What is Stress Curse or Bliss

What is Stress

Curse or Bliss

“My dear Krishna, seeing my friends and relatives present before me with such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up. My whole body is trembling, and my hairs are standing on end.

My bow Gandiva is slipping from my hand and my skin is burning. I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself and my mind is reeling. I foresee only evil, O killer of the Kesi demon. I do not see how any good can come from killing my own kinsmen in this battle. Nor can I, my dear Krishna, desire any consequent victory, kingdom or happiness. O Madhusudana, I do not wish to kill them (friends, relatives, teachers etc) even though they kill me. O maintainer of all creatures, what happiness will there be for us from killing the sons of Dhrtarastra? I am not prepared to fight with them even in exchange for the three worlds, let alone this earth. By killing the sons of Dhrtarastra what happiness will there be for us, Janardana?”

The extracts of words spoken by Arjun to Lord Krishna when the battle lines had been drawn between Kaurvas and Pandavas for the greatest battle on this planet-the Mahabharata-evil verses good. Krishna was Charioteer of Arjun the greatest of the warriors, physically fit and mentally alert. Krishna was the Lord-personification of the Creator. When Lord is with you; why one should come under such feelings. Obviously it was the thinking of Arjun that made him afraid of fighting and Lord could convince him only after a full sermon running into 700 Shaloks -Bhagavad Gita and showing him his real self the Viratroopa.

Thus it is evident, that the origin of Stress lies in one’s thinking-negativity thereof, feeling of helplessness & inability to achieve anything, worry without basis, demotivation to enjoy life, self-anguish, and internally pale self. It is not a bodily action but a long term continuity of stress of does affects the body functions.

In simple words it is fight between the demands made on us may be physical, emotional, imaginative or just non-sense and our capabilities to meet those demands by fulfillment, rationalization, or coming to face with the realities. The imbalance – space - between the two is stress. Longer you carry it on your head more likely are the adverse to face and physical adverse effects are definite and more likely; may be mental sometime if you take the matter too seriously. Issues are to be resolved, facing life is a journey, so decide to face or leave the field. Runchor-the Lord Krishna became and settled at Dawarka simply to avoid a war for welfare of people. If a person continues with worries unfounded, not seen or felt, he sometimes develops suicidal tendencies. However it is difficult to define stress in very clear and exact terms.

Since stress relates to thinking process: not to physical brain made of flesh and blood: a person is master of the show. He can make it his friend or a foe: curse or a bliss. He is his own physician. Remember you have the greatest strength to tackle it others have sympathies just to remind you of your weaknesses and shortcomings that would make you more stressful. So decided quickly to fight or flight. Take a rational decision; can always take help of disinterested seniors - persons not influenced by considerations of personal advantage; but final decision lies with you: don’t through responsibility on anybody else for whatever may be outcome.

Both are good alternatives. When you decide to have a flight from the stressful situation you decide to leave everything to the Mother Nature or the father Lord their action is final and you have to accept it. Obviously the action is taken by somebody else so the fruits would also be his: you will have to happy with whatever is left by him.

Abraham Lincoln rightly said, “Good things come to those who see and wait, but only those things left by those who hustle.”  

“Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.” —Osho

“There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and

breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.’

James Carroll

If you decide to fight it is still better choice; it gives you an opportunity to accept a stressful situation as a challenge and fight it out with full force of the resources, abilities, competence, day and night, with eyes wide open and above all a positive attitude that “I will win”. Even if one does not succeed to the extent he wished; he has the learning, experience, knowledge to do better next time. One must honour the achievement and need not regret what could happen.

 “Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts, this is the secret of success.”

                                                                            Swami Sivananda.

So Stress is Curse & Bliss both:

 Choice is with you,

Make him a friend or foe as you like.