Hari
OM
Story-day is for cultural exploration, puraanas and
parables and finding out about leading lights in spiritual philosophy.
In
keeping with the celebration within Chinmaya Mission this week, a short video
of Gurudev telling the story of Krishna addressing Arjuna regarding performing
one's duty in the face of all distraction. Be centred. Be focused… For your
ease in case of trouble with accent, transcript is provided beneath.
Hey Dhananjaya, - yogasthah kuru karmani - Do all your functions, all your performances all your
actions centred in your ideal. Be it God or an ideal in the world
outside. Hold on to it and act in the world outside.
siddhyasiddhyoh samo bhutva - And once you
have entered into the field of action, don’t you ever get fluttered by success
or failure... siddhi or asiddhi. You act
on, unperturbed, by the various obstacles that might arise in your path.
When mother Ganges
starts from the peaks of the Himalayas, she has already decided to go and reach
Bay of Bengal. She is flowing down, millions of gallons of water per minute. Do
you think that her path is red carpeted? “This way please, this way.” No! Every
square inch there are obstructions, small pebbles on the roadside, I mean on
the bed of the river, gives a beautiful melody, a songful sound from the water
rumbling through it. When she meets a little obstacle, she gracefully jumps
over it. If that obstacle is little higher and she cannot jump over it, she
doesn’t stop there and despair saying that, “What can I do?” She collects her
white saree and goes around it… foaming lather around.
Supposing she meets
a range of mountains, she can’t jump over it. She can’t go around it. She
doesn’t, she giggles... takes it a joke and rubbing her shoulder at the foot of
the mountain, she goes and she knows the mountain cannot be for eternal time.
It may be one mile or two miles ... and where the mountain has ended, she turns
around the mountain and again proceeds in the same direction that she has
decided in the peak of the Himalayas. Ultimately she pulls herself into the Bay
of Bengal and reaches all the seven oceans of the world.
Think!
Be like Mother
Ganges. You have a goal, no doubt- and higher the goal, greater you must expect
obstacles enroute. But no obstacle should upset you. Meet them diligently.
Where it can be jumped over, jump over. If you cannot, go around it, if you
cannot, wait. proceed when the obstacle
is ended; turn again and continue your direction. That is the way to achieve
things.
