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Frustration
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One should not therefore, get frustrated over the failure; instead he/she should shift his/her mind from failure to God and start the study of self realization. Most of the great saints in India accepted the renunciation after some occurrence in their life that brought them frustration. There are persons who show the symptoms that they will be great enlightened saints since the time they are in cradle. In the childhood they are different from other children. They choose their way to spirituality and renounce the world as early as the age of 6 to 8 years old. This is called the Jnangarbha Vairagya. This means renunciation due to the knowledge of God since the birth. These cases of Jnangarbha Vairagya are very few. Most of the saints turn to asceticism after living worldly life. In their life they come across such an incident that they understand the illusory form and nature of the world. They end their life of orrow and joy and surrender to God. They become part of the God themselves after Self Realization. This kind of renunciation is called Nairvedya Vairagya. This means the renunciation after realizing the myth of the world. The real and serious search in to God is started after the frustrations in the lives of the saints. As long as one is aware that he is frustrated, the door of the option remains open to him. The frequent frustrations bring to a stage in due course that a person gets frustrated but he is not aware of his mental condition. The doors of the options are closed in such a situation, and the open is only one option i.e. treatment.
If I am a person and feeling frustrated for any reason, or one of the above ten reasons, what are the options open for me? This might be a question somebody will ask. Generally, advice is given to a frustrated person, ?Give up the thoughts of frustration. Think something different, and you will feel better?. We see in the society that this kind of advice is given by the elders, friends or keens in the house to a frustrated person. This is a wise advice, but has no support of the reasoning. The frustrated person therefore, might not take this seriously. We shall try here to go to the root cause of frustration with the help of a verse from Geeta.
Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna the reasons of the joy and sorrow:
?Prakriti (nature) is said to be responsible for bringing forth the evolutes and the instruments; while the individual soul is declared to be cause of experience of joys and sorrows?
Here we shall have to think upon the Karya-Karan (evolutes and experiment) chart used elsewhere on this site :
In the above chart the first two columns from the left are the evolutes (Karya) of nature. So, ether, air, fire, water and earth the five elements along with their respective properties sound, touch, light, taste and smell are known as the evolutes. The ten organs (explained in above paragraphs) and the three kinds of mind are the total 13 instruments. Five are the sense organs and five are the acting organs. Eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin are said to be sense organs (jnanendriya) and hands, legs, mouth, anus and genital organ are called acting organs (Karmendriya). Mind, intelligence and ego (individual experience of existence of the body) are three kinds of mind. These all together 13 are the instruments. These altogether 23 are the KaryaKaranSamuha. (group of evolutes and the instruments) of the nature. Nature here means the creation, that includes the human beings.
We shall in brief try to understand about Brahma and Maya, or God and the creation, so that the above explanation of nature shall be clearer to us.
Invariably, wherever the word ?God? is used in this website, it denotes the Soul, Self, Atma or Spirit whatever you name it. God is the name of the soul/Atma, The soul/Atma is named in India as Krishna, Rama, Devi, Dattaraya, Ganpati or other innumerable names. Once Mahatma Gandhi was asked about his favorite deity Shri Ram. Mahatma Gandhi explained that his Ram was not a hero in the story of Ramayana; his Ram was Soul/Atma whose name was used by Dasaratha to name his son as ?Ram?. (Please refer to the books of Acharya Vinoba Bhave).
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If I am a person and feeling frustrated for any reason, or one of the above ten reasons, what are the options open for me? This might be a question somebody will ask. Generally, advice is given to a frustrated person, ?Give up the thoughts of frustration. Think something different, and you will feel better?. We see in the society that this kind of advice is given by the elders, friends or keens in the house to a frustrated person. This is a wise advice, but has no support of the reasoning. The frustrated person therefore, might not take this seriously. We shall try here to go to the root cause of frustration with the help of a verse from Geeta.
Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna the reasons of the joy and sorrow:
?Prakriti (nature) is said to be responsible for bringing forth the evolutes and the instruments; while the individual soul is declared to be cause of experience of joys and sorrows?
Here we shall have to think upon the Karya-Karan (evolutes and experiment) chart used elsewhere on this site :
In the above chart the first two columns from the left are the evolutes (Karya) of nature. So, ether, air, fire, water and earth the five elements along with their respective properties sound, touch, light, taste and smell are known as the evolutes. The ten organs (explained in above paragraphs) and the three kinds of mind are the total 13 instruments. Five are the sense organs and five are the acting organs. Eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin are said to be sense organs (jnanendriya) and hands, legs, mouth, anus and genital organ are called acting organs (Karmendriya). Mind, intelligence and ego (individual experience of existence of the body) are three kinds of mind. These all together 13 are the instruments. These altogether 23 are the KaryaKaranSamuha. (group of evolutes and the instruments) of the nature. Nature here means the creation, that includes the human beings.
We shall in brief try to understand about Brahma and Maya, or God and the creation, so that the above explanation of nature shall be clearer to us.
Invariably, wherever the word ?God? is used in this website, it denotes the Soul, Self, Atma or Spirit whatever you name it. God is the name of the soul/Atma, The soul/Atma is named in India as Krishna, Rama, Devi, Dattaraya, Ganpati or other innumerable names. Once Mahatma Gandhi was asked about his favorite deity Shri Ram. Mahatma Gandhi explained that his Ram was not a hero in the story of Ramayana; his Ram was Soul/Atma whose name was used by Dasaratha to name his son as ?Ram?. (Please refer to the books of Acharya Vinoba Bhave).
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