The Bhagavad Gita’s Approach to Motivation

Our Role

The person who has realised this will be always enthusiastic to act or not, to act for that person of realisation life is a play he is only playing his role. His focus will be how to play in totality. He will be total in his act. Like an actor when he is acting  in a movie and he has to murder someone or he has to fight war with someone he knows that he is playing his role and unless he is a total role will not be successful. So what he does is without any kind of emotions he plays his role, as he knows that by murdering or killing someone in the war is not going to make any difference in his personality nor will it dent it. But if he plays his role fully that will give him fame and further opportunities.

Same is in our real life – we are just playing our role given by the Universe. For that we need the objective also. From the objective world we get certain circumstances in which we need to play our role. While playing the role we need our intelligence – for strategy, how and when to use the resources, how to increase our resources through our actions, – with the intelligence we need qualities like wait, watchfulness, balance, acceptance, looking into the present moment’s requirement we need to change our decision etc.

Now if we play our role in an objective world which is nothing but the screen of cinema, as soon as we have finished our role at that moment we need to allow other things to come on the screen. If in all this synchronicity happens then you will find that in the middle of the world you are unaffected by the objective world. He will become a participant in this world. For him nothing like sin or virtues. Everything is divine for him.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

The law of synchronicity has to be understood. This is one of the greatest contributions of Carl Gustav Jung to modern humanity: the law of synchronicity.

Creative Act

Krishna through this verse says that when we are passing through the whole process of seed to tree and tree to seed again at that time we pass through the whole process of mental and emotional trauma. Similar to a seed, when it is in the process of growing into a tree it just dissolves into the earth. Similarly we should allow everything to happen without interference. In the process of growth we pass through our emotions and knowledge which we think as real.

Our pain is not for the growth but when we pass through all this emotional and mental knowledge to which we think is real and permanent, to give up and dissolve into the universe becomes difficult, this is pain for us. As we resist to dissolve like seeds in the earth. Our resistance is the real cause of our pain.

Once you drop the resistance and become flow then everything changes, we become creative in our act and ready to see life as a whole and not as compartmental, not as death and birth. Your physical, mental and emotional pain will be there but you will be indifferent. A mother giving birth to a child, with all the pain, how relaxed and joyful she is. In our daily life we come across so many things but we try not to pay any attention. If we pay minute attention and think then at least our life will be changed. With physical, mental and emotional pain we will become indifferent. We will become flow and part of the existence. To become flow is creative.

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