{"id":7160,"date":"2013-11-26T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/2013\/11\/solving-lifes-perplexities\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:40:00","slug":"solving-lifes-perplexities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/solving-lifes-perplexities\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving life\u2019s perplexities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">In Bhagavad Gita 2.7, Arjuna says, \u201ckarpanya \u2013 dosopahata \u2013 svabhavah\u201d, \u201cNow I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness.\u201d<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Here the word \u201ckarpanya\u201d has been used which means \u201cmiserliness\u201d. A miser person is one who neither enjoys and do not even allow others to enjoy. Srila Prabhupada explains that a miser person do not take trouble to solve the problems of life. He remains engrossed in the material life and also keeps his family members entangled in the material conception of life. Such a life neither benefits him and nor does any good to his family members. Brhad \u2013 aranyaka Upanisad (3.8.10) explains, &#8220;He is a miserly man who does not solve the problems of life as a human and who thus quits this world like the cats and dogs, without understanding the science of self-realization.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Arjuna being very intelligent and compassionate was thinking whether the war will be of any benefit to the humanity or not and so he approached Krishna for guidance.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp; <\/span>Krishna\u2019s guidance removed Arjuna\u2019s ignorance. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span>In confusion or in desperation we too can take Krishna\u2019s help, our eternal friend and guide, by reading Bhagavad Gita reverentially. He will help us to get out of our miserly weakness and guide us to get out of material perplexities. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bhagavad Gita 2.7, Arjuna says, \u201ckarpanya \u2013 dosopahata \u2013 svabhavah\u201d, \u201cNow I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; Here the word \u201ckarpanya\u201d has been used which means \u201cmiserliness\u201d. A miser person is one who neither enjoys and do not even allow others to enjoy. Srila Prabhupada&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more11\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/solving-lifes-perplexities\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-long-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,164,165],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-krishna","tag-miselry","tag-perplexity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}