Santosha

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2

Even if you believe the self repeatedly dies and is reborn, what is natural and universal cannot be a cause for personal grief.

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2

The mind that dwells on sense objects spirals from attachment to desire to anger—this is the chain that binds the soul.

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 1

Arjuna completes his cascade of doom: from family destruction to varna confusion to the collapse of all eternal social and family dharma—a total civilizational breakdown.

Sikh - Janamsakhi

At Sumer Parbat, Guru Nanak met Gorakh Nath and 84 Sidhas. When asked to become a yogi and adopt a guru, Nanak replied his Guru was God Himself. Supernatural powers are meaningless distractions from spiritual truth.

Sikh - Janamsakhi

When young Guru Nanak was to receive the Hindu sacred thread (janeu), he questioned its purpose. He asked for a thread that would not break or burn - meaning eternal spiritual virtues, not external symbols.

Rama & Vasishtha

True immortality is not endless continuation of the body but recognition of oneself as the deathless awareness in which all cosmic cycles arise and dissolve. This recognition brings contentment beyond boredom, for every moment becomes fresh when there is no grasping ego.

Krishna & Uddhava

The Python teaches supreme contentment - accepting what destiny provides without anxiety, resting satisfied whether circumstances bring feast or famine, because true fulfillment comes from inner completeness rather than external abundance.