The Gita-Book For The Journey Of Life

Monday, June 02, 2008
The Gita-Book For The Journey Of Life
The Gita is not a book for study and examination as a text-book. It is a book that tells men how to regulate their activities and their minds. It is like a railway guide. It is a guide-book for the journey of life. We should travel with its help, not commit it to memory. Merely committing it to memory will not enable us to reach the journey’s end. Rajaji
Shortcomings
What most interferes with our seeing the good qualities in others are our own shortcoming.
Success
No success ever comes on its own. Behind every success there are untold stories of tails, failures, losses , humiliation and miseries.
Lets Us Learn A lesson From the Geese
Have you ever wondered why migrating geese fly in a V formation?
As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts.
As each bid flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following.
In a V-formation the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying range than if each bird flew alone.
Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag of flying to fly alone, So, it quickly gets back into formation.
Like geese, people who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going , quicker and easier than those who try to do it alone.
When a leading goose gets tired, it slides back in the formation and another goose flies ahead in that position. If people had as much sense as geese, they would realize that ultimately their success depends on working as a team, taking turns in doing the hard tasks, and sharing leadership.
Geese in the rear of the formation make a typical honking sound to encourage those in front to increase their speed.
It is important that such honking from behind be encouraging.
When a goose gets sick or wounded, two other geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and provide protection.
They stay with the unhealthy member of the flock until it is either able to fly again, or dies.
Then they fly out again with another passing flock or try to catch up with their own.
May we be so sacrificial, that we may be worthy of such friends in our time of need.
You don’t have to be scientist to learn from God’s marvelous creation; you only need to stop long enough to observe and let God reveal His wonders to you. (Courtesy; Parichayya)
Good Working Habits
Clear the desk of all papers except those concerning the problem on hand. List items according to priority and set out to accomplish them. Recognize the importance of deputation and supervision. When the necessary facts are available, solve the problem then and there. Learn to relax at work. Always rest before you get tired. Do your best. Leave the rest to the care of God
The Truth You Speak
You are as great as the dreams you dream, the love you bear, the values you fulfill, the happiness you share, the thoughts you think, the worth you have attained, the fountains at which your spirit drinks, the insight you have gained, the truth you speak, the help you give, the destiny you seek, the life you live.
Good thoughts
Every good thoughts that we send to the world , without thinking of any return, will be stored up there and break one link in the chain, and make us purer and purer, until we become the purest of mortals.
The fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Wise Men And Fools
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the success of the wise.
What Makes A Man Good Or Bad?
Good and bad are relative terms. What is good to one is bad to another. If consuming wine is bad to one, it is very good for another. If eating non vegetarian food is good to one it is bad for another. But the basic moral, cultural and traditional standards of a country helps one to know what is good and what is bad.
There is none absolutely good except of course, the Creator. Every man or woman is a combination of good and bad. The difference is only in the proportion.
One may basically be good and another may be basically bad. If one is 60% good and 40% bad another is 60% bad and 40% good . Individually, conscience helps one to identify good from the bad.
There is none totally good or totally bad. Only the degrees of goodness or badness vary from person to person.
What makes a man good o bad? Previous Karma, Birth, Training, Environment and association are some of the reasons.
Man is subject to enjoy or suffer the results of his own actions (Karmas).Good actions brings forth good results and bad actions bring forth bad results. This is a scientific truth like action and reaction causes and effect. Thus the results of ones actions in the previous birth follow in the present birth like a shadow follows a person. Effects of good and bad actions un parallel and one is not adjusted against the other. Man had to enjoy o suffer the results of both good and bad actions. That explains why even pious persons, noble persons and persons, noble persons and persons of charitable nature suffer severely from physical and mental ailments.
The next cause is birth. Where a person is born in a home where the total environment is bad, he cannot grow into a good person. Training by parents teaches and elders also plays a vital ole in shaping a man good or bad. Last but not the least is the association one places himself o attracts dos make him good or bad.
Though one is born with the heavy weight of bad actions of his earlier birth, it is possible to reduce the intensity of the results of his earlier bad actions by constantly thinking of the Creator, associating with good people, developing good environment, choosing a good career or profession and by reading good books.
You can make or mar you present and future though not your past. You will reap what you sow.
Look On The Bright Side
To look on the bright side that is vastly more sensible and helpful than to look at dark disasters that will probably never happen
Where does real life end and virtual life begin? The line is blurred…
Samrat is a 26 yr old HR professional. On a regular day he reaches office around 10 am and logs in, going into various online communities and chat-rooms. He leaves office around 6:30pm and logs in as soon as he reaches home. He is online almost as long as he is awake. Samrat is only one of the numerous people who live more in the virtual world than in the real one around them.
Samrat knows that.” Life is hectic and it’s very difficult for me to visit and call up my friends on a regular basis. It is far easier to keep in touch with them on line, since most them are on line too. But it is true that the virtual world is becoming very real for us. We are moving away from the world around us.” he says.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Courtesy Telegraph
I Derive Joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the ten minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine? He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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