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Santosha
Contentment with what is
šUnderstanding Santosha
Santosha means contentment - accepting and appreciating what you have while working toward goals without anxiety about outcomes.
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Gita 2.26
āBhagavad 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.
Gita 2.62
āBhagavad Gita ⢠Chapter 2
The mind that dwells on sense objects spirals from attachment to desire to angerāthis is the chain that binds the soul.
Gita 1.43
āBhagavad Gita ⢠Chapter 1
Arjuna completes his cascade of doom: from family destruction to varna confusion to the collapse of all eternal social and family dharmaāa total civilizational breakdown.
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Sidh Gosht - Discourse with the Yogis
āSikh - 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.
The Sacred Thread Rejected
āSikh - 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.
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Bhusunda the Crow - Immortality
āRama & 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.
Python Guru - Contentment
āKrishna & 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.