Guest guest Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Shri Narsimha Guruji, I am not sure, whether I have right to address you as Narsimha Guruji or not ? I donot know whether i have the eligibility to become your Shishya also. Still, i respect you as my Guruji and i am blessed to have found you. I should thank my friend, utpal for this.. I need your help. Professionally i work for private company in accounts and administration department since past 20 years. Besides my profession, i am script writer also.. To earn more money, to lead good standard of life and to pay back my home loans, i have started writing script for Television serial as a part time job. I am doing this script writing work since past 4-5 years. Considering my creative talents and good language control (not praising myself)I am getting good assignments of writing TV serials. All daily soap television serials are glorifying more negativity, jeoulsy, conspiracy.. enemities.. Sometimes i am feeling guilty of writing scenes which shows Conflicts between SAAS and BAHU, Conflicts between FATHER and SON, Conflicts between BROTHER and BROTHER. I am compelled to write harsh dialogues which hurts me sometimes.. The formula on which TV serials are now based follow this: " More conflicts means more drama and more drama means more TRP(Television rating points)and More TRP means more benefits, more money and popularity to the serial " . Guruji, I feel that i am doing wrong by writing serials.. I am passing wrong messages to the society.. i feel guilty about it. I am not in a position to leave this as it gives me more money besides it also gives me good standard of life and good recognition also.. If i would leave this someone else would do it.. What should i do? I am really confused. If i will leave writing this, i will find more difficult to survive in this world with home loan and two small school going children..I need your help I was fortunate to discuss this with utpal. He guided me to write this mail to you.. to seek your guidance.. Waiting anxiously your reply. Respectful regards, Rajesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Do your duty and leave the rest to the god. Sri Krishna himself has advised Arjun about doing ones Karma. We are here only to do things and not to think whether we are doing right or wrong.Regards--- On Wed, 7/15/09, rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 wrote:rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 Please help me Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:16 PM Shri Narsimha Guruji, I am not sure, whether I have right to address you as Narsimha Guruji or not ? I donot know whether i have the eligibility to become your Shishya also. Still, i respect you as my Guruji and i am blessed to have found you. I should thank my friend, utpal for this.. I need your help. Professionally i work for private company in accounts and administration department since past 20 years. Besides my profession, i am script writer also.. To earn more money, to lead good standard of life and to pay back my home loans, i have started writing script for Television serial as a part time job. I am doing this script writing work since past 4-5 years. Considering my creative talents and good language control (not praising myself)I am getting good assignments of writing TV serials. All daily soap television serials are glorifying more negativity, jeoulsy, conspiracy.. enemities.. Sometimes i am feeling guilty of writing scenes which shows Conflicts between SAAS and BAHU, Conflicts between FATHER and SON, Conflicts between BROTHER and BROTHER. I am compelled to write harsh dialogues which hurts me sometimes.. The formula on which TV serials are now based follow this: "More conflicts means more drama and more drama means more TRP(Television rating points)and More TRP means more benefits, more money and popularity to the serial". Guruji, I feel that i am doing wrong by writing serials.. I am passing wrong messages to the society.. i feel guilty about it. I am not in a position to leave this as it gives me more money besides it also gives me good standard of life and good recognition also.. If i would leave this someone else would do it.. What should i do? I am really confused. If i will leave writing this, i will find more difficult to survive in this world with home loan and two small school going children..I need your help I was fortunate to discuss this with utpal. He guided me to write this mail to you.. to seek your guidance.. Waiting anxiously your reply. Respectful regards, Rajesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Dear Rajesh, Accept my apology in advance - This mail is harsh in tone. The way you have put the question, it is clear you are only seeking us to say " You are forced to do bad thing, and hence it is okay! " . You made it abundantly clear that you can not leave this activity ( " I am not in a position to leave this " ). If you yourself feel guilty, there is no reason why you should seek others opinion. If you are open to leave this activity, then asking this question to others makes sense. Your statement that if you do not do, some one else will do is also wrong in attitude. If a act is bad in nature, both the following arguments are wrong in attitude: 1. I