Have you ever pushed away the people you needed?: How can you avoid doing it again?

Bhagavad Gita Life Lessons

 

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 06, Text 06 warns that by destroying our relationships via complaints and our illogical and baseless demands, our mind acts as our enemy.

 

For example, someone we care is going through tough times. We have often seen that whenever we try to help them, they say, ” Leave me alone”, and later they complain that we don’t care for them.

 

If they keep repeating the same behavior, we gradually learn do our responsibility without taking their complaints and initial demands on a serious note.

 

When someone who cares for us, steps in during our difficult times, our mind makes us think that they are not giving us any personal space.  We tend to push them away, if we follow our mind.

 

When they actually leave us, our same mind makes us feel lonely and unloved and we start complaining them that they don’t care.

 

As a result , our mixed attitude towards them makes them confused and detach from ourselves.

 

Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Life Lessons: How to avoid pushing away the people, you actually needed in your life?

 

We need to keep our mind’s complaints and demands on one side & our genuine needs and concerns on the other &then differentiate wisely that when we need people by our side and when we genuinely want them to leave us alone.

 

How can we act responsibly in the midst of our mind’s mixed feelings? What are the factors that can help us choose between association and solitude wisely?

 

Bhagavad Gita says, rather than acting as per our what our mind compels us to do, we can use our:

 

•  Intelligence: Using our intelligence, we can decide which issue can be best dealt by figuring things on our own and which by discussing issues with others.

 

• Experience: By looking at how we handled difficult situations in the past, we can learn, that which kind of situations require solitude and which require association.

 

• Transcendence: We can raise our consciousness to transcendence by connecting ourselves with the Supreme transcendental reality, Krishna. By building that connection, we can get the inner stability to think & act clearly & constructively.

 

& use both association and solitude appropriately.