The Chant of God ‘Bhagavad Gita’ Turned To Awaken My life’s Purpose.
By: Swati Suman
Tags: Life Lessons, Philosophy, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality

The Book As An Art Of Living

The book precepts about solving errors of human lives. In fact, reading any of its pages has your answers written. The confusion, dilemmas, and emotional turbulences that one experiences through life's winds resolve when its teachings are adapted.

Earlier, I remained fixated in looking at life through unilateral vision — which rested in the pursued goal. Seeking insights from the book impacted how a goal should be pursued, analyzed, and lived. This involves not being fixated, stressed, or adapting adamant ideologies in living through life in general.

Earlier mentioned, my experiences identify this book, which gives us the way to live. The setting of the book Bhagavad Gita is the battlefield of Kurukshetra (The Mahabharata), where Arjun (an archer) is confused, and Lord Krishna becomes his mentor.

The disciple Arjuna who remains confused, is guided in his way by his mentor, Lord Krishna. The words reflected by his mentor mentioned doing things that involved the righteous code of conduct.

In the information age, each one of us circles around as confused beings. Some at a minimal scale and others at a fairly larger domain. But one thing remains certain: every person in the global world will have roundabout dilemmas, confusions conforming from situations to situations and from place to place. The indecisive state rightly sums up as — to do or not to do, to be or not to be, and so on so forth.

Much similar to our state begins the chapters of Bhagavad Gita. With dilemmas, confusion, unresolved conflicts, and lack of meaning, this is how it’s beginning outlines. At this juncture, Krishna guides Arjun thoroughly by empowering him with his wisdom and guiding him in making better choices.

Basically, the idea was to invoke a feeling that he is way too powerful than what he thinks of himself. He is way more knowledgeable than how he poorly feels. He is way wiser than only being limited to confusion.

In Life’s battlefield, each one among us has the characteristics of Arjun imbibed. We might remain confused, anxious, depressed, sad; however, what backfires mostly is the ideology behind not making powerful choices.

Such times, individual wisdom helps.

Most importantly, mentorship like that of Krishna acting as facilitator guides.

However, how can one identify their real mentors? This question isn’t confusing rather fairly easy.

To state, one can find their mentors in — ideas, persons, books, community, art, or even their passion. The underlying principle backing mentorship should be to awaken the brighter sides of life, resolve issues, and create a better moral understanding of self, cosmos, and environment in particular.

In fact, each individual must develop an attitude where traumatic phases are dealt with understanding. We must think that we are way more powerful, way more than our confusions, and way more than are problems.

One should clearly understand —

That their confusions are smaller than them,

Their depressed states are smaller than them,

Their fears and stress are smaller than them,

Their hardships are minor than expected to be, and

The heartbreaks, as painful as it might be, still are smaller than them.

No matter how mighty your problems are or how terrifying it is, life moving remains smaller than you. And each one of you is empowered with the capacity to resolve these issues, to owe a powerful choice, carry forward hopefulness, and make a difference.

In my personal experience, the book helped me evolve better. As no exception to the consistent struggles — finding my passion, controlling my unwavering thoughts, being overly confused, anxious, and fearful, currently through its adapted teachings has nicely sorted my thoughts and life.

Pursuing the goal and my passion for writings is wholly an art of its teachings. At times, as a human, I still falter, make mistakes, or are indecisive; however, I remain aware of the happenings this time. Even today, if anxiety or judgments strike my door, a read through its pages inculcates persistence and confidence within my individuality.