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. . .
thank u for crossing my cross roads. . .
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Good write up, the idea that caught up with me is the self-realization as per point 5, there are ppl in hatties who run a month with just less than 10k of earning and I know friends here who are left with no cash by even the 20th of the month.One value ppl to definitely understand is the value of money earned and live accordingly.
ReplyDeleteFrom my personal experience, the book that has influenced my life when at crossroads to maintain clarity has been Robin Sharma's "Who will cry when u die" , clear simple easy to follow steps so that we make our lives and others lives also better.
Cheers to the article!!
thanks ralphy. . .
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ReplyDeleteOne of the toughest things about chasing the dream is managing the disciplines of persistent action and hopeful patience that are required to ultimately see the vision come to be.
ReplyDeleteFulfilling our dreams and our ability to thrive in the areas of your life that matter most can be simplified by breakthroughs—a moment in time when the impossible becomes possible.If anyone wants to thrive in any area of their life, they have to reach a point of breakthrough where they will not settle for anything less than extraordinary in that area. Whether someone wants a breakthrough in their Business,
Emotional well-being,Health,Finances,Career & Intimate life ...There are only three areas to break through in order to feel lasting success
I personally live for finding strategies—those that help people get more done in less time. What is it that gets some people to succeed while others fail who seem to have equal enthusiasm or passion for the tasks at hand? They have insights, distinctions, and strategies that allow them to achieve more quickly.
For example, take someone who was born very poor, without an education, and had emotional and financial challenges but found a way to be highly successful and living an inspired life. I don’t believe that’s lucky—luck is what you do for a day or a week—strategies are what make it consistently happen for decades. A strategy can be found in the simplest or slightest distinction and it can happen in an instant.
As I described above, there are three elements that effect the long-term success or failure of a person and whether they break through or not is because they have a disempowering STORY.
ReplyDeleteWe all have stories—narratives we tell ourselves about why we can or cannot do or achieve something in our lives. Whether we believe we can or can’t, we’re usually right, because our expectation controls our focus, perceptions, and the way in which we feel and act. When a person succeeds it’s because they have the right strategy, and they found it usually because they have a story that it was possible or they could make it happen.Your story may be true—you may have been through a horrific experience--but that’s not the reason why you can’t have the life you want. For example, one might have had a bad breakup but that’s not the reason he/she haven’t found the passionate and loving relationship they deserve. A disempowering story is one of the things that controls people and makes them stuck in their beliefs.
Most people tell a story in a selective way so they don’t have to ever maximize their effort towards a strategy because they're afraid they will fail. In order to get out of a story you have to be triggered by hunger and desire—if someone wants something strong enough they will break through the story that’s limiting them
Of course, whether you have an empowering story or disempowering one is influenced most powerfully by the mental and emotional STATE you’re in at this moment in time. As human beings we all develop emotional patterns—moods—that are mental or emotional states that tend to filter how we look at our lives.
This influences the stories that we make up about who we are, what we’re capable of, or what’s achievable or not. The states we go into most often then become the most powerful filter of all that will determine whether we find the strategies necessary to succeed and whether we come up with a story that will empower us. The big question then becomes, what is it that we can do to change our state of mind when we’re not able to maximize our true potential? One of our greatest scientific discoveries has been that you can change your emotional mood by a radical change in your “physiology.”For people who are experiencing stress at any given moment, a form of relief can be to simply change your physiology
The second thing that affects our state is what we focus on. For example, if you’ve been at a funeral honoring someone you cared about and everyone is in a sad state and afterwards someone shares a story or anecdote about something that person did that was extremely humorous, suddenly everyone goes from tears to laughter. In an instant our states can be changed by what we focus on. What’s wrong is always available—but so is what’s right. Whatever we focus on effects our state and our state then effects the story we have about who we are, what’s life about, what’s possible and what’s not. From that story we will often determine whether or not we will maximize our capabilities and the strategies that will help us achieve what we’re truly after in a sustainable way.
Learning to put yourself in a peak state consistently is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself and your life. It can transform your stories and give you the strategies to breakthrough. This is a huge focus that we just don’t tell people but what we train people to do with their minds and bodies in an instant, on cue, so they can shift the quality of their life
Change your story, change your life.Change your state & ......you change it all!
what you SEE is what you THINK, what you think is what you DESIRE, what you desire is what you SPEAK and what you speak is the way of your LIFE.......
ReplyDeleteTrue Life starts with a heart full of faith not with a head full of facts,
for character and personality is always shaped by what your mind takes in ...and in the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, so its important to "UNDERSTAND" a PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE ..Cross Roads are just an excuse of the uncertain mind