The day started with a small announcement by Dr Shrikant on noting down questions.
The topic of the morning session was Karmayoga. The world is all connected, networked. Man is a social animal. We are all dependent on others. Family, Teachers, Society, Other creatures and God gives us everything in our lives as Upakaar. It becomes our duty to return the favour. Our actions should be to fulfill our duties with no expectations in harmony with the natural laws. Human being is the only life form who can manipulate or violate natural laws. He possess freedom to do so. A abuse of this freedom can create lot of disturbance to the nature. So this freedom should be exercised within boundaries. There has to be fine balance in judging this boundary of free will and restraint so as to perform our duties and be in harmony with the nature. For eg, Tabla, Sitar, Dholak and other musical instrumentals has to be played in the same pitch with the same tone to sound harmonious. Similarly, human beings need to abide natural laws to upkeep a harmonious environment.
The afternoon session was focused on Gita’s wisdom on net contribution for spiritual growth. Gita propounds a model of life totally different from current social setup. It preaches theory of giving rather than taking. It asks for finding happiness within you and not elsewhere. It asks us to manifest the hidden success mantra. It is an inward approach where all impurities such as ego, greed are removed. Nobody can be happy by asking for more. It might give temporary happiness taking away long term happiness. Gita’s model reiterates the fact that short term pain intelligently faced results in long term gain of success and happiness.The process of spiritual journey starts once we have this realization. And to work on it, we can fake it till we make it, meaning we can start giving though we are not satisfied.
The day makes me appreciate the gist of Gita “Karma kiye jaa, fhal ki chinta mat kar”.
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