Wednesday, December 05, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 60
60. What we need is logically sound knowledge
Supreme knowledge is beyond logic, but the inquiry in to that knowledge requires a logical approach that is scripturally ordained. Only an ignorant person will keep extolling the Lord’s virtues like a politician blabbering on his favourite topic. Lord says that those who do not realize my noble attribute as the controller of ‘all’, is actually ridiculing me as someone who is dependent on a human body. Inquire in to the attributes of the creater through the created. There is no god separate from trees, water, creatures or the earth.
Everything exists in god just as the air fills vast expands of the space. We also should exist like this. Don’t ‘try to do’ anything, but do everything any way. Gain everything without claiming anything. Deluge is when everything gets absorbed in the Lord (pralayam) and from Him comesforth all living and non-living beings. Due to own innate tendencies, influended by the nature, these will come to life again and again.
These actions do not affect the Lord as He is devoid of any attachment in them. He remains as if He has no interest at all.
Those who have futile desires end up undertaking fruitless actions guided by the useless knowledge are mis-guided in their intellect. They are under the influence of violent, lustful and arrogant nature (aasuriikam). But men of wisdom serve the impershable Lord with one pointed vision realizing that He is the cause of everything. To serve others is to serve Lord. With a humble attitude, one should meditate upon the Lord and extoll His virtues with utmost care and hard work. Any conversation we engage in diligently is indeed a prayer (keerthana). It is this humility that is being portrayed in the Gita as stringing a bow. When we string a bow, the lower end will rise up and the upper end will come down. This is indicative of the ego getting perished and the rising of self awareness. With prostration, we attain the state of self-control.
Supreme knowledge is beyond logic, but the inquiry in to that knowledge requires a logical approach that is scripturally ordained. Only an ignorant person will keep extolling the Lord’s virtues like a politician blabbering on his favourite topic. Lord says that those who do not realize my noble attribute as the controller of ‘all’, is actually ridiculing me as someone who is dependent on a human body. Inquire in to the attributes of the creater through the created. There is no god separate from trees, water, creatures or the earth.
Everything exists in god just as the air fills vast expands of the space. We also should exist like this. Don’t ‘try to do’ anything, but do everything any way. Gain everything without claiming anything. Deluge is when everything gets absorbed in the Lord (pralayam) and from Him comesforth all living and non-living beings. Due to own innate tendencies, influended by the nature, these will come to life again and again.
These actions do not affect the Lord as He is devoid of any attachment in them. He remains as if He has no interest at all.
Those who have futile desires end up undertaking fruitless actions guided by the useless knowledge are mis-guided in their intellect. They are under the influence of violent, lustful and arrogant nature (aasuriikam). But men of wisdom serve the impershable Lord with one pointed vision realizing that He is the cause of everything. To serve others is to serve Lord. With a humble attitude, one should meditate upon the Lord and extoll His virtues with utmost care and hard work. Any conversation we engage in diligently is indeed a prayer (keerthana). It is this humility that is being portrayed in the Gita as stringing a bow. When we string a bow, the lower end will rise up and the upper end will come down. This is indicative of the ego getting perished and the rising of self awareness. With prostration, we attain the state of self-control.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 10:54 PM 
