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Strategies for self-destruction
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The sinister strategizer Who makes the strategies for self-destruction? The mind – it misappropriates the intelligence for its purposes
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The inner sabotager
Srila Prabhupada: “We are meant to use the intelligence to control the enjoying mentality, but we are used to enjoying intelligently”
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Use or be usedIf we don’t use our intelligence to make strategies to discipline the mind, we will let our intelligence be misused by the mind to make its strategies
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Humility is Krishna-centeredHumility means:1. Not that “I am good-for-
nothing”2. Krishna can engage even a
good-for-nothing like me.
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Strategy 2
Be a perfectionist
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Standards“If I can’t be the best, I won’t practice at all.” We don’t have to be the first; we just need to put Krishna first.
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Spiritual growth
Is analog, not digitalGradual increment, not overnight elevation
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Stay connected
Gita 12.08-12: multiple rungs on the ladder of progressWhere we are is not as defining as where we are moving
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Strategy 3
Treat the peripheral as the essential
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Be adept to adopt and adapt Tradition: fidelity & flexibility Adopt: Fidelity - connects us with the tradition Adapt: Flexibility – connects us with contemporary society
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Don’t fight more battles than necessary
Don’t alienate people: Gita 3.26, 17.16, 18.03Don’t use an axe where a hammer is necessaryCut people’s misconceptions, not their bhakti-lata bija
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Strategy 4
Let guilt come between you and Krishna
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Conscience Conscience is the inner dog that barks when the thief of sin comes to steal our integrity. The bark of that dog is guilt – it is meant to be an inner defense mechanism against wrongdoing
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The misappropriation of guiltGuilt should come between us and wrongdoing, not between us and Krishna.The guilt that discourages us in going closer to Krishna is pseudo-guilt; it is Maya.
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A healthy attitude towards guiltTo not feel guilty at all is dangerous – and so is to feel nothing but guiltyWe are not defined by our lapses, but by what we do between the lapses
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Strategy 5
See your work as Maya
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Gita: Renunciation in action The way out of the world is through the world Detachment from results is not apathy towards goals
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Spiritual vision of workMeans to meet bodily needsMeans to have social position for sharing Krishna’s messageMeans to work out our passion
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Spiritual vision of workMeans to raise workplace consciousness by setting example of sattvika way of workingMeans to attract people through our competence and excellence
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Work can be MayaGreed – What we live with shouldn’t replace what we live forWorkaholism – Work becomes our defining identity
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Work as worship Means to do justice to our God-given talentsMeans to experience Krishna in this world What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God