Obstinacy!

Mālyavan said to Rāvan-Elephants & horses are shedding tears & their skin have become discolored. Flesh eating animals, jackals & eagles are howling horribly. Dogs devour sacred offerings at homes & donkeys are born of cows and rats of mongoose. Red-footed & white pigeons, messengers of death, move in different directions foretelling extermination of demons

Birds & wild animals, facing the sun, cry out. Death, in the form of frightful, monstrous & cruel blackish fellow, with shaven head casts his eyes on all our dwellings, in morning & evening. These & other such sinister omens appear

I deem Rām, of firm fortitude, is Vishnu dwelling in human form. This Rām is not a mere human being, by whom that most wonderful bridge was built across sea. O Rāvan! Conclude peace with Rama, who is the king of men. Having come to know of his acts, let that which is good for the future be done after a mature understanding. Having spoken thus, Mālyavan being aware of what was happening in Rāvan’s mind, became silent

The evil-minded Rāvan, the ten faced monster, who had fallen under the sway of death, could not comprehend the beneficial advice tendered by his maternal grandfather. Instead, he fell under the spell of anger & rolling his eyes in fury said-I’ve closed my ears to the speech you’ve made, albeit with good intentions & even taking sides with the enemy. How you can hold me, king of demons, who terrifies celestials & possesses all powers in full, to be a weaker person?

I suspect that you spoke these harsh words to me because of your envy of my prowess or your partiality towards the enemies or my lenience towards you. Which learned man, who understands truth in scriptures, would speak harshly to a mighty person in power, but to instigate him? Why I should give back Sitā, who’s like goddess of fortune? You’ll see Rām killed within a few days by me, along with Laxman & Sugriva in the midst of millions of Vānaras

How can I, whom the celestials themselves do not dare to meet me in duel, entertain fear in this encounter? Rather I would like to be cut into pieces than bend before anybody. This is what I’m by birth, difficult to overcome & unalterable

Lot of times we give an excuse of our ingrained habits & shirk off responsibility and efforts to change.This is due to our mind becoming obstinate, breaking all limits of intelligence

Arjuna asks question about obstinate mind

cancalam hi manah Krsna pramathi balavad drdham

tasyaham nigraham manye vayor iva su-duskaram

For the mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate & very strong, O Krsna, and to subdue it is, it seems to me, more difficult than controlling the wind

Krsna says-

asaṁśayaṁ mahā-bāho mano durnigrahaṁ calam

abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate

Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: O mighty-armed son of Kuntī, it is undoubtedly very difficult to curb the restless mind, but it is possible by suitable practice and by detachment

Take responsibility & make efforts

Thoughts pls? #gameoflife