Jolly Evening everyone,
So, this will be my first post for this New Year and with this, I mark Our Alter Ego’s 4th year on the net.
I do have something very specific to write about right now. I wanted to talk about ‘Acceptance’.
I was at my paternal grandmother yesterday, my Bam, and was leafing through the pages of a local newspaper called Tejamu. My eyes instantly drove over the picture of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. I am not a follower of his principles (unless I am). I, however, see in him a light, an enlightened soul with witty, wise maturity. He was there broaching the topic of Acceptance and why it is primordial in relationships.
I had here like to start with an anecdote: You know, medical science, technology and the likes are evolving. At a certain period of time, people were told invoking the rain god is going to rip his wrath apart, but taking into account the effects of global warming is going to cure our planet. There came a point where antibiotics were thought as perfect, but now its credibility is questioned. At yet another point in time, an entire world generation abandoned butter thinking it is bad for health, but last year, in June, an article in TIME magazine now claim that butter is actually good for our heart!
Acceptance. We accept things so easily at times, not so easily as others and perhaps not at all.
Would you accept anything and everything at all cost? If yes, why? If no, why?
Acceptance is an emotional, social and physical concept. We easily say that accepting the other in a marriage is one of the most important foundation of a marriage filled with respect and amour. Still, accepting that the other has betrayed one is eyed so negatively, to the point of causing shame.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said: “If someone is imperfect, just accommodate them. In due course of time, they’ll change!” Was he wrong in saying so? What guarantee is there that the one who has betrayed will not betray again, what guarantee is there that the antibiotics are really bad? What guarantees is there that the butter is really good?
I feel that as humans, we think about guarantees tremendously; our guarantee being: everyone is stopping antibiotics and taking butter all over again, so can I and so should I. We also tend to accept the change that benefits us and rids us of our conscience guilt. We accept the change which is considered right at large.
How to accept something that nobody has accepted before now? How to accept something I’m not sure if I should accept? How to accept something that goes against whatever I have believed in till date? How to accept something which is ‘wrong’?
Is there really a barrier to which you should accept things and refuse others?
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Until next time,
Much Love,
Hasta la Vista!
Iam Aehr.
~Hinduism guides us to accept everything as it is and go along with the flow of life. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you should sit down and be a passive reactor to things, on the contrary, you should take charge of your life. ~