Wednesday, December 05, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 56
56. Do not describe our world as hell
People who pray to God to liberate them out of the ‘hell’ they are presently in will not flourish. Such people will always make a hell wherever they go or live in. It is not fit for a devotee to portray his surrounding as hellish. That kind of an outlook is against all our scriptures. Treat our surroundings to be the best it can possibly be. Human life is considered to be the most virtuous and the Lord asks us not for making a mere external change, but for bringing the change from within.
Conducting protests and demonstrations in the name of God is not wise at all. One need not establish the Lord’s position and reputation forcefully by protests because He is beyond all that we can do. Leave the people alone when they say undignified things about Gita. Only the imprudent would call a conference to protest against such people.
“I know everything that happened and all that is going to happen because I am eternally present. Although I am ever present, no one ‘knows’ Me”, says the Lord. He means that, no one is realizing the eternal truth which is nothing but the self that is witnessing everything. The pairs of opposites (happiness/sorrow, profit/loss, honour/dishonour, etc.) are direct results of our likes/dislikes and are created by the body. But those who undertake actions with a meditative mind will go beyond the pairs of opposites by removing the misapprehension and they will remain steadfast in their convictions.
“Those who have controlled their minds will know Me even at the time of their death”. This is a spontaneous revelation. Once I ‘know’ it, ‘I’ am not there to know it. I will leave this world knowing that I am beyond the world. Those who strive with the full conviction to attain liberation from the birth-death cycle will come to realize Brahman, spiritual secrets and they will comprehend the karma principle.
People who pray to God to liberate them out of the ‘hell’ they are presently in will not flourish. Such people will always make a hell wherever they go or live in. It is not fit for a devotee to portray his surrounding as hellish. That kind of an outlook is against all our scriptures. Treat our surroundings to be the best it can possibly be. Human life is considered to be the most virtuous and the Lord asks us not for making a mere external change, but for bringing the change from within.
Conducting protests and demonstrations in the name of God is not wise at all. One need not establish the Lord’s position and reputation forcefully by protests because He is beyond all that we can do. Leave the people alone when they say undignified things about Gita. Only the imprudent would call a conference to protest against such people.
“I know everything that happened and all that is going to happen because I am eternally present. Although I am ever present, no one ‘knows’ Me”, says the Lord. He means that, no one is realizing the eternal truth which is nothing but the self that is witnessing everything. The pairs of opposites (happiness/sorrow, profit/loss, honour/dishonour, etc.) are direct results of our likes/dislikes and are created by the body. But those who undertake actions with a meditative mind will go beyond the pairs of opposites by removing the misapprehension and they will remain steadfast in their convictions.
“Those who have controlled their minds will know Me even at the time of their death”. This is a spontaneous revelation. Once I ‘know’ it, ‘I’ am not there to know it. I will leave this world knowing that I am beyond the world. Those who strive with the full conviction to attain liberation from the birth-death cycle will come to realize Brahman, spiritual secrets and they will comprehend the karma principle.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 10:26 PM 
