Living the Bhagavad-Gita

  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...

Looking back (yesterday): Continuous contemplation of materials leads to convolution:  Yesterday, i visited a friend who recently bought a new house. Its quite a high priced home and they have furnished with expensive, beautiful new furniture. Such as plush new sofas, attractive wall decor and so on. I couldnt help but think how we could buy similar new furniture and make our home look beautiful. Our home is beautiful as it is right now and provides us happiness. I am trying to push out thoughts of imagining their or other new furniture in our home. If i dont mention this topic in the coming few days, hopefully i will have avoided continually thinking about these materialistic possessions.  Be a sthitha prajna An influential manager at office is working with me on a project. He tends to work over weekends and send e-mails regularly. I received a bunch of e-mails from him yesterday night prescribing how i should do my project. He was prescribing me to follow some book he had re...

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...