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What is up to us, What isn’t up to us

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Most of us spend our time living worried about things not up to us. It causes us a great deal of frustration, disappointment, and sometimes heartache as well.Most of us spend our time living worried about things not up to us. It causes us a great deal of frustration, disappointment, and sometimes heartache as well.

Lord Ram goes to exile to fulfilling the order of his father. Amused by the order of his father, Bharat asks the sage Vashisth, “Why it happened?” To which Sage Vashisth replied: “Loss and gain, Life and death, fame and infamy are in the hands of the God.”

Look at the list below to know things which are not up to us:
We had no option to choose our birthplace, parents, and whether we wanted to be born or not.
We had no choice to choose the talent which is gifted to each one of us in spite of knowing well that we feel attracted to it and our success greatly depends on our talent.
Each one of us needs lots of luck, yet we cannot choose to be lucky.
Whether we like it or not but we are constantly forced to handle the change in the constantly changing worldly matters such as social structure, political circumstances, and economic affairs.
We have no control over our body and diseases it attracts in spite of living a reasonably good lifestyle.
How people perceive the world and how they make the judgment based on caste, creed, race, social strata, upbringing and the rituals they follow.
Whether we give and take genuine love and compassion to others or not.
Our time on this planet is limited by your birthdate and your death date. Death is certain yet when is fully unpredictable.
We continuously face these worldly matters and unaware of how to handle them, we struggle to handle it.

Here is what God Krishna has told us to deal with the situations that we cannot control.
“The one, whose mind remains unperturbed amid sorrows, whose thirst for pleasure has altogether disappeared, and who is free from passion, fear, and anger, is called stable self.”

God Krishna warns us to keep our mind away from the material frailties of lust, anger, greed, envy, unwanted possession, etc. If our mind is continuously surrounded in the miseries, we stop the contemplation of the positivity, meaningfulness and divine energies that transcend our life. So, stop to allow the mind to hanker for pleasure or lament for miseries. Using meditation we can divert our mind to become situated on the transcendental level.

Lord Ram goes to exile to fulfilling the order of his father. Amused by the order of his father, Bharat asks the sage Vashisth, “Why it happened?” To which Sage Vashisth replied: “Loss and gain, Life and death, fame and infamy are in the hands of the God.”

Look at the list below to know things which are not up to us:
We had no option to choose our birthplace, parents, and whether we wanted to be born or not.
We had no choice to choose the talent which is gifted to each one of us in spite of knowing well that we feel attracted to it and our success greatly depends on our talent.
Each one of us needs lots of luck, yet we cannot choose to be lucky.
Whether we like it or not but we are constantly forced to handle the change in the constantly changing worldly matters such as social structure, political circumstances, and economic affairs.
We have no control over our body and diseases it attracts in spite of living a reasonably good lifestyle.
How people perceive the world and how they make the judgment based on caste, creed, race, social strata, upbringing and the rituals they follow.
Whether we give and take genuine love and compassion to others or not.
Our time on this planet is limited by your birthdate and your death date. Death is certain yet when is fully unpredictable.
We continuously face these worldly matters and unaware of how to handle them, we struggle to handle it.

Here is what God Krishna has told us to deal with the situations that we cannot control.
“The one, whose mind remains unperturbed amid sorrows, whose thirst for pleasure has altogether disappeared, and who is free from passion, fear, and anger, is called stable self.”

God Krishna warns us to keep our mind away from the material frailties of lust, anger, greed, envy, unwanted possession, etc. If our mind is continuously surrounded in the miseries, we stop the contemplation of the positivity, meaningfulness and divine energies that transcend our life. So, stop to allow the mind to hanker for pleasure or lament for miseries. Using meditation we can divert our mind to become situated on the transcendental level.

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My experience with God’s promise fulfillment “I carry what they lack and preserve what they have”

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अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जना: पर्युपासते |
तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम् || 22||

“One who always think of Me and engage in devotion to Me and whose minds are always absorbed in Me, I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess.”
Early this week, I and my wife was traveling from Delhi to Mumbai by Rajdhani Express. I slept keeping my mobile and wallet in my trouser’s pocket.

Around 3:30 am when I woke up, I couldn’t find my wallet and mobile in my pocket. I immediately searched for it. The wallet was on the seat but the mobile wasn’t there. I searched everywhere but couldn’t find it.

After a while, I woke up my wife and informed her that my mobile is missing from my pocket. She got worried. She too started searching for it but we couldn’t find it. We dialed the number and it was ringing. However, no one was picking up the phone. My wife was extremely worried as it had important numbers, banking app, etc.

I asked her to go and sleep. I was pretty sure that it has been picked up by someone and there is no chance to get it back. I too went to sleep.
We woke up at around 6:30 am. We again dialled the number but no one was picking up the phone.

