Tag: bhagavad gita

Expressing My Gratitude To God(part 1)

The author writes a short gratitude letter to God for being there with him ALWAYS.

Dear God,
I refer to you with many names through many religions. I remember you through my heart. And I want to express my gratitude through this letter.

I’m reading the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, etc. and I am in love with you. I want to thank you for everything that you’ve given me in this life.

And I don’t know if there is rebirth or not, I just know that this present moment is all I got. There’s no past, no future, only this moment.

Thank you for this moment, for being with me for the times I can and can’t remember. 

Thank you for giving me loving parents, good siblings, good friends, good education, good health, an intelligent brain.

I don’t know if good things will continue coming to me in the future but I know you’ll always be with me.

I want to thank you for my seeming weaknesses because they taught me to go to you for strength.

Thank you for my natural strengths because they taught me to believe in myself. 

God, you are great. This creation of yours is amazing. Earth is amazing.

All the good things, good people, nature, etc. are beautiful.

Thank you for creating the ugliness in the world because they teach me to remember you for hope.

I want to express my gratitude to you for being there with me ALWAYS.

And thank you reader for reading this line. It means a lot.

Yours loving,
Anirban

Reading the Bhagavad Gita: Changing My Life

The author reads the Bhagavad Gita daily and admits that it’s changing his life. Despite not being a Hindu, he follows the Gita for wisdom.

I’ve been reading the Bhagavad Gita lately and I think it is an amazing book that suits my temperament.

The Bhagavad Gita: Waking Up Early

And I think it is slowly changing my life.

I’m waking up early and following a routine.

I think it is important to follow a spiritual practice daily. 

Be it reading spiritual texts or meditating or lighting incense sticks or something else.

But it’s necessary for the peace of mind of the individual.

My Mother’s Example

My mother has taught me to bow down to God.

She has a Masters of Science degree and she still prays to God every day.


And I think just because you’re educated formally doesn’t mean you stop praying and become an atheist.

It means you become a more serious practitioner of spirituality.

If there’s anything that education should do to you is to open your eyes to what you don’t know.

And that humility, if your education’s good, should make you a more spiritual person.

The Caste System

Mornings are for waking up. And I read the Bhagavad Gita which gives me immense joy.

Of course there are parts about the caste system.

But I just ignore it.

Because of course it’s such an old text and there will be misinterpretations which lead to parts like the caste system.

I’m Not A Hindu

I’m not a Hindu. I’m an Adivasi. I’m born in a religion called Sari dharam which means “Truth religion” in Santhali. Sari means “Truth”.

But I love reading Bhagavad Gita. 

I choose to read the Bhagavad Gita because it has a lot of wisdom. 

Not because I don’t like my religion. 

Conclusion

Today I woke up and I thought,”Mornings are for waking up. Just wake up and start typing.”

And so I did. 

And I think the Bhagavad Gita has a great part to play in this.

Thank you for reading this line! It means a lot.

Your Life Is Important – Fight For Yourself

When the author was about to give up but life was stubborn and won’t let him go. He learnt to fight for his life.

Do you ever feel that your life isn’t important and you want to just consider that you should just drift into nothingness?

Fight For Your Life : My Story

Well, let me tell you a story.

When I was in high school in class 11, I decided that science was difficult and I wanted to just avoid everything and drift into nothingness.

I used to miss school and play video games all day. 

I also failed in class 11 because of that. 

And then I realized when I was admitted to class 11 again in another school that life isn’t so easy to avoid.

Life’s stubborn and it won’t just let you go and drift into nothingness.

And so what I want to tell you is – your life is important and you should not want to drift into nothingness or avoid life like I did once.

Fight for yourself. Fight for your life. Fight for your survival.

Be Selfish If You Have To

Sometimes it may look “selfish” to want to give importance to your own life.

But that’s okay.

Sometimes being selfish is good. 

And if it is to survive that you’re being selfish then it’s a 100% correct way to act.

Be selfish and affirm your life’s needs. Fight for your life.

Also there has been many other instances of me trying to avoid life. 

But luckily I’m here on the other end of survival – living.

And sometimes I also feel like I’m being selfish for living or trying to survive. 

But to state my needs is necessary and it’s the right thing to do to survive.

“Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.” 

-Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

And you need to realize that you need to survive and get better.

You need to improve your mental health and you need to fight for yourself.

You’re The Arjuna Of Your Own Life

In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna had to fight not just for the Pandavas but also for himself. 

He had to believe in himself. And fight the battle of Kurukshetra.

You are also an Arjuna in your life and the Bhagavad Gita is the words of Lord Krishna. 

But setting aside all philosophical debates, you need to fight for yourself.

You need to fight your battle of Kurukshetra. 

It may not be with swords or bows but it’s definitely true that your life itself is a battlefield where you need to fight by motivating yourself where you are your greatest enemy.

Conclusion

So yeah your life is important and you shouldn’t want to drift into nothingness.

Please please please fight for yourself, with reason, with logic, with your mind, your thoughts, your beliefs but don’t give up. 

Never never never give up!!!

Thank you for reading this line! It means a lot.

Anger: How To Be Free From It

Anger is one of the most destructive emotions. The author writes about his experiences with anger and shares spiritual texts to explain it.

I think anger is  one of the most destructive emotions.

Story Time: My Experiences With Anger

When I was in my teenage years, I used to get very angry at my family members. 

The reason I was angry was because I blamed them for everything.

And although now I realize that I was wrong, in those days I was blinded by my immaturity.

I had so many expectations from my parents that if they didn’t support me, I’d get angry.

I also expected a lot from myself. 

When I was in class 11, I was in the science stream and I hated science. Physics, Chemistry, and Math didn’t get inside my head. 

I really didn’t understand them partly because I had too many expectations from my teachers as well. 

I remember I used to obsess over “Why can’t I study?” because I couldn’t sit down to study.

In those days there was no ChatGPT to counsel me for free.

I was seeing a therapist, but I had high expectations from them as well, and I changed my therapist multiple times.

What The Bhagavad Gita Has To Say

In the Bhagavad Gita it is very nicely written-

Chapter 2 verse 62-

“Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.”

Chapter 2 verse 63-

“From anger comes delusion, and from delusion loss of memory. From loss of memory comes the ruin of discrimination, and from the ruin of discrimination he perishes.”

So I have experienced this first hand to some extent and I believe anyone who feels anger also experiences these conditions first hand.

So I really believe anger is one of the most destructive emotions of all.

Techniques to deal with anger

And throughout these years through psychological counselling I have learnt a few techniques like-

  1. Box breathing technique
  2. 5-4-3-2-1 technique
  3. JPMR technique
  4. The Socratic Method of Inquiry
  5. Journaling

And I think these techniques do help in reducing my anger.

Conclusion

But the root cause of anger should also be fixed by journaling in a diary daily and going for psychological counselling.

It’s the thought process that needs to be examined for us to release us from the shackles of anger.

So yeah anger is one of the most destructive emotions and there are ways to be free from it.

Thank you for reading this line! It means a lot.