Manifested Distress
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Sep 22, 2016
Dear Beloved 3 years ago
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“Distress which is not manifested is to be avoided.” |
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Origin: Meditation Expertise – Yoga Sutras 2.16 (by Michael Beloved) |
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At first glance, this seems to be a confusing quote. How can distress not be manifested?
The real key is to avoid distress that you have created yourself. If someone else is in distress, then you may be able to act in a manner to relieve their distress. That is manifested distress. However, it’s better otherwise to not place yourself in situations where you are going to be distressed. This requires the maintenance of a neutral composition where one is neither distressed nor happy in most cases. This will place you on the high ground. |
MiBeloved 3 years ago
The meaning of this is that fate has already targeted the individual for a certain amount of happiness and distress in a particular body. With the body comes a package of fate. The person will have to face that regardless of what he achieves or does not achieve.
If he is to be shot dead at twenty years, it will take place unless he can make some deal with fate to avert it.
Question is:
How does one make a deal with fate so that fate cancels or alters its plan?
No one is going to make a fool out of fate, that is for sure. So no matter what happens, it has to be that fate will gain the upper hand. The circumstances will tip in the direction of fate being the victor over the individual.
Once we get this between our ears, then we can sit down with fate and strike a deal. Hence if we have the insight, if fate allows us to take a peek at our future and if we see that there is some allowance for adjustment, then Patanjali said that we should avoid distress.
Dillon killed the man some time ago in a past life. Now fate has done some bookwork and has assigned that the man should kill Dillon in return. It will give the victim the opportunity to do this, except that Dillon will die a slow death, so that he has some suffering to compensate for his victimization of the said man. Patanjali is saying that if it is possible, if fate would allow an adjustment, if there is some way that Dillon can get fate to cancel the slow death, then he should make amends to fate so that it changes its plan.
Dillon’s idea is that fate should arrange for the injury except that instead of a slow death, he will get a surgery just after being shot. He will recover from this without much pain. Then he will not press charges against the man, but will in fact make friends with the man and try to do the man a few favors.
This energy will cancel out the consequential energy from the past life, just as the plan of fate for the slow death would have.
