There is no room for grief ! - Bhagavad Gita verses 2.23 & 2.24

Re: There is no room for grief !

Dear C

A gem from you once again. I equally enjoyed the Q & A. There are both pros and cons in being a late FBer - get to enjoy all FBs and responses while most of the questions arising asked and clarified.

At this point of reading the post, I am able to accept the fact that grief has no room. However, I am not certain if at times of distress, this knowledge will prevail. So, it is a great post to be preserved and used as an anchor at times when we grieve. Many thanks for that!!!

Looking forward to the post about Srishti - being an optimistic person, I dream of a time when all anatmas can exhaust their vasanas and would like to know why such a dream is like building castle in air.

-Gayathri.

 

Re: There is no room for grief !

Dear Chithra,

That title was surely hard hitting......yes we need not or should not grieve....but it feels like we are not being or showing our affection( here i am talking only abt the last years incident in my life) ....Somehow i feel grieving over my loss is also soothening.....i somehow try to come to terms with it! Maybe that is why here in the west it seems they have a mourning period of 1 year .......so in my case i feel it is okay to grieve....
It is also a part of my duty that i should go thru with this, and maybe learn something out of it... isn't it what Gita is also all abt.....going thru this life and maybe many such lives we can maybe comprehend all this.....and maybe at this point we will exhaust our anatma functions and not take birth again!

Well another profound writeup.....keeps me going in this life and facing it everyday! Liked Aishu's last para and of course Ria was so sweet and spontaneous.....i too second her!:hatsoff

( by the way was talking and praising you to my classmates when we met this morning for coffee....they wanted to know what i do sitting at home and i was mentioning you and other IL ites and the fun we used to have ....told them no more german classes since i miss IL! They were astonished with your accomplishments)

 

Re: There is no room for grief !

Dear Mrs. C,

Thanks for a simplified lesson on gita. From reading all this gita I just wonder how I ever let go of that small griefs that I have on day to day basis. This isn't easy as thought. But your posts help me atleast in keeping me in right path or should I say in selfless mind.

 

Re: There is no room for grief !

Dear Chithra,
I have been reading all your expositions on the Geetha. Today I got some time to read the fbs too. So I thought I too would chip in to convey my views.
As you rightly said in your reply to Kamla,"it is all easily said - I am sadly in the same boat of bondage as you are or X or Y is.But this thought process has to be registered in our mind for our own benefit.There is no running away from it for a samsari, yours truly also included", we are all in the same boat. I think grief is a thing which strikes even the sanyasins. The only difference is that they overcome it within a short time because of their knowledge of the indestructible Atman, And we poor souls are trapped in the bondage of samsara.Undeniably, grief strikes every being who is born into this earth. Only its intensity differs.
This is my humble opinion. If I am wrong, please enlighten me.
Regards,
Malathi

 

Re: There is no room for grief !

Nice one Mrs.Chith.

rightly said that there is no use in grieving over 'anatma' which is not permanent and which is also not in our control.
why we should grieve on those things which we don;t have control, it is better we accept it as such.
Trying to achieve in which janma--- is the question.

sriniketan