Good morning,
1. One truth is to understand my identity as an eternal soul not a physical body. I have chosen my birth, body & parents to fulfill my desires. No one else but I am responsible for my own birth, suffering, happiness & death. There is struggle & danger at every steps in our life. No one is immune from day to day problems of life mainly related to family, work, health & wealth. These issues are not permanent, they come & go like summer & winter and we must learn to tolerate them. You are not alone, everyone is in the same boat.
2. I should know myself where am I standing in terms of my mentality, nature or consciousness (Mode of Ignorance, Passion or Goodness). What is my defect? How do I raise my standard or consciousness? There is always room for improvement. Consciousness has no religion or nationality.
3. Perform your prescribed duty with a good consciousness & without expectation either as a parent, child, spouse, teacher, student, friend, employee, employer, citizen of a nation...or any other role given to us. Which indirectly will improve individual, family, professional, socioeconomic and nation’s lives....A Win Win strategy.
4. Pay attention to your health: In the long run, food plays a major roll in our mental & physical health. Eat foods (fresh, juicy, wholesome and healthy fat) which can purify us, give strength, satisfaction and increase our longevity. Perform yoga or any exercises to improve your physical fitness. Regulate your eating, sleeping, recreation and work. If we are healthy, we are benefiting ourselves, our family, friends & society. There is happiness in the Mode of Goodness lifestyle.
5. Become involved in welfare work: Welfare activity at material platforms by distributing food, clothes, shelter, medicine and money. Welfare activity at spiritual platform by sharing the spiritual knowledge for mental peace & internal happiness ….the most essential things in our lives irrespective of our degree, position, wealth, power, fame, religion & nationality.
6. There is one more truth to resolve the many problems in our lives either in family life, in friends circle or at work while simultaneously giving advice and making people laugh....at anytime & anywhere, just pay attention to our Speech/Writing. Speak/Write the words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others. Don’t be too serious…. 😂, there is always room for joking, teasing & laughter 😂 with friends & family.
7. Non violence: No physical or mental harm (or as least as possible) to any living entity or environment. Instead, facilitate them to live pleasantly & peacefully which includes your spouse also...LOL. 😂 😆. We as humans with higher consciousness have higher responsibilities to look after other species and nature included.
8. One step further up to non violence is Love. Unconditional Love towards God & His creations which includes every species on the face of this planet and nature itself.
We won’t need any Human, Animal & Environmental rightist or Government Laws to save the Culture, Life & Nature in this world once we implement these EIGHT TRUTHS in our lives.
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.
These above mentioned fundamental truths & principles of human life are described in the Twelve Slokas from the Gita below.
Bg 2.13 -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. Vedabase.io
TEXT 9: Bg 15.9: The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
Bg 2.14 -- O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O son of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
Bg 3.38: As fire is covered by smoke, a mirror is covered by dust and the embryo is covered by the womb similarly the living entity is covered by different degrees of consciousness. (vedabase.com).
TEXT 5: Bg 14.5: Material nature consists of three modes – goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes in contact with nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by these modes.
Bg 2.47 -- You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
Bg 6.32 -- He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress, O Arjuna!
Bg 6.17 -- He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.
Bg 17.8 -- Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart.
Bg 17.20 -- Charity given out of duty, without expectation of return, at the proper time and place, and to a worthy person is considered to be in the mode of goodness.
Bg 17.15 -- Austerity of speech consists in speaking words that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others, and also in regularly reciting Vedic literature.
Bg 18.42 -- Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness – these are the natural qualities by which the brāhmaṇas (sober person) work. Vedabase.io
With respect to everyone’s values & beliefs, whichever SCRIPTURES ( Bible, Quran, Torah, Tripitaka, Agama, Guru Granth Sahib, Gita or any other...), METHODS or WAYS work for us are all good.
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, Vraja Vihari Dasa, 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.io 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 or Hearing the 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 have faith in, 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 or Both: Personal & Impersonal ).
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.
Here Lord says in Gita
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.
TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.
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.io ).
