There is wonderful story which I recently heard, we know in the Kurukshetra war Pandavas were victorious, they were really happy and joyful. While returning back from battlefield they heard the loud laughter which was coming from particular banyan tree. Being astonished they all rushed towards tree, there was a head of demon called Barbarika hanging on the tree. Barbarika was the grandson of Bhima and Hidimba. Hidimba had told him that, when you will be killed by lord Krishna that will be success of your life. So he was waiting for this moment, when Kurukshetra war was about to start he took the side of Duryodhana and vowed to kill 5 Pandavas, when Lord came to know that he killed Barbarika but while dying he prayed to the Lord that, I want to see whole war kindly bless me, Lord fulfilled his wish, now he was watching whole war from that banyan tree. When Pandavas approached him, they asked,"hey, you have seen the whole war, please tell us who was the most chivalrous and brave amongst us, who was the most powerful?", he started laughing more loudly, they asked what happened, Barbarika replied, "actually none of you were powerful or chivalrous, actually it was krishna's Sudarshan which protected you from most powerful Bhishma, Drona and Karna. You would be dead if Krishna wouldn't be there". Pandavas realised their mistake. This is our mistake too, we also want to take credits for ourselves and we forget about God but he is the only doer and we are just an instrument.
'Self made man' is a person who was born poor but who achieved great economic condition on his own strength without taking help from anyone, according to them they have created their own fortune. Many of them are atheist and agnostics and feel that we only can change our destiny, there is no need to depend upon God for anything. No, their thinking is completely wrong...everything comes from God, even body which they are using for hard work is given by God, intelligence is given by God, did self made man get their bodies and intelligence by their own from market? No...
In fact when Arjuna was returning from Dwarka to Hastinapur with the wives of Lord Krishna, he was defeated by simple cowherd boys. He was thinking, "I, unto whom all kings bow their head. The gandiva is same, the chariot is also same even I am the same Arjuna, how I am defeated by simple gopas?", He realised that when lord was there everything had power now lord has left everything has become powerless, including me. So one has to understand Krishna is the source of all power and one shouldn't be proud of his abilities or skills.
Lord speaks in Gita(BG 3.27),"The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature". The spiritualist completely know lord is controlling everything but ignorant person thinks,'I am the door' and takes credit for everything forgetting the suprem God, but this is all under the influence of false ego(which is also the property of God), He does not know that the mechanism of the body is produced by material nature, which works under the supervision of the Supreme Lord. So one should not become proud of his own success and skills but understand that ingredients to get that success were also given by the God. In conclusion actually there is nothing like a self made man but actually everyone is made by God, so let's be grateful to Him!!
Article by Rupeshgauranga Dasa
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'Self made man' is a person who was born poor but who achieved great economic condition on his own strength without taking help from anyone, according to them they have created their own fortune. Many of them are atheist and agnostics and feel that we only can change our destiny, there is no need to depend upon God for anything. No, their thinking is completely wrong...everything comes from God, even body which they are using for hard work is given by God, intelligence is given by God, did self made man get their bodies and intelligence by their own from market? No...
In fact when Arjuna was returning from Dwarka to Hastinapur with the wives of Lord Krishna, he was defeated by simple cowherd boys. He was thinking, "I, unto whom all kings bow their head. The gandiva is same, the chariot is also same even I am the same Arjuna, how I am defeated by simple gopas?", He realised that when lord was there everything had power now lord has left everything has become powerless, including me. So one has to understand Krishna is the source of all power and one shouldn't be proud of his abilities or skills.
Lord speaks in Gita(BG 3.27),"The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature". The spiritualist completely know lord is controlling everything but ignorant person thinks,'I am the door' and takes credit for everything forgetting the suprem God, but this is all under the influence of false ego(which is also the property of God), He does not know that the mechanism of the body is produced by material nature, which works under the supervision of the Supreme Lord. So one should not become proud of his own success and skills but understand that ingredients to get that success were also given by the God. In conclusion actually there is nothing like a self made man but actually everyone is made by God, so let's be grateful to Him!!
Article by Rupeshgauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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