For instance, everyone has to go through the pain of losing their loved ones, it is inevitable. The fixed karmas that everyone needs to go through are the joys and sorrow of meeting and departing with their loved ones and the inevitable cycle of life. Therefore there's no sense of gaining or losing because all you need to do is to cherish the time you have with your loved ones, appreciate and value the fate to meet all the lovely people in your life.
For instance, treasure the chance to fulfill your filial piety when your parents are still around. It doesn't matter how long you can fulfill as long as you cherish and appreciate the sacrifices that your parents have made to bring you into this world. This also serves the same to parents by appreciating the joy that the children have brought into their lives. This applies to romantic relationship as well. You should enjoy and value the experience given to develop and enrich you regardless of the result as it only benefits us by maturing ourselves up in the process. Some would feel that their lives are filled with losses because they don't know karma and they don't know things are no longer meant to be. Consequently it brings pain as they live in the shadow of regrets because they have not been cherishing things around them by living in the moment. This brings us back to what I've been emphasizing on. That is, you have not been living life with your soul, instead you live with the senses of your physical body that brings the feeling of gains and losses which is also known as karma in religious speaking. If you would have to totally put down the thoughts of gains and losses, karma, wouldn't have existed in the very first place. For example, in your past life you've cheated on your significant other, so naturally in this life you would need to experience the pain of being dishearten as to learn from your wrongdoings and rectify your mistakes. If you have realized the meaning of "all's well that ends well", once you have put down the thoughts of gains and losses, there would have no pain and if there's no pain, no karma would have been formed.
Therefore through the knowledge of religion, man would be able to see clearly that the gains and losses in life are rooted from karmas and blessings. When misfortunes end, it tells you that you have fulfilled in repaying your karmas, whereas when fortunes end, it tells you that you have used up all your blessings.
This brings us back to the secretary story that I previously shared. As she was actually the saviour of the businessman in his lifetime, she owes the businessman a favour because she received his kindness in the past life. Therefore she is destined to work under him and to save his life, when she has accomplished all these, it means she is over with repaying her deeds and it has also come to the end of their fate. She left regardless of the pay increment and promotion because there are no lingering feelings left as their fate has ended.
This is also applicable to romantic relationship. We always overlooked and missed the opportunity of meeting great people in life, when we have come to realization about how great the person is, it is already too late to revert their broken hearts. This is because they are done repaying their deeds through love which also signifies the end of fate.
Let us get back to the businessman. Although in the end he firmly believes that the secretary is his life saviour, he's still trapped in the karmas of gains and losses because he changed his mind due to the plane crash, if it didn't happen it wouldn't have changed his thoughts. At the end of the day, he's still unstable to break free from the karmas of gains and losses.
This is why man needs to transform his soul in order to comprehend the wonders of life and through soul transformation one would be able to clearly determine the gains and losses in life which helps one to avoid going through unnecessary pain. By realizing what are the gains and losses beforehand like the stable master, it would ensure us to be ahead of our destiny and by doing so we would have the opportunity to live life to the fullest that truly changes our destiny.
God is fair. If there's an obstacle, there's a way out too. Just like what I've mentioned previously, people who have lost their parents since young would live a life without parents' love, but at the same time they are omitted from the task of fulfilling filial piety to parents, those childless couples are free from the burden of raising a kid but they also lose the chance to enjoy their carefree late lives, a president of a country is above all, but they need to sacrifice their privacy and peaceful tranquil lives because all eyes are on them to correctly manage and protect the country.
We are always surrounded by life's gains and losses but if you would to look into it wisely by determining which are caused by karmas and which are not, you would be able to create a sorrow free life.
There's once I lost my wallet, I was despaired and saddened with the fact. Grandpa comforted me by saying: "There's nothing to feel sad about, most likely your money was used by someone else and you never know if the person who used the money might be the one who you have owed in your past life!" Back then I hold strongly on to gains and losses in life, but after some experiences in life. I found out that grandpa was the one who has come to realize to cut down unnecessary sorrows in life by putting down the gains and losses. Moreover there are things which are beyond our control, when things are not meant to be there's no point in insisting it.
Based on my current realisation of life, losses are also gains. For example, if there's no bad or evil person on earth, how would we have the term to describe 'good or nice person'? If you haven't experienced any pain and loss in life, how would you know how great it is to be happy? If there are no losses in life, how would you cherish and treasure what you've gained? At the time when you possessed the most precious thing on earth, you would always need to worry about losing it. That's why happiness is to let go, while gains and losses in life is only process.
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