I recently had the opportunity to learn Bhagavad-Gita in its full form through a teacher. Which is different from most common practice of giving speeches on its summary or interpretation. I am not highly religious. So to me, going through each shloka and understanding its translated meaning manifested as a personality development course. Like a massive collection of quotes, tips & best practices we commonly hear these days from famous people, self-help books, monks and psychology or management gurus. Infact my teacher presented and approached the classes as a personality development course. Many sayings in Bhagavad-Gita resonated very well with me and I want to bring them into practice. I firmly believe following those will help me achieve a better state of mind. Everyone will have different goals in life. My goal is to have a stable state of mind and achieve happiness through inner peace. Bhagavad-Gita has many guidelines to achieve this. Spanning 700 shlokas in 18 chapters, there...
Looking back (yesterday): Balance the eat & sleep scale : Having written down this goal, i was able to consciously make an effort to not over-eat. I could manage to eat a balanced quantity in the get together. However, we made dessert to take to get together and i couldnt stop my self from eating quite a bit of the sweet before leaving to friend's house. I probably have a sweet tooth, something to watch for. Also, I slipped the target of leaving their house by 9:30PM. Got carried away on other's request to play games for a while and left their house at 10:30PM. So sleep scales tipped a little as well Looking forward (tomorrow): Gym for the brain - Meditation : I want to continue practicing meditation. Meditate atleast for 10 to 15 minutes. Right action not inaction : A project at office that i am working on has slowed down on progress due to many others giving their opinion on how i should do. I am letting it sit idle without wanting to face or encounter the other...