Does God laugh at our plans?

Does God laugh at our plans? – part 1

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Does God laugh at our plans? – part 2

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So, I spoke about does God laugh at our plans and that the mood of this script is that, if we think that we are the doers and we will do everything, it is like a child thinking I will build a big house because the child was able to build a sand castle. So, that is laughable not in the sense that the parents are sadistic, but the child does not know what all is involved in doing things. So, similarly to understand what all is involved in doing things, we discuss the concept of doership.

The Bhagavad Gita first says that materialism is everything, the thing that we are to do is ego. But later it says Arjuna do as you desire. And Krishna says I will do as you, Arjuna says I will do as you desire.

So, the illusion is not doership, but illusion is soul doership. That is 18.16. And then I give the example of a video game which a child is playing. Now depending on how good the video game is, the child will be able to do this and do that, shoot this person, move out of the way of this bullet, chase that car, whatever.

But the mechanism for it all is set in the video game. The child requires some expertise, but the child's effort and expertise is not of much use if the mechanism would not be there in the video game. So, similarly we all have been given a body which has its own mechanisms, which has its own abilities and inabilities.

And if we think, if we start taking credit for what actually is done by the body, then we are an illusion. When we speak, when we sing, even when we eat food, there is a lot more than our action going in to produce the result. So digestion happens.

Normally because if the technology works very well, I am talking on phone, but I don't even notice I am talking on phone. But when it doesn't work, hey, are you hearing me? Can you hear my voice? That's when we notice we are talking on phone. Similarly, when our body doesn't work, that's when we notice, okay, I am not the soul to work.

So, the ability that is there in the body, that is something which different people have differently. That is the talent which people have. And our capacity to use that body resource properly, that is the temperament.

Talent can also be hold by practice, but the improvement is not unlimited. However, temperament can be improved much more. And improving our temperament means understanding actually how things are happening.

So, with respect to talent, if we talk about intelligences, the seven types of intelligences that psychologists talk about, they are referring to certain innate abilities that people have. When the Bhagavata uses the word intelligence, it uses it primarily in the capacity of ethical intelligence to discern the consequences of actions in terms of their result with respect to our spiritual growth. So, the word discrimination is traditionally used to refer to this capacity of moral discernment.

But discrimination has negative connotations, just like the word cult or religion also has negative connotations. Or preaching has negative connotations. So, the meanings of words are not just stored in the dictionary or in the arrangement of the letters.

It is also stored in the context, in the connotations that they trigger in people's minds. And when we understand that we are the doers, but we are not the sole doers, then we use our intelligence in a, not in the mode of domination. So, definitely when we observe Krishna, planning is important.

Bhagavata wanted us to be organized and intelligent, which means to plan. But the modes will shape the attitude with which we plan and accordingly that will affect whether our planning increases our devotional attitude or it increases our dominating attitude. So, are there any questions or comments?