1:36nihhatya dhārtarāṣṭrān naḥ kā prītiḥ syāj janārdanapāpam evāśrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ1:37tasmān nārhā vayaṁ hantuṁ dhārtarāṣṭrān svabāndhavānsvajanaṁ hi kathaṁ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava In Śloka 36 and 37, Arjuna
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Dear Swamiji, Thanks a lot for your insightful thought – GOD is not out, He is within us… The body is mortal, but the thoughts are not… coz it is shared by us in many many ways. The energy, that you are referring to, which is omnipresent and guiding us, even if we do not chant his name; if it is within us – is our SELF CONFIDENCE right?? If I achieve something extraordinary in life, or if I end up doing something extremely terrible, why should I be blaming something sitting within me to be the reason? It is me, my actions which in absolute degrees of gravity have come back to me. In a way, don’t you think by holding someone other than your SELF (god) responsible for your actions, good or bad, we are demeaning our self respect? Yes, we should be selfless but we cannot lie to ourselves that “dear mind, the results are not due to your efforts but due to god’s”; sorry if I am sounding a bit demeaning but I am not able to accept it. I am a student of Psychology too, and according t
Posted by Madhuri on February 4, 2010
Dear Madhuri,
All the good and bad actions are born out of the good and bad attitudes.
Attitudes are decided by the culture inculcated in you.
Ravana became Ravana because of the culture he inculcated.
Though born in the same family, Vibheeshana inculcated a divine culture.
So, he became like that.
If you put the credit and blame on God for your actions, definitely the person recognizes God in every one will not do harm to any one!
So, in Geetha, Bhagavan says “I neither do nor suffer any of the actions of any one, but I do support all the minds irrespective of good or bad culture”.
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