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The person who torments you is your best teacher. He trains the tolerance without which you cannot sit in silence
amāninā mānadena — не ждать почтения себе и оказывать его каждому (Шикшаштака, 3)
The person who torments you is your best teacher. He trains the tolerance without which you cannot sit in silence
amāninā mānadena — не ждать почтения себе и оказывать его каждому (Шикшаштака, 3)
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"If there is someone you dislike and they harass you all the time — that is your best friend: they are teaching you tolerance. And there is nothing harder to tolerate than our own mind."
Sit in silence for five minutes and watch. Thoughts come in waves: the unfinished task, yesterday's insult, tomorrow's plans. You catch hold of one — and the prayer is gone, you are just sitting and thinking. Śrī Prem Prayojan Prabhu says it plainly: nothing in the world is harder to tolerate than our own mind. But tolerance does not come from nowhere; it is trained somewhere — and the training ground is already yours. The colleague who picks at you. Prabhupada called such a person your best friend: free of charge he teaches you what you lack. Mahaprabhu gave the formula — give honour to everyone, even to the one who picks a quarrel with you. The tolerance you earn by day comes back to you in the silence.
Whoever torments you by day is training you to hold on to the Name by night.
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