shrimad bhagvad gita…………
3 ways of living life
1) Karma yog
2) Bhakti yog
3) Gyan yog
1KARMA YOG-
To do things and deeds selflessly and with feelings of worship to god in form of work.
They may be small things like giving seat to an old person, giving water to thirsty, giving food to needy, giving gifts to your servants, etc
To do anything you may give 3 reasons:
1) For myself
2) For parents and family
3) For good of society
*When you do for yourself you may give good output,
*For family you may give better output,
*When you think you are doing for society you give best output because when you keep higher aims and objectives for your work, the thoughts give you more energy to do better and you enjoy the process.
You may have to get up very early at 3 in morning. If you think about your own good, you will think let me sleep more and relax.
But if you think of the work and its importance for good of society, people, you will get the energy and will to get up as you are thinking for others.
Dedicate all the work that to you do to God. Take all work as an opportunity to do good for others as worship to God.
Eg. emperor Akbar told his singer Tansen that he wanted to listen music from Tansen’s guru. tansen took akbar to his guru.The guru told him to wait for listening his songs. And made him wait for 5-7 days which made Akbar tense about why was the guruji doing this.
And then after some days, the guru sang and there was so much love and magic in his music that Akbar told Tansen that he had enjoyed guruji’s music much more than that of Tansen.
To this Tansen replied the difference is that “ I sing for you but guruji sings for God.”
Thus dedicating every work as a worship of god makes it the best performance of yours with pure dedication and love.
2) BHAKTI YOG:
Bhakti yog means loving all beings like a family with god as our creator.
It doesn’t mean praying to god and other religious acts only.
You may say that you are praying god and doing puja whole day but that is not true bhakti.
To show love to all and treat them as one is bhakti yog.
All beings are children of god and so all are equal in front of him.
Now you may say how can I love the boss who scolds me everyday and stops my promotion.
In reality all of us are atma or soul.
Just like a drop of water of sea is still sea only, as it is a part of sea it has all properties of sea.
Same way, we are parts of god and thus we have all qualities of god.
Soul is infinite, of infinite joy and energy.
To see in each living being , see the soul of that person.
The outer state of any person is due to his upbringing, his parents, environment he lives in since he is born. You may or may not like the outer state of the person but see the soul which is real.
Eg: in a jungle, a couple used to live in a simple hut with very few furniture and belongings.
One day, the husband passing by a shop sees his own reflection in a mirror and amazed at who the handsome person is asks the shopkeeper, “what is this?” shopkeeper says it is a mirror.
Husband buys it, takes it home and hides it. He doesn’t tell wife about it. He sees the mirror everyday and feels happy looking at himself. But he hides the mirror from his wife and never tells her about it.
Wife notices many times that husband is hiding something from her. She doesn’t know what is a mirror!!!
And one night when husband is sleeping, she finds the thing and looks at it!! Gets very angry on him!!! She tells him,” so this is what you were hiding from me, photo of a beautiful lady!!!
But she doesn’t know that she is looking at her own reflection in a mirror.
Same way, when we look at others we should see them as souls that is same as we are.
All souls are equal in reality. They are pure, peace loving and full of love.
This way you can love everyone.
Eg: in a bus, a poor person sits next to you.
you don’t like his dirty clothes and mannerless ways. You may first feel hatred towards him.
But think that the person is such because of his past, his environment.
In reality he is a soul. So love the soul and behave well with the person.
Respect all.
Give compliments to good deeds of others, like even the rickshaw wala. You can buy some sweets and give it to him as a token of respect for his service.
3) GYAN YOG:
Gyan yog means spreading knowledge that you have to others.
Knowledge doesn’t become less on giving, but increases.
Eg: in physics,
If you are wearing a red colour shirt and light falls on it. Light is made of 7 colours. The red colour absorbs all colours except red which gets reflected and you see red as colour of shirt.
Here the shirt itself is red and reflects red rays towards us.
By this its red colour doesn’t reduce.