know this is bad, but I am forced to do 2. If I don't do, some else will do. So, this act will any way happen. I can do it and I am only a nimitta. If you stop this activity, you may losse the additional money, and hence loose comforts and may have to go through financial problems. You have to make a judgement if you are mentally and physically strong to face it. If you are not ready for it, try to explore another avenue to get revenue by doing an act that does not make you guilty. Personally, I do not feel writing TV episodes is a bad karma. Yes, the characters may be behaving badly, but, I am not really sure, if that results in bad behaviour in the viewers. My personal opinion and others personal opinions apart, if you feel guilty about, you plan for leaving it. That is my advice. Best regards, Vijay , uma shanker <aliens19672004 wrote: > > Do your duty and leave the rest to the god. Sri Krishna himself has advised Arjun about doing ones Karma. We are here only to do things and not to think whether we are doing right or wrong. > > > Regards > > --- On Wed, 7/15/09, rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 wrote: > > rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 > Please help me > > Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:16 PM > > > > > > > > > > > Shri Narsimha Guruji, > > > > I am not sure, whether I have right to address you as Narsimha Guruji or not ? I donot know whether i have the eligibility to become your Shishya also. Still, i respect you as my Guruji and i am blessed to have found you. I should thank my friend, utpal for this.. > > > > I need your help. Professionally i work for private company in accounts and administration department since past 20 years. Besides my profession, i am script writer also.. To earn more money, to lead good standard of life and to pay back my home loans, i have started writing script for Television serial as a part time job. I am doing this script writing work since past 4-5 years. Considering my creative talents and good language control (not praising myself)I am getting good assignments of writing TV serials. > > > > All daily soap television serials are glorifying more negativity, jeoulsy, conspiracy.. enemities.. Sometimes i am feeling guilty of writing scenes which shows Conflicts between SAAS and BAHU, Conflicts between FATHER and SON, Conflicts between BROTHER and BROTHER. I am compelled to write harsh dialogues which hurts me sometimes.. > > > > The formula on which TV serials are now based follow this: " More conflicts means more drama and more drama means more TRP(Television rating points)and More TRP means more benefits, more money and popularity to the serial " . > > > > Guruji, I feel that i am doing wrong by writing serials.. I am passing wrong messages to the society.. i feel guilty about it. I am not in a position to leave this as it gives me more money besides it also gives me good standard of life and good recognition also.. If i would leave this someone else would do it.. What should i do? I am really confused. If i will leave writing this, i will find more difficult to survive in this world with home loan and two small school going children..I need your help > > > > I was fortunate to discuss this with utpal. He guided me to write this mail to you.. to seek your guidance.. > > > > Waiting anxiously your reply. > > > > Respectful regards, > > > > Rajesh > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 This is easy to say for bad karma. Call it your duty! How do you know it is your duty do some thing bad? We always have an option not to do it and experiance the consequence. Let us say, some one gives you a gun and says shoot him, or else I will shoot you. We have two options: 1. Shoot the person 2. Deny to shoot In the outset, the first option seem to be easy. But, lo Look at possible outcome of your choice: 1.1 The other person may still shoot you 1.2 The other person may hit you and go 1.3 The other person may hit you and imprision you. 1.4 The other person may continue forcing you to kill few more 2.1 Then other person may shoot you 2.2 Other person may hit you and go 2.3 Other person may hit you and imprision you. Are we sure, we made the correct choice? Apart from it, killnig some one to avoid your own death may not be your duty! Knowing what is your duty is far more defficult than making choices best suited for your comfort, name and convenience. Sorry, if I am hurting any one, but, I thought, it is important to know the difference between: 1. Saying you did it because you had to do it 2. Doing it because you had to do it. Like Narasimha pointed in another email, these days the villan in the movie says " Krishna made me kill. Who am I to kill? " Also, pretending unattachedness for a bad karma is relatively easy. Please don't fall into the trap. Best regards, Vijay , uma shanker <aliens19672004 wrote: > > Do your duty and leave the rest to the god. Sri Krishna himself has advised Arjun about doing ones Karma. We are here only to do things and not to think whether we are doing right or wrong. > > > Regards > > --- On Wed, 7/15/09, rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 wrote: > > rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 > Please help me > > Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:16 