Facebook has become part of our life, there are more than billion of users. Their day starts with seeing Facebook notifications and ends with the same. The amount of time users engage in Facebook activities, like updating statuses, posting photos, commenting and ‘liking’ posts is only increasing. You may ask, what’s wrong if we use Facebook frequently as a means of entertainment, or as a means to relieve your stress? Well, there’s nothing wrong. However, when Facebook activities start interfering with your everyday life and become detrimental to your daily functioning at work or office; they do interfere your activities. People are addicted to sharing, they are most concerned about their profile image, they keep changing it every now and then and keep waiting for poking and comments. It has become the obsession, and they keep wandering aimlessly.
Many feel empty and bored without Facebook, but is Facebook adding any value to our life or it's just entertaining us and taking our valuable time? Yes, it may be adding some values, some information to our life but real values are added by knowledge contained in Books. A book can give us so many things that which we can never imagine, but the problem is that we don't open the book, we are habituated to keep book as it is. There was one boy, he asked father, "if I graduate with good marks will you give me a Sports Car", Father said, "off course I will give you Sports Car". The day came, results were out, he passed with flying colors. He went to father and asked for the gift, father handed over a nicely packed book. Boy was very angry he kept the book as it is for many years. But after the death of his father he thought let me check what was that book, he removed the gift wrapper, opened the book,started turning the pages. Suddenly a key dropped from that book with a tag on it with the dealer’s name, the same dealer who had the Sports Car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words 'PAID IN FULL'. He realized his mistake. What to say of a car, a book can give us life full of eternity and bliss but let's open it first.
I just heard a famous Ted Talk by one gentleman Tai Lopez, who was sharing his secret of success, he reads a whole book everyday from last 15 years! Someone said well, "If you think reading is boring then you are doing it wrong way." So many things and information we have for reading but only information that can make transformation is in scriptures. It's mercy and compassion of Vyasdev who complied scriptures for us, so that we can get knowledge of self and about the God. Our Aacharyas like Rupa and Sanatan goswami and Prabhupad had done so much struggles to present these scriptures to us in a simple and understandable way, why not to take advantage of these transcendental books?
Lord Krishna says in 18th chapter of Gita, "One whoever reads and hears the Gita, he worships Me with his intelligence.", reading is the best way to show our appreciations to it's writer, so when we read the Gita we are appreciating Lord and reciprocating with His love. So let's reduce our Facebook time so that we can give more time to Face the Book especially Bhagavad Gita and perfect our lives.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Many feel empty and bored without Facebook, but is Facebook adding any value to our life or it's just entertaining us and taking our valuable time? Yes, it may be adding some values, some information to our life but real values are added by knowledge contained in Books. A book can give us so many things that which we can never imagine, but the problem is that we don't open the book, we are habituated to keep book as it is. There was one boy, he asked father, "if I graduate with good marks will you give me a Sports Car", Father said, "off course I will give you Sports Car". The day came, results were out, he passed with flying colors. He went to father and asked for the gift, father handed over a nicely packed book. Boy was very angry he kept the book as it is for many years. But after the death of his father he thought let me check what was that book, he removed the gift wrapper, opened the book,started turning the pages. Suddenly a key dropped from that book with a tag on it with the dealer’s name, the same dealer who had the Sports Car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words 'PAID IN FULL'. He realized his mistake. What to say of a car, a book can give us life full of eternity and bliss but let's open it first.
I just heard a famous Ted Talk by one gentleman Tai Lopez, who was sharing his secret of success, he reads a whole book everyday from last 15 years! Someone said well, "If you think reading is boring then you are doing it wrong way." So many things and information we have for reading but only information that can make transformation is in scriptures. It's mercy and compassion of Vyasdev who complied scriptures for us, so that we can get knowledge of self and about the God. Our Aacharyas like Rupa and Sanatan goswami and Prabhupad had done so much struggles to present these scriptures to us in a simple and understandable way, why not to take advantage of these transcendental books?
Lord Krishna says in 18th chapter of Gita, "One whoever reads and hears the Gita, he worships Me with his intelligence.", reading is the best way to show our appreciations to it's writer, so when we read the Gita we are appreciating Lord and reciprocating with His love. So let's reduce our Facebook time so that we can give more time to Face the Book especially Bhagavad Gita and perfect our lives.
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
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