Sunday, June 25, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 15
15. Death is like discarding old clothes and wearing the new.
The self (atman) has no birth or death and ultimate Truth cannot cease to exist after existing for a while. It has no birth or death and it is ever-present. It has no modifications such as growth or decay.
When a body is killed, the self is not killed with it. When the body is injured, the self is not injured. So what is death? In fact it is like wearing new clothes by discarding the old ones. Just as man disposes off his old worn out clothes to wear the news ones, the indweller of the body, the self (atman), discards the old body and accepts a new one.
If one knows that the Atman has no birth, death, decay or modifications; and it cannot be destroyed, can he ‘kill’ any one? Who would he kill? Those who do not know this becomes a ‘killer’ as the thought of ‘me and mine’ itself is murder. Viloence is the notion of ‘I’ ness and ‘my’ ness.
When we ‘count’ our friends, we are already counting our enemies as well. There are no friends or foes for those who have realized the Truth. Truth is the unlimited Brahman that is beyond time and space. When we get closer to the nature around us, we will get a better picture of our own true nature. “I am the nature and nature itself is God”.
It is more prudent to take care of plants and trees than to visit temples. Don’t use an axe on the God Narayana, who is right in front of you manifested as a tree.
In the Paulo Koylo’s story, a shephered started inquiring into his own nature and finally got evolved in to the nature itself. Likewise, we all must go back to our roots through meditation, reaching back to our mother’s womb, to our father, and to the mother earth. Thus we become integral part of this universe.
The self (atman) has no birth or death and ultimate Truth cannot cease to exist after existing for a while. It has no birth or death and it is ever-present. It has no modifications such as growth or decay.
When a body is killed, the self is not killed with it. When the body is injured, the self is not injured. So what is death? In fact it is like wearing new clothes by discarding the old ones. Just as man disposes off his old worn out clothes to wear the news ones, the indweller of the body, the self (atman), discards the old body and accepts a new one.
If one knows that the Atman has no birth, death, decay or modifications; and it cannot be destroyed, can he ‘kill’ any one? Who would he kill? Those who do not know this becomes a ‘killer’ as the thought of ‘me and mine’ itself is murder. Viloence is the notion of ‘I’ ness and ‘my’ ness.
When we ‘count’ our friends, we are already counting our enemies as well. There are no friends or foes for those who have realized the Truth. Truth is the unlimited Brahman that is beyond time and space. When we get closer to the nature around us, we will get a better picture of our own true nature. “I am the nature and nature itself is God”.
It is more prudent to take care of plants and trees than to visit temples. Don’t use an axe on the God Narayana, who is right in front of you manifested as a tree.
In the Paulo Koylo’s story, a shephered started inquiring into his own nature and finally got evolved in to the nature itself. Likewise, we all must go back to our roots through meditation, reaching back to our mother’s womb, to our father, and to the mother earth. Thus we become integral part of this universe.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 11:15 AM 
