The Easy Way

Many people have very strong attachments to material things such as money or precious artifacts. What they don’t realize is how fast they can lose it all. The biggest problem is when they are used to having all the money and they lose it. Suddenly they feel as if their world has turned the other way and they don’t know what to do anymore. They feel lost and disoriented. The only way to avoid this is to have a detachment from material things. This will make you much stronger and stable.

Another problem which the Gita shows us is that of ignorance. Krishna is able to show us about the most important things in life with a few simple lines “The fruit of good conduct is pure and untainted they say, but suffering is the fruit of passion, ignorance the fruit of dark inertia.” (Gita 14.16) He is telling us that ignorance will lead no where but to more ignorance. It is as I had mentioned before a double loss. You start of by being ignorant and lazy and this will bring forth more off the dark inertia that is mentioned. Krishna believes that ignorance includes not knowing certain facts like the existence of god. This will lead the mind to deny possibilities and stay where it feels comfortable. It already has a set routine and if it stays on it will not learn anything but it will not lose anything. This is a mentality that has to change in order for new ideas to rise.