Symbols and Teachings in the Bhagavad Gita Quotes

“Very few people are capable of questioning their own beliefs. We are used to blindly believe what we are told as long as it comes from a source with authority. Not even when a belief hurts us are we ready to let it go if it comes from what we believe to be an entitled source. For us in the west, Life is not sacred, it is not conscious, it does not talk to us, it is not trying to have a conversation, it is not trying to give us information and most certainly it is not deliberately having certain things happen at certain times to send us messages. Life is just life, that is how everyone thinks, so it must be the way things are.”
― Moises Aguilar, Symbols and Teachings in the Bhagavad Gita

“Our physical bodies, minds, emotional bodies and egos can be strong or weak, flexible or rigid, agile or clumsy. When we are born, our field has certain capabilities in all four dimensions and as we live we develop or ruin those capabilities. Our goal should be to care for and develop all four to the best of our abilities. Since our world is so focused on body and mind, it is easy for us to understand the benefits of these being strong. Our academic and professional worlds revolve around these two. White collar jobs have to do with the mind and blue collar with the body. We all accept that we have emotions and ego but we do not know how to take advantage of them. A strong and mature emotional body is perfectly exemplified in the wisdom of native Americans. They keep reminding us that we belong to Earth and that if we kill all the plants and animals we will then realize that we cannot eat our money. It is a tough realization, but this is the role of a mature buddhi. Its purpose is to wake us up. We are so blinded by the day to day rat race that we do not realize what we are doing to the planet, which actually is the ultimate support to any economy. The basis of everything we enjoy in our lives comes from Earth. Man is not inventing the source materials but the way to combine them. Thinking that we can survive without Earth playing her role is foolishness. This is what our emotional bodies are here for; to remind us of the obvious our mindset is ignoring.”
― Moises Aguilar, Symbols and Teachings in the Bhagavad Gita

“If body, mind and emotions are in sync we will be happy and healthy. If what we want to do, what we think about doing, and what we actually do are the same thing, we will feel satisfied and complete. If one of these three is different from the others, we will feel miserable. If we don’t want to do something and we think about not doing it, but then we end up doing it anyway, we are going to feel awful. If our bodies feel awful, we will develop what we call an illness; if it is our mind that feels awful, we will have a mental illness; and if it is our emotional body, we will have depression or stress. Keeping these three elements in sync is what we mean when we tell people to be themselves. We are ourselves when we do what we emotionally and mentally want to do. When we do something else we say that we are not being ourselves.”
― Moises Aguilar, Symbols and Teachings in the Bhagavad Gita