Guest guest Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 praNAms Hare Krishna Yesterday I was discussing with one of my friends casually, the topic was about vairAgya. He said that vairAgya or dispassion is always a result of some grief in one's life. He took the examples of buddha, dhruva, ramaNa maharshi & argued, see buddha had to see the miseries of life, dhruva had to suffer from his step mother & ramaNa had to undergo that strange experience of death to get vairAgya....If everything is going fine in one's life, he/she never even think about vairAgya despite he/she is very philosophical & spiritual in his/her normal approach towards life. My friend continued to argue, though most of us know the importance & talk hours together about dispassion & renunciation etc. we never try to put them into practice coz. we donot want to come out of our comfort zone. I thought in a way, he is right!!! Because, I've not seen/heard any incident where one, who was leading a comfortable & secured life took saNyAsa by mere discrimination (vivEka) without any untoward incidents..Either there must be a severe catastrophe in his/her life or there must be a traditional obligation (thouse who belong to & studied under the guidance of orthodox saNyAsa Ashrama/ mutt) to force them to adopt themselves to saNyAsi way of life or to the path of vairAgya. I know this is only limited vision of vairAya...I'd be highly obliged if prabhuji-s share any additional thoughts on this subject. If those thoughts make me to think about the path of vairAgya seriously, nothing like that!! Hari Hari Hari Bol!!! bhaskar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hello Bhaskar! WHO can stay in a comfort zone for long???? I'm 62 years old in this relative realm and I've never been in that comfort zone for long!!! Yes, sometimes, at different stages of life I've been in that zone for a period of months at a time. But it ALWAYS ends. Even if things are going well outwardly. Especially when things are going well outwardly! then there comes the thought, " Hmmmm, things are going well outwardly, my situation is good, money is okay, most things in my life are okay...but what if there's an emergency that requires more money than I have???? What if I develop an illness, what if this, what if that??? I'm not saying it's always that way but just that we're not built to remain in that comfort zone for too long. Deep down, whether we admit it or not, we know all things change. I live in the United States. Collectively, since 911, I've watched how the previous, easy comfort of the material world has eroded. People are going in droves to the " mega Christian churces " , people are searching for " something " else other than the material, I think. Collectively, our comfort zone was destroyed by 911. The war in Iraq was a response, I believe, by us, collectively, to try to regain the comfort zone by " destroying " the cause of the destrucion of the zone. I get out of the comfort zone and then I seek it again. But I know that ultimately it can't be found in the outward world. That zone has to be within...takes us a long time to figure that out and even when we do, it takes time to really know that. ....so I never expect to be in the comfort zone for long. Then its no surprise when I'm kicked out of it!!! Best wishes, Steve ______________________________\ ____ oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile./mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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