Evolve and Elevate: Focus on what we can learn from other people; Basic principle of real peace and One thing I've learned from life.
Idea of the Week
Focus on what we can learn from other people
“We have to focus on what we can learn from other people. We have to focus on what is special and unique about them instead of zeroing in on the ways they are not as good as us. We have to be forgiving and patient, kind and appreciative. We have to engage with what they bring to the table, not lament the things they take from it. Then we have to work to make those people around us better…not write them off as hopeless and broken.”
Ryan Holiday
Lesson of the Week
Basic principle of Real Peace
Bhagavad Gita says:
To become desireless means not to desire anything for sense gratification. In other words, desire for becoming Krishna conscious is actually desirelessness.
The perfect stage of Krishna conscious person is when one understands that he is in the service of Lord without falsely claiming this material body to be his own and holding ownership over anything in the world.
The one who is present in this perfect stage, he knows that Lord is the only owner of everything, therefore one must use every material thing for the satisfaction of Lord.
Desire for the satisfaction of Krishna is what truly real Desire lessness is, it is not an artificial attempt to stop the desires.
The living entity cannot ever be desireless or senseless, but he does have to change the quality of the desires and direct them for the right cause.
A materially desireless person very well knows that everything belongs to Krishna and therefore he does not falsely claim proprietorship over anything.
This transcendental knowledge is based on self-realization- namely knowing perfectly well that every living entity is the eternal part and parcel of Krishna in spiritual identity and the position of the living entity is never on the level of Krishna or greater than Him.
This understanding of Krishna consciousness is the basic principle of real peace.
Inspiration of the Week:
One thing I’ve learned from life
The one biggest learning of my life is:
No one else other than me I ever needed to focus on.
I realized I came back to myself after so long when I felt my life was going out of my control.
For the longest time, I kept looking at everything on the outside and while I did so, I piled up a mess inside.
I painted a picture in my mind looking at everything that felt delightful and pleasing to my senses.
I thought I could feel the same delight by having everything that looked beautiful to me.
I had a bucket list of things that I wanted to have right away.
But when I did not find any of those beautiful things happening in my life, I was shaken.
I was forced to close my window and peep within.
A long time passed in resentment and anger, complaining to God that He had been unjust.
That He did not give me what I wanted.
But then when I still could not see my garden bloom, I felt bombed so hard that I had to change my lens to perceive everything differently.
When I made an inward journey, I found all that I was expecting life to shower me with, I wasn’t ready to receive it.
It’s like a child of first standard desperately wanting to jump into 10th grade without crossing those 9 middle classes.
He might sit in the 10th grade, but he will not enjoy it, value it and he will not understand it at all.
Until and unless the child goes through all the previous classes, he cannot treasure his dream of entering into the 10th grade.
My dreams and desires were all like that 10th grade which I was desiring for when I had not even crossed my 1st grade.
We all go through this.
We think God did not listen to our wishes. God was unjust.
But the truth is, God has a step-by-step process for you to reach your wishful 10th grade.
You have to prepare yourself before you become ready for everything that you want.
What happens with all of us is that we look at something on the outside that creates a desire within us to have it.
But we have so infinitely small understanding about ourselves that we are clueless about how raw we are for the dream that we wish for.
Now when I have learnt this the hard way, I have taken my attention inwards to see what areas I need to work on so that I become ready for my 10th-grade dreams.
♦Soul to Soul♦
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