Negative Solutions Will Not Work
Divine Life
Society Publications – A
New Beginning by Sri Swami Chidananda
You are your own very best
friend. Within you there exists total solutions to all problems in your life,
total solutions, not negative solutions. The ostrich also has got a solution - a
negative one. If someone comes to attack it, it does not want to feel
threatened; it buries its head under the sand. Then it cannot see anyone
attacking it. Like the ostrich, people try to have a negative solution. “No,
there is no enemy.” “Why?” “I don’t see anyone.” And so they think that they have
solved the problem. But this kind of solution - burying the head in the sand - does not work,
because the attacker comes and kills the bird.
There is a lovely story in
Brindavan in connection with child Krishna. He was troubling His mother to give
Him milk. She said: “What do you mean ... I’ve just now given you milk ... and
it is still not time for the next ... “When is it time?” the child asked.
“Night time” said the mother. “What do you mean by night time?” “When the sun
sets, when it is dark, that is the time for your supper. At that time you can
have milk.” “What do you mean by ‘dark’?” “Dark” is when you
cannot see anything, when nothing is visible. Then is the time to drink milk.”
So the child Krishna closed His eyes and said, “Mother! It is dark and I can’t
see anything. Nothing is visible. So now … please ... it is time for my ...
give me my milk”. This also is a type of solution! It is a very clever
solution.
In the case of the ostrich, it
was a foolish solution. In the case of child Krishna, it was a very clever
solution. But both of them do not achieve anything. But solutions that are
contained within you for all problems of life - those solutions are positive,
creative. Because, everything here is creative. Life is an evolution; it is an
upward ascent. It is a process which is progressive, not regressive. Neither is
it stagnant. Life is neither stagnant nor regressive; it is progressive. The
law of life is progression, ascent into a state of perfection. The Divine Plan
of God for man, for each individual soul, is for the individual soul to become
like Him, to become like the Creator who made him. So, that is the Divine Plan
of the Maker for each individual soul He sends forth here, made in His own
image, fully divine. Jivatma Paramatma Ke Amsa Hai. Divinity is your goal,
and therefore, all the potential for overcoming everything, for solving
everything and arising victorious and attaining the Goal has been put into you
by the Good God who made all things great and small.
So, within you lies a total
solution to all problems. There is a strength to support every weakness of
yours. There is a light to banish every darkness that lurks within you. And
there is a total force working within you, as it is working within every little
egg laid by a bird in its nest, as it is working in every seed which contains
the potential for a tree, as it is working in every chrysalis within which
there is held a potential butterfly with beautiful wings. Even as such perfection
lies in all these things, within you is the potential for Godhead, for
God-experience, for divine perfection. Within you is the potential for
Satchidananda consciousness and liberation. Within you is the light to overcome
all darkness. And you yourself are your best friend in this world, in this
life.
Excerpts from:
Negative Solutions Will Not Work - A New Beginning by
Sri Swami Chidananda
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