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Further examples of spiritual courage:

1.  Chandragupta Murya’s grandson emperor Ashoka who has been hailed as the greatest emperor in the world died a mendicant in a village in Kerala.

2.  Chaitnya Mahaprabhu left everything and became a wandering monk.

3.  His disciple Sukhdeva Goswami could not even believe that he himself had written a book called Chaitnya Charitamrata at a time when he himself was not only ailing but totally bed ridden.

4.  Bhaktivedanta Swami the founder of ISCKON(International society for Krshna Consciousness) was already seventy, was suffering from blood pressure & heart trouble, and was practically penniless when he landed in New Orleans(USA), towed in a cargo ship from India.

5.  In the next 10 years he wrote several spiritual books, went around the world 14 times on several spiritual tours, delivered numerous lectures, got thousands of followers, & built 108 ISCKON temples around the word ultimately receiving moksha (deliverance) on 14^th November 1977 at the age of 80. All this was possible just because of spiritual courage & god’s grace.   

6.  Swami Yogananda Paramahansa founded YSS(Yogoda Satsang Society) to propagate Kriya Yoga a form of meditation all around the world.

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Examples of courage on the spiritual side:

1.  Mahaveer Jain started a cult called Jainism which is so popular all over the world.

2.  Gautam Buddha a prince, left a life of pomp & luxury just to wander around in search of god & started the internationally renowned religion of Buddhism.

3.  Guru Nanak founded the Sikh religion.

4.  Guru Govind Singh’s spiritual courage & strength made him start the dawn of the Sikh martial race.     

5.  Emperor Chandragupta Maurya who was known for his valor embraced Jainism in his later years and took deliverance as a heretic in a place called Sravana Belegola in Karnataka.

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Examples of courage:

On the material side:

1.  Sohom Swami aka Tiger Swami had the material courage to fight & subdue real life tigers. At the same time in his later life he became a monk and spiritualized his innate courage by meditating in the Himalayas, subduing mental beasts, opening two ashrams & writing spiritual books.

2.  Wrestlers, body builders, boxers, strong men, ironmen, power lifters, arm wrestlers, athletes, sportsmen, & martial artists are the best specimen of material courage.

3.  Entrepreneurs, genuine theatre and movie personalities, political leaders etc. exhibit extraordinary vision & mental vigor.

4.  Entrepreneurs risk their wealth & health to establish & run great business houses regardless of whether they are professional investors or Greenfield men. This way they contribute to the society in a positive way.

5.  Genuine artists & leaders try to sell their creations, ideas etc. to the society with scant regard to success or failure.

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Till now materialism enjoyed a majority, while spiritualism had been oozing into the individual living entity’s psyche in trickles slowly but steadily.     

When vibration reaches the level of courage, both materialism & courage have reached neutrality that is both are fifty percent in the living entity.

From now on courage can be both material as well as spiritual.

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In other cases the victim shall wallow in self pity for sometime before beginning to look within, find out how bad he/she himself/herself had been and turn contemplative.

In both cases, impotent anger precedes both reactions. Some may go even mad, murderous, vindictive or suicidal.                     

This shows that pride is immediately followed by rage.

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Stockholm syndrome derived its term when hostages of a kidnapping bid in Stockholm began to praise the very kidnappers who had kidnapped them in the first place, to the cops who had rescued the victims. This actually put the society in a quandary.

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In such cases of tormenting by others two things may happen.

Initially the receiver may revolt initially but then find that he/she is in a hapless situation. 

This person may suddenly get a masochistic attack of Stockholm syndrome, may begin loving his/her tormentor & start sucking up to him/her to please this sadist.

This is a psychological aberration which is actually a warped idea of protecting oneself from future attacks.

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