As Cold and Heat Pass, This Winter Too Will Pass

answered by Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 2

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Aimless Bullet (1961)

dir. Yoo Hyun-mok · South Korea

The poverty after war presses on one family from every side. An ailing old mother, a worn-out breadwinner, siblings who have lost their way — each strives to keep their dignity, yet want gnaws even at their hearts. When the weight of an era breaks a family down, from where does the strength to keep human dignity still come?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When poverty and hardship break a family down, can I keep the faith that even that winter will pass?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityāḥ

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Cold and heat, pleasure and pain, are brought and carried off by the senses — they come and go and do not stay. Endure them.

💡 TL;DR

The Gita said cold and heat only come and go and do not stay, so endure them.

📝The Classic Answers

The Gita said cold and heat only come and go and do not stay, so endure them. Yet watching poverty slowly break a family down, these words do not easily console. Want gnaws at human dignity and wears out even the heart turned toward one another. Still I hold this verse — that the present harshness is not the whole of life but a passing season. Even in times when a family teeters on the edge of scattering, so long as one person remains who knows this winter is not forever, the family does not wholly collapse. I take endurance not as surrender but as the strength to await the next season.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If your family is passing through a hard season, say to yourself and to the family beside you, "this winter too will pass."

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 2. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.