How can we balance between overthinking about other people’s actions and being thoughtful?
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So, talking about overthinking about other people’s actions, at the same time, be thoughtful.
It comes by experience. I think that will be a major part of the subsequent class, over the course of time. But broadly speaking, it is that how do we know whether, give the example of the accelerator and the brake.
Now, how do we know if the car is driving properly? If the car is going off course, then the ride will become too rocky or you might just wear topple over, you might just come to a dead end, you might crash into something. If you’re on the road, the ride will be relatively smoother. Not only that, if you look at the distance, how far I want to go, if I’m in the proper path, the distance will keep going down, down, down, that means I’m on the right track.
So, basically, the smoothness of the ride and the distance from our destination, those two are parameters that you can understand whether you’re on the right track or not. Now, with respect to road, why I talk about this? With respect to road, we might be able to see a clearly designated road. This is the road and this is the wilderness around the road.
But in the road of relationship, there is no clearly demarcated, this is the road and this is the wilderness, it is not demarcated. But broadly, if we see that things are becoming very turbulent, if this is the road, then if I’m not moving forward at all, despite putting a lot of time and space over there itself, still having a doubt about this, not taking a step forward, then it’s quite likely that we are overthinking about it. So, if you’re not moving forward at all and if we are moving forward too fast, then we will also experience jolts.
It’s like when you go too fast, the speed becomes too much. Then, you know, one devotee was driving, one devotee was being driven by another devotee and this devotee was going way above the speed limit. So, this devotee told him that when you go drive above the speed limit, Krishna will use the car.
Then, whatever happens, sometimes people make mistakes and they say, ultimately, whatever happens, happens by God’s will. It is not as simple as that. Krishna has given all of us free will and it is for us to use the free will to choose responsibly.
So, as I said, if the arrival from the rocky, that means too many jolts in a particular relationship or if we just don’t move forward at all. That’s the broad way we can understand whether we are overthinking or not thinking at all.