One gentleman who was going through lots of financial and relationship challenges in life asked for the reason. I asked him what do you want in life and he has a big goal, on which he has been working for past many years. So how did you reach to this goal and he said that this is what I am here for. Then why are you scared of problems? As per him, they are breaking him down. I asked him to study life journey of self made millionaires, big scientists and anyone who had reached to a certain level in life on his own. He came back after few days and accepted that they have had a tough life and why? (Often we look at the destination not the journey behind it) Do you think it was all bad karma to go through those problems? Then anyone who becomes big, all of them have had bad karma? What about God himself? Rama, krishna, Jesus! They all went through many problems which are beyond our comprehension. Did they all have bad karma?
First of all we are badly conditioned to think that any problem means bad karma! It may not be! What if everything here is designed for a bigger purpose? He wanted to be a billionaire. Now, most of us want lots of money but we do not know what to do with that money. Second thing is we want money, but very few are working as per that target in mind. He was working towards it in every way. Mentally, physically and emotionally. So if he gets a billion now, what would he do? He took few days to answer that!
But why so many problems if we are supposed to get what we desire? So that we can be prepared to handle that. Again the answer is same. We are being prepared. It is like if a soldier has to go to war front, he goes through a tough training before reaching there. Now, that training is his punishment or to make him strong. If he would start taking it as a punishment, then he would never become a good soldier. But if he would take it as a way to reach to his goal, he would be able to absorb that training happily. Similarly, if we would consider everything here as bad Karma, then we would not be able to see the bigger purpose. However, if we start looking at things from a different perspective that we are being prepared for our bigger purpose, to handle everything we had asked for, to reach to a certain level so that we can handle, then we would be able to overcome these challenges much easily.
Everything in life is not a result of Bad karma. Having challenges is good because they make us who we are. they make us strong and wise. Welcome your challenges with open heart and you would see yourself overcoming them soon. They will help you in gaining your wings like butterfly goes through pain before gaining strength in wings. It bleeds and then the wings flutter.
You will be flying high after all this bleeding, just have faith in yourself and in your dream. It is not a punishment, it is to send blood to your wings.
