Few days back I was traveling in local train and really amazed to see one sight in 1st class coach, there were 2 sophisticated gentlemen quarreling and fighting for Window seat, they were in 3 piece suit and seemed like coming from good background but such a horrible abusive words they were using for each other. I concluded good clothes, ironed dress and higher education doesn't means you are cultured and well nurtured. People are so much stressed due to work pressure, family and relationship issues, EMIs and many other things, so they utilize these petty things like window seat to vent out their anger and frustration. Stress does not see whether a person is rich or poor, old or young or celebrity or a commoner before affecting him. Stress is a disorder that may affect people from all walks of life. Some of the richest and celebrated people suffer from anxiety, like panic disorder, compulsive disorder and obsession.
We all know the story of carrots, eggs and coffee beans, when each one kept for boiling, carrot which was strong it became soft, egg was fragile but after boiling became hardened from inside. But coffee beans were unique they changed the water during boiling. Boiling is compared to stressful situations in life. Carrot seems strong but under adversities it is softened. Egg is fragile and under stress it becomes hard, but beans changes the hot water, the external circumstances. We should be like coffee beans, we should learn to convert adversities into opportunities under proper guidance and not become depressed.
Arjuna was also very much distressed during the Kurukshetra war, because the enemy party was his own kinsmen headed by his loving grandfather and teacher, he says, “seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up”, he rejected to fight, but when he heard Bhagavad Gita from Lord Krishna, the first Stress Management seminar in which Lord talked about the soul, God and purpose of human life, by hearing his all distress went away, he realized his mistakes and actual goal of fighting the war. Similarly whenever we get stressed or depressed we should not get panicked but take shelter of words from Bhagavad Gita, these words have power to destroy the sorrows of life and to give new hope.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
We all know the story of carrots, eggs and coffee beans, when each one kept for boiling, carrot which was strong it became soft, egg was fragile but after boiling became hardened from inside. But coffee beans were unique they changed the water during boiling. Boiling is compared to stressful situations in life. Carrot seems strong but under adversities it is softened. Egg is fragile and under stress it becomes hard, but beans changes the hot water, the external circumstances. We should be like coffee beans, we should learn to convert adversities into opportunities under proper guidance and not become depressed.
Arjuna was also very much distressed during the Kurukshetra war, because the enemy party was his own kinsmen headed by his loving grandfather and teacher, he says, “seeing my friends and relatives present before me in such a fighting spirit, I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up”, he rejected to fight, but when he heard Bhagavad Gita from Lord Krishna, the first Stress Management seminar in which Lord talked about the soul, God and purpose of human life, by hearing his all distress went away, he realized his mistakes and actual goal of fighting the war. Similarly whenever we get stressed or depressed we should not get panicked but take shelter of words from Bhagavad Gita, these words have power to destroy the sorrows of life and to give new hope.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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