Thursday, November 16, 2006
GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 38
38. One who believes in God is as good as dead
One who believes in God is a dead person. The main problem of the world is that we are all God-believers. In belief there is always doubt! We must become God inquirers. If we inquire diligently we will understand it. Once you know it, there will be no sin, virtue, pleasure, pain, mantras, pilgrimage, Vedas, teachers or disciples.
Those who are diligently attentive, and who has control over his senses gain wisdom. This ‘knowledge’ is capable of imparting ultimate peace. When you are diligent, there will be questions and inquiries. The diligence comes out of love. Those who are inquisitive about the ultimate truth, should have the diligence of a mother in inquiring about her infant child.
Yagna of knowledge is superior to the material yagna. Owner of material wealth is always fearful of losing it. But all actions end up in gaining knowledge. Knowledge is indeed freedom and lack of knowledge is dependence. One would get the knowledge by submitting the ego by full body prostration to the source. A mind thus prepared will be calm and serene and such a mind produces healthy and relevant questions.
With an attitude of reverence and service one must approach the source (place, teacher) where he may be able to gain this knowledge. Then visionaries will inspire the seeker with the knowledge he is seeking. No one can deny knowledge to a student. Bhagavad Gita accepts everyone, including the worst sinner. The 'university of Bhagavad Gita' is always open – anyone can come in and go out in complete freedom.
Past actions or mistakes need not hinder this inquiry as even the worst sinner can cross the sea of samsara (confusion, i.e. the sea of the physical world of plurality) by the boat of knowledge. All ‘actions’ and their effects will be burnt in to ashes in the fire of knowledge. There is nothing else in the world as sacred as the knowledge. Yogis realize this over time on their own within their self. This is the knowledge of self and the realization that there is nothing out there other than the self. Finally he comes to realize that even the knowledge he is seeking is not separate from his own self. There is nobody ‘out there’ sitting ready to make your life better or miserable.
One who believes in God is a dead person. The main problem of the world is that we are all God-believers. In belief there is always doubt! We must become God inquirers. If we inquire diligently we will understand it. Once you know it, there will be no sin, virtue, pleasure, pain, mantras, pilgrimage, Vedas, teachers or disciples.
Those who are diligently attentive, and who has control over his senses gain wisdom. This ‘knowledge’ is capable of imparting ultimate peace. When you are diligent, there will be questions and inquiries. The diligence comes out of love. Those who are inquisitive about the ultimate truth, should have the diligence of a mother in inquiring about her infant child.
Yagna of knowledge is superior to the material yagna. Owner of material wealth is always fearful of losing it. But all actions end up in gaining knowledge. Knowledge is indeed freedom and lack of knowledge is dependence. One would get the knowledge by submitting the ego by full body prostration to the source. A mind thus prepared will be calm and serene and such a mind produces healthy and relevant questions.
With an attitude of reverence and service one must approach the source (place, teacher) where he may be able to gain this knowledge. Then visionaries will inspire the seeker with the knowledge he is seeking. No one can deny knowledge to a student. Bhagavad Gita accepts everyone, including the worst sinner. The 'university of Bhagavad Gita' is always open – anyone can come in and go out in complete freedom.
Past actions or mistakes need not hinder this inquiry as even the worst sinner can cross the sea of samsara (confusion, i.e. the sea of the physical world of plurality) by the boat of knowledge. All ‘actions’ and their effects will be burnt in to ashes in the fire of knowledge. There is nothing else in the world as sacred as the knowledge. Yogis realize this over time on their own within their self. This is the knowledge of self and the realization that there is nothing out there other than the self. Finally he comes to realize that even the knowledge he is seeking is not separate from his own self. There is nobody ‘out there’ sitting ready to make your life better or miserable.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 5:30 PM 
