How can we bring goodness into our passionate services?
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Thank you. So, while doing services which often take us in passion, how can we bring ourselves to goodness? If we take breaks, what do we do in those breaks exactly? Yeah. See, passion is associated with motion.
Lord Krishna says, So, prakasha is illumination. That’s what he associates with goodness. Pravrutti is action according to one’s nature.
That is what he associates with passion. And moha, illusion, where he says, There is neither illumination nor action. That is with ignorance he associates.
So, basically passion keeps us constantly in motion. Do this, do this, do this, do this. And if we are not in motion, then we have two options.
Either I go towards goodness or I go towards ignorance. Externally, both can look similar. A person may be sitting very calmly on a chair.
Another person is actually internally active, thinking, analyzing. The other is just just tired, lethargic. So, if we are having to run around, if we just slow ourselves down, then that can check the passion.
But we might sink into ignorance or we might rise to goodness. So, the way to do that is to basically in goodness, the intelligence is active. It’s illumination.
Prakash is the characteristic of goodness. So, whatever it is that enables us to become more contemplative about what we have done. That could be if you have some other close devotee who also works with you and then maybe we sit together and discuss, okay, this is what we did.
Maybe I could have done it like that. Maybe you could have done things like that. So, that’s sort of not just a meeting for planning future things or not just a meeting to wrap up what we were doing earlier but actually to go over things and analyze, okay, maybe this we did like this, maybe we could have done like this.
So, it’s not so much managerial as it is more of analytical about what we did and how we could have done it. So, journaling also helps write down, okay, I did like this. Especially, you know, if we go at the end of an event, we go over an event, we just look at the passion is associated again with emotion, a lot of emotion.
So, now emotion can be transcendental but quite often in our case it is not transcendental. So, if you find out, I just look back at the event and see which were the emotionally high or emotionally low moments in that. Those are likely to be the most passionate.
So, at some time I got very excited, very happy. That could be spiritual emotion also and again nice. But sometimes things got very tense and we evaluate those, okay, what exactly happened at that time? That time there was tension between that person and me.
What caused that? How could I have avoided that? So, in general, if we look at the peaks and the troughs of our consciousness, that is the time when we can see, okay, what caused the peak? What caused the trough? What could I have done different? So, just looking back at events, it may be a little difficult for us to, but if you have some specific pointers, what should I do? What were the best moments of this project? What were the most difficult moments of this project? And then think about those things. So, usually over a period of time, while trying to review events, you can yourself come up with questions, which you can make a template afterwards. These are questions based on which I can evaluate.
Because just sitting down and thinking what happened, it doesn’t help so much. So, having some questions, that way, and you can find for yourself what are the best questions that enable you to reflect. So, frame those questions and then in future, once a template of questions is prepared, then that introspection will become more natural for you.
And then gradually just like if I am going on a road and there is a speed breaker, next time when I come to the speed breaker, if I know advance, then I will go slowly. So, like that you will be able to find out. Okay, in events, this is the time when I become a little hyper excited or whatever.
I can deal with that