A Spiritual Solution

 Laid off: change your GPS

- Debashis Chatterjee

Are you losing sleep over the prospects of being laid off from your job? Are you anxious about your peers outperforming you? Is your competitor about to eat your lunch? Are you ashamed to declare to your family that you are unemployed? In short, are you in conflict with yourself? If so, there is nothing new about your problem. The roots of the solution to your problem however can be traced several thousand years back.

In the midst of the battle of Kurukshetra, Arjuna lays down his bow and arrow and pleads with Krishna:

My heart is overpowered by grief, pity and shame;

My mind is confused about whether to fight or give in?

Tell me decisively what I should do.

I am your disciple. Instruct me for I have taken refuge in you.