Namaskaram Atanu ji
Working, sex, earning money, thinking, feeling, experiencing—you know, the whole business of living—why is it a problem?
Let s look at it this way if it were problem free , would we ever strive towards knowledge or realisation?
in which case the Gita again has expressed it sucinctly , .....
O best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness. .....Bhagavad Gita Ch ..18 V ..36-37
Here what seems like poison is the endeavour to detatch from all material attatchments , indulgences , from self gratification and self serving at first the thought of giving these up seems like poison , this practice at first is hard and disspleasing , yet as we progress what seemed to be so attractive looses its alure and true happiness is found not in grasping at the temporary and material , but is found in the trancendental reality only , ....
That happiness which is derived from contact of the senses with their objects and which appears like nectar at first but poison at the end is said to be of the nature of passion......Bhagavad Gita Ch ..18 V ..38
And that happiness which is blind to self-realization, which is delusion from beginning to end and which arises from sleep, laziness and illusion is said to be of the nature of ignorance......Bhagavad Gita Ch ..18 V ..39
Do you agree that living itself is problem? Why or why not?
If you agree that life is a problem then what is the teaching of your religion for overcoming the problem?
it is only living either governed by the mode of passion , or in the mode of Ignorance that is the cause of our problems , ....
But that worker who is attached to the fruits of his labor and who passionately wants to enjoy them, who is greedy, envious and impure and moved by happiness and distress, is a worker in the mode of passion......Bhagavad Gita Ch ..18 V ..27
Sadly this man will suffer when ever what he desires is not within his grasp , ...but the man who sees material nature as fleeting and knows its true nature to be impermenant is not so disturbed by either loss or gain , ...he is ''equal in happiness and distress''
