Titiksha

You're happy.

So this is called Titiksha.

That is the verse.

Endure it.

Endure it means happily.

Titiksha is a unique quality that we Indians have.

Even now we have it.

Which is the capacity to bear with physical inconvenience happily.

So what are the qualifications required for a mind to do this process of detaching and attaching? So that is listed as the sixfold virtues.

What are the sixfold virtues? Shama, Dama, Uparama, Titiksha, Shraddha, Samadhanam.

Sixfold virtues.

These are the sixfold abilities of the mind.

The withdrawing ability.

He is called as Uparama.

Then fourth one, Titiksha, forbearance.

The ability to uncomplainingly, cheerfully tolerate Forbear different pinpricks of life, difficulties of life, hardships of life without complaining, cheerfully.

Beginning from Shama, these six virtues, what are they? Shama, Dama, Uparama,

Titiksha, Shraddha, Samadhanam.

They are called as

Shamaadi Shatka Sampatti.

See, attachment towards God develops healthy detachment towards everything.

And that's why you are able to practice uparava.

So, Sama, Dama, Uparama, then Titiksha.

What is Titiksha? Ability to endure.

And I remember that when I first thought about titiksha, the thought was, okay, how do you just put up with what you have? and not complain about it.

But in some ways that goes against what we're saying, right? In that it is not about hoping that this time passes, hoping that, you know, you slip on that peel and you get back up.

I think part of the Diksha is exactly what you guys are both mentioning, which is it's about entering that period of pain, entering that period of suffering and using that as a moment to to notice the difference between, again, what we talked about last week, which is the big I and the little I.

The titiksha isn't so much about putting up and shutting up, which is what I think in life you're told is put up and shut up.

But titiksha is really about using that moment in time to recognize who is the I that is feeling, who is the I that is suffering, who is the I that is angry, who is the I that is upset.