Saturday, June 17, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 7
7. There will be no war if the secret of Karna’s identity was known.
If we knew who Karna was, there will be no war- because he is our brother!. But he is in our enemy camp now. If we inquire in to the past of the person we are trying to annihilate, we will find that he shared the same womb from which we originated. Once we know who our mother is, there will be no enmity. This is the REAL knowledge. If some one claims that in order to be considered patriotic to India, one should feel enmity towards Pakistan, it is completely wrong. One can never know the truth through enmity. In fact, everyone in Pakistan represents Karna, our own brother.
The mighty entry of Krishna and Arjuna accompanied by the royal sounds of panchajayam and devadattam in the battlefield indicates the birth of the noble human race. The human life is considered nobler than that of other species because of our ability to discriminate. Other animals instinctively spend their life span in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. Viveka- the ability to discriminate is the ability to select a course from the choices of 1)doing something, 2) not doing it or 3) doing it in a different way. (kartthum, akartthum, anyathaa kartthum).
Five white horses pulling the chariot in the battlefield represent the sense organs that are extremely pure. The mighty knowledge (bodha) is sitting in the chariot in the form of Lord Krishna. Even in every child there exists the Lord (Madhava). This chariot is said to have been gifted by the god of fire (Agni) indicating that the life force emerge from Sun.
Sri Krishna had killed a demon by the name Panchajana and got a conch (famed as panchajanyam) he had been hiding. Panchajana lived his life reveling fully in the realm of five sense organs. Asuras (fallen people, demons) live thinking that sensory perceptions, feelings and thoughts are true. But the Lord lifts them up from that notion and gives them the noble vision (sudarSanam). When the conch is played, by controlling the sense organs to extol dharma and uphold righteousness, our life evolves in to a Panchajanyam itself.
If we knew who Karna was, there will be no war- because he is our brother!. But he is in our enemy camp now. If we inquire in to the past of the person we are trying to annihilate, we will find that he shared the same womb from which we originated. Once we know who our mother is, there will be no enmity. This is the REAL knowledge. If some one claims that in order to be considered patriotic to India, one should feel enmity towards Pakistan, it is completely wrong. One can never know the truth through enmity. In fact, everyone in Pakistan represents Karna, our own brother.
The mighty entry of Krishna and Arjuna accompanied by the royal sounds of panchajayam and devadattam in the battlefield indicates the birth of the noble human race. The human life is considered nobler than that of other species because of our ability to discriminate. Other animals instinctively spend their life span in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. Viveka- the ability to discriminate is the ability to select a course from the choices of 1)doing something, 2) not doing it or 3) doing it in a different way. (kartthum, akartthum, anyathaa kartthum).
Five white horses pulling the chariot in the battlefield represent the sense organs that are extremely pure. The mighty knowledge (bodha) is sitting in the chariot in the form of Lord Krishna. Even in every child there exists the Lord (Madhava). This chariot is said to have been gifted by the god of fire (Agni) indicating that the life force emerge from Sun.
Sri Krishna had killed a demon by the name Panchajana and got a conch (famed as panchajanyam) he had been hiding. Panchajana lived his life reveling fully in the realm of five sense organs. Asuras (fallen people, demons) live thinking that sensory perceptions, feelings and thoughts are true. But the Lord lifts them up from that notion and gives them the noble vision (sudarSanam). When the conch is played, by controlling the sense organs to extol dharma and uphold righteousness, our life evolves in to a Panchajanyam itself.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 11:24 AM 
