The Realized Man is not free of problems

Problems will happen with all of us. Health too will come with its own quota of fresh concerns. Learn to respond to them. You might be driving a totally destroyed kind of vehicle, a vehicle in shambles. But if you have been driving it since 15 years, you are unlikely to meet with an accident. It is diseased. Every part is rusted and out-of-place. Everything cranks and yet you will not meet an accident, because you are well-adjusted with this disease.

Now you get a new vehicle and it runs. And it really does run. You are quite likely to meet an accident. The new, the fresh, the healthy, comes with its own share of precautions to be taken. So, either way there are going to be problems. Choose your problems wisely.

The thumb rule for choosing problems is — ‘Always choose the bigger problem’. Always! Never go for littleness, never for meanness. Whenever you are faced with problems, pick the bigger problem.

My task here is to give an insurmountable Problem, a Problem so big, that you can never beat it. You can only surrender to it. That huge Problem is called God. It is a Problem so infinitely, so indefinitely big that the mind can never beat it, never solve it. So ultimately, out of frustration, out of sheer exhaustion, the mind has to just surrender to it.

The Realized man is not free of problems. He has taken on the biggest Problem.

And the biggest is never big enough. So, the next problem is bigger than the biggest, and then bigger than the biggest. That what Brahm is all about — ever-expanding, you never reach its limit.

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