Wednesday, December 05, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 61
61 To take revenge is not the way of “sanatana dharama”
One cannot limit the Lord to a particular time period or to a geographical area. People misunderstand the means of achieving a goal for the goal itself. All known sacred places are now subjects of controversy; be it Jerusalem, Hazarathbal or Ayodhya. Ayodhya is not the name of a geographical area. It is the land where all fighting has ended. People do not understand it to be the human mind itself.
We say that the Lord is the embodiment of compassion and peace; but we get upset and threaten others when someone talks ill of the Lord! It doesn’t make any sense! If some draws a cartoon or says something about the Lord, there is no point in getting upset. No anti-social elements can injure the Lord! When the Lord himself is unaffected, why should we feel injured?
Some see the completeness of the universe through the yagna of knowledge gathering. Some worship the reality as one single entity where as the others worship Him as many. The ritual of yagas, scripturally ordained actions, yagna by the sages, food dedicated to the forefathers, medicines, mantras, the clarified butter poured as oblations to the fire and the yaga of fire are all Lord (Iswara). When accepting these also, do that with the attitude of “everything is Lord”.
All contradictions are also Him, but He is unaffected and He exists beyond all these. Lord is the father, mother, and grand parents of everyone. What we must ‘know’ is the Lord who wears the universe. He is the veda; He is the Omkara, the pranava. He is the ultimate goal; he is the governor, the administrator, the witness and the seat and substratum of everything. He is the friend, the creator, sustainer and annihilator. He is the changeless seed that is imperishable. He is behind heat, cold and the rain. He is the death and immortality. He is the existance in all that exist and He is the emptiness in all that is void. Those who do scriptural rituals reach heaven and when the merits of their virtues get depleted, they return to the realm of human life. Those who are concentrating their efforts in virtuous deeds expecting good results will end up repeating the cycle of births and deaths
One cannot limit the Lord to a particular time period or to a geographical area. People misunderstand the means of achieving a goal for the goal itself. All known sacred places are now subjects of controversy; be it Jerusalem, Hazarathbal or Ayodhya. Ayodhya is not the name of a geographical area. It is the land where all fighting has ended. People do not understand it to be the human mind itself.
We say that the Lord is the embodiment of compassion and peace; but we get upset and threaten others when someone talks ill of the Lord! It doesn’t make any sense! If some draws a cartoon or says something about the Lord, there is no point in getting upset. No anti-social elements can injure the Lord! When the Lord himself is unaffected, why should we feel injured?
Some see the completeness of the universe through the yagna of knowledge gathering. Some worship the reality as one single entity where as the others worship Him as many. The ritual of yagas, scripturally ordained actions, yagna by the sages, food dedicated to the forefathers, medicines, mantras, the clarified butter poured as oblations to the fire and the yaga of fire are all Lord (Iswara). When accepting these also, do that with the attitude of “everything is Lord”.
All contradictions are also Him, but He is unaffected and He exists beyond all these. Lord is the father, mother, and grand parents of everyone. What we must ‘know’ is the Lord who wears the universe. He is the veda; He is the Omkara, the pranava. He is the ultimate goal; he is the governor, the administrator, the witness and the seat and substratum of everything. He is the friend, the creator, sustainer and annihilator. He is the changeless seed that is imperishable. He is behind heat, cold and the rain. He is the death and immortality. He is the existance in all that exist and He is the emptiness in all that is void. Those who do scriptural rituals reach heaven and when the merits of their virtues get depleted, they return to the realm of human life. Those who are concentrating their efforts in virtuous deeds expecting good results will end up repeating the cycle of births and deaths
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 11:03 PM 
