Homemade bread and garlic butter

Making dough, kneading it by hand, and getting my fresh bread ready is satisfying! Not only because I want to eat healthy, but because I feel like a creator who is happy with the result of his creation. Looking at what I made calms me…

Then I make fresh garlic butter and enjoy it while reading the Bhagavad Gita. The discussion between Krishna and Arjuna—feels like a conversation between a human and God. God is saying: Do your duty in a selfless action. Ignore the material world including your family. Listen to me Arjuna, this is the only way you can get closer to me. Then Karma- Yoga teaches not being attached to the outcome. Wait…

Like Stoicism, it teaches loving your fate. Focus on what you can influence. Like Zoroastrianism, it emphasizes good thoughts, good words, good deeds, a teaching that later influenced all the Abrahamic religions.

Your action within what you can control matters.

All these ideas seem to come from 2,500 years ago which called axial age, the age of ideas!

Then I take a bite of sourdough slice with fresh garlic butter and wonder is all of this just illusion (Maya as per Gita)? A mind-constructed world we call material? I enjoy this illusion like Arjuna but God doesn’t!

P.S.: They all share a similar pattern of ideas. From the books I’ve read, it seems that Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) were influenced by Zoroastrianism, the Bhagavad Gita, and Stoicism also teach similar ideas. But why? Because they all got at the same conclusion: there is only one ideology formula for the new world that will works.