Sunday, May 25, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 103
103. Everything gets purified in knowledge
Gita makes everything an auspicious undertaking (yagna). In the fire of self control, the senses are sacrificed. A vision is also a yagna. We should not add color to it as we sacrifice it in the fire of knowledge. Accepting the universe in the fire of knowledge is indeed yagna and in knowledge everything gets sanctified. Most holy is the knowledge itself. Some people ask – is it not beneficial to serve the poor and feed the hungry than engaged in teaching of the Gita. Those who want to serve the destitute always want them to exist and indirectly they love problems. Knowledge transfer is the attempt to nurture a culture that will ensure that no destitute is produced. This leads to permanent liberation.
Our creations are all in the spirit of yagna and when there is a hindrance to this attitude, even an unscrupulous person will be annoyed. In order to rise above desires, we should reinvigorate our mind with the intellect that has acquired knowledge from scriptures. Don’t go with the whim and fancy of the thoughts and emotions and do not denigrate yourself. Biggest sin is to indulge in and worry about the insignificant events, issues and thoughts of the past. One cannot become a sannyasi or a yogi without discarding wishful thoughts. A sannyasi is one who undertakes work without wishing for results. He does not harbour thoughts of hatred; he doesn’t desire anything; he has discarded thoughts of sense gratification; he has no feeling of duality. