Tuesday, August 08, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 33
33. It is in our minds that the Lord takes birth
The lord’s assurance is that “whenever there is a decline in Dharma, I will take birth”. Adhrama happens not in a particular geographical area, but it is in the minds of each and every one of us. So also, the Lord takes birth in our minds. The decline of Dharma happens within an individual’s mind and there the Lord takes birth as consciousness. Lord has no special interest in this earth to take birth physically in a particular place!
The birth of consciousness as a premonition that stops us from taking a wrongful action is none other than the Lord himself. It is the Dharma bodha (dharma consciousness) that creates mental conflicts when we are about to tell lies, for example. The Lord declared that He will manifest incessantly to annihilate adharmas and to establish dharma in the world. We are all noble, but our actions may take good or bad turns. The Lord does not call us sinners or evil, but we are capable of doing evil acts. When we are awakened by the continuous dharma consciousness, we will naturally stay away from any wrong doings. This is what the Lord does in us - his birth (reincarnation) and actions are for creating this awareness in us. If we ‘know’ the truth behind the Lord’s incarnations, he will not have any more births. With this revelation, one comes to realize that “I am not this body” and with this realization, one gets liberated from the birth-death cycle. The Lord’s weapon is ‘Sudarsana’, meaning ‘auspicious vision’. With this vision, he annihilates all evil tendencies in us.
The Lord tells us: “I had taught the secrets regarding karma & jnana (action and knowledge) to Sun, and he taught them to Manu. Manu advised Ishwaku on this, but the knowledge got lost eventually. Now I am declaring it again for your benefit”. Here the Lord is the consciousness and the consciousness advised the intellect (Sun) and he passed this knowledge to his son, Manu, the mind. The mind disseminated the secret to the five senses as they are in charge of undertaking actions. Senses are kings, but they lost this knowledge. King Dritarashtra is the symbol of the king who lost this secret knowledge of yogic wisdom.
The conflict between the dharma and adharma happens in our mind. Our body is the field to act out dharma and the root cause of war is the notion of ‘I’ ness and ‘my’ ness. One should think “what all did I do selflessly in my actions?” Pandawas represent people who do dharmic actions and stay away from adharmic actions based on their knowledge. Kauravas are those who do not undertake dharmic actions but choose to undertake adharmic actions despite having appropriate knowledge. In this conflict, people who have prepared their minds ready to give birth to the Lord (consciousness) will realize the ultimate Truth and they are sure to get liberated.
The lord’s assurance is that “whenever there is a decline in Dharma, I will take birth”. Adhrama happens not in a particular geographical area, but it is in the minds of each and every one of us. So also, the Lord takes birth in our minds. The decline of Dharma happens within an individual’s mind and there the Lord takes birth as consciousness. Lord has no special interest in this earth to take birth physically in a particular place!
The birth of consciousness as a premonition that stops us from taking a wrongful action is none other than the Lord himself. It is the Dharma bodha (dharma consciousness) that creates mental conflicts when we are about to tell lies, for example. The Lord declared that He will manifest incessantly to annihilate adharmas and to establish dharma in the world. We are all noble, but our actions may take good or bad turns. The Lord does not call us sinners or evil, but we are capable of doing evil acts. When we are awakened by the continuous dharma consciousness, we will naturally stay away from any wrong doings. This is what the Lord does in us - his birth (reincarnation) and actions are for creating this awareness in us. If we ‘know’ the truth behind the Lord’s incarnations, he will not have any more births. With this revelation, one comes to realize that “I am not this body” and with this realization, one gets liberated from the birth-death cycle. The Lord’s weapon is ‘Sudarsana’, meaning ‘auspicious vision’. With this vision, he annihilates all evil tendencies in us.
The Lord tells us: “I had taught the secrets regarding karma & jnana (action and knowledge) to Sun, and he taught them to Manu. Manu advised Ishwaku on this, but the knowledge got lost eventually. Now I am declaring it again for your benefit”. Here the Lord is the consciousness and the consciousness advised the intellect (Sun) and he passed this knowledge to his son, Manu, the mind. The mind disseminated the secret to the five senses as they are in charge of undertaking actions. Senses are kings, but they lost this knowledge. King Dritarashtra is the symbol of the king who lost this secret knowledge of yogic wisdom.
The conflict between the dharma and adharma happens in our mind. Our body is the field to act out dharma and the root cause of war is the notion of ‘I’ ness and ‘my’ ness. One should think “what all did I do selflessly in my actions?” Pandawas represent people who do dharmic actions and stay away from adharmic actions based on their knowledge. Kauravas are those who do not undertake dharmic actions but choose to undertake adharmic actions despite having appropriate knowledge. In this conflict, people who have prepared their minds ready to give birth to the Lord (consciousness) will realize the ultimate Truth and they are sure to get liberated.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 5:03 PM 
