-upanishads -
There is
an old story about a man who came to see
Goutama Buddha as he had heard
that Buddha was a great teacher. Like all of us, he had some problems in his
life, and thought the Buddha might be able to help him sort them out. He told the Buddha that he was a
farmer.
“I like
farming,” he said, “but sometimes it doesn’t rain enough, and my crops fail.
Last year we nearly starved. And sometimes it rains too much, so my yields
aren’t what I’d like them to be.”
The Buddha
patiently listened to the man.
“I’m
married, too,” said the man. “She’s a good wife…I love her, in fact. But
sometimes she nags me too much. And sometimes I get tired of her.”
The Buddha
listened quietly.
“I have
kids,” said the man. “Good kids, too…but sometimes they don’t show me enough
respect. And sometimes…”
The man
went on like this, laying out all his difficulties and worries. Finally he
wound down and waited for the Buddha to say the words that would put everything
right for him.
Instead,
the Buddha said, “I can’t help you.”
“What do
you mean?” said the man, astonished.
“Everybody’s
got problems,” said the Buddha. “In fact, we’ve all got eighty-three problems,
each one of us. Eighty-three problems, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
If you work really hard on one of them, maybe you can fix it – but if you do,
another one will pop right into its place. For example, you’re going to lose
your loved ones eventually. And you’re going to die some day. Now there’s a
problem, and there’s nothing you, or I, or anyone else can do about it.”
The man
became furious. “I thought you were a great teacher!” he shouted. “I thought
you could help me! What good is your teaching, then?”
The Buddha
said, “Well, maybe it will help you with the eighty-fourth problem.”
“The
eighty-fourth problem?” said the man. “What’s the eighty-fourth problem?”
84th problem is the
desire not to have any problems.!!
No one can
help not even
Budda can help you
but yourself !! then Why to spread our
problems , sorrows &
worries to gain temporary sympathy
from this world ?
instead let us
understand the way to overcome
once for all .As DVG
puts this in his kagga ತಲೆಪಾಗಿನೊಳಕೊಳಕ ಪಂಚೆನಿರಯೊಳಹರಕ ।
ತಿಳಿಸುವೆಯ ರಜಕಗಲ್ಲದೆ ಲೋಗರಿಂಗೆ ।।
ಅಳಲುದುಗುಡಗಳ ನಿನ್ನೊಳಗೆ ಬಯ್ತಿಡದೆ ನೀ ।
ನಿಳೆಗೆ ಹರಡುವುದೇಕೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।
The dirt in your turban, the tear in your clothes:
You show these only to the washerman, not everyone.
Likewise, keep your sorrows and worries within yourself,
Why spread them to the world? --Mankuthimma
ತಿಳಿಸುವೆಯ ರಜಕಗಲ್ಲದೆ ಲೋಗರಿಂಗೆ ।।
ಅಳಲುದುಗುಡಗಳ ನಿನ್ನೊಳಗೆ ಬಯ್ತಿಡದೆ ನೀ ।
ನಿಳೆಗೆ ಹರಡುವುದೇಕೊ ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ ।।
The dirt in your turban, the tear in your clothes:
You show these only to the washerman, not everyone.
Likewise, keep your sorrows and worries within yourself,
Why spread them to the world? --Mankuthimma
During
my school days
after watching a jugglery
show in a circus even I tried to
juggle number of plates at
same time by throwing
six plates at at
one go into the air. I was never able
to reach that perfect balance. I fantasized as every time
many plates were falling down when
I was busy catching other
plates . yes later on
I realised the problems
are like this 83
plates It seemed that every week
a new plate gets added, often causing
one or more of the plates crashing
to the ground and shatter. This, of course, created the added
problem of having to fix the one that crashed. As silly it sounds to me
now, for much of my youth I took it personally, as if the world was conspiring
to thwart me and make me miserable. The very nature of the world, I had concluded at
that time was to give me
problems, not peace. Later on , I understood that the world
is as impersonal as the law of gravity, and just as unyielding and if I really wanted peace, I’d have to find
it within MYSELF not juggling
with 83 plates and also
stop playing this game of
jugglery . I
also know It is
never a easy
task but possible .
"Problems" are created the instant we say, "And I don't want it
to be that way!" Let us understand
that The world has no problems. Nothing is wrong. It is the way it is.
Sooner we accept
it is better
for us .
I read some
where in Upanishads which says that that
the world we
live in is ;
” It is that way, because that is the way it is.’’
Acceptance does not
mean leaving it that way as it is
and ,but accepting the way
the world is will
certainly helps us to
over come 83
problems. Let the world be just as it is. Turn around and look within,
finding the base or
what we call
as moolaadhara where the problem gets created. This is the
great liberating insight given by our great
masters in our land
be it rishis from yore or
Lord Krishna to our modern New
Age masters like sri sri Ravishankar or sadguru or any
one for that matter . The problem is we as a human being not understanding the 84th problem! desire to
over come 83 problems
, not acceptance of what is
and constituently being war with one
self
