AWARENESS......

In Chapter 2, verse 38:
"Sukh Dukhe Same Kritvs
Labha Labho Jaya Jayo
Tato Yudhaye Yujasva
Naivam Papam Vapsyasi"
Treat happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, loss and profit alike and prepare to fight the battles of your life. You will commit no sin.
Reiterating this advice in Chapter 4, verse 22, the Bhagwadgita says: -
"Yadrichalabh Santushto
Dwandatit Matsaro
Sama Sidha Asidho Cha
Kritvapi Na Nibhadyate"
One who remains content with whatever is received without entertaining any desite, is not touched by a feeling of jealousy, remains equipoise in happiness and sorrow, loss & gain, does not get into any bondage.
Every living being in this world wants to be happy always and shudders at the thought of misery or sorrow of any kind. We know that this is not possible. This world with its strong dual nature will confer upon all of us, moments of happiness & sorrow in proportion to the effects of our karmas. Indeed the importance of some rare moments of our happiness will diminish in the absence of sorrow that all of us must experience at some stage of our life.
An intelligent comparison b/w the conditions of happiness and those of sorrow of success and failure will however tell us that after all sorrow & failure are not bad things to happen.
Do not be happy because of a reason, because if that reason does not last long it will lead to unhappiness that may be more unbearable than the happiness you got out of it. Happiness doesn't lie in the object that we pursued & acquired. Happiness lies within you and that can stay inside you independent of external causes of gratification.
The Bhagwadgita verse 71, Chapter - 2:
"Vihaye Kaman Ya Sarvan
Punam Charti Nispriha
Nirmamo Nirhankar
Sa Shantim Adhigachati"
A person who is free of all desires of sense gratification of any proprietorship and has conquered his ego alone can attain a state of permanent peace.
The only person who is strategically positioned to know you completely is you. The only person who is privy to you, your thoughts, all your spoken words and all your actions has to be YOU. But the biggest paradox of our life is that we usually are the last to know about our self, not because we cannot but because we do not accept what others tell us and our ego refuses to acknowledge anything amiss. We convinced that we can never do anything wrong because that is how we have been doing it and that indeed is the best way. What is wrong invariably belongs to others and in our own wisdom is best reserved for them. This we do primarily because of our inherent nature and we believe that there is nothing wrong in it.
One of the greatest challenges we face in our interpersonal relationship is to acknowledge that others can be and do things better than us. This often delusional understanding of the self.

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