Besides Eating, Sleeping, Mating & Defending the two most important things in our day to day lives are Work & Relationships; we can’t survive in this world without them. We can perform our prescribed duty & simultaneously build the relationships either as a parent, child, spouse, teacher, student, friend, employee, employer, president, citizen of a nation...or any other roll given to us.
Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ts7p81wuoqdkzdn/MOTIVE%20BEHIND%20OUR%20ACTION.m4a?dl=0
What is our Motive or Driving force behind our work & relationships? How do we think while talking action & building the relationships, let’s introspect.
1. Fear: Many times we do work or maintain relationships with fear as a factor. If I don’t go to work, I will not get paid. If I don’t say good morning to my colleague, he or she will be upset. My wife will be upset if I don’t listen to her LOL🤣....a Fear mentality.
2. Desire: We want to work hard or maintain relationships based on selfish desires, monetary values, fame or some kind of gain. Sometimes too much desire for fame & power creates havoc & all kinds of scandals in society.
3. Duty or Gratitude: Payback time. Someone has done a favoror to us in the past, and we would like to return the favor as our duty. It is my duty to maintain good relationship, good morality or ethics at work. I should be grateful towards society & nature for giving me plenty.
4. Devotion: The highest platform to perform our duty and build relationships. When we work & build the relationships unconditionally, there is inner satisfaction & joy. The best example in this world is a Mother (either human or animals) who works unconditionally with love & enthusiasm for her kids....And of course God Himself who works unconditionally for us since time immemorial.
It is mandatory for us to work & keep the relationships, so why not do so with a devotional attitude as opposed to fear, desire, or duty? There is no penalty for working with a devotional attitude and no extra payment for working with a desire attitude.... 🤣 choice is ours. With hard work or action, sometimes we cannot solve every current problem in this world, but with the Devotional attitude, we can minimize or resolve many upcoming problems in our lives either in family life, in friends circle, at work, in politics...or anywhere else in the world. With a devotional attitude & approach, we become very joyful and can make others joyful...A Win-Win strategy.
How do we rise from stage of Fear to Devotion? Every good or bad thing starts with Association. We naturally pick up the qualities of those with whom we associate. If one associates with thieves, one may also learn to steal. By the same principle, if one associates with people & Guru who have godly qualities and/or God himself by Hearing/Reading & Meditating his Scriptures, one can also become godly. Yes, We do have good quality within us but there is always room for improvement.
Bg 5.7 -- One who works in devotion, who is a pure soul, and who controls his mind and senses is dear to everyone, and everyone is dear to him. Though always working, such a man is never entangled.
Bg 18.58 -- If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such consciousness but act through false ego, not hearing Me, you will be lost. Vedabase.com
With respect to everyone’s values & beliefs, whichever GUIDELINES ( Bible, Quran, Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other...) METHODS or WAYS work for us is good.
It is easy to say, but difficult to follow. I am in the same boat with everyone else, or I may even be behind, but thinking in the right direction will help us to go in the right direction.
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT.
Thank You.
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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:
I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra.
I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......).
FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com . Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Repeatedly hearing/reading & meditating the Scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting Vedic Mantras are nourishing to our heart (Soul), transcendental to our consciousness, purifying to our senses and thus helps us to overcome our weaknesses or deficiencies. Yes, we do have good qualities within us but there is always a room for improvement.
It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook & Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone & Google search to collect some data.
Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God (Krishna , Absolute Truth).
NOTE:
Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.
We can follow either the Quran, Bible,Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us, elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. (whichever way we can understand God -- either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy).
Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction (means image, picture...etc) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes.
I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person (not a abstract or some kind of light) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.
Bg 9.17 -- I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.
Bg:13-12:-- Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).
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