Become a Yogi, not a Bhogi
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In the Bhagwad Geeta, Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, "Become a Yogi, oh Arjuna!" We do not have to become a ‘Bhogi’ i.e. a person engrossed in pleasures of life but we are advised by the Lord to become a ‘Yogi’, i.e. one who endeavors to be in union with God and manifests his divinity in this world. A ‘bhogi’ or a partaker of pleasures becomes a ‘rogi’, a sick person. The sicknesses and diseases afflict him while a yogi remains free from all afflictions both physical and mental.
But to become a Yogi, one has to first become ‘upayogi’ (useful) to all. Just as a Vice-President stands a better chance of becoming a President and a Deputy Chief Minister stands a better chance of becoming a Chief Minister, so also a useful (upayogi) person stands the best chance of becoming a yogi.
Remember, one who loses one’s utility is always cast aside. Be it an individual or a material object. They have no importance in life. So in order to retain your importance you should become useful to others. Till the end of your life you should retain your utility in some form or the other.
To become useful we should imbibe three qualities. (1) Love (2) Renunciation and (3) Service. Love enables us to become useful to God, renunciation helps us to become useful to ourselves and service enables us to become helpful to humanity.
But to become a Yogi, one has to first become ‘upayogi’ (useful) to all. Just as a Vice-President stands a better chance of becoming a President and a Deputy Chief Minister stands a better chance of becoming a Chief Minister, so also a useful (upayogi) person stands the best chance of becoming a yogi.
Remember, one who loses one’s utility is always cast aside. Be it an individual or a material object. They have no importance in life. So in order to retain your importance you should become useful to others. Till the end of your life you should retain your utility in some form or the other.
To become useful we should imbibe three qualities. (1) Love (2) Renunciation and (3) Service. Love enables us to become useful to God, renunciation helps us to become useful to ourselves and service enables us to become helpful to humanity.
Thus by becoming useful and helpful to others, we will become a yogi. Come let us all become udyogi (industrious), sahayogi (co-operative), upayogi (useful) and strive to become a true yogi.
With Love.... Bhaishri
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