Same way, the knowledge that we spread remains a part of us and others also get benefit of it. Such give and take of knowledge makes society a better, happy and peaceful place to live.
THIS ONE IS VERY INTERSTING!!
CONCEPT OF S1 and S2…
Life is about balancing our emotions and work and rest.
We should balance ourselves to stay and move on with the ever progressing world.
Now let’s take S1 and S2.
S1 means SNEH 1 and S2 means SNEH 2.
S1 is in relaxed state of mind always as he knows the truth of life and accordingly behaves in day to day life. S2 is affected by daily happenings and lives in fear, frustration and tension.
Many times it may happen with us that sum thing bad happens which affects others a lot but we are relaxed about it and still enjoying life as we know the laws of universe.
Here this behavior of our may be surprising to others and they may not even like it.
For example…..
1) your father calls you and says we have suffered losses in lakhs.
Now in S1 state of mind you may say to your father that all this is part of life. We had brought nothing when we were born and when we die we will take nothing. And your father will really think that you need to see a psychologist. Right??!!
2) You may go to a funeral of a relative where all wil be crying. But you know about life and death and so are happy about the death thinking that now your relative is going to a better state in life.
And seeing you relaxed and smiling in funeral everybody we feel like hitting you with shoes!!
3) There is a rich merchant who is sitting relaxed in S1 state of mind. And his servant comes running to say ,” sethji, the car outside met an accident and is in very bad condition”
Sethji is relaxed and says,” so how does it matter to me!!”
Surprised at this servant says,” but it is your car”
So sethji replies,” if its my car, then how does it matter to you. You relax!”
So you see here that if in everyday situations you behave in S1 state of mind you may not be accepted as a normal human being!!!!
So even if you know the truth of life but to stay in world you should balance it with S2 state of mind also that is to show feelings and emotions like everyone; towards different situations even though inside you may be very relaxed!!
NOW SOME THINGS ACCORDING TO BHAGVAD GITA IN 21ST CENTURY!!!!
• Having no needs and living simple doesn’t mean you should leave everything. To live in todays world, you have to accept it and move with it. But always think and do only what is NEEDED.
• When you go for shopping in a mall, you will come across hundreds of things which may tempt you to buy them. On seeing others having different things you may be tempted to buy them.
• But to stay in this costly and fast world, buy things only if you really NEED them. Ask questios to yourself like “ can I do without this thing? Is it going to be profitable to me?”
• This is the way of living simple in terms of bhagvad gita in todays world.this will reduce your unnecessary expenses and keep you happy always.
• You may have a Mercedes and now don’t need a BMW. But still you may feel that you don’t have BMW!!! and so you will spend still more money to buy it and show off!!!
What we do is think of BMW and in doing that you don’t value the Mercedes and so don’t enjoy the pleasures of Mercedes!!!!
Enjoy the Mercedes instead of crying for a BMW!!!!
• In todays world you have infinite things to do, to buy, to enjoy. At times you feel bad that you don’t have this and you cant buy that because it very expensive.
• The fact is that even BILL GATES doesn’t have money to buy the whole world.
• So understand this fact and be happy and content with what you have in present.
• Be relaxed about the fact that others have many things which you don’t have.
• Accept it that you cant be everywhere in this world at same time.
• Accept it that you cant have everything in this world.
• Enjoy and be happy and thankful about what you have. That is living in present.
• If you have extra and don’t need some things than give it to someone who needs it.
• All the deeds that you do in present, in future you are gOIng to get the result of it.
• Depending upon the nature of your deeds ( good , bad) you will get the results which will decide your future. So check out what you are doing.
• God doesn’t say leave everything t stay a simple life. He says be happy with all things that you have, enjoy them, but don’t have new desires.
• Today there are many things to do other than what you are doing in your life. Others may tempt you and you may get distracted from it.
But the way out is to learn to say NO and accept it when other also say NO. have FOCUS of what you want to do. Say no when others want you to do things that take you away from your focus.
