate. The most difficult part is to practice bearing  injury, learning to adapt, adjust and accommodate. These are teachings of the great saint and sage of the Himalayas, Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. You can do your prayer, meditation, spiritual practice by yourself. But what about your attitude when you deal with people, when you work with them day in and day out? That is where you have to prove that you have achieved something in your spiritual practices.

If a person practices adapting, adjusting and accommodating, he would never point a finger at others and blame them. Even if another person is at fault, if you know how to adapt, adjust and accommodate you are rise above those situations. Still, the most difficult thing is to bear insult and injury. That needs a tremendous capacity to keep the mind under your thumb.

Do your daily work, deal with everyone, move with everybody. Be in ocean, but learn to surf well. ~ Sri Swami Satchidananda

Source: Spiritual Now

 

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    Osvaldo de Aguiar

    November 21, 2012

    Minha filosofia a respeito e a seguinte; o que dizem ou pensam a meu respeito interessa somente a quem o pratica.
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    Jendhamuni Sos

    November 23, 2012

    Thank you +Arun Bector This is very true, indeed. It's very difficult for many of us to put them into practice, but we can try harder and harder every day, till reaching that level.

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    Kevin C

    November 23, 2012

    Not at all, very productive, moves one to mirror behavior and way, allowing for self assessment.

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    Charles van Dijk

    November 23, 2012

    I like the South African author Wilbur Smith. His first book was "When the Lion Feeds". The lion is the symbol of the enterprising spirit, the jackals, vultures are represented by the something for nothing club (Lawyers and their proffesional clients). I like your post and support you +Jendhamuni Sos

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