Our Gita says ‘Do your duties but don’t think about the result’. It seems Shri Rama Krishna Paramhansa had said, that One’s mind should be like a pouch of mustard seeds, it should not get scattered, for us who are very much performing our ‘Grihastha Jeevan’ that is our worldly duties he advised that you should be involved in your daily household chores and duties but your inner consciousness should be on the abode of the supreme being; ‘God’ He also illustrated with an interesting example: like the governess who takes care of her master’s ward but her mind will always be on her child who is not in her presence.
The duality of this philosophy in our Hindu religion always confused me, it seemed as if it was an impossible task to perform, I would have to take two steps forward and then one backwards to get anywhere.
Now I see that this duality has crept in to different aspects of our lives: cultural, social and yes even political. No wonder we are slow at progress and considered to be the elephant in contrast to china being the tiger in the financial and economical context.
But then I am a supposedly a conservative, traditional person (at least some of my near and dear ones tell me so) who has this conviction that there is always something real and true in the sayings of the ‘great men’.
So this is what I discovered that yes there is duality and confusion but some how it has provided us with the certain time period that was required to bring stability in this impossibly, fantastically diverse country of ours.
We do move slow but that’s because we are taking in the surrounding as we go, somehow may be the journey is actually more important to us than the destination.
As we see in the present days that reaching the goal is just not enough, cause there will always be collateral damages that accompanies with the arriving to the destination and its dealing with and healing those damages that makes or breaks the situation and what matters after.