Questions of life!

 

Yaksa posed numerous questions & Maharaja Yudhisthira answered them all very concisely

 

Q: Who is really a helpful companion?

A: Steady intelligence is a very good friend, who can save one from all dangers

 

Q: How can one acquire something very great?

A: One can obtain everything desirable by the performance of austerity

 

Q: What is Amrta (nectar)?

A: Milk is just like nectar

 

Q: What friend is bestowed upon a man by demigods?

A: The wife is such a friend

 

Q: What is the best of all possessions?

A: Knowledge is one’s most valuable asset

 

Q: What is the best happiness?

A: Contentment awards one the only true happiness

 

Q: For what purpose does one give charity to the Brāhmanās, dancers & musicians, servants & the king?

A: For religious merit, prestige, maintenance and relieving fear respectively

 

Q: For what reasons are friends forsaken?

A: It is only because of lust & greed that one forsakes his well-wishers

 

Q: When is the sacrifice considered dead?

A: A sacrifice is devoid of merit when there is no gifts given in charity to the brāhmanās. Similarly, a kingdom without a good king is considered to be extinct

 

Q: What is the only food?

A: The cow is the root cause of all kinds of food. The milk that she gives is made into ghee. Ghee is necessary for the performance of sacrifices & it is sacrifice alone that produces the clouds that cause rain to fall. It is from rain that the seeds sprout, so that all kinds of food are produced. Hence cows should never be killed

 

What valuable lessons for us

 

In Bhagvad Gita Krsna says: To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give understanding by which they can come to me.


teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam

dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te


The best steady intelligence hence is one that directs us to constantly stay on the path of going back home, back to Godhead. Such intelligence is certainly one’s best friend & saves from great danger of material attachments that will sink us deep into the mire of material existence & its accompanying miseries

 

Contentment is certainly not possible as long as one hankers for material possessions. When one is satisfied with whatever situation of life he finds himself in, he is contended

 

Thoughts? #gameoflife

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