What does it mean to be consistently content with the self?
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what does it mean to be consistently content with the self in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna talks about satisfaction as an austerity of the mind this is interesting when you talk about austerity say like I fast that’s an austerity I say but so how can satisfaction be an austerity what he means is that in every situation in our life there are certain things which we have and certain things which we don’t have so if I look at the things which I have I can be satisfied if I look at the things I don’t have I will be dissatisfied so suppose after this program there is prasad food for all of you suppose food is there actually but suppose there is a special kind of feast where every one of you is going to get a plate with distinct items so what’s on your plate is going to be different from my plate and your plate is all different now all of us have got delicacies but when I have the delicacies in my plate instead of looking at and instead of eating what is on my plate I start looking oh he has got this oh he has got that oh he has got that then seeing what everyone else has I will become dissatisfied so contentment means look at what is there on your plate and delight in that so contentment means that we focus on our gifts we focus on our abilities all of us have been given gifts some of them may need to be discovered some of them need to be developed some of them may just need channels to externally so that they can produce the results but contentment does not mean passivity or lack of ambition it simply means focusing on our strengths and using those strengths and more importantly contentment so contentment with respect to our gifts in this world contentment has one aspect another aspect is contentment also means that we recognize that we are at our core spiritual so no matter what happens in the world we have an eternal spiritual relationship with our source with God with Krishna and his love for us his concern for us our relationship with him does not depend on externals so that security that we get by our inner connection with him we would like to do wonderful things in the world also in a mood of service to him but whether they work out or not we are stable in our inner connection with the Lord because that also brings contentment so contentment comes by seeing our inner connection with our source and seeing the gifts that we have and focusing on them instead of just looking at what everyone else has okay thank you so any other questions