Cross roads . . . ?
There were ‘cross roads’ situations in my life. If only the cross roads were clear to me I would have at least taken one of those roads to lead my life . . . I was just ‘no where’. . . had lots of questions in my mind, had no clue where to find answers, for - what’s my life all about. . .
Thought, will bagavad gita help? Luckily got a hand book which had 18 chapters explaining whole of bagavad gita in simple terms for modern times - thanks to the author. . .
As I was going through the three fundamental principles, controlling everything . . . that is, birth, life, and death that is everything has a beginning, middle, and an end.
According to Vedas these three fundamental principles are known as gunas: sattwa or creation, rajas or maintaining and tamas or concluding or ending.
Everything in creation is under the influence of these three laws. Just as food grows and stays fresh for a time and then becomes inedible, so too are people are born, live and die. Careers begin and end. So God created gunas to sustain creation and remove those things that would get in the way of maintaining it.
Gunas are also seen in our personalities. Some people like to create ideas, food or companies. Some like to manage and keep an idea or business alive. Still others have the task of removing old, broken, unworkable things, ideas or institutions.
1. Analyse your true nature and Identify which guna you belong to, it can be combination of two gunas too . . . Accordingly, work on your skills and excel in your career. – Elbert Hubbard a great writer and philosopher rightly said that “get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.” Ultimately the purpose in our life is to be happy. So work . . . work to excel because you have all rights to be rich. . .
2.But, see to that you don’t get attached to material world or ideas. If influenced, this will lead to desire. Desire denied result in frustration, anger, depression, greed and theft.
3. And it is said that when a person’s self-confidence is low, that’s when he/she becomes jealous of others -see where you stand . . .? “Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something...hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
4. Be happy and satisfied with what you have.A self-realized person is self-satisfied under any circumstance.
5. It is the God who created the gunas so it is the gunas that influence us for our purpose of life. People perform best according to god-given abilities, thus specialise and help one another finally that’s the purpose of life. One job is not superior to another, all are interdependent. So no one is superior or inferior people, if we understand this, there will be no ego, discrimination, pride and other ungodly thoughts. 6. By doing one healthy/natural thing for yourself or for others or truly help others without any expectation or anything in return, mother nature gives back a million fold. This is how creation is set up. Naturally there will be harmony in health and peace in life and god-love too. . .
-This is my understanding and interpretation. . .
