Living Wisely Living Well | With Asha Nayaswami

Heartbreak can be overcome by offering oneself to God. In our realm of duality, life inflicts countless disappointments on everyone. Perfect bliss awaits you only in God. Accept pain as a corrective to mistaken directions in your life. If you live wholeheartedly for God, pain will keep you on the straight path that leads to Him.

Moods, griefs, and sorrows of every kind cannot be reasoned away. They have their own reality, and their own magnetic attraction. The only way to cure them is to change your level of awareness. When I was young, I used to drive moods and sorrow away by concentrating—once, I did so very fiercely—at the point between the eyebrows.

If people disappoint you, never turn against them. Accept the disappointment as a karmic lesson, and tell God firmly, “No matter how the storms of life rage around me, or how heavily the rains fall, how terribly the earth shakes, or how violently circumstances pummel and punish me, I am Thine, ever Thine! Thou art my only truth and polestar in this world!” For your own sake, if for no one else’s, emanate kindness to others from your heart. By anger or bitterness you will hurt most of all yourself.

Feel the breeze on your skin, then ask yourself, “Whence comes this breath of air? Whither, when it leaves me, will it go?” Let every breeze heighten your awareness of other places, other times, other realities.

“There are no such things as obstacles: there are only opportunities!” This teaching of my Guru’s might well be engraved over the exit of every home. Obstacles challenge one to summon up more energy in oneself. Without them, people would become lethargic. Indeed, even the worst karma can be a blessing, in the sense that it prods you toward self-improvement.

To be true to others means to be loyal to them. Truth and loyalty are virtual synonyms. Therefore did my Guru say, “Loyalty is the first law of God.” Indeed, disloyalty is worse than untruthfulness, for weakness of character may force a person to be untruthful, but treachery is motivated by no such compulsion: there is merely egoic attachment to delusion.

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Be grateful for life’s disappointments! Give them to God, and in the end you will always find that they were the best thing that could have happened to you. Disappointments are life’s way of opening up for you new windows of opportunity.

Bathe your heart’s sorrows in the clear, purifying water of devotion. View suffering as a layer of mud around your heart, waiting to be hosed away by intense, devotional love.

Cling to your ideals, even when weakness pulls you repeatedly into delusion. You are not your mistakes!

Keep your spine ever straight: It is the channel through which energy flows up to the brain. If that upward flow is weakened or impeded, your power to meet life’s challenges will diminish. Truthfulness demands an attitude of firmness, integrity, and clear vision. These virtues all depend on the upward flow of energy in the spine.