That is very important in today’s fast world.
• You may worry about the past and future. And in that worry you will not enjoy and value the present. So forget the things of past that hurt you and disturb you. Bad happens to all at some point in their lives. Accept this fact.
• Be thankful to god and others in your life and society. Enjoy and live in present moment.
• Also there may be sad things happening in your present. Accept it that those are results of your past deeds and its now in your hands to make your present and future good by thinking and doing positive things.
• Change is the law of the world.
• Expectations from others lead to anger and destruction if not fulfilled.
• Understand that others are different and of different thinking and lifestyle. They have their own things to do.
• So you cant expect others to be as you want at all time.
• Other law of world is that work gives you more energy, joy and relaxation. Being idle and doing no good for yourself and others wont make you happy and relaxed.
• Giving and returning to society in whatever form and size you can will increase your energy and joy of life.
• Fill yourself with so much love and joy that it spreads out to others!!!
• DESIRE > ATTACHMENT> EXPTECTATIONS > ANGER > TOTAL DESTRUCTION
• This is a face of desires. that it leads ot anger and destruction when not fulfilled. So keep your desires in check. You may have many needs but they should be purely needed to live a peaceful and fruitful life. Also your deeds should not harm others as in that you are being selfish.
• Do things which are needed to be done in a selfless manner. Bhagvad gita says do your work without thinking of what you get in return. You may not even know that what you are doing is beneficial for some needy person and is making lives of many people better.
• If you think what you will get in return out of doing something you will not give your 100% to it. Do all work as a dedication to God. Think that it is helping others.
• God knows when and how you need to get what you deserve!!
• Life is like a company. If you do good work you will get a higher position. If you do bad work you will be taken to a lower position. Same is the working of the world.
So all the work that you do in life is going to take you somewhere in some position. Work for your family, society humanity. Instead of using your energy in anger and bad work in revenge of some bad things in society andi n your life, do good worh which will heal the world and spread love and harmony.
3 ways of living life
1) Karma yog
2) Bhakti yog
3) Gyan yog
1KARMA YOG-
To do things and deeds selflessly and with feelings of worship to god in form of work.
They may be small things like giving seat to an old person, giving water to thirsty, giving food to needy, giving gifts to your servants, etc
To do anything you may give 3 reasons:
1) For myself
2) For parents and family
3) For good of society
*When you do for yourself you may give good output,
*For family you may give better output,
*When you think you are doing for society you give best output because when you keep higher aims and objectives for your work, the thoughts give you more energy to do better and you enjoy the process.
You may have to get up very early at 3 in morning. If you think about your own good, you will think let me sleep more and relax.
But if you think of the work and its importance for good of society, people, you will get the energy and will to get up as you are thinking for others.
Dedicate all the work that to you do to God. Take all work as an opportunity to do good for others as worship to God.
Eg. emperor Akbar told his singer Tansen that he wanted to listen music from Tansen’s guru. tansen took akbar to his guru.The guru told him to wait for listening his songs. And made him wait for 5-7 days which made Akbar tense about why was the guruji doing this.
And then after some days, the guru sang and there was so much love and magic in his music that Akbar told Tansen that he had enjoyed guruji’s music much more than that of Tansen.
To this Tansen replied the difference is that “ I sing for you but guruji sings for God.”
Thus dedicating every work as a worship of god makes it the best performance of yours with pure dedication and love.
2) BHAKTI YOG:
Bhakti yog means loving all beings like a family with god as our creator.
It doesn’t mean praying to god and other religious acts only.
You may say that you are praying god and doing puja whole day but that is not true bhakti.
To show love to all and treat them as one is bhakti yog.
All beings are children of god and so all are equal in front of him.
Now you may say how can I love the boss who scolds me everyday and stops my promotion.
In reality all of us are atma or soul.
Just like a drop of water of sea is still sea only, as it is a part of sea it has all properties of sea.
