Fwd: Think out of the box

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Hare Krsna. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change. O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed GITA 2:13/14 Capil Sookdeo ------------------------ Think out of the box I like Taco Bell®’s ad for this: "Think out of the bun." We

get so habituated to so many psychological patterns fed to us through propaganda, that it’s hard to find original people. Do you remember when you first came to the US? The first shock was, "Oh my God! I have to do everything myself?! Cooking, cleaning, lawn mowing!" Because if you call your $80/hour-plumber, you will have a whole other set of complaints! Therefore, many people think it’s easier to become a handyman than to pay through the nose. And this is how they end up spending their weekends at The Home Depot®! Thinking out of the box is hard for most of us because we do not readily accept change. Life brings, with every experience, a new dimension, but we are not available to its beauty and wonder because we find it more comfortable to live in our age-old patterns. This brings stagnancy, which expresses as midlife crises, depression, frustration,

fear, and pain. People who haven’t changed for years, and refuse to change, live a stagnant life. Have you seen how stagnant water stinks after some days? So too, our personality starts to stink when we stop spiritually growing and going with life’s flow. Worst of all, when we do realize we are stuck, we try to find a way out, but only through the same rut of set patterns. Every new experience forces us to adapt, but we remain stuck due to fear and anxiety. We stick to our patterns like a plaster body-cast. Imagine how much it hurts when you try to pull the cast off. With each pull, there is tension and fear, and so most of us choose the trodden path—even if it does not fully solve our problem. In our comfort zone, we conveniently, yet miserably, stay inside the box. Thinking out of the box is explained thoroughly in Bhagavad Gi¯ta¯ 2.14: A¯gama-apa¯yino’nitya¯h ta¯ns-titikshasva bha¯rata. This is acceptance—of all that life brings—with a smile, and it’s the best way to keep the mind at ease and think out of the box. by Brahmachari Uddhav Chaitanya

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