Life does come with a Manual

Just my thoughts, that I hope to teach my children today #Janmashtami 🙏🏻

The world is our battlefield,

Each day is a battle,

Our body is the chariot we ride in,

with our sense organs, like the horses, steering us through the world, pulling us in different directions.

Our mind is the head office which weighs our choices & makes our decisions but is easily confused like Arjuna…with all the noise and chaos around us.

Because in the choice between what should be done…and what we would rather do;

Things that we love or absolutely hate to do

We most often choose what’s convenient and self-serving over what should be our correct conduct.

(Especially now when entitlement has become a beast of a norm)

But we are neither our body nor the mind.

We, are the soul, that resides within.

Which came from the Supreme Power and shall someday return.

So step back

Watch every situation like a scene in a play

With yourself in the audience enjoying a bag of popcorn

Witness yourself play the central character on stage

Seperate your emotions and ask yourself ‘what should this actor be doing in this scene?

What would be the correct behaviour?’

Analyse what your Dharm (your duty in every situation should be)

Keep your Karm (your response/ your actions) in accordance with your responsibility towards others (and yourself).

No matter how difficult it maybe.

With complete disregard to the results – praise/criticism, gain/loss, reward/punishment, appreciation/ingratitude

Independent of anyone else’s behaviour towards you.

Their response will become their destiny.

Your actions alone will become yours.

It is not a competitive sport but a personal marathon.

Not a business transaction, but your personal balance sheet.

Do your duty simply because it must be done.

And every battle shall be won!

Life does come with a manual

Yet we prefer to remain lost when we have been given Google Maps in our hands.

Reading The Bhagavad Gita is not about any religion.

Follow whichever one you want.

Apply it to become the best version of whatever it is that you are:

Parent, child, employer, employee, friend, surgeon, driver, accountant,

Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh…

Read it over and over, to quieten the mind, and strengthen your buddhi/ intellect/ inner voice

The one we choose to so easily surpress

Understand it to put life in perspective.

Spoiler alert:

#yolo is the world’s biggest lie.

Apply it to be the best you, so you can successfully survive with a smile,

even the worst them.

We take the time to do it for IKEA and Lego. Why not for life?!