Same way, we are parts of god and thus we have all qualities of god.
Soul is infinite, of infinite joy and energy.
To see in each living being , see the soul of that person.
The outer state of any person is due to his upbringing, his parents, environment he lives in since he is born. You may or may not like the outer state of the person but see the soul which is real.
Eg: in a jungle, a couple used to live in a simple hut with very few furniture and belongings.
One day, the husband passing by a shop sees his own reflection in a mirror and amazed at who the handsome person is asks the shopkeeper, “what is this?” shopkeeper says it is a mirror.
Husband buys it, takes it home and hides it. He doesn’t tell wife about it. He sees the mirror everyday and feels happy looking at himself. But he hides the mirror from his wife and never tells her about it.
Wife notices many times that husband is hiding something from her. She doesn’t know what is a mirror!!!
And one night when husband is sleeping, she finds the thing and looks at it!! Gets very angry on him!!! She tells him,” so this is what you were hiding from me, photo of a beautiful lady!!!
But she doesn’t know that she is looking at her own reflection in a mirror.
Same way, when we look at others we should see them as souls that is same as we are.
All souls are equal in reality. They are pure, peace loving and full of love.
This way you can love everyone.
Eg: in a bus, a poor person sits next to you.
you don’t like his dirty clothes and mannerless ways. You may first feel hatred towards him.
But think that the person is such because of his past, his environment.
In reality he is a soul. So love the soul and behave well with the person.
Respect all.
Give compliments to good deeds of others, like even the rickshaw wala. You can buy some sweets and give it to him as a token of respect for his service.
3) GYAN YOG:
Gyan yog means spreading knowledge that you have to others.
Knowledge doesn’t become less on giving, but increases.
Eg: in physics,
If you are wearing a red colour shirt and light falls on it. Light is made of 7 colours. The red colour absorbs all colours except red which gets reflected and you see red as colour of shirt.
Here the shirt itself is red and reflects red rays towards us.
By this its red colour doesn’t reduce.
Same way, the knowledge that we spread remains a part of us and others also get benefit of it. Such give and take of knowledge makes society a better, happy and peaceful place to live.
THIS ONE IS VERY INTERSTING!!
CONCEPT OF S1 and S2…
Life is about balancing our emotions and work and rest.
We should balance ourselves to stay and move on with the ever progressing world.
Now let’s take S1 and S2.
S1 means SNEH 1 and S2 means SNEH 2.
S1 is in relaxed state of mind always as he knows the truth of life and accordingly behaves in day to day life. S2 is affected by daily happenings and lives in fear, frustration and tension.
Many times it may happen with us that sum thing bad happens which affects others a lot but we are relaxed about it and still enjoying life as we know the laws of universe.
Here this behavior of our may be surprising to others and they may not even like it.
For example…..
1) your father calls you and says we have suffered losses in lakhs.
Now in S1 state of mind you may say to your father that all this is part of life. We had brought nothing when we were born and when we die we will take nothing. And your father will really think that you need to see a psychologist. Right??!!
2) You may go to a funeral of a relative where all wil be crying. But you know about life and death and so are happy about the death thinking that now your relative is going to a better state in life.
And seeing you relaxed and smiling in funeral everybody we feel like hitting you with shoes!!
3) There is a rich merchant who is sitting relaxed in S1 state of mind. And his servant comes running to say ,” sethji, the car outside met an accident and is in very bad condition”
Sethji is relaxed and says,” so how does it matter to me!!”
Surprised at this servant says,” but it is your car”
So sethji replies,” if its my car, then how does it matter to you. You relax!”
So you see here that if in everyday situations you behave in S1 state of mind you may not be accepted as a normal human being!!!!
So even if you know the truth of life but to stay in world you should balance it with S2 state of mind also that is to show feelings and emotions like everyone; towards different situations even though inside you may be very relaxed!!
NOW SOME THINGS ACCORDING TO BHAGVAD GITA IN 21ST CENTURY!!!!