My wife advised me to ask the staffs of the train compartment. I called them and asked if they have seen my phone. They said no.

While we were talking about it with fellow passengers, another passenger approached us from the nearby seat. He said, “A Sardar Ji sitting closer to the door found a phone in the night. He asked me to direct the phone owner to him if anyone asks for it.

I immediately rushed to him. He immediately handed over the phone to him. He said, “I was keeping the phone on my seat itself so that if someone calls, I can hand it over to the owner.
Because the phone was in silent mode, he couldn’t hear or see our constant calling.

We thanked him, the God and everyone else who’ve put their efforts in helping me locate the phone.

While getting down from the train, I remembered God’s promise, “Drop everything and surrender unto me. I will take care of what you lack and preserve what you have.”

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Don’t die mad, sad, stressed, confused

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During our conversation yesterday, she was sounding tired, hassled and exhausted. I quipped, “Why do you sound like you are excessively tired?”
“Yes, I am. Off late it seems I am surrounded with so many things. My sleep time has reduced to a few hours. I feel like I am working in my sleep too.” Replied she.
Me: “Think that you die in a moment from now. Your dead body is lying on the floor and your soul is looking at your body from up above. What would it say?”
After a momentary pause, I continued “Would it feel proud the way you are treating it inside your body?”
She said, “It is a quite new way to think and take stock of life.”
The question that you should ask: When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how do you decide what to do day in and day out?
How do you know what to say no to and what to say yes to?
How do you know when you’ve had enough?
Why you’ve gotten on or off the track which keeps you tired, awake, hassled and hungry?

The answer you should find out is that find your meaning, direct your efforts to it, keep that meaning in view. It’s not the activity that
disturbs you, but false conceptions of things that drive you mad. Don’t die mad, sad, stressed, confused.

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How do you remind yourself of your duties

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You love to keep setting the goals, targets, agendas, and duties, yet caught up in the day to day urgency, you keep forgetting it. Have you ever asked yourself about why it happens?

Arjuna decides to fight the war. He invites Lord Krishna to become his mentor and charioteer. When he approaches the Warfield, seeing his relatives, friends, and acquaintances gathered there to kill each other, he gets infected by the delusion. He tells Krishna “It would, indeed, be better for me, if the sons of Dhrtarastra
armed with weapons, killed me in battle, with me, while I will be
unarmed and unresisting.” BG.1.46

Many people support the arguments presented by Arjuna citing the reason that we live dutybound in this world to safeguard the well-being of our families and relatives. You may not agree with the point of view of Lord Krishna reminding and convincing Arjuna of his duties.

While your mind is mostly occupied to fulfill the needs and wants of yourself and your loved ones, but the love of God is always directed towards the welfare and benediction of all beings. The fact is, that Lord Krsna did not make Arjuna wage war. He reminded him of his duty only. It was Arjuna, who had invited Lord Krsna, to the war front. But seeing his kinsmen on the hostile side, he was turning away from his duty.
Remind yourself of an incident when you planned to go to some place, but by mistake, you are going in the opposite direction. You then happen to meet a person whom you request to guide you with the direction. The latter,
tells you that you have taken the wrong direction, so you should turn back. Here, the person shows you the right direction.

If you are failing constantly in achieving your set goals, targets, plans or objectives; find a mentor like Lord Krishna who can keep reminding you of your direction whenever you have forgotten or lost your path.

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Energy in Motion

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Life is all about going from moment to moment doing right things or doing wrong things or doing nothing. And while being in these situations our mind generates emotions. If you are doing right things your mind generates positive emotions of love, compassion, happiness, and pleasure. If you are doing wrong things or we are doing nothing, your mind is most likely generating negative emotions of hate, anger, fear, jealousy, infatuation, grief, distress, and pain and suffering.

Your mind generates emotions because it is in constant contact between the senses and objects. More you connect with the positive emotions better you’ll be overall in your life. So, whenever you feel under the grip of negative emotions, you need to take control yourself with some simple acts which will self-generate the positive emotions. You are feeling upset because you didn’t get what you expected, just remind yourself ”

This too shall pass.” Play or do things that make you feel happy. Shoot the hoop, make funny faces, tell jokes, sing your favorite song or anything else that you like. Mediate for a while. Meditation helps you declutter your mind and instantly generates positive energy as it soothes your nerves.

Make a call to your friend with whom you can speak out your feelings. Take someone whom you love for a treat. Enjoy your favorite food, drink, activity, shopping or anything else that you both enjoy.

Talk out loud with yourself. Go to a place where no one can hear you and just talk out loud to yourself. You will find yourself a lot more positive. Emotion is a unique asset gifted to the living being. You can make robots which can be more intelligent than any living being but you cannot instill humanlike emotion to the robots. Live yourself more under the influence of positive emotions so that you are always empowered with your intelligence.

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