PM > > > > > > > > > > > Shri Narsimha Guruji, > > > > I am not sure, whether I have right to address you as Narsimha Guruji or not ? I donot know whether i have the eligibility to become your Shishya also. Still, i respect you as my Guruji and i am blessed to have found you. I should thank my friend, utpal for this.. > > > > I need your help. Professionally i work for private company in accounts and administration department since past 20 years. Besides my profession, i am script writer also.. To earn more money, to lead good standard of life and to pay back my home loans, i have started writing script for Television serial as a part time job. I am doing this script writing work since past 4-5 years. Considering my creative talents and good language control (not praising myself)I am getting good assignments of writing TV serials. > > > > All daily soap television serials are glorifying more negativity, jeoulsy, conspiracy.. enemities.. Sometimes i am feeling guilty of writing scenes which shows Conflicts between SAAS and BAHU, Conflicts between FATHER and SON, Conflicts between BROTHER and BROTHER. I am compelled to write harsh dialogues which hurts me sometimes.. > > > > The formula on which TV serials are now based follow this: " More conflicts means more drama and more drama means more TRP(Television rating points)and More TRP means more benefits, more money and popularity to the serial " . > > > > Guruji, I feel that i am doing wrong by writing serials.. I am passing wrong messages to the society.. i feel guilty about it. I am not in a position to leave this as it gives me more money besides it also gives me good standard of life and good recognition also.. If i would leave this someone else would do it.. What should i do? I am really confused. If i will leave writing this, i will find more difficult to survive in this world with home loan and two small school going children..I need your help > > > > I was fortunate to discuss this with utpal. He guided me to write this mail to you.. to seek your guidance.. > > > > Waiting anxiously your reply. > > > > Respectful regards, > > > > Rajesh > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Namaste Rajesh, It is quite difficult to make a living without promoting adharma somewhere, in some way or the other. Actually, I am not sure if just writing scripts for dramas containing a lot of conflicts is adharma per se. Mahabharata has a lot of conflict for example, but the story also teaches dharma to us. It is possible that your dissatisfaction has more to do with what you wanted to do and are unable to do, than what you are doing. If you have two options in front of you, it is useful to weigh them and try to pick the best option. Right now, you are seeing only one option. So there is nothing to think or analyze. Sometimes, one has many options in front of one, but does not see them clearly. It seems like there is only one option and one keeps going. But as one becomes purer, one may see other more difficult options and have the courage to pick them. * * * In other words, you do what you believe is your dharma (duty or right action). What you believe to be your dharma may or may not be your dharma in reality. But, as your surrender increases, as your self-centeredness decreases, as your sense of doership and ego decrease, you will become purer and purer. As you become purer and purer, your dharma will become clearer and clearer to you. You have to somehow lower your ego and self-centeredness and increase the sense of surrender. * * * Do the best your can, with respect to profession, family life etc and not worry about things out of your control. In addition, engage in some spiritual practice like homam or meditation on a regular basis. If you persevere, you will eventually break through. * * * Regarding the comment by Sri Uma Shanker: We are not only here "to do things", but also to do the "right" things. So, we should also "think whether we are doing right or wrong". However, we have to strike the right balance between thinking and acting. The basic problem is that the right action for a person depends on that person's karmas and rinas. It is not always easy to know one's dharma. Arjuna was lucky that he had Krishna to tell him what his dharma was. Others are not so fortunate. They are torn by different directions in life. Though a part of one's consciousness always knows one's dharma, that wise part of one's consciousness is usually suppressed. As one removes layers of ego from one's thinking, that part will shine and guide one correctly. This is an iterative process that keeps getting better with sadhana. * * * If one has realized Self and surrendered to god completely, one will see all actions performed by all as god's actions and not be excited or saddened by any of them. Krishna took Arjuna to such a state by imparting the knoweldge of Self through Gitopadesa, before Arjuna killed near and dear. If somebody who is not in that state engages in similar actions, one will be torn by varying emotions resulting from the actions. Fruits of some actions will make one very happy and fruits of some actions will make one very sad. In other words, one will suffer from the bondage of duality. Thanks to Krishna, Arjuna was rescued from the bondage of duality before his big actions in the big war. Like I said earlier, one can do whatever pleases one and declare "god did it through me". That is too easy. Can one continue to see all as god's play and not be perturbed when something terrible happens to one later? If one cannot, one is not self-realized and "god did it through me" is mere rhetoric. Instead of hiding behind rhetoric that does not help later when one time catches up with one, such a person should carefully choose one's actions so that one slowly becomes purer and gets closer to one's dharma slowly. Best regards,NarasimhaDo a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homamDo Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpanaSpirituality: Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.orgSri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org - uma shanker Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:00 AM Re: Please help me Do your duty and leave the rest to the god. Sri Krishna himself has advised Arjun about doing ones Karma. We are here only to do things and not to think whether we are doing right or wrong.Regards--- On Wed, 7/15/09, rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 wrote: rajesh_rajgor2003 <rajesh_rajgor2003 Please help me Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 1:16 PM Shri Narsimha Guruji,I am not sure, whether I have right to address you as Narsimha Guruji or not ? I donot know whether i have the eligibility to become your Shishya also. Still, i respect you as my Guruji and i am blessed to have found you. I should thank my friend, utpal for this.. I need your help. Professionally i work for private company in accounts and administration department since past 20 years. Besides my profession, i am script writer also.. To earn more money, to lead good standard of life and to pay back my home loans, i have started writing script for Television serial as a part time job. I am doing this script writing work since past 4-5 years. Considering my creative talents and good language control (not praising myself)I am getting good assignments of writing TV serials.All daily soap television serials are glorifying more negativity, jeoulsy, conspiracy.. enemities.. Sometimes i am feeling guilty of writing scenes which shows Conflicts between SAAS and BAHU, Conflicts between FATHER and SON, Conflicts between BROTHER and BROTHER. I am compelled to write harsh dialogues which hurts me sometimes.. The formula on which TV serials are now based follow this: "More conflicts means more drama and more drama means more TRP(Television rating points)and More TRP means more benefits, more money and popularity to the serial".Guruji, I feel that i am doing wrong by writing serials.. I am passing wrong messages to the society.. i feel guilty about it. I am not in a position to leave this as it gives me more money besides it also gives me good standard of life and good recognition also.. If i would leave this someone else would do it.. What should i do? I am really confused. If i will leave writing this, i will find more difficult to survive in this world with home loan and two small school going children..I need your helpI was fortunate to discuss this with utpal. He guided me to write this mail to you.. to seek your guidance..Waiting anxiously your reply.Respectful regards,Rajesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 Namaste Narsimhaji Thanks for the reply. Somehow i feel that self concious always tries to tell us what is right and what is wrong.. i have experienced it many times.. but as you have pointed out i supressed the voice of my conscious.. with my ignorance or may be deliberate attempt to do so to fulfill my desire or may be my ego.. But sir, How one can live without any desire and without any ego? I would admit this fact that yes.. I have desire to become famous writer. I have desire to become rich.. i want to see myself on top.. is it wrong to have such desires? I know that sadhna is the only solution of all my problems.. Sadhna will only bring clarity to my mind.. but these desires are so strong in my mind.. that it is becoming an obstables in surrendering myself during sadhna.. Honestly i cannot supress this desires.. i cannot think of living life without these desires.. Perhaps this desires has become driving forces of my life now.. Many times i have felt that my doing ganpati homam is just a mechanical one..but still i do it.. i continue doing it.. if for lack of time i cannot perform.. i do MANASIK HOMAM.. just reading it.. but i do it with a hope that one day i will be able to feel divine..I am trying to improve the quality of doing homam by correct pronounciation.. I also know that this is the only correct path where i am suppose to go.. In nutshell, I know my problems and perhaps i know its solutions too.. but still i am in trouble.. why? Is it because of Previous karmas and rinas? Or is it because of my immaturity or AGNANTA ( lack of right knowledge) ? What am I lacking and why? I know i am encroaching upon your valuable time.. but i would be obliged if you could kindly reply.. Regards Rajesh Looking for local information? Find it on Local Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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