Do you feel the urgency to do things today, now, at this particular time? Do you think that life, as we know it, is limited and uncertain? Do you believe that if a task is not completed within its time frame, it can never be done again, and we will lose everything as if there were no tomorrow?
Do you think that a Yogi wastes their time meditating, while a Bogi values their time by working 8 hours or more, to fulfill their duties to their family, work, and social world?
Isn't knowing oneself a good thing? Isn't thinking a good thing? Isn't evaluating the very essence of life beneath us the right thing to do? Should we follow the crowd and take that comfortable spot where everyone is dancing, and we too dance, just to show that we're socially involved?
Are we not promoted from one position to another, from a less exciting job to a more exciting one? Do we still do the complex mathematics that we did in school? Aren't we all clerks, painters, cooks, CAs, front-end developers, etc.? Aren't we doing what we're good at and really enjoy doing? Doesn't that mean that school and college are just past phase? Aren't we in life becoming husbands, fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers? Isn't the life we live moving forward, and the roles we play dying step by step? Can we call this rebirth, where we were once software developers, and now we're front-end developers, or both? So isn't death and rebirth happening again and again in a cycle?
Then why is there so much urgency? Can't we sit down and meditate, make our minds still, so that we can reflect on ourselves much more clearly, and then do what we're truly supposed to do? Will meditating and evaluating ourselves make our path toward our destination (moksha) smaller?
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