Originally posted by: pparth7
I have not read Gita or Mahabharata and I know just a bits and pieces of it. I have the following question to ask to those who know about this epic.
Everybody in today's world have aspirations & dreams that they want to fulfill. Many a times the process of achieving your dream also means taking huge risks in life, putting a lot of things at stake without knowing what the future holds. These risks may sometimes produce negative result and sometimes few people fail so hard that they do not get a chance to try again. That risk that they had taken have changed their life for the negative and now it is worse than it was before they tried to achieve those dreams.
What does Gita and Mahabharata says us about such aspirations and dreams and the risks involved.
Should people always remain satisfied with what they have in life and let life move at its own pace without trying to chase those dreams.
Does the path of Dharma have any space for desires and dreams?
If a person is working hard and takes risk and if he/she fails and that fall changes his life than what?
Beautiful question
human beings are never content their thurst and desire for knowledge and to find something new never quenches but while doing their karm they must keep in mind to follow dharm but not many can follow this path
We are full of expectations, ambitions, desire, greed and this expectations lead us to find this knowledge, to full fill his hunger for more and more take for example an infant when born cannot walk but when he grows up a bit then he starts sitting when he grows a little more then he starts crawling when he grows a little more he starts standing and when he starts standing his greed to move makes him start walking this is ambition and expectation from self to get more and more. This is what has lead humanity to come so far and to survive Nothing wrong in dreaming or being ambitious.
When a business man starts his business, he starts selling in his own show in a small locality. When his business grows then he grows his business too bcoz he hires more people, so to be able to afford their salary, he grows his business in other parts of his city then other parts in the country he is living then he goes global. So his hunger for more money keeps airing his ambitions and expectations form himself and his business and ultimately from his employees to work hard so that he can grow rich and rich and more rich. Nothing is wrong in being rich and richer till...
But to grow his business when he starts cheating other people then he ruins his dharm and he commits sins that is where he starts doing the adharm and wrong and ultimately he pays. Whether in this very life or next life but he surley pays. That's what Geeta says.
and this expectations make him greedy for more, sometimes for more and more knowledge and other times to get more and more materialism. But Geeta also says tu kya laya tha kya lejayega
when you took birth then you came empty handed but when you left then also you will go empty handed here it means that your ambition is alright but you should know when to stop for example if you do not spend enough time with your small children and they grow up one day then you will regret not knowing them bcoz they won't have developed a bond with you.
Atleast , this is my thinking and I believe in this that we should all know how and when to be content.
With materialism as far as knowledge goes that is never quenched.
Krishnji also said that one shud do his work and not bother about it's fruit but I ask if that was the case always then how could anyone get inspired to find more to do more?????? Because his expectations to find solution or fruit lead him to work upon his dreams.
If I do not dream or am not ambitious to get soemthing then why will I work upon it????/
Well, So according to me the future result of our work leads us insoires us to carry out our karm r actions.
Yes by doing your duty you can dream and have ambitions is it not a human being's duty to evolve the world he is living in????/ then why are we making progress and development in our cities to make our lives better but a coin has two sides if at one side we are developing then on other side we are ruining as well for example deforestation, pollution of our environment, destroying mother nature, killing animals and plants etc etc.
As they say this world is never perfect and I say this world can never be perfect even if all of us start doing what is better for this world
Edited by rasyafan - 12 years ago
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