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A Lesson from a Shock

Absorber

Make negative experiences grist to the mill of your own
personality development. Nurture yourself on what they teach
you.

f you are standing by the roadside when a car passes
Iby, you will observe that its wheels continually move
up and down over bumps in the road surface. But, if
you were sitting inside the car, you would feel as if the
car were running smoothly. How is this possible? It is
because the car is fitted with shock absorbers thanks to
which the shocks remain confined to the wheels and do
not reach the passenger.
A spiritual person is one who has an inbuilt ‘shock
absorber’. Such a person can experience any undesirable
event he faces without any disturbance either to his
emotions or to his thinking processes. For such a person
there will frequently be problems and unpleasant
situations that he shall have to face, but because of his
‘shock absorber’, his mind will remain unaffected. In
a world which is constantly administering shocks of
one kind or another, he can live in a state of perfect
equanimity.

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