We
experience stress because we want certain outcomes, situations, and results.
However, the soul is not independent, and it is not within its ability to
fulfill all of its desires.
By nature,
the soul is a servant of God. Now, what is the duty of the servant? To fulfill
the wishes of the master. If we surrender to God and think that whatever He
does is for our welfare, this attitude of surrender will help us get rid of
stress. A surrendered soul says:
rāzī haiñ usī
meñ jisameñ terī razā hai
yūñ bhī vāha
vāha hai tyoñ bhī vāha vāha hai
“I am happy
in Your happiness. Whatever situation You put me in, I will blissfully accept
it.” Thus, stress is a symptom of lack of our submission to the Will of God.
When we experience stress, the best medicine to cure it is to increase our
level of surrender.
Now, what is
the problem in increasing the level of surrender? Worldly attachments! We keep
on pondering, “This should happen this way; that should happen that way.” That
is the main hurdle to complete surrender. For achieving that goal, we need to
increase our detachment from the world.
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Before
God-realization, there will always be some amount of tension within everyone,
because the extent of surrender will not be one-hundred percent. However, by
giving us tension, God signals to us that something is wrong and we need to
correct it by surrendering further to Him. This is just as when we put our hand
in the fire, we feel pain. What would happen if we did not feel the pain? Our
hand would burn without our knowing it. The feeling of pain is, in fact,
a form of
Grace. It is a signal that something is wrong, and that we must take the hand
out.
Similarly,
stress is a signal that we need to increase our surrender and devotion to God.
A spiritual
doctor will prescribe you the medicine of submitting to God for getting rid of
stress, whereas a material doctor will give you all kinds of medicinal drugs.
However, such drugs will not help eradicate the root cause of stress. By
increasing the level of surrender, the source of stress will itself be
eradicated. Shree Krishna states in the famous verse:
karmaṇyevādhikāraste
mā phaleṣhu kadāchana
mā
karmaphalaheturbhūrmā te saṅgo ‘stvakarmaṇi
(Bhagavad
Geeta 2.47)
“Work with full dedication. Do not be careless
while performing your tasks. But do not get attached to the fruits of those
works.”
Shree
Krishna again says:
yoginaḥ
karma kurvanti saṅgaṁ tyaktvātmaśhuddhaye
(Bhagavad
Geeta 5.11)
“A yogī is
one who can work without any attachment to the results.” If we follow this
formula, stress will be abolished from its roots.
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