Jan 19, 2009

The Bhagavad Gita: Demonic Men

Demonic men are so easy to find now a days “Hypocrisy, arrogance, vanity, anger, harshness, ignorance; these characterize a man born with demonic traits.” 16.4 Why have people become like this? It’s simple they are drunk with power, they believe they are better, and that they can do whatever they please. This are the type of people that I cannot stand to be around, and it’s in this type of society “CNG society” where you going to find the most of these people where they are “Self-aggrandizing, stubborn, drunk with wealth and pride, they sacrifice in name only, in hypocrisy, violating all norms.” 16.17 Here what matters is how many cars you have, how much money you have it’s the type of society where parents influence their children because they were and still are like this. No wonder in other schools they refer to us “ Colegio Nacional De Gomelos” “CNG” And this bothers each student in this school but they don’t do anything about it. It’s time to make a change in our society, for our selves, for the future generations of the Colegio Nueva Granada because it’s incredible to walk around the smaller kids that are in 2nd and 3rd and you hear them talking as if they were in 10th grade.

Jan 18, 2009

The Bhagavad Gita: Peace

Finding peace in your life must be very relaxing, because you do what you love in life, so there is no reason to be bitter with anyone you just are happy in life. “Without discipline, he has no understanding or inner power; without inner power, he has no peace; and without peace where is joy?” 2.66 So how do we find peace in life? I think everyone ask that question in life and I think it’s simple do what you love, but a lot of people don’t know how to get it they are occupied making money in an industry they don’t like, but they need this money to give their children great opportunities. People need to be secure and they might think that what they love to do won’t put food on the table so they stick to their job and don’t do what they love.

The Bhagavad Gita: Shame is worse than death

I think men fear only two things in life shame, and not being remembered. “People will tell of you undying shame, and for a man of honor shame is worse than death.” 2.34 And this goes all the way back to their ego, they will do anything to be remembered, anything to be filled with glory but not with shame. And I think if you have something to be shameful like not going to war in this case its perfectly find to live with this same, if you have shame of starting and not stopping a war that I couldn’t live with it in peace.

The Bhagavad Gita: The Next Life

Reincarnation is a topic we yet have not touch, and it’s time we touch it, Krishna’s way of putting it “just as an embodied self enters a childhood, youth, and old age, so does it enter another body” 2.13“When these cannot torment a man, when suffering and joy are equal for him and he has courage, he is fit for immortality.” 2.15 This is what I believe in we are brought into our life to learn a certain lesson, and then we die and reincarnate to the next life until we are fit to be immortal. Here Krishna says that we have to level our feelings and this I don’t get we are meant to feel what real we cannot overshadow our emotions, we would have to be a cruel selfless being. All the men in history that have overshadow their emotions, and have been cruel selfless beings have died because of it people have either killed them or they have killed themselves Maria Antoinette, Hitler, Bona apart. Has anyone come to reach immortality.

Jan 17, 2009

The Bhagavad Gita: Regret

Regret is a terrible feeling to have. “I see omens of chaos, Krishna; I see no good in killing my kinsman in battle.” 1.31 Here Arjuna is feeling regret about starting a war with his family. “Honor forbids us to kill our cousins, Dhritarashtra’s sons” 1.37 we as human beings must have a lot of regret we have had wars for no reason, we have killed for no reason, and people have died in vain. Take for example the Vietnam War “Mr. McNamara's comment that "we were wrong, terribly wrong." The criticism has come from just about every quarter -- combat veterans, former colleagues in Government, hawks, doves, editorialists and, of course, the children of the 60's who took to the streets and to the grassy grounds outside Mr. McNamara's Pentagon window to noisily, sometimes violently, protest "McNamara's war." Ny Times “Belated Regrets About Vietnam Create a Consensus of Antipathy”

What always get in the way of regret is a person’s ego, a country’s ego they will not stop until they have won or been defeated and this is one of the world’s biggest problems all of the world’s leaders have their ego as high as any god, they think of themselves as one. The sacrifice the pawns and leave King and Queen protected. They always have an excuse it may well be weapons of mass destruction or the real reason oil, even though men and women are dying every day, and Bush has come to relies that between him and Nixon is the fight of the worst American president. Who will win? Who has the biggest Ego? Who is filled with more regret?