10-21-2005, 10:15 AM
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][COLOR=blue] I have been a silent reader on this forum for long , this forum has helped me definetly learn a lot of new things ,compared to the intellectual giants present on this forum my knowledge is limited and consider myself a learner.
There is a question that has been haunting me for long , that is the reason for a separate thread.
how does man know the path to be taken , in other words in the gita what is swadharma and how is it decided , does it vary at each stage of life .
Tilak in his Gita rahasya has devoted quite a lot of discussion to this aspect , have listened to learned scholar's discourses on the gita and some of them hold this to be a tricky question.
for example interpolating the principles of the past to a modern man's life .
Most of us pass through our formative years going through school , high school , college ,graduate or post graduate degrees . along the way we notice lot of things about society and the country.
1.Should we not have a higher duty towards the country , sometimes life presents situations where you are asked to make a choice either you choose to study hard , graduate and then attempt to give back to society through charities , social service and other mean's or you choose to fight injustice then and there suffering whatever consequences that follow.
in this case which is the swadharma , which is the path to be followed .
2.Similarly which of the above actions carries the greater merit , the action of tackling injustice then and there and perishing like a moth , or the indirect path of improving society around you.
<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> is the act of countering adharma right at the moment more virtuous than retreating for the moment and giving back in a later form.
<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> if a man decides to counter adharma and put his family in danger would that not constitute a wrong toward's his family.
I am not sure if i am making myself clear , but surely hope people on the forum understand the direction i am pointing in .
So the burning question is , we are faced with various situations in daily life , Which is the path to be followed , is it the path of the forefathers ??? is it the path my heart tugs towards even though it would mean putting my family in danger , or is it the middle path.
if particularly the elder members could respond to this thread would be truly happy as it would point me towards a solution to a long standing doubt.
also if the members could point me in the direction of literature that explains the great karma theory and its subtleties would appreciate it .
pranaam
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1][COLOR=blue] I have been a silent reader on this forum for long , this forum has helped me definetly learn a lot of new things ,compared to the intellectual giants present on this forum my knowledge is limited and consider myself a learner.There is a question that has been haunting me for long , that is the reason for a separate thread.
how does man know the path to be taken , in other words in the gita what is swadharma and how is it decided , does it vary at each stage of life .
Tilak in his Gita rahasya has devoted quite a lot of discussion to this aspect , have listened to learned scholar's discourses on the gita and some of them hold this to be a tricky question.
for example interpolating the principles of the past to a modern man's life .
Most of us pass through our formative years going through school , high school , college ,graduate or post graduate degrees . along the way we notice lot of things about society and the country.
1.Should we not have a higher duty towards the country , sometimes life presents situations where you are asked to make a choice either you choose to study hard , graduate and then attempt to give back to society through charities , social service and other mean's or you choose to fight injustice then and there suffering whatever consequences that follow.
in this case which is the swadharma , which is the path to be followed .
2.Similarly which of the above actions carries the greater merit , the action of tackling injustice then and there and perishing like a moth , or the indirect path of improving society around you.
<!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> is the act of countering adharma right at the moment more virtuous than retreating for the moment and giving back in a later form.<!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> if a man decides to counter adharma and put his family in danger would that not constitute a wrong toward's his family.I am not sure if i am making myself clear , but surely hope people on the forum understand the direction i am pointing in .
So the burning question is , we are faced with various situations in daily life , Which is the path to be followed , is it the path of the forefathers ??? is it the path my heart tugs towards even though it would mean putting my family in danger , or is it the middle path.
if particularly the elder members could respond to this thread would be truly happy as it would point me towards a solution to a long standing doubt.
also if the members could point me in the direction of literature that explains the great karma theory and its subtleties would appreciate it .
pranaam