TK Ramchandar & Sudhir Namboothiry
Udaya Summarized this year as follows,
Our Takeaways from the Bhagavad Gita – Udaya
What We Learned
- Our body is just a frame for our soul
- Our goal is to graduate from Earth
- Karma is action, and actions have consequences; your karma can affect your life now and affect your future lives
- The Mind is a great servant, but a bad Master
- God is in everything
- Desires prevent enlightenment
- The restlessness in our mind is caused by our likes and dislikes
- Expectations are bad, happiness requires an emphasis on the effort, not the results
- Ego is bad
What We Should Do
- Work to be more like the Lord
- Frequently practice Meditation
- Learn to practice self-restraint
- Learn to understand yourself
- Don’t be attached to the end result
- Detach yourself from desires and distractions
- The factors of devotion are:
- Fix your mind on Krishna
- Have self-control
- Have extreme faith
- Praying requires to focus on Bhagavan; meditation
- Issues can be complex but you must always practice/follow your dharma
- Strive to be satvik
- To be enlightened you must surrender yourself and your belongings to God
“The hardest choices require the strongest wills” – Siddarth Menon, aka Thanos