The Need to Achieve a Calm Equality Not Shaken By Outward Happenings

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If we examine our reactions to
circumstances that occur daily

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in our lives, we will see we
generally go through a range of

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feelings, from elation when
something we deem positive

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occurs, to depression when it
seems like the house is falling

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in on us.
Major events such as

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achievements in school, falling
in love and getting married,

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having children, developing a
successful career, enjoying

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amazing travel opportunities,
spending time with loved ones

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all create feelings of pleasure
or joy.

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When we fall ill, or we lose a
loved one, or experience a major

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traumatic event, lose a job,
suffer through a divorce, we

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experience pain and grief.
It is difficult to imagine, when

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we reflect on all these life
events and our reactions to

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them, how we are supposed to
accept all of them, positive and

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negative alike, with an equality
that treats them both with not

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only forbearance and acceptance,
but with a calm and tranquil

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evenness of temper, much less
with a sense of joyfulness at

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the gift the Divine is giving us
at that moment.

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Every once in a while we get a
glimpse of the state of

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equality, and we understand that
it is not only possible but

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achievable if we find a way to
separate our awareness from the

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external surface personality and
observe it from a standpoint of

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a neutral observer.
A young individual related a

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story from his time at Trior
Bindo Ashram in 1973.

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He received a message from the
mother for his birthday which

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indicated live within, be not
shaken by outward happenings.

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He reported that he walked
around the entire day in a state

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of almost trance like
abstraction.

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That evening he slept and dreamt
that there was a great darkness,

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and then suddenly an intense
light illuminated everything in

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the dream, and he woke with a
feeling that some great event

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had occurred.
He went to the ashram only to

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find that all the lights were
on.

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It was still dark early morning
before sunrise, and people were

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milling around in the streets.
He soon learned that the mother

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had left her body.
People were crying and stricken

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with emotion.
He felt strangely abstracted

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from everything and heard a
voice inwardly that said live

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within, be not shaken by outward
happenings.

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Over the next few days he
remained in that state and

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watched the events unfold as
people came from all over the

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world with tears and grief, only
to come away from the darshan of

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the Mother at peace and with
their grief removed.

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He felt this was a grace to be
shown how equality was not only

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possible but could be
experienced in actual real life

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situations.
Srioro Bindo observes quote.

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To be free from all preference
and receive joyfully whatever

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comes from the Divine will is
not possible at first for any

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human being.
What one should have at first is

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the constant idea that what the
Divine wills is always for the

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best, even when the mind does
not see how it is so to accept

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with resignation what 1 cannot
yet accept with gladness, and so

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to arrive at a calm equality
which is not shaken even when on

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the surface there may be passing
movements of a momentary

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reaction to outward happenings.
If that is once firmly founded,

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the rest can come and quote.
Reference Srioro Bindu and the

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Mother, Looking from Within,
Chapter 1, Looking at Life and

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Circumstances, pages 28 to 29.