The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation
The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation
The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation
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2.7 Sreyas and Preyas (<strong>The</strong> Path of the good and the<br />
Path of the pleasant)<br />
Every individual is faced with a choice. <strong>The</strong> choice is usually between the path of least<br />
resistance (or the path of the pleasant) and the path involving a degree of difficulty, a<br />
path involving either sustained effort or an intellectually demanding one. <strong>The</strong> tendency<br />
is to choose the path that is well trodden, safe, and less risky and involves less effort<br />
or some combination of some of these. Even Arjuna the Knight Templar of the<br />
Mahabharata is not above the desire to cut corners and choose the easy path. One is<br />
reminded of the poem by Robert Frost, <strong>The</strong> Road not taken<br />
I shall be telling this with a sigh<br />
Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br />
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—<br />
I took the one less traveled by,<br />
And that has made all the difference.<br />
In the 2nd chapter (2.7) Arjuna said to Bhagavan<br />
kapR{ydae;aephtSv-av><br />
p&CDaim Tva< xmRs SyaiÚiít< äUih tNme<br />
iz:ySte=h< zaix ma< Tva< àpÚm! ,, 7 ,,<br />
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