u/Strong-Author-09

When the way we are living does not suffice, when the same old patterns does not takes us away from our usual daily circumstances. The same stress from boss, the same grocery shopping hassles, the same quarrels with husband.

We still keep walking down the same track and expect that we can arrive at a new destination where all this hell will not be there.

“Walking the same old paths, how will you reach a new destination?”

So, do the new work ! This quote from the book Bodh Sutra says, “Do the new work, find the new ways, do the remediation.”

But the issue we have in doing that is to accept challenges, get outside of our comfort zones, accept the dangers irrespective of courage. The book says, “ For bringing the right things, doing the right action, no effort is too great, and no hardship is too much to bear”. Because that only can bring you out of your hell and whatever can be done to come out of that, should be done.

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Maathe Tilak Hath Japmala, Jag thagne ko swang banaya

Marag chhad kumarg uhkai, Sachi preet bin Raam na paya

~ Saint Raidas (Ravidas)

If we take the literal meaning of these lines, they simply say that to cheat the world one make himself look like spiritual by putting tilak on the forehead and taking rosary in the hand. Dropping the right path, he strays into wrong direction but doesn't find Raam without true love.

When the same is studied in the light of Vedanta, gets a deeper meaning.

The ego (sense of incompleteness) wants to cling to different different identities to stay alive, the one who says I am incomplete will wander here and there in search of things to feel complete. So to get acknowledgement of its presence from the world, the ego puts on the robe of a spiritual identity.

All these games ego play because at the core of it, lies its restlessness. Out of pain, out of its fragile state, it tries all other ways (Kumarg) to cure itself but does not chooses its own dissolution (Marg or sumarg ie. the right path).

Ego is a born lover of liberation (mukti or Raam) because it suffers but liberation requires love. Instead of choosing the honest path of self reflection and self observation, letting its own falseness drop, ego chooses the dishonest path to ignore the causes of its restlessness which can be seen in its daily actions. Saint Raidas says that liberation requires love and there is no other way, ego has the choice either to choose liberation or to suffer. The right choice requires love which is seeing and intent.

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We are not kinda fan of the way we are, the way we live, the atmosphere we have built around ourselves. That is why we constantly seek something entirely different from our usual daily lives.

And we therefore establish a belief to leave the complications of our daily lives behind and move to some garden of roses and we name that as Spirituality.

This quote I came across, feels like have touched right at the core. I mean where else can we go ? Wherever we escape, we need to come back to our daily lives. Then spirituality cannot be a far away happy island but a light that brings me vision to understand where I am wandering and bring me back to my own center of wisdom, through which I can navigate my daily hurdles with clarity and wisdom.

his baby elephant really woke up and decided the birds were his biggest enemies. 😂

He starts throwing little charges at them like he’s defending the whole family, completely forgets about his balance, and then faceplants into the ground. 😭

But the best part? After his dramatic defeat, he gets back up like nothing happened and immediately runs back to his mom for backup. 🥹😂

Bro really said:
“I lost the battle… MOM, WE NEED TO TALK.”