Update & Message from Swamiji - Vedantic Insights on Coping with Chronic Illness

Описание: Many people fear drastic changes in life, especially those forced upon you by unforeseen problems like chronic illness. Yet, having your life turned upside down by a crisis can also have unexpected, good consequences. It can open your eyes to entirely new perspectives on life.

The well-known serenity prayer that says, "You should gracefully accept the things in life that you cannot change." Well, you can't change the basic human condition that's subject to illness, old age, and death. But how can you possibly accept these if they make you suffer in misery? Suffering itself is insufferable. You can't simply choose or decide to accept it.

Fortunately, it is possible to age gracefully without feeling miserable, and to die in peace without suffering, and to accept chronic illness without a trace of unhappiness, distress, or resentment.

How? You have to discover that you are absolutely ok in spite of illness, aging, and death. You have to you fully understand that all these problems only affect your body and mind, but not you, not your essential nature. In other words, you have to realize your true self, atma, as being pure, unchanging consciousness, a fundamental and transcendent reality that's utterly unaffected by the problems of your body and mind.

Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: https://www.arshabodha.org/