The best way to tackle a situation is to go through it. stand and face it not run away for it. it does not mean to satisfy or indulge the urge, which makes you a slave of it more and more, you get entangled, and never hope to be free. You stand and face it in order to face the truth, the reality of what you have to deal with. you have to purify it and clean it, free it from selfishness, from egoistic desire, the sense of possession. you have to go through without any expectation or demand. All human impulses and urges are to be treated in a similar manner. The Gita teaches man to go through the field of activity and not to reject or avoid it. The entire Gita is the ideal lesson in the technique of going through. The gta says donot renounce it but dedicate it not karmatyaga but karmanyasa. What is this dedication? The first step is desirelessness to work without desire. It is usually thought that desire is the source and origin of work. if you have no desire you have no need or impulse to work. but this is the superficial view of things. The impulse for work springs from elsewhere, from a deeper and impersonal source. The true spirit in which you should work is as the Gita enjoins, to do a work because it is a thing to be done, not because you desire it. So naturally you do not hanker for the fruit of your action. First then, no attachment to the action itself, then no attachment to the fruit that it brings. This is possible only when you are unselfish. you have to go a step further to selflessness. so the three stages in the process of dedication or purification. First to work without desire, without attachment to the result of the work. then you will be able to see that you are the instrument only, the work is being done through you.
At the beginning you are a desireless, unselfish doer of work, next you see yourself as a detached witness of your action and finally you see that the action happening in you is nature working in you, Nature the instrument of the Divine. Finally your self is no longer there, it is the Divine alone that is and acts.
It is to the divine the dedication has to be made. dedication means offering. All works has to be offered to the Supreme so says the Gita. the sacrifice of works Karmayajna. Everything comes from the Divine. They become impure, distorted muddy and poisonous when man tries to misappropriate them as his own belonging. To give up the sense of ownership is the core of dedication. You are not the possessor, the Divine is the only possessor. Instal the Divinity in all your parts and functions, that is how to purify an d divinise your human element. that is how to simply Go through.
At the beginning you are a desireless, unselfish doer of work, next you see yourself as a detached witness of your action and finally you see that the action happening in you is nature working in you, Nature the instrument of the Divine. Finally your self is no longer there, it is the Divine alone that is and acts.
It is to the divine the dedication has to be made. dedication means offering. All works has to be offered to the Supreme so says the Gita. the sacrifice of works Karmayajna. Everything comes from the Divine. They become impure, distorted muddy and poisonous when man tries to misappropriate them as his own belonging. To give up the sense of ownership is the core of dedication. You are not the possessor, the Divine is the only possessor. Instal the Divinity in all your parts and functions, that is how to purify an d divinise your human element. that is how to simply Go through.
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