Avoiding Some Risks Keeps Us Alive Taking Some Risks Brings Us Alive Gita 06.40
Avoiding some risks keeps us alive taking some risks brings us alive, in our life journey we all know that there are so many dangers and if we are not careful these dangers can overwhelm us and thus we may end up dead so its important for us to be able to avoid the dangers that are unnecessary while avoiding such dangers we also need to recognize that actually not all dangers are to be avoided after all we don’t just want to survive we want to thrive we want to feel alive we want to do things that fill our life with meaning and fulfillment and we find such meaning and fulfillment not just by say flourishing in terms of getting positions and positions by taking the possibility the risk of failure head on and persevering skillfully through it till we attain success longing to feel alive is so deep rooted that some people are even ready to risk their lives by playing high risk sports such as jumping from helicopters while for many such sports may seem crazy foolhardy but still we all have a part of us which longs for something deeper and that part comes from our spiritual essence to the extent we recognize this and address it to the extent we can grow spiritually to the extent we can actually attain life and love eternal Gita explains that this longing actually comes from our souls and it is best fulfilled by realizing the soul and relishing a life of excitement and fulfillment at the level of this soul in its relationship with the whole the spiritual journey of course is difficult Gita acknowledges that by stating when it addresses how difficult our mind is to restrain and how much territory we need to cover how long it might take for us to rise from the material level of consciousness to the spiritual level so it also says that Neha it assures us that those who are on the spiritual path the risk is not futile risk is eminently worthwhile so the spiritual journey is such that we will never be within auspiciousness either in this life or the next life those who take the risk to go spiritually will always meet with positive destination and it concludes so to conclude understanding which risks to take and which risks to avoid we can all make the choices that keep us alive and bring us alive