SIRD Malaysia

To feel the least sense of revolt or conflict implies constriction of the mind.  To be able to reconcile with whatever is, and strive for whatever is necessary or desirable, is the confident note of a healthy mind.   Spirituality consists in dissuading discontent and resentment about  anything – be it a person, a place or circumstances – and proceeding  forward with a deep sense of acceptance and surrender.  Whatever helps you do this is spiritual and whatever hinders is non-spiritual.

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Bhagavadgeeta does not say that the objective results of one's actions are to be renounced or kept away.  In fact it is impossible to do so.  Geeta exhorts the seeker to free his mind from the subjective effects of all actions, which are but three –– ishta (desirable), anishta (undesirable) and misra (both combined).  Any action with its result surely evokes one of these reactions in the mind.  Readiness to accept it with samatva-buddhi and  to go forward unaffectedly with one's work,  is the only renunciational note Geeta advocates and inculcates.  This is more an inward spiritual effort of evenizing and integrating the mind constantly with karmas and their subjective impacts, rather than abandoning karmas any time.

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