❖ Confusion is just the method of action by the mind in clarifying a matter as right or wrong.
We can drive away the confusion to half the distance if we read the above lines carefully and retain them in the mind.
Some people will seem to remain confused always. They will remain perturbed in taking any sort of decisions. Some keep on lamenting: 'Confusion alone is my first enemy; this only is actually an obstruction to my progress.'
The problem is not with confusion. It is only in our method of approach towards it. The problem is in our thinking that it is wise to run away from it, as we think that confusion is an evil power to give us trouble.
Now I will tell you a story. A king by the name of Sharo Shaun was very much confused due to a dream he had the previous night.
First thing in the morning he assembled his court and told about his confusion.
The king said that he had had a dream in which he had become involved in a big problem and in that difficult moment he did not have his minister or his military chief by his side to counsel him.
The king proclaimed an order, 'What should I do on such occasions when I do not have anybody by my side to advise me? I must get an immediate reply for this. '
Because a reply was sought for a confusing thing, the confusion rose to a climax. When all of them were thinking that it could not be resolved at all, an elderly person stood up and said. 'I have found an answer.
Continuing, he said, 'Oh king, one condition. The reply for this is only a single line. But you should not read it now. You should read it only when a crisis arises.' The king accepted the condition. All the persons present there, except the king, read that reply and said, 'Oh, what a wonderful answer.'
The old man put that reply, containing the answer to the king's question in a diamond ring and inserted it on the king's finger.
After a few months, a war started with the adjacent country. The king was defeated. Just as the king was escaping alone on a horse, the enemies were chasing him. The king's horse reached the top of a hill and stopped there.
When the king felt sad thinking 'What do I do next. there are no ministers or advise me now' he remembered about the lines written on the diamond ring. Immediately he opened the ring and saw what was written.
It read, 'This too will pass away,' The king felt easy with those words. Soon after the enemies left him and went on their way. The king also escaped.
That king, after a few months, invaded that same adjacent country and won the war. When he was celebrating the victory, he once again opened the ring and read it.
It said, 'This too will pass away.' He took it as a warning not to feel too much pride about his victory.
In the same way everything will change.
It is enough if the truth that the present condition will surely change is realized by one and all of us. We can approach and tackle any sort of confusion easily.
Do not take any decision at a time when you are at the peak of confusion. Relax for ten minutes, take a deep breath in and out, and after your mind has relaxed, and in an enthusiastic mood and atmosphere, face the crisis or confusion and make a decision. You will get a good solution. The confusion will leave you.
Welcome the confusion fully and totally. Don't be afraid even if you reach the peak of confusion. The moment we go beyond confusion, we will get clarity. This is a subtle truth. Those who have gotten clarity, each and every one of them agree with this truth.
No matter what struggle we undergo, it is only for the child of clarity to be born within us. We can calculate ourselves how many times we have aborted and prevented the birth of the clarity within us by trving to destrov the confusion. being afraid to face the confusion.
Like the king mentioned above, approaching the confusion with ready-made statements like, 'Surely this condition will also pass,' is the first approach.
The step which is beyond this is 'welcoming the confusion'. Facing boldly and fighting with the confusion and obtaining both clarity and the solution, is the second type of approach.
The second type is better than the first. However, it is somewhat more difficult. Great things are not available for free.
Don't be afraid of confusion!
Don't feel sad also in the face of confusion!
Say thanks for the confusion; welcome it!
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Clarity
- It is rather difficult for a man who has a weak mind, to enter into and come out through unexpected twists and turns of life. A weakened mind is unclear.
- Clarity is one of the essential requirements to enter and come out through the intricacies and twists and turns of life.
- Clarity is not so cheap that we can get it just by reading a few books. It is only a collection of the experiences of many individuals which will create clarity.
Once an ant slipped from a wall and fell onto a balloon. For an ant, a wall and a balloon is each a broad and flat surface. If we go to the ant and try to explain to it in its own language saving. 'Oh ant, the surface over which you are standing, is not, as you believe, a very much wide and vast area. It is only an ordinary balloon,' the ant will not be able to understand. The reason is its own very small body structure.
In the same way, man also firmly believed that the planet earth that he saw was a 'very, very far and wide stretching flat surface.' Galileo, who was somewhat spiritually oriented, due the broad outlook he possessed, and helped by his instinct, strongly affirmed that the earth is actually spherical in shape.
In those times, neither the people nor the government believed in Galileo. Thinking that he was telling only a lie, they not only insulted him but also tortured him.
What is the reason?
As far as the ant is concerned, through its eves, the balloon looks like a big giant. The same way for man. Man is smaller than the earth by many million times. How can he see that the earth is actually a sphere?
If the ant were to be at least as big as a pup. it could have understood that the balloon is also an ordinary thing, like the pup itself.
Until man knows science and understands science, no one can accept that the earth is a sphere. In the same manner, until a man knows spiritual wisdom and understands spiritual wisdom, he cannot realize that life is full and blissful. He cannot clear himself out from the grip of sufferings.
It is because we have wisdom only to the size of an ant or a mustard seed, we continue to suffer from all sorts of troubles, sorrows and disappointments. As the wisdom begins to grow bigger from the size of an ant, many truths will begin to be revealed.
By simply suffering, one cannot come out of difficulties. Suffering is not the solution to a difficulty.