Evolve and Elevate: Happiness isn’t in the future, two class of intelligent men, Hardest thing to do in a relationship

Idea of the Week

Happiness isn’t in the future

Lesson of the Week

Two class of intelligent men

Bhagavad Gita says:

There are two classes of intelligent men. One class is intelligent in material activities for sense gratification and the other class of men are introspective who awake to cultivate self-realization.

The activities of these awakened class of men appear like a night for the persons indulged in material activities for sense gratification.

Such materialistic persons remain asleep in such a night due to their ignorance of self-realization. The awakened and introspective person remains alert in the “night” when the materialistic men is asleep which means he is completely indulged in material attraction.

The awakened person feels transcendental pleasure in the gradual advancement of spiritual culture whereas the man in materialistic activities, being asleep to self-realization, dreams of varieties of sense pleasure, feeling sometimes happy and sometimes distressed in his sleeping condition.

The awakened person is always indifferent to materialistic happiness and distress.

He goes on with his self-realization activities undisturbed by material reaction.

Inspiration of the Week: 

Hardest thing to do in a relationship

I came across a video on Instagram by Satya Speaks just yesterday where he spoke about the most important thing in a relationship which for most of us is the hardest thing to implement.

He said just like when two hands come together for a clap, there is a loud sound of the clap but when they are held together, there is no chance for another clap.

So, to have the clap again, the hands have to separate themselves so that they come back to create that sound of clap once again.

Now he compared this clap example with relationship. When two individuals come close together, the sound of love is created, and if they do not go back, it means that if they do not hold their individuality in the relationship, they will fail to create the sound of love again.

In every relationship, there develops a codependency which often leads to losing your ability to be independent because love can only breathe when two individuals are ready to be alone and together at the same time.

We often go so much into the other person that we start overlooking ourselves and this only makes the sound of love dimmer.

The more you nurture your independence, the better your relationship is nurtured.

Boredom seeps in when two people fail to live their own independent lives and that’s when love begins to leak in a relationship.

But this does not come easy to any of us. It’s a conscious step that needs awareness to build a relationship that breathes an undying love.

So, to hear those sounds of love in your relationship forever, you need to depend on yourself before you rely on your partner.