#27 Your Questions, Jayaji's Answers | The Gita Podcast | Jaya Row

So the first question we're gonna begin with, uh, pertains to staying positive, right? We talk about staying positive in Vedanta a, a lot.

Mm, and the question asks, "Is it wise to always be positive or should we be realistically positive? For example, where, uh, Yud- Yudhishthira wa- couldn't find a single bad person in the world.

Uh, but that doesn't seem, um...

It seems like a naive way to approach, uh, life.

So if we always have that attitude, uh, we could also end up being cheated or harmed, which is kind of what happened to Yudhishthira, right? Uh, so wouldn't it be better to be realistic than blindly positive?" That's the question.

Yes.

This is a very important question because, uh, it...

What Yudhishthira did or the personality of Yudhishthira was a passive individual.

He was passively good, and he was portrayed as that.

But in real life, he's right.

The questioner is right in that, uh, we should be what he terms as realistically positive, which means you are positive in your outlook, but when you, uh, deal with people, you need to assess their personalities and deal with them accordingly.

Hmm.

So which means the, the use of the intellect, uh, must come in.

However, when you have a positive outlook in life, uh, it also brings out the positive in the other person.

Hmm.

And so it's a much better way of dealing with people, with situations, uh, to be more positive in our approach.

And at the same time, be realistic in that you know that things can go wrong.

You know that people have negative qualities also, and you know the world also is a mix of good and bad.

So after taking that into consideration, you're still positive.

Hmm.

And that's a fantastic thing because then you kind of, uh, change things around.

So yes, he's right.

Uh, but it's also true that in the process of being realistic, we often tend to be negative.

Hmm.

So that positivity, the, the accent should be on positivity.