One of the main challenges to
fortitude is physical discomforts. Heat & cold, pleasure & pain arise
from the contact of sense organs. They come and go, being impermanent. Bear
with them patiently. Mental discomforts arise from the dualities of life like
pleasure & pain, praise & blame and gain & loss. Though we tend to
seek the pleasantness and detest the painful, we need to face both, since life
offers a package deal: you seek the one and the other comes uninvited. Braving
the forces of lust & anger is the greatest challenge. Under their grip man
forgets what he is and acts in a way he himself might not approve of in his
saner moments. He who is able to withstand the agitation caused by lust &
anger, is the self-controlled one and he is the happy man.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
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