Wednesday, December 05, 2007
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 64
64. Accept and then internalize
Do not avoid anything for the sake of it; do not hinder anything. Accept all and then internalize everything to help evolve them to perfection. Non-violence, sense control, compassion towards other beings, patience, peace, penance, meditation and truth are flowers dear to the Lord. Those who always count everything as ‘mine and theirs’ are violent in nature. Even the thought that ‘I am not going to be violent towards anyone’, is violence. The moment we think ‘mine and theirs’, violence has taken birth with it.
Intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, patience, truthfulness, willingness to suffer for attaining the higher, contentment, pleasure, pain, nothingness, fear, refuge, non-violence, equanimity, happiness, penance, charity, reputation or notoriety etc. are workings of the mind, all originated from the Lord. The seven sages (sapta-rishi) and four ‘manus’ are His mental attitudes. Manu’s are the four states of the mind- waking, dreaming, sleeping & awakened (jagrat, swapna, sushupti and thureeya) states. Seven sages are the seven qualities of the mind - cunnigness, profit-motiveness, impracticality, practicality, day dreaming, intellectualism and thoughtlessness. These are like electricity manifesting through different equipment. Breeze, light and heat are all created by the electricity, but these are not electricity itself. One should know the expanse (vibhoothi) and the symbiotic relationships of entities to each other. It is the maya that makes the ‘One’ appears to be ‘many’. ‘Vistaram’ is the concept of expanding the truth to be as vast as the universe. In this, ‘yoga’ is the ‘dettached attachment’. Lord is the beginning of all. Everything is working in Him. By keeping our mind well established in the truth and by integrating the life force (prana) with pranava (Omkara), we would realize this noble and mutually complementary relationship. “Even the divine beings (devas) and sages (maharshis) do not know my origin, because I am the pre-mordial entity existent even before their origin” says the Lord. Devas are senses and maharshis are mind and the intellect. The Lord is beyond all of them.
Do not avoid anything for the sake of it; do not hinder anything. Accept all and then internalize everything to help evolve them to perfection. Non-violence, sense control, compassion towards other beings, patience, peace, penance, meditation and truth are flowers dear to the Lord. Those who always count everything as ‘mine and theirs’ are violent in nature. Even the thought that ‘I am not going to be violent towards anyone’, is violence. The moment we think ‘mine and theirs’, violence has taken birth with it.
Intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, patience, truthfulness, willingness to suffer for attaining the higher, contentment, pleasure, pain, nothingness, fear, refuge, non-violence, equanimity, happiness, penance, charity, reputation or notoriety etc. are workings of the mind, all originated from the Lord. The seven sages (sapta-rishi) and four ‘manus’ are His mental attitudes. Manu’s are the four states of the mind- waking, dreaming, sleeping & awakened (jagrat, swapna, sushupti and thureeya) states. Seven sages are the seven qualities of the mind - cunnigness, profit-motiveness, impracticality, practicality, day dreaming, intellectualism and thoughtlessness. These are like electricity manifesting through different equipment. Breeze, light and heat are all created by the electricity, but these are not electricity itself. One should know the expanse (vibhoothi) and the symbiotic relationships of entities to each other. It is the maya that makes the ‘One’ appears to be ‘many’. ‘Vistaram’ is the concept of expanding the truth to be as vast as the universe. In this, ‘yoga’ is the ‘dettached attachment’. Lord is the beginning of all. Everything is working in Him. By keeping our mind well established in the truth and by integrating the life force (prana) with pranava (Omkara), we would realize this noble and mutually complementary relationship. “Even the divine beings (devas) and sages (maharshis) do not know my origin, because I am the pre-mordial entity existent even before their origin” says the Lord. Devas are senses and maharshis are mind and the intellect. The Lord is beyond all of them.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 11:21 PM 
