Fortitude, waiting for the change

Generally, people seek only happiness and joy; under no circumstance do they desire misery and grief! They treat happiness and joy as their closest well-wishers, and misery and grief as their sworn enemies. This is a great mistake. When you are happy, the risk of grief is great; fear of losing the happiness will haunt you. Misery prompts inquiry, discrimination, self-examination and fear of worse things that might happen. It awakens you from sloth and conceit.
Face the dualities of life with thithiksha (fortitude). But be aware, thithiksha is different from patience (Sahana). Patience is putting up with something; tolerating or bearing with it because you have no other choice. Fortitude is having the capacity to overcome it, but yet, disregarding it - that is the spiritual discipline.
Putting up with the external world of duality with inner equanimity and peace is the path that will lead you to liberation. Bear all, with analytical discrimination - this type of patience will yield good results.
Baba (thought for the day)

‘Over the counter’ is for me still kind of hard to get, also to understand how it could get out of hand and become such a fraud.

I understand the principal of illusion seen as fraud better than the market. But finally we deal as it seems with the same; it reflects the general attitude of ignorance and only going in direction of desires, if fraud is the reason that broke the Western world’s financial system.
The expression 'fraud' was in the air.

In the thought for the day above he tells me why feeling too good and happy makes just worry that we could lose it, while the feeling of enemies is making alert and awake. 

If we are miserable, we have nothing to lose and the fear of worse things that might happen get us to self-examination. It awakens from sloth and conceit.

And the difference about patience and fortitude is interesting.
I always had problems being just patient because behind it the reality of no choice.
But the fortitude is the capacity to overcome it and that is just what he established in telling he would give a new job, no matter how it will happen and when, it is the trust behind.
It is the difference between writing or just wait, it would result in patiently bear it, no choice, but like that it is fortitude. That means, if it changes or not, that is not the question, the question is going in the right direction, and it can change.
Analytical discrimination seems not possible if we just wait patiently, because how to get aware of it? No challenge, no insights.

If there is the expression fraud in the air, it makes alert. First I was looking at the close environment, if there was a reason for worry, and then it calmed down too early. It is like a wake-up call.

And if it would be dream, it would go unnoticed.
Analytical discrimination is required, contemplation, thinking about it again and absorb it. Baba calls it meditation to listen, to think it over and to absorb.
Anyhow it is that inside seeing, follow the inner master. If we are not awake and observe it is just a dream.  
It is good to discriminate between patience and fortitude, because he said always wait, wait, wait ..., and no patience to just wait?
But whatever the state of life, it was fortitude, waiting that it will change. Waiting for self-motivation, the inner light and knowledge, the insight that it could change and waiting for the certainty to be able to go for it.
In that light seeing ‘enemies’ in the TM movement was good, because it made me go on against all others, because they believed in the system, for me it was an experience of being stuck, going nowhere. If they would not have felt like enemies, there would have been no reason to go on and beyond it, I would be also stuck in it.