• Having no needs and living simple doesn’t mean you should leave everything. To live in todays world, you have to accept it and move with it. But always think and do only what is NEEDED.
• When you go for shopping in a mall, you will come across hundreds of things which may tempt you to buy them. On seeing others having different things you may be tempted to buy them.
• But to stay in this costly and fast world, buy things only if you really NEED them. Ask questios to yourself like “ can I do without this thing? Is it going to be profitable to me?”
• This is the way of living simple in terms of bhagvad gita in todays world.this will reduce your unnecessary expenses and keep you happy always.
• You may have a Mercedes and now don’t need a BMW. But still you may feel that you don’t have BMW!!! and so you will spend still more money to buy it and show off!!!
What we do is think of BMW and in doing that you don’t value the Mercedes and so don’t enjoy the pleasures of Mercedes!!!!
Enjoy the Mercedes instead of crying for a BMW!!!!
• In todays world you have infinite things to do, to buy, to enjoy. At times you feel bad that you don’t have this and you cant buy that because it very expensive.
• The fact is that even BILL GATES doesn’t have money to buy the whole world.
• So understand this fact and be happy and content with what you have in present.
• Be relaxed about the fact that others have many things which you don’t have.
• Accept it that you cant be everywhere in this world at same time.
• Accept it that you cant have everything in this world.
• Enjoy and be happy and thankful about what you have. That is living in present.
• If you have extra and don’t need some things than give it to someone who needs it.
• All the deeds that you do in present, in future you are gOIng to get the result of it.
• Depending upon the nature of your deeds ( good , bad) you will get the results which will decide your future. So check out what you are doing.
• God doesn’t say leave everything t stay a simple life. He says be happy with all things that you have, enjoy them, but don’t have new desires.
• Today there are many things to do other than what you are doing in your life. Others may tempt you and you may get distracted from it.
But the way out is to learn to say NO and accept it when other also say NO. have FOCUS of what you want to do. Say no when others want you to do things that take you away from your focus.
That is very important in today’s fast world.
• You may worry about the past and future. And in that worry you will not enjoy and value the present. So forget the things of past that hurt you and disturb you. Bad happens to all at some point in their lives. Accept this fact.
• Be thankful to god and others in your life and society. Enjoy and live in present moment.
• Also there may be sad things happening in your present. Accept it that those are results of your past deeds and its now in your hands to make your present and future good by thinking and doing positive things.
• Change is the law of the world.
• Expectations from others lead to anger and destruction if not fulfilled.
• Understand that others are different and of different thinking and lifestyle. They have their own things to do.
• So you cant expect others to be as you want at all time.
• Other law of world is that work gives you more energy, joy and relaxation. Being idle and doing no good for yourself and others wont make you happy and relaxed.
• Giving and returning to society in whatever form and size you can will increase your energy and joy of life.
• Fill yourself with so much love and joy that it spreads out to others!!!
• DESIRE > ATTACHMENT> EXPTECTATIONS > ANGER > TOTAL DESTRUCTION
• This is a face of desires. that it leads ot anger and destruction when not fulfilled. So keep your desires in check. You may have many needs but they should be purely needed to live a peaceful and fruitful life. Also your deeds should not harm others as in that you are being selfish.
• Do things which are needed to be done in a selfless manner. Bhagvad gita says do your work without thinking of what you get in return. You may not even know that what you are doing is beneficial for some needy person and is making lives of many people better.
• If you think what you will get in return out of doing something you will not give your 100% to it. Do all work as a dedication to God. Think that it is helping others.
• God knows when and how you need to get what you deserve!!
• Life is like a company. If you do good work you will get a higher position. If you do bad work you will be taken to a lower position. Same is the working of the world.
So all the work that you do in life is going to take you somewhere in some position. Work for your family, society humanity. Instead of using your energy in anger and bad work in revenge of some bad things in society andi n your life, do good worh which will heal the world and spread love and harmony.
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