43. Take Responsibility for your Choices🔗

Many times, we feel that we are not getting what we want from life. We want wealth, but we are forced to live with poverty. Or we want to renounce, but we have too many bonds, too many obstacles on the path.

But if you look a little a little deeply into your life, you will understand that whatever you have in your life is exactly what you asked for. Because you are not aware of your true desires, you carry the imagination that life has cheated you. But Life is nothing but a big tathaastu! Life is always saying, ‘So be it! So be it!’ You don’t take responsibility for whatever is happening in your life, because you are not aware that it is a result of your own decisions, your own choices.

A small story about decisions and consequences:

Bod and Tony are out on a morning run.

Suddenly Tony asks Bob, ‘Hey Bob, remember when you and I went fishing up north nine months ago? And the car broke down in the thunderstorm and we ended up spending the night at that farm owned by that gorgeous widow. You remember?’

Bob says, ‘Yes, yes, Tony, I remember that.’

Tony says, ‘You remember we met that widow?’

Bob says, ‘Yes, of course I remember her.’

Tony says, ‘She had that big fabulous house, and we slept in the guest wing, and she was over in her wing. And the next morning we got in our car and headed north, we went fishing. Do you remember?’

Bob says, ‘Yes, yes, I remember everything.’

Tony says, ‘Well, today I got a letter from her attorney.’ Bob is shaken. 'Why... what happened?' he asks. Tony asks, 'Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night and go pay the widow a visit?' Bob slowly says, 'Yes I did...' 'And did you happen to use my name instead of telling her your name?' asks Tony. Bob puts his head down and says, 'I am sorry, I did. Now what to do? Why do you ask?' Tony says, 'Well, she just died and left me everything in her will.'

When you know that you are responsible for the happenings in your life, you will spontaneously renounce the imagination that life has cheated you.

Do I carry the imagination that life has cheated me? Could this be because I am not aware of my true desires?