When Long – Awaited Good Thing Happensbe Grateful It Happened Not Resentful That It Happened So Late

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When some long-awaited good thing happens, be grateful that it happened, not resentful that it happened so late. We all have a choice about how we respond to the events in our life.
Some of us tend to be negative and even when good things happen, our mind may see them negatively and we may go along with that vision. In the course of life, say we want something to happen, maybe we want to get a raise in our salary, maybe we want some opening to come up in our career or something. Even in our spiritual life, we want some opportunity to serve in a particular way and that just doesn’t come.
Then, we may become resentful, we feel disheartened, that’s understandable. But eventually, when that long-awaited good thing happens, if we stay resentful, oh, you know, this had happened five months ago, five years ago, that would have been so much better. Well, okay, maybe it would have been better, we don’t know.
Ultimately, what the future holds and how the present may prepare us for the future. So, we can be grateful that at last or at least it has happened now. And if we have that attitude, then we can make the best use of the good thing that has happened.
Otherwise, we will end up really underusing even that opportunity. Just because something good has happened does not mean that is the end of the matter. We also have to respond in a positive way to make the best of that good thing, that opening that has come because of the good thing.
Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that a habitually negative attitude characterizes a mind with a perverse determination in the mode of ignorance. In 1835, it is stated, So, idle day dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, and moroseness, a habitually negative attitude. All these are increase our ignorance and increase our distress.
Decrease our opportunity to do something decisive or at least constructive to decrease or come out of the distress. Ultimately, the best way to avoid this negative attitude is to focus on the supreme positive reality. That is Krishna.
He is the all-powerful supreme being and he is omnibenevolent. surudham sarva-bhutanam jnatva mam shanti vichyate Krishna says if you understand that he is the well-wisher of all living beings, then we can have a sublime peace. So, knowing that ultimately his plan is working and his plan is benevolent and different things happen at different times for an ultimately good purpose, we can try to make the best of what has happened.
We can focus on counting our blessings and then making our blessings count. If we don’t count our blessings, we can’t make them count. And if we don’t make our blessings count, then they don’t count.
That’s why positive events need to be responded with positive actions, which will come from a positive attitude. And all this positivity can increase in our life, if we focus on the supreme positive reality. Krishna.
Thank you.