Thursday, May 30, 2024

Swadharma


Khali Gibran was very blunt when he said,

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.".

Ruthless it may look.
But hard reality is one can do wholeheartedly only what one loves, is passionate about doing. That's the core capability which one has to find out.

Bhagavad Gita 3.35:
श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुण: परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् |
स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेय: परधर्मो भयावह: || 35||

śhreyān swa-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt sv-anuṣhṭhitāt
swa-dharme nidhanaṁ śhreyaḥ para-dharmo bhayāvahaḥ.

It is far better to perform one’s natural prescribed duty, though tinged with faults, than to perform another’s prescribed duty, though perfectly. 

In the course of explaining Swadharma, Gurudev Sri Sri says, 

" Any action that uplifts us is our Swadharma.
Dharma is that which holds the mind, intellect, memory and our inner soul together in harmony. Growth comes when we follow our swadharma. action that uplifts us is our Swadharma."

May you find bliss
In doing what you - not any illegitimate - feel like doing.

Have a blast.
Be happy.




Any action that uplifts us is our Swadharma.
Dharma is that which holds the mind, intellect, memory and our inner soul together in harmony. Growth comes when we follow our swadharma.

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