Namaskaram Swami

One possible way out would be with the in-depth understanding and staunch faith in the shastras and what all Bhagwan prescribed to his bhakta, in turn, a fearless and stress less feeling of his Leela, his duty, and his karvi (Instrument) in making the tasks to initiate and at the end a successful completion.

Adiyen

Bhagavad Gita:

18.37: 

yat tad agre viṣham iva pariṇāme ‘mṛitopamam
tat sukhaṁ sāttvikaṁ proktam ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam

That which seems like poison at first, but tastes like nectar in the end, is said to be happiness in satva gunam. It is generated by the pure intellect that is situated in self-knowledge (i.e. knowledge/ realisation of “adiyen Ramanuja-dasan”).

18.38:

viṣhayendriya-sanyogād yat tad agre ’mṛitopamam
pariṇāme viṣham iva tat sukhaṁ rājasaṁ smṛitam

Happiness is said to be in the rajo gunam when it is derived from the contact of the senses with their objects. Such happiness is like nectar at first but poison at the end.

18.39: 

yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ
nidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

That happiness which covers the nature of the self from beginning to end, and which is derived from sleep, indolence, and negligence, is said to be in tamo gunam.

Therefore, when we are trying to be sincere in the path of spiritual perfection, we are expected to experience some amount of stress and anxiety in the beginning; but soon it will lead to lasting happiness.

On the otherhand, those who take the easy way out now, it may seem ‘cool’ now, but such actions and attitude only gets them more entangled in this world of karma.

Let us take a very very simple example – giving up the habit of drinking coffee. We can take the stress and anxiety for a week or 15 days and then be completely free from the addiction the rest of our life. Or, we can be ‘cool’ and keep drinking coffee and get more and more addicted, and also face the financial and health burden arising out of this habit.

adiyen dasan.

Kambandasan swami. Mikka nandri for the response. It’s been quite a while now that Adiyen has not contributed to the forum. Govinda Narayana Swami created the thread which is quite similar to my situation for the past few weeks now. At the back of my mind, Adiyen feels that even with learning something new, it is only to contribute to our sampradaya somehow. However, it also creates a sense of ahankara which in turn leads to ignorance with asking Divya Dampathi to make the task a success. High involvement in the Laukika Vishyangal is making Adiyen participate very little in the sampradaya Vishaya eg. Very little involvement with listening to upanayasms, Less shradhai to performing nitya anushtanams etc.. Carrying on with laukika activities is dragging Adiyen to Laukika Kamam. However, the good part is being aware of it and trying to change it as soon as possible. Would like Bhagwata Utamas to advise and suggest adiyen, on how to change this habit and follow a balanced approach.

Adiyen

Srimate Ramaanujaye Namaha,

Welcome back Swamy. What you have explained in the last post explains more clearly the problem that Govindan  swamy has asked about.

As we try to become more devoted, the old vaasanas and habits still try to pull us into them.

So we end up trying to do our 1) spiritual duties , 2) material duties(study/work) and occasionally 3) some/more wastage of time in normal loukikka activities ( social media,  TV internet, long phone calls, news etc..) this combination of three things makes our life busy and we need up finding it stress full. 

The easiest way to become less stressful is to remove the third category of activities as much as possible from our life.. (it is actually quite difficult but can happen with the mercy of Acharya and the Lord). (For some part of the time when i want to use internet i turn to this forum so that it is useful time spent !)

One aspect which i have been trying to use to get out of this to have a clear regulated daily schedule or routine so that the mind cannot play tricks and we can remain focused in our spiritual duties and material duties alone.  It is only one part of the solution, there are many parts of this puzzle  which i hope would evolve with further discussion here.

Adiyen

Thirukachidaasanudasan 

Namaskaram.

Throwing off  swathanthriyam shall help. If it is not possible by oneself, prayer will be helpful.

adiyen

Namaskaram Bhagvathargale

Thank you kambandasan, Sri Vaishnava Dasan, and Enpani fan swami for your beautiful insights. Which is very much practical and because of utamas, sharing their invaluable comments, the miracle is felt profusely from Divya Dampathigal. Once again Thank you very much