Every day, as the economy worsens, job prospects dry up, chaos erupts in North Africa and the Middle East, and commodity prices skyrocket, I need to remind myself of this simple philosophy from the Bhagavad Gita...
"Desire for the fruits of one's actions brings worry about possible failure -- the quivering mind I mentioned. When you are preoccupied with end results you pull yourself from the present into an imagined, usually fearful future. Then your anxiety robs your energy and, making matters worse, you lapse into inaction and laziness. One does not accomplish great ends in some by-and-by future, O Warrior. Only in the present can you hammer out real achievement. The worried mind tends to veer from the only real goal -- realizing the Atma, uniting with Divinity, the True Self Within."
~ The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough For Westerners by Jack Hawley (2:47)
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