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How To Respond To Rather Than React To A Provoking Situation? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Name: How To Respond To Rather Than React To A Provoking Situation? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives
Uploaded: 2023-11-15T23:30:10Z
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: A short spiritual/philosophical talk by Jaya Pataka Swami advising listeners to respond thoughtfully rather than react mechanically to provoking…

15 Nov 2023

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A short spiritual/philosophical talk by Jaya Pataka Swami advising listeners to respond thoughtfully rather than react mechanically to provoking situations. The speaker contrasts knee-jerk reactions with a cultivated, transcendental tolerance, illustrated by an anecdote where someone calms a provocation with a gentle, non-reactive act.

Think that's all you do. Don't respond to situations mechanically. What they call is knee jerk response. They hit the knee and on point. You don't rather think and see how you want to respond. Like legal kicked ratio in the chest. But he didn't react the way that Rieger thought. He said. He said, oh, you're foot all right. So I rubbed his foot. My chest is very hard on this way. He didn't respond by some provoking situation. He rather acted in a transcendental way. How you can do that? Gradually we want to be more and more transcendental. And if someone criticizes or does something provoking and they do it to us how we tolerate, they do it to the guru or Krishna and then we restart.