If our environment constrains us in developing our talent, what can we do?

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Sometimes our environment constrains us and yes that is true. See this is where the concept of karma also comes in that we can choose our present karma but we also have a certain karma baggage from the past and that karma baggage determines the talent we have. Not everybody has the same level of talent.

So similarly our karma, our past karma also determines the environment we are in. So most of us say live in a relatively peaceful part of the world. Some occasional crimes might happen here and there but we are living in a peaceful part of the world.

There are parts of the world where there is wars happening constantly, there are sectarian violence going on. So much more difficult to live over there. So why is somebody living over there? Why is somebody born over there? That’s karma.

So we all have to live within certain limitations. So we may have to decide is my talent so important for me that I have to change the environment? What would that mean? That means that somebody drops out from college and decides I’m just pursuing my own career, my own career independent of education. So I’m going to decide no, even when we all do something that we like to do.

Nobody can do only the things they like to do. Say even if somebody wants to be an author and they like writing. Now after writing they have to promote their work, they have to publicize, they have to do interviews, they may not like all those things, they have to do those things.

Nobody in life can always do only what they like to do. So we all have to do certain things which we do not like to do. But what should not happen is that rather than simply deciding our life choices based on what we like and what we don’t like, it is that sometimes I may have to go through a particular environment so that I can be in a more favorable environment afterwards and where I can pursue.

So we have to make certain decisions like that. For Arjuna, he was a great archer. But when Draupadi was being dishonored, when the Pandavas had to live in the forest, he could not do much with archery.

The environment was such that he could not use that archery at that time to protect them from that particular danger. So for all of us, some situations we have to accept. But when we are persevering rather than taking every failure personally, oh I am a loser, that is why nothing is working out, you have to evaluate what exactly is the cause.

And then how much can the environment be changed? How much do I have to find some other talent which is more supportive in the environment? And then move forward. So those are decisions which individually we have to take. Does that answer your question? Thank you.