Everything that happens, happens for a reason. A person who practices meets life's circumstances either from the side of knowledge or from the side of action — and together the two give the ideal result.
Everything that happens, happens for a reason. There is a cause for everything. Often, when people meet life's circumstances, they ask: why is this happening to me? An undeveloped person will grumble and complain about life — that is not a constructive position. A person who practices approaches all of life's circumstances either from the side of knowledge or from the side of action.
Everything that happens is conditioned by a person's karma (the law of cause and effect): action and reaction, cause and consequence. If today a person is living through some unpleasant feelings or emotions, or is facing problems on the physical plane, it means that earlier, through their own actions, they harmed someone, disturbed harmony, and left deformations and distortions in their own mind. And today the world gives them a chance to correct this by bringing them up against one circumstance or another. This is how the process of purification happens. If a person receives pain, they are working off karma. One should take it as a medicine for the scars that the person once inflicted on themselves in the past.
When a person understands that someone who causes them pain did not turn up in their life by chance, and sees that person as a doctor who heals wounds, then they stand in the position of knowledge. This does not mean one should be passive; it means one should not feel aggression toward one's adversaries. Act not out of hatred but out of a sense of duty. This is very important, because actions done out of hatred create new distortions in the mind — they sow seeds of karma, and one can sow even more karma. That is why it is said that karma is like a seed. If you are careless, a whole tree can grow from a little seed.
But if the seeds of the suffering one is destined to go through have already been sown, and it is impossible to avoid it, is it reasonable to suffer? If something has to happen, it will happen anyway. Understanding all this, a person no longer follows the lead of their emotions: fear, anger or hatred. Their actions are rational — they do not do what they feel like doing, but what is reasonable to do right now. Such a person is called dakdabija — "a burnt seed." A dakdabija listens to their inner voice, tries to hear it and to do what is reasonable and right. And such a person will not fall again; they will only grow — becoming freer and freer every day. In time, when no karma remains, they will attain freedom.
The second position is the position of action. A person understands that every situation expects some action from them.
And they respond readily — they do not retreat before circumstances, do not complain; they go and act openly, meet the situation and overcome it.
When the two approaches, knowledge and action, are joined, they give the ideal result — an understanding of the causes of a situation, and active action. And then any of life's circumstances can be overcome.
Namaskar!