We all have heard a story of turtle and rabbit, how both decided to have a race to know who is more faster. as we know rabbit took a rest for a while and turtle won the race, moral of the story,'one who is slow and steady wins the race', but story doesn't end here. Next time they again decided to have race and rabbit was careful not to sleep during race and off course rabbit won the race, moral,'fast and steady always wins the race'. Story continues, this time turtle decided to have different route for race. Race started, rabbit started running very fast but he realised finishing point is beyond a river, he started thinking how to cross the river meanwhile turtle came he swam across river and reached the goal, moral,'identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency'. Story doesn't end here, now this time they have become good friends, they thought last race could have been better, they decided to have race again but not as individual but as a team. Till the riverbank rabbit carried turtle on his back, turtle helped rabbit to cross the river and again rabbit carried turtle on his back till the finish point. Both felt great sense of satisfaction, moral,'alone we can do little but together we can do much more'.
If one wants to get engaged in good moral activities he must be association of people who have similar nature, in fact what to say of good activities even if someone wants to commit sinful actions one needs to cooperate(that's why there is gang of deco it's and robber), cooperation is needed everywhere, one can't function without it. We read in scripture how Lord himself told the demigods to cooperate with demons if they want to have the nectar.
In this age of Kali, where quarrel and hypocrisy present everywhere, it's very difficult to cooperate. The powerful enemy of cooperation is our own egos. We have to keep our egos and personal agendas aside while cooperating. Confrontation will create loose loose situation. Prabhupad would say,'united we stand, divided we fall', we each individual doesn't have potency to do anything meaningful. That's why yugavataar Chaitanya Mahaprabhu recommended Sankirtan Yajna, congregational chanting of holy name as a means of deliverance for this age.
It's become very easy to cooperate when centre is one, else there will be fight, just like if we throw a stone in still water of lake there are multiple waves of concentric circles but when another stone is thrown it also creates its own waves and both waves collides. So when we have God as a centre of our life then it becomes very easy to cooperate. In fact God becomes pleased by seeing cooperation. Bhagavat mahapuran explains the story of 100 prachetas, they performed penances together to please Lord. Lord appeared to them and congratulated them for their unity. Always there will be multiple reasons for not cooperating but cooperation will please the God and that's important than all other multiple reasons. It's said,'if you want to walk fast go alone but if you want to walk long go together'. And our spiritual journey is not short path it's long path, we need inspiration and guidance from others, unless we are in company of devotees and cooperating with them then it will become difficult to walk on this path for long. So let's cooperate for our own spiritual success and for pleasure of The God!!
Article by Rupeshgauranga Dasa
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If one wants to get engaged in good moral activities he must be association of people who have similar nature, in fact what to say of good activities even if someone wants to commit sinful actions one needs to cooperate(that's why there is gang of deco it's and robber), cooperation is needed everywhere, one can't function without it. We read in scripture how Lord himself told the demigods to cooperate with demons if they want to have the nectar.
In this age of Kali, where quarrel and hypocrisy present everywhere, it's very difficult to cooperate. The powerful enemy of cooperation is our own egos. We have to keep our egos and personal agendas aside while cooperating. Confrontation will create loose loose situation. Prabhupad would say,'united we stand, divided we fall', we each individual doesn't have potency to do anything meaningful. That's why yugavataar Chaitanya Mahaprabhu recommended Sankirtan Yajna, congregational chanting of holy name as a means of deliverance for this age.
It's become very easy to cooperate when centre is one, else there will be fight, just like if we throw a stone in still water of lake there are multiple waves of concentric circles but when another stone is thrown it also creates its own waves and both waves collides. So when we have God as a centre of our life then it becomes very easy to cooperate. In fact God becomes pleased by seeing cooperation. Bhagavat mahapuran explains the story of 100 prachetas, they performed penances together to please Lord. Lord appeared to them and congratulated them for their unity. Always there will be multiple reasons for not cooperating but cooperation will please the God and that's important than all other multiple reasons. It's said,'if you want to walk fast go alone but if you want to walk long go together'. And our spiritual journey is not short path it's long path, we need inspiration and guidance from others, unless we are in company of devotees and cooperating with them then it will become difficult to walk on this path for long. So let's cooperate for our own spiritual success and for pleasure of The God!!
Article by Rupeshgauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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