NEED FOR RIGHT APPROACH AND ACTION:

November 10, 2008

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

NEED FOR RIGHT APPROACH AND ACTION: Our problems are not due to

ignorance, but inaction. Endowed with virtues of discrimination

humans know how to evolve a right approach to life. Yet some people

act throwing principles and duties to winds, some are cornered into

situations, often of their own making, where they feel that they have

to carry things to their bitter end, come what may. Duryodhana in the

Mahabharata, for example, says: jaanaami dharmam na me pravritti,

jaanaami adharmam na cha me nivritti, meaning, " I realize what is

right but I am helpless to engage myself in it; I realize what is

wrong but I am unable to disengage myself from it. " Crises of

conscience, vacillation, confusion, inability to find a way out and

helplessness arise in consequence of lack of right priorities within.

One's observations and inferences in life would enable one to analyse

issues in the right perspective. From this could follow synthesis,

obtaining for oneself truths and principles to live by – those which

can mould and guide all aspects of one's life. This verily is the

process of getting the basics right and thereafter meeting head-on

the demands of life and living. This is also the theme underlying the

concept of `putting the horse before the cart'. The Gita's concept of

yogastah kuru karmani, meaning " establish yourself in the truth and

thereafter do your work. " (II.8), has to be kept in mind. –

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