Q. 215: Gurudev, when we put lot of passion in our work, we develop attachment to the result. But same attachment and clinging of result gives stress when we do not achieve it, and happiness when we achieve it. Going by my limited understanding of Bhagwad Gita, they say do your work with dispassion. But if we do that we see that results can go haywire. How do we resolve this?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Ya, I think it's a little bit different understanding of Gita. Actually the understanding of Gita should be, ‘you work hard, you put your 100%, you look for the goals, you look to achieve the goals. But at the same time you should have that faith, that confidence and relax’.

You know to achieve anything you need 3 types of confidence. First is confidence in yourself, then you have no anxiety. It’s very easy for me to handle this issue. I can do this. Second is confidence in the society around, people around. If you know that your team is good and they will achieve it, or if you have faith in the system that the system is continuous and justice will be done to you. You know, if you have done well then you will definitely get well. But if you don’t have trust or faith in the system, if it’s very corrupt then you will not pass it. So, we have to have faith and trust in the system. Third is trust in a power which is compassionate, higher power, the higher self, and this faith that it will always do best to people. These 3 types of trust can take us out of anxiety. For this, I would say take out a few minutes for yourself. Relax and Look back. How many times in the past have you got stressed? You got some failures? You went through some failures and you achieved something. So, in the same way, now also you will achieve. That gives you that inner strength which is more needed at the time. I would say it’s like the cell phone.

You know, for a cell phone you need to have a sim card. Correct? And you need the battery to be charged and you should be close to a tower. (Laughter) Should be within the range. If any of this is missing then you can go on dialing, say hello and nothing, there’ll be no response.

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