Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30/04/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -8. ------------------------------------------------------------- While, when a particular mood preponderates in us, we may be stirred into an aspiration for God, as we conceive God, and feel or imagine that we are fed up with this world, it may subside because this is likely to be a tentative mood which is occasioned by a particular circumstance that may not continue for all times. And when the wheel moves, when the spokes find themselves in another position, our understanding, our feelings, or attitudes change simultaneously, and we see different things altogether before us. We do not like a thing always, nor dislike a thing at all times. As years pass, our ideas of things change, and what we loved one day may not be the thing that we love today. So is the case with the thing...

===================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05/04/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Arjuna, and anyone, could not and cannot easily understand or grasp this circumstance. So, we have hundreds of occasions every day to be jubilant in joy and hundreds of occasions to be sunk in sorrow. The Mahabharata concludes with these words: “Fools find themselves in umpteen situations every day when they can be happy, or when they can be unhappy, also.” It is the stupid man, not the wise one, who sees occasions for joy or sees occasions for grief in the world. The world is not intended to bring us joy, nor is its intention to pour on us sorrow. A vast computer has no intention to give us satisfaction, nor is...