Bhagawad Geeta is a textbook of life.
Several Masters, leaders, scientists, thinkers and authors have reflected on the Geeta and shared rare and precious insights with all of us.
Our purpose here is not to dive deep into the Geeta because study of the Geeta needs a different mental availability which cannot be assured in this forum at the moment.
But the idea is to cull out a few practical everyday tips from the Geeta. So we are going to call this "Life-hacks from Bhagavad Geeta"!
Life-Hack#1 from Bhagavad Geeta:
Arjuna was an ordinary intelligent young man - bright, noble, weak, jealous, angry, attached, caring, daring, talented, sharp, and most-importantly confused! He stood in the face of one of his life's biggest ever challenges and broke down within minutes into a feat of utter despondency and daze - wondering what to do and what not to be, lamenting over life's ironical paradoxes, complaining about the increasingly blurring lines between what feels right and what is right.
At such a time, Geeta came to his aid. Krishna said something simple at the very outset : Give up your weakness of heart!
There was no assurance given, no sympathy extended, no motivation meted out. Krishna slammed a hard whip on Arjuna's excuses, dependencies and blame-games. Krishna clarified that Arjuna's suffering, sorrow, confusion was all because of his own weakness of heart. That there was none else to blame - not God, not man, not destiny, not life.
What that means is even more empowering: It means that the onus of our entire life rests on us. I have the remote-control to my happiness or sorrow. And interestingly, i do not need to attain anything to be happy. Happiness already is. I just have to give up being weak.
THINK!
Quote for Today: "To laugh is wisdom, to weep is folly. Refuse to be unhappy." - Swami Chinmayananda
#lifehacksfrombhagawadgeeta
Several Masters, leaders, scientists, thinkers and authors have reflected on the Geeta and shared rare and precious insights with all of us.
Our purpose here is not to dive deep into the Geeta because study of the Geeta needs a different mental availability which cannot be assured in this forum at the moment.
But the idea is to cull out a few practical everyday tips from the Geeta. So we are going to call this "Life-hacks from Bhagavad Geeta"!
Life-Hack#1 from Bhagavad Geeta:
Arjuna was an ordinary intelligent young man - bright, noble, weak, jealous, angry, attached, caring, daring, talented, sharp, and most-importantly confused! He stood in the face of one of his life's biggest ever challenges and broke down within minutes into a feat of utter despondency and daze - wondering what to do and what not to be, lamenting over life's ironical paradoxes, complaining about the increasingly blurring lines between what feels right and what is right.
At such a time, Geeta came to his aid. Krishna said something simple at the very outset : Give up your weakness of heart!
There was no assurance given, no sympathy extended, no motivation meted out. Krishna slammed a hard whip on Arjuna's excuses, dependencies and blame-games. Krishna clarified that Arjuna's suffering, sorrow, confusion was all because of his own weakness of heart. That there was none else to blame - not God, not man, not destiny, not life.
What that means is even more empowering: It means that the onus of our entire life rests on us. I have the remote-control to my happiness or sorrow. And interestingly, i do not need to attain anything to be happy. Happiness already is. I just have to give up being weak.
THINK!
Quote for Today: "To laugh is wisdom, to weep is folly. Refuse to be unhappy." - Swami Chinmayananda
#lifehacksfrombhagawadgeeta
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