Lesson-1: One must break his entitled mindset

As humans, no matter how much we desire from nature, we don’t deserve everything that we wish for. We naturally get what we deserve. Some people like to call it the result of their hard work and patience, while some believe it’s all gods doing. But, when we start believing that we are automatically entitled to everything, this is when we start walking all over others to get it. And this dreadful desire of ours ultimately leads us to ‘adharma’.

Now let’s take Duryodhan for example. In Mahabharata he comes across as an envious, jealous and sinful person. If we try to understand why he was the way he was, the only reason that I can think of is his entitled mindset, he wanted everything and he thought he rightfully deserved everything. And in order to achieve all that he wished, he declared war upon his own brethren and became the main reason for all the destruction that was caused by the war.

If we truly and deeply introspect ourselves, we all have a bit of Duryodhan in us. At some point we all can be jealous and envious , and we want what others have, this Duryodhan mindset of ours can lead us to commit a sin in some form, and can disturb not only our lives but others around us, hence we must break it.

 

How this entitled mindset can be fixed:

Talking about the solution, I would like to break it in points:-

1.   Always remember, God gave us air and milk from our first breath, he knows how to provide us with all that we deserve, and we just have work to for it in a right way and devote ourselves to ‘dharma’. So be happy and satisfied with all that you have been given by the God.

 

2.   Try to make it about others, remember that you can’t take anything from this world when you leave, but before you leave this human world you can give this world a lot of things.

These two thoughts alone can change your entitled mindset. As they say “Gratitude begins when the sense of entitlement ends.