Principles of Dharma (righteousness) and Karma (action) for CSR

Life Is Imperfect

Krishna is saying the person who is indecisive has no intelligence.

Decisions are always difficult but it is good to be decisive. Sometimes one may even make a wrong decision; then too it is better to be decisive rather than remaining indecisive, because in indecisiveness one disintegrates, one becomes fragments; one has a centre no more. The centre is created through constant decisiveness. Each moment one has to decide. It is not very important what you decide. Krishna’s emphasis is not on what you decide; Krishna’s emphasis is on that you decide.

So start making decisions in small things, in very small things. For example if you have decided that at ten o’clock you will go to sleep, then go to sleep. It is not very important whether you go at ten or eleven, that is not important, but decide that you will be going at ten every night, and suddenly you will feel very good. Or decide that you will get up early in the morning at a fixed hour or you will eat at a certain time…. Just start being decisive in as many things as possible and then you will find more and more decisiveness coming to you. It needs practice, that’s all. You have never practised it; you have always been hanging in a vague way, ambiguous, this or that. One can go on hanging between this and that the whole life.

Ordinarily the problem is created because people make a lot of fuss about the right thing to be decided. That’s why. Because we have been taught to always decide the right thing that creates a problem. It is not always so easy to decide whether this is right or not.

Unconditional Trust

The phenomenon of trust has to be understood a little more clearly: Trust has to be unconditional, not just that nature goes on fulfilling your needs, existence goes on giving you help, supporting you…. What about if it doesn’t support you? What about if it creates hindrances on your path? Your trust will disappear. This trust is not very authentic.

And another thing to remember: the trust in existence can only be real if you trust in yourself, because you are the closest experience of existence. Otherwise, when things are going right you will trust; when things are not going right the trust will start disappearing.

When everything is going smoothly and beautifully, you can trust. But you are trusting somebody else – God, God’s only begotten son, any messenger of God, a prophet, a tirthankara or a Gautam Buddha, it does not matter. You are trusting somebody else and things can go wrong any moment. The basic trust has not to be in existence, it has to be within you.

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