Enjoy your life containing both +ve and –ve things.

The word "Philosophy" is derived from the Ancient Greek - philosophía (compounded from phílos: friend, or lover and sophía: wisdom). To quote from WikiPedia, "Philosophy is the discipline concerned with the questions of what is the right way to live (ethics), what sorts of things ultimately exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics), what is to count as genuine knowledge (epistemology), and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).

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dattaswami1
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Enjoy your life containing both +ve and –ve things.

Post by dattaswami1 » Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:18 am

Enjoy your life containing both +ve and –ve things.
….like God enjoying His creation containing both good and bad.


The essence of the entire message of Lord Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, is to develop the highest state in which you can be in the state of continuous enjoyment and happiness through entertainment. If you can enjoy the problems also, such continuous state of happiness is possible. The human being has always the worst tendency to pick-up negative things only in the life and go on brooding over those things. Either you should avoid thinking about those negative things (dhyayato vishayaan …) or you should be able to enjoy those negative things also like the dish of chillies in meals.

Avoiding the thinking of negative things in the life is impossible since they touch and penetrate the mind in the practical life. Therefore, the only alternative way is to enjoy those things also and be happy in every minute of life. Such state is called as Brahmi sthiti (Eshaa brahmi sthitih …), which means that you should continuously enjoy your life containing both positive and negative things like God enjoying His creation containing both good and bad.

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Post by spiritalk » Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:52 pm

Without our life having purpose beyond entertainment, it is hollow at best.  Joy, laughter, happiness are consequential of the purpose of life.  Learning may be considered more important than remaining entertained without any value or purpose to the lessons.
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Post by Lax29 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:32 am

enjoy maadi,

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