No living being escapes the  stimulus-response symptom

All through our life, things happen to impede our progress and interfere with our mind.

They may be trivial diversions or serious happenings.

The yoga of the Gita counsels us to not embrace them or resist them, but to endure them with a neutral openness.

By not giving them any additional energy they will lose their grip on us.

When we bear with them, we are left in peace, with clarity of mind, destined for immortality as it were.

A true practitioner has to learn to put up with the changes in life with fortitude