The size of our problems is inversely proportional to the size of our purpose… Gita 18.58
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The size of our problems is inversely proportional to the size of our purpose the bigger our purpose the smaller our problems become suppose a truck is moving fast on a road where a tree has fallen across the road if the truck has sufficient momentum it can just knock the tree aside and move on but if there is a bicycle moving gently then it will be blocked by the tree so similarly during our life journey we often face obstacles which are like trees fallen on the road of our life now when we face such problems how do we respond to them? sometimes when we interact with people they keep going on and on talking about things that we feel are small and we wonder why are they making such a big fuss about such small things or they have some grudges against someone some issues and they just can’t let go and keep moving on so what do we do? actually to get out of ourselves get out of our small problems we need a purpose bigger than ourselves as big as possible so the obstacles it’s mysterious that the size of the obstacles size of the problems is not static and is not universal the same problem may be seen as small by some people and huge by others why this difference? it depends on what other things what is the backdrop of their life what is the overall perspective that they have that is shaped by their purpose so the bigger our purpose suppose somebody is their goal of life is to their central enjoyment of life is watching movies and then the electric power goes off and they feel oh I can’t watch a movie and they may even smash the TV set in that because of now if somebody has some bigger purpose in life say they are working to feed hungry people or to treat those who are desperately sick then not being able to watch a movie might not matter much to them at all so similarly if we understand that we are working for a purpose bigger than ourselves then problems become smaller the Bhagavad Gita says that mat chitta sarva durgani mat prasadat tarishyasi yatha chetam ahankaraan nashroshyasi binangshyasi in 1858 it states that if you become conscious of me you will pass over all obstacles by my grace the Gita reveals that everyone of us is a soul who is a part of God and by God’s arrangement each of us is meant to make some significant worthwhile contribution externally and develop spiritually to go toward our spiritual evolution to attain life eternal so God himself is with us and if we cultivate a service attitude toward him by becoming conscious of him by making him our life’s purpose then everything will gradually fall in place so he is bigger than the biggest problem that we face and when our vision becomes fixed on him on his service and we understand that we as spiritual beings have survived many many problems in this and previous lives then we can persevere across multiple lifetimes and ultimately attain our life’s destination so the bigger our purpose the smaller become our problems and thus rather than resenting about how big our problems are or resenting or lamenting about how big our problems are we can focus on cultivating a big enough purpose that will make those problems