Monday, December 15, 2008

Name of the game

“Struggle is the name of the game as long as we are in this material world.”

6 comments:

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

There’s no material solution to any problem. Solution lies only in spiritual path.

Anonymous said...

“Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for regrets.”-Unknown

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Pranav, that is very much true from the point of view of material world. But there is a hind side to it. Let us see this from spiritual angle.

If you see the basic outcome of struggle - it creates ego. Definitely it gives stength but "I" gets attached to it. It gives a sense of achievemnt and "I" gets attached to it.

Here I would like to cite Osho:
If you struggle in the world, it creates a gross ego: "I am someone with money, with prestige, with power." If you struggle within, it creates a subtle ego: "I am pure; I am a saint, I am a sage," but "I" remains with struggle. So there are pious egoists who have a very subtle ego. They may not be worldly people. They are not; they are otherworldly. But struggle is there. They have achieved something. That achievement still carries the last shadow of "I".

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

We should also try to understand 'what struggle is?' It is just a mental excersice of taking a thing as problem and then overcoming the same. Whatever happens to us is all natural but we take certain things / events as negative and try to avoid them, reject them. Rather we should accept them in their pure natural form and try to flow with them.

Whenever we get the feeling that we are struugling, we should try to understand that we are doing something against nature. We are creating duality that the problem is not ours.

Thats why I said the solution lies only in spiritual path. The whole approach needs to changed. Instead of rejecting, we should start accepting things.

Anonymous said...

What you said can be accepted as a modicum of truth as what we percieve as struggle may be a rosy situation for others . So relativity acts . But at the same time considering something as a problem may focus your energies towards a task which you may not give full attention to otherwise.

Rohit Saxena said...

in the ancient hindu scriptures it was 'shraap' a 'Curse' to the devi -devtas to be born in this material world.
I always wondered why this world was a punishment posting for those who did something wrong in parlok..
May be.. i mean may be.. STRUGGLE is the reason why this material world is considered as the lesser of all worlds...