Reading The Gita

From skepticism to spirituality | Quiet reflections

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Someone handed me a copy of the Bhagvad Gita.

I almost didn't open it.

Felt like it was for someone more spiritual than me.

I was wrong about that.

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Krishna first begins to describe the human body - the shareer and the shareeri and explain how the body is constantly changing. He then proceeds to ask how can someone find permanent happiness from what is ever changing? What is unpredictable by nature?

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@gaxrav Neither, they just pass through like the wind.

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कृष्ण को कुछ लोग रणछोड़ कहते हैं परंतु यह नहीं याद करते कि अर्जुन जब ममतावश रण छोड़ कर रथ के पीछे भाग में जा बैठे थे, तब कृष्ण ने ही उन्हें उनके कर्तव्य का भान करवाया था। उन्हें उनके मोह से अवगत करवाया था।

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@bhaktSenapati Chapter 1, shloka 10.
Doubt wouldn't have arose in the mind of Duryodhan, if Arjuna was "nothing" in front of Karna or Bhishma. And it was not because of Krishna, Duryodhan never saw Krishna as divine.
Pandavas were mighty, and so were Karna and Kauravas.

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@shubhvanii This conversation never happened in Gita. Instead, Arjuna said he can't fight his loved ones.
This changes the whole perspective. Feeling opposed vs feeling emotionally overwhelmed. It's feeling like a victim vs feeling his ground unstable. It's real dilemma.

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Somewhere between who you were at 17 and who you're now, you made a hundred quiet decisions about what you'd continue and what you'd let go.

The Katha Upanishad calls this the path of wise vs the path of pleasant.

Most don't even notice they are choosing, yet they always are.

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Every action you do takes two forms.
The result, which you never fully controlled anyway.
And something that shifts inside you quietly afterwards. The residue of how you acted.

Do it with grasping - the residue is restlessness.
Do it as an offering - the residue is clarity.

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@SovereignIM True, most people do one of two things.. they either defend everything they did or they demolish themselves for it. But both are just ego protecting us.
This is one of my greatest learnings from reading Vedic scriptures, learning
to see ourselves clearly without it destroying us

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@kshetrajnya Rama had a clear enemy (Ravan), while in Krishna's time the enemy was in family. Rama shows you who you should be. Krishna shows you the person you actually are... complicated, contradictory, loving and fierce at once.. It's why people feel close to Krishna but idealise Rama.

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कर्मण्यवाधिकारस्ते

Do the work.
Release the result.

Not because outcomes don't matter.
But because making the outcome your identity is the fastest way to lose yourself.

- Bhagvad Gita, 2.47

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@AdiShloka 🙏🙏

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@realAtlasPress True. Paralysis dressed as thinking is one of the quietest ways we abandon ourselves. From reading the Bhagvad Gita, I have learnt that action alone isn't enough... Conscious action is. Because being busy is another way of not sitting with the fear. Clarity of action removes it.

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@gaxrav Belief doesn't shape reality, but it can help build better relationship with reality. Saying "you can bend reality however" is to disrespect someone who is genuinely sick, or under privileged.
Beliefs shape us only when actions succeed them.

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@VivanVatsa The writing is genuinely good, except I'd push back on one thing. Weaponizing masculinity against emotional honesty does no good to anyone. Suppressing the feeling isn't mastery. Sitting with it, learning from it, and moving anyway, that's the harder thing. That's strength.

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@lisaawrites Fun fact : Do you know the Rigveda calls them the two eyes of cosmos. One opens during the day, other at night. They are in an eternal conversation with each other...

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@thestillpoint_ Reminds me of the beautiful "Nirvana Shatakam"
I am not the mind, the ego or the memory. Not the organs, not the panchbhutas... I am the form of consciousness and bliss, I am Shiva (that which is not)

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@everyday_awaken This is essence of Karma Yoga in Gita. The problem is never the action.
It is always the sleepwalking. The Gita suggest doing our work as an offering. Not to a God necessarily, just not to autopilot. When we bring our attention to a task, that cup of coffee becomes extraordinary.

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@sadhavi Agreed. In fact, ahimsa alone i.e non-harm, starting from how we speak to ourselves would quietly revolutionise how an entire generation leads the world.
The sad part is we wait for westerners to come up with "research" before we adapt it..

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@Aadii009 Only when the mind reaches total dissolution, the dance of destruction leads to new creation, the light of consciousness. 🙏