Thursday, June 22, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 12
12. Parents duty is Jambhava Dhrama
Our words must be inspirational; for which we should adopt Jambhava dharma. We must recognize the latent possibilities in others to remind and "wake" them up to achieve greatness.
Instead, many people are engaged in "Salya dharma"- Salya, the charioteer of Karna had been telling him discouraging words. Those words were capable of destroying all the possibilities in Karna. Whereas Sri Krishna's approach is a great model that we all can follow when talking to youngsters and children. He never denigrated Arjuna, when took a wrong decision, but He created a doubt in Arjuna regarding the wrongful decision and made him think.
Hearing from some one "you are a smart fellow, so why don't you review whether your decision is becoming of you or not" will create a totally different result from that of hearing "you are an ass-I knew you are only capable of this kind of stupidity".
If we don't express great expectations on our children, who else will? So trust them fully. Give them the confidence and courage that "I am with you" and as Sri Krishna did, give words of solace and compassion.
Arjuna's doubt is - which is nobler?- to win over Kauravas or to be won over by them? Symbolically, are we to win over our hundreds of emotions or should we succumb to them? We fear that we may have to forgo many things. Lord Krishna is advising Arjuna and who is Lord? He who knows the secret of reality and the secret of dissolution is known as the Lord. Prosperity, dhrama, fame, nobility, dispassion, and salvation are the "bhagas" ("qualities") present in Bhagavan.
Our words must be inspirational; for which we should adopt Jambhava dharma. We must recognize the latent possibilities in others to remind and "wake" them up to achieve greatness.
Instead, many people are engaged in "Salya dharma"- Salya, the charioteer of Karna had been telling him discouraging words. Those words were capable of destroying all the possibilities in Karna. Whereas Sri Krishna's approach is a great model that we all can follow when talking to youngsters and children. He never denigrated Arjuna, when took a wrong decision, but He created a doubt in Arjuna regarding the wrongful decision and made him think.
Hearing from some one "you are a smart fellow, so why don't you review whether your decision is becoming of you or not" will create a totally different result from that of hearing "you are an ass-I knew you are only capable of this kind of stupidity".
If we don't express great expectations on our children, who else will? So trust them fully. Give them the confidence and courage that "I am with you" and as Sri Krishna did, give words of solace and compassion.
Arjuna's doubt is - which is nobler?- to win over Kauravas or to be won over by them? Symbolically, are we to win over our hundreds of emotions or should we succumb to them? We fear that we may have to forgo many things. Lord Krishna is advising Arjuna and who is Lord? He who knows the secret of reality and the secret of dissolution is known as the Lord. Prosperity, dhrama, fame, nobility, dispassion, and salvation are the "bhagas" ("qualities") present in Bhagavan.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 8:08 PM 
