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Contentment Within Our Relationships
“In other words — is acceptance not itself the real meaning of a relationship?”
About this teaching
From the very beginning of time one question has always tormented the human being: how may he gain the greatest happiness and the least sorrow within his relationships? Have all your relationships given you complete contentment? Reflect on it.
The questions this teaching puts
From the very beginning of time one question has always tormented the human being: how may he gain the greatest happiness and the least sorrow within his relationships?
Have all your relationships given you complete contentment?
Is it truly so difficult to find contentment in one's relationships?
Chapter 6 — Relationships
Chapter 6 of 35 — 3 parts, 5 min in total.
Tags
Relationships — expectation, obligation, and where one person ends.
The Mahabharat's relationships are almost all asymmetric: a teacher who cannot be refused, a brother owed obedience, a king owed loyalty even when wrong, a wife staked in a game. Much of the tragedy comes from people honouring the form of a relationship after its substance has failed.
Krishna's own relationships model something different. He is a friend to Arjuna, a cousin to the Pandavas, a charioteer who will not fight — and he is unusually explicit about what he will and will not do. The boundaries are stated, not assumed.
