Just because we have had a difficult life does not give us the right to make others’ life difficult. When we are going through difficulties and not just one difficulty but a series of difficulties, then it is understandable that we may become bitter. And that bitterness may come out in the way we speak and the way we deal with others, whereby we end up knowingly or unknowingly making their lives harder than what they need to be. Such a path, even if understandable, will take not only us and our world to a darker place but the world at large to a darker place. Instead, if we can transform our pain and not transmit our pain, then we can become an example for the world of how to see difficulties positively.

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06.34 The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Kṛṣṇa, and to subdue it, I think, is more difficult than controlling the wind.