Analyze the Defeat, become Heroes!

The whole world is very agitated and full of discontent, anxiety and fear; filled with petty faction and hatred. In order to calm and silence it, you must have enthusiasm and courage. When defeat and disappointment stare you in the face, you must not give way to weakness or despondency. Never condemn yourself as inferior or useless. Analyze the defeat and find out the reasons in order to avoid it the next time. You are not zeroes, you must become Heroes!

You should have the muscles of iron and nerves of steel. Then your resolution itself will generate the necessary confidence and you will win over the opposition.
For the crop of life, courage and confidence are the best pesticides and manure. Be like lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.
Baba (thought for the day)

 

How do be become heroes? Baba tells us here how we get over defeat and disappointment when they are staring in our face.

Analyze the defeat and find out the reasons in order to avoid it the next time.

That was just the missing point with that TM example I have mentioned before. When I got in touch over the Facebook with an old, so called TM-'friend' (yogis are our friends) and analyzed how I got into that TM Thing..., which didn't work well finally, he said he didn't understand it.
Because in his mind there should be no problem, just meditate. He thinks he knows how to become a heroe and not only that, but at the same time he thinks he is able by that to enlighten the world.
But it is very exhausting, if we try to analyze what went wrong and we notice that it is not possible, because we cannot understand it.
It is also frustrating to feel that we cannot understand it. The problem is, if the source got lost and without that we got aware of it, however that happened in our individual life, we cannot understand and analyse it. 
As the source has to do with relationships, if we cannot find that relationship level, the source gets lost and we don't even know why and that had happened with TM.

In analysing that disappointment we have to realize how the source got lost.

In yesterday's thought for the day we met again the three levels, listen, think it over and absorb.

What I am doing just now in writing is thinking it over, but first I read it or listened to it and now I try to reflect on the thoughs coming up in my mind about that very subject and that is of course, colored by my experience and my life.

Thinking it over is putting it into practice and action. Writing is therefore an action. If I would only listen to Baba's thought for the day, I would not be able to analyze it and to find the hidden meaning. It is always about truth and truth is hidden, therefore, if we don't delve into it, we will not get to that truth.
Let us look at what is happening in doing that, let us analyze what just now is coming up in the mind by doing that. The question is how we can become heroes and we don't get stuck with the feeling of being zeroes.

I definitely doubt that I have the muscles or iron and nerves of steel, but we can be positive about it just going on. We have to do a step at the time and not all steps at once. If we don't do that step because we don't know how or we think it anyhow will not work, that is different. We have to know the difference. 

Baba calls it our resolution and that is willpower. What is involved is time, because if we need the necessary confidence to win over the opposition, we have to go on, no matter what obstacles will be there.

That reminds us at the three steps he called Tapas, (spiritual work):
First - discrimination.
Second - seeing it in our own life.
Third - go on no matter what obstacle will be there. 

   

For the crop of life, courage and confidence are the best pesticides and manure. Be like lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

 

To be able to do that, we have to know that negativity is not okay, but if the feelings are not positive, that is just part of it to analyse why or to change the feelings into positive feelings, without just omitting it.

As mentioned I didn't get an answer from that TM guy, but always the same what began to be nervating to get always the same answer. It was like, why you don't think, just use your brain. But he wanted to talk and in the background it was just what he has learnt by heart. He is used to think that way and that was for me out of question. As it didn't end well the last time, so why should I bother about the same stuff again? Why listen to something that didn't work the last time as he would only try to talk me into it again and to convince with by heart learnt words. And he certainly is a good talker, that I know and he is convinced about that part of it. 

It felt like the only conclusion was that he doesn't understand. If I said analyse, he said 'I don't understand' and if I said something else he said the same thing, 'I don't understand'. 

And I said: 'Analyse it!' He didn't get it. 

We can ask any school child to analyse it and she will be able to do that, but don't ask a TM-guy to do it, because you will get that answer, 'I don't understand', so I told him that nothing is more boring than a TM-guy, because of his believe that he knows everything and in reality it is all learnt by heart only and he doesn't know anymore how to use his brain. 
Years ago when I met him I didn't know and he said I should become a TM-teacher. And I did that and yes, I know that they don't know and it is all learnt by heart, they repeat like puppets what they have learnt during months by heart and if you ask them to analyse it, they begin to talk about science and it is also learnt by heart more or less, always the same stuff.

They are only possible to think in that frame of mind and nothing else.
That means they talk about relative and absolute reality and about meditation and transcendence and scientific research trying to back up their theory, and that's it. That is impressive in the beginning, but after we have made the experience it is not anymore.

If there is something not working, they are not able to analyze it anyhow, because for them it should work. They think that meditation is the remedy for everything. As they believe that meditation will solve every problem in life and that we need not to analyse it, but just meditate to get there, they just meditate and get always to the same conclusion.
And all that is unconsciously, hidden, only deep rest should do it and they think that it gets us all to enlightenment. If it is real or not, that is for TM-people no more a question. They got used to make it easy for themselves, no problem, whatsoever, so we get the standard answer, just meditate and the ability to solve real problems and to think it over got lost.

If we have to face problems, a TM-Person will find in that a reason to conclude that we should meditate and if there is no problem, they will conclude that it works, but it is always about what they are doing and that way we cannot get to the reality that we are not the doer.
Certainly they always stay positive, but in such a mind frame that they really believe it, even if nobody ever got enlightened by that.   

Finally, it was the inner master who said that they are all the same, we have no case. Even if it was in the past 'deception', he would learn nothing out of it and go on as before. It would be answered the same way by TM-people, just meditate and that means they are not able to make a difference between meditation and analysing it.

It is not possible to analyse it and if we do, they will not understand it. It means we get TM cliche answers. It was not the right time, it was Karma etc, there is no transformation of the mind. 
And he thought that everything was clear ..., but it was not, as he was not able to understand the difference between analyzing something and just meditation and seeing it in the light of the self, he cannot understand it.
We can use the intellect in a different way than just getting to the same boring conclusion always, just meditate..., they have been brainwashed.  

 

Action as well as thinking it over is on the level of passion, Rajas.
But we can only get to Sathva if we put it into practice, so we have to go through action to get there and it involves time, after a certain time period we get to the insight and the reflection of divinity and it is beyond the mind and it transcends time.

It evolves from 'listening' to 'thinking it over' or putting it into practice and finally after a certain time period, it will be absorbed and the reflection is a transcendental reality, it is in the observer and not in the mind.