These are some of my notes while watching the Mahabaratha episodes

• Winner is decided based on a comparison. You can be a winner today but may not be tomorrow. And your winning depends on other people in the competition, you may actually win but still don’t know anything about the game or have skill. The right thing to do is to focus on becoming the BEST instead of just winning. While trying to become the best, you keep learning more and make progress. You will not have the problem like a winner who when looses feels disappointed/unhappy.
• Parents take care of kids because their actions in the future will bring good name to them, but in doing so they are more focused on securing their future, which leads to kids not doing the right things when they grow up and instead bring not so good name to the parents. So, parents should focus on developing personality (values, actions) of their kids and not be focused on securing their future.
• Live in the moment, life is what happens now in this moment. Life is gone if you think of the past or the future.
• We make plans to climb a mountain. And while climbing it, we face new situations and environments. If we continue to follow the existing plan, it will not lead us to success and may also make us fall down. And we can’t adjust the mountain to match our plan. So, we need to adjust our plan to the mountain situations. Similarly, in life journey, make a plan and make adjustments to the plan based on the life events.
• Fear is because you think of some future event.
• 6 enemies of life: desire, jealous, intellect, memory, anger
• Jealous of people around us
• Raga, Dvesha
• Relationships often lead to sadness. However, it causes because we try to change others (if they are not accepting to our way). The right way is to work on yourself instead of trying to change others. This will lead to more happiness from the relationship.
• Take decisions while having a clear and cool mind/heart. When we face any tough situation, we try to take decision to make us cool, but that will lead to more tough situations in the future. The right way is to first cool down ourselves and then take decision
• At times our decisions may seem harsh, but taking decisions as per the Dharma will give us satisfaction (and no sadness) if not happiness.
• Gandhari decides to blindfold herself as she really wants to understand her husband. Any maid can help him see, but no one can really understand how it happens without actually doing it.
• There is no point of trying to solve future anticipated problems now. And when a problem arrives, it opens up opportunities. The person who wins over that problem, will benefit himself and the society.
• Don’t follow the traditions blindly. Following traditions is not dharma. Just like there is a statue inside stone, we need to find out the dharma in traditions. Either blindly following or not following at all do not lead to Dharma.
• We want to make our future secure and comfortable, so we take decisions based on the future imagination. But future depends on many things and often doesn’t go as we imagine. The decisions we took based on the imagination may turn out harmful. So the right way to take decisions based on Dharma.
• We make mistakes/offence, will have influence on the future events. Feeling guilty only will not automatically change the influence of our past action. But, feeling guilty and understanding the mistake will prepare us to face the future situations in the right way.
• Sukham = following Dharma
• Self-confidence = mindset. When a problem arrives, having the mindset of problem will help us grow similar to how ‘exercise’ to tune body, will help improve our self confidence