When you
find yourself in a Life-and-Death situation, don’t agonize. Just experience the
moment. That moment has a beauty of its own. If you agonize, your suffering
will take you away from the present. When you are not in the present, you can’t
lead the situation effectively, you can’t think with clarity and you can’t act
with focus. Panic may well be a normal reaction in such situations. But if you
are present in the moment, your awareness will help you immensely in dealing
with it.
But how
can anyone be calm in a Life-threatening, crisis situation?
Good
question. I recall an Urdu couplet by a unknown poet.
mita de apni hasti ko agar hazaar martaba chahe,
ke dana mitti se mil kar hi gule gulzar hota hai!
It means
let go of all your attachment to worldly possessions__including your desire for
power and position__and allow yourself to be annihilated – to be razed to the
ground. For only when a seed becomes dust, and is buried, does it germinate
into a new plant!
Why do you
or I resist a crisis in the beginning? Because we fear that something grave
will happen to us__or to those who we love. Now if our fears were to indeed
become true, what is the worst that can happen? Well someone, perhaps even you,
can die. But we all have to die someday – sooner or later. So, let go and
accept that eventuality. When you do that, more often than not, death does not
come calling. As the poet says, a new beginning often follows. Such is the
nature of Life. For something new to begin, the old has to end, it has to
perish. Once you understand this truth about Life, you can not only face, but
endure and last any situation, however scary, dark and grave it may be, in
Life! Be willing to be annihilated therefore! For that’s the only way to live
on!!
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