There are four types of people – bhogi, yogi, sannyasi and jnani . The bhogi is the extroverted person who chases the world for happiness. Those who look within understand that happiness is not a commodity available in the supermarkets of the world.

 

With imagery taken from the Katha Upanishad, Lord Krishna portrays the entire universe as the Ashvattha or pipal tree with roots above and branches below. In this chapter, Krishna urges you to cut apart this firmly rooted tree of the material world (and desires) with the weapon of detachment.

 

Every human being is a fascinating combination of divine and demonic qualities. We all have the devil in us. Something that makes us pursue self-destructive ways. Yet, even the worst among us has extraordinarily divine traits.

 

The clarion call given by the ancient Indian sages in the Vedas, the oldest source of wisdom in the world, was ARISE, AWAKE. STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED.

 
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