Tuesday 25 March 2014

3. Listen to Heart - Knowing Myself by Knowing Others…….



3. Listen to Heart - Knowing Myself by Knowing Others…….

 

We all are interested in enquiring about others. I do not want to discuss if it is Right or Wrong. But let us find - Why do we do so? When do we do so? ……..

 

We all do so every now & then. In our friend circle we generally enquire about others. We ask how he is placed in Life. We start comparing me with him. We find result in both directions. Some of my friends are placed much better in life than me & in some cases I find myself better. A person has two way of looking at it. In the second case he is happy which leads to no fear & some of you might say it leads to complacency. But it may also give a new challenge to set his new bar to maintain his headiness. In the first case, one gets disturbed. He starts thinking what he should do to improve. He starts thinking where did he lack and what is required to be done by him cover up & move ahead.

 

Let us take an example of students’ life. In any class you will find having competition among the students. The more of competition pertains for top order position. Each one of those tries to find the weakness of others so that he / she can keep himself / herself ahead. A student may be good in math but may be weak in biology as compared to his competitor.  His strategy would be to score more in math to be ahead. Some might be good in Physics but weak in Math; his strategy would be to score more in Physics to keep ahead. Even the strategy could be allocating more time to the subject in which he is weak. He would practice more to sharpen his knowledge. So a student weighs himself by weighing his classmates and thus plans his further course of action.

 

This reminds of a movie – Border, which I think we all have seen and if not we should find time to watch it. It is movie directed by J.P. Dutta Saheb. We all Indians should watch and thank the entire team for an excellent movie. It was full of entertainment and messages to be learnt and practiced. It is based on war between India and Pakistan. The Indian army had less battalion than Pakistan. Major Kuldeep Singh was leading from Indian side. He demanded for more battalions but the war was declared. In the movie a scene is there that Major starts moving towards Line of Control (LOC) with Confidence. His subordinates ask him to be back but he continues and makes everyone astonished. All were discussing what the Major was trying to do. He then stands and starts challenging the opponent loudly and he returns confidently. By doing this he was just trying to test the confidence of the opponent. Now the war starts and the result was that India won. By this we learn that Major judged the opponent thus judged his army.

 

 

Duryodhna wanted to know about his & Pandavas’ army. Duryodhana ask Drona (his teacher) to tell about his army. He wanted to know his battalion. Drona told him about all his great warriors like Bhishma, Karna, etc . He even enquired about Pandavas’ army. On the other hand Arjuna asked Krishna to take the chariot in the middle of the battlefield. He also wanted to know the strength of his army & see against whom he had to fight. Duryodhna & Arjuna both enquired about his & about the opponent army. They both had great warriors like Yuyudhana, Viraoa, Drupada, Dhanoaketu, Cekitana, Kaciraja, Puruji, Kuntibhoja, Caibya, Uttamuja, Sons of Draupade,Kapa, Acvatthama, Vikarea, sons of Somadatta called Bhuricrava, many more. By this they came to know about their strength and weakness and about the strength & weakness of opposite army thus by knowing them better by knowing the other.

 

 

Courtesy : Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) ,  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy  & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 1 : Text 4 - 11

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