Saturday, September 22, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 51
51 Life is a series of experiences
When Gita says that we would reach the ultimate peace after passing through a number of lives, it means that we would realize the Truth through a lot of experiences. If for some reason one had to leave this body while inquiring Truth, the subtle body will continue that inquiry through the next body and so on. It may be because of that we feel familiarity with certain things, even when we see them for the first time in life. We should do justice to our pursuits for self realization because, even a sincere aspirant who is just keen to know the secrets behind Yoga will be able to face the fruits of his past actions courageously however unpleasant they may be.
A Yogi is nobler than those who undertake penance or those who are in the path of knowledge. He is even nobler than the karma itself, because he identifies himselves with the Supreme Truth. He lives the knowledge he has aquired and experiences the ‘Self’ in all. His actions and wisdom are inseparable.
In the story of Kausika, the noble brahmana, who was trained a scholarly monastery had to finally ‘learn’ about the Supreme Truth from a house-wife and a butcher! Wisdom, is to know everything by knowing our Self. One should strive to know the Self by taking refuge in ones own self. It is impossible to partially ‘know’ God. !
Lord Krishna is assuring that he will expound on the knowledge and the corresponding experience, after knowing which one need not have to know anything more. That Thou Art (thath thvam asi) is one of the great aphorisms (maha vakya). Those who have ‘heard’ it contemplate upon “the Conciousness is Brahaman” (prajnanam brahma) and “the Self is Brahman” (ayam atma brahma). At the end, the resulting experience comes out as a declaration- “I am Brahaman” (aham brahmasmi). Only one in thousand strive for this and among them only one in thousand realize this knowledge through experience.
When Gita says that we would reach the ultimate peace after passing through a number of lives, it means that we would realize the Truth through a lot of experiences. If for some reason one had to leave this body while inquiring Truth, the subtle body will continue that inquiry through the next body and so on. It may be because of that we feel familiarity with certain things, even when we see them for the first time in life. We should do justice to our pursuits for self realization because, even a sincere aspirant who is just keen to know the secrets behind Yoga will be able to face the fruits of his past actions courageously however unpleasant they may be.
A Yogi is nobler than those who undertake penance or those who are in the path of knowledge. He is even nobler than the karma itself, because he identifies himselves with the Supreme Truth. He lives the knowledge he has aquired and experiences the ‘Self’ in all. His actions and wisdom are inseparable.
In the story of Kausika, the noble brahmana, who was trained a scholarly monastery had to finally ‘learn’ about the Supreme Truth from a house-wife and a butcher! Wisdom, is to know everything by knowing our Self. One should strive to know the Self by taking refuge in ones own self. It is impossible to partially ‘know’ God. !
Lord Krishna is assuring that he will expound on the knowledge and the corresponding experience, after knowing which one need not have to know anything more. That Thou Art (thath thvam asi) is one of the great aphorisms (maha vakya). Those who have ‘heard’ it contemplate upon “the Conciousness is Brahaman” (prajnanam brahma) and “the Self is Brahman” (ayam atma brahma). At the end, the resulting experience comes out as a declaration- “I am Brahaman” (aham brahmasmi). Only one in thousand strive for this and among them only one in thousand realize this knowledge through experience.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 6:13 PM 
