Friday, January 12, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 40
40. There is no need to wear special attire to be a sannyasi
Gita advises us on the approaches we should take in conducting our day to day activities. Renunciation (Sannyaasa) does not mean that you are being entrapped in a system. It is a state of being completely free. Sri Krishna never ignored the external world; but internally, He accepted the One that is worthy of accepting-without the ego. Look at other species in nature- animals for example- they don’t have ego and so, to be ‘animal’ like is a state above the ‘human’ state as far as the ego is concerned. It is ego that keeps us away from nature.
The seeker (yogi) who has the inner knowledge also sees, hears, touches, smells, talks, holds, walks, excretes, breathes, closes his eyes and sleeps. But he is aware that these actions are done by the sense organs and not by ‘me’. Yogi knows that he is doing everything, but at the same time, he realizes that it is not ‘me’ who is acting.
Gita talks about the renunciation one should achieve within the house holder’s ordinary life. One should do and experience everything; at the same time he should reject the ‘ownership’ of such actions. Till today we thought of all actions as ours, but now we realize that they are not so. If there is any change occurring inside, it must be natural, without even us consciously knowing about it. Renunciation (Sannyaasa) is not suppressing or forcefully rejecting anything in life. It is being able to do and experience everything in life without getting attached to the results of such actions.
Sannyaasa is difficult to achieve without ‘karma yoga’. One attains sannyaasa through proper actions. In order to know that the state of sannyasa is a ‘friend’ and the goal, one should not limit himself. A house-holder does not become a sannyaasi by wearing saffron colored robes and rosaries (rudraksha). If the wife adorns saffron clothes and calls her husband “son, come here,” he will not be able to understand that. A house-holder must execute his duties in their respective roles of a sibling, a husband, a wife and a child without falling in the trap of attachment. A house-holder goes through many complexities of life and they will benefit the most by practicing sannyasa in their actions; not the monks sitting in forests or caves. One becomes complete by being a ‘sannyaasi’ and it is everybody’s right to be one. In this sannyaasa, we are not ‘rejecting’ anything, but we are not ‘accepting’ anything either as our own.
Gita advises us on the approaches we should take in conducting our day to day activities. Renunciation (Sannyaasa) does not mean that you are being entrapped in a system. It is a state of being completely free. Sri Krishna never ignored the external world; but internally, He accepted the One that is worthy of accepting-without the ego. Look at other species in nature- animals for example- they don’t have ego and so, to be ‘animal’ like is a state above the ‘human’ state as far as the ego is concerned. It is ego that keeps us away from nature.
The seeker (yogi) who has the inner knowledge also sees, hears, touches, smells, talks, holds, walks, excretes, breathes, closes his eyes and sleeps. But he is aware that these actions are done by the sense organs and not by ‘me’. Yogi knows that he is doing everything, but at the same time, he realizes that it is not ‘me’ who is acting.
Gita talks about the renunciation one should achieve within the house holder’s ordinary life. One should do and experience everything; at the same time he should reject the ‘ownership’ of such actions. Till today we thought of all actions as ours, but now we realize that they are not so. If there is any change occurring inside, it must be natural, without even us consciously knowing about it. Renunciation (Sannyaasa) is not suppressing or forcefully rejecting anything in life. It is being able to do and experience everything in life without getting attached to the results of such actions.
Sannyaasa is difficult to achieve without ‘karma yoga’. One attains sannyaasa through proper actions. In order to know that the state of sannyasa is a ‘friend’ and the goal, one should not limit himself. A house-holder does not become a sannyaasi by wearing saffron colored robes and rosaries (rudraksha). If the wife adorns saffron clothes and calls her husband “son, come here,” he will not be able to understand that. A house-holder must execute his duties in their respective roles of a sibling, a husband, a wife and a child without falling in the trap of attachment. A house-holder goes through many complexities of life and they will benefit the most by practicing sannyasa in their actions; not the monks sitting in forests or caves. One becomes complete by being a ‘sannyaasi’ and it is everybody’s right to be one. In this sannyaasa, we are not ‘rejecting’ anything, but we are not ‘accepting’ anything either as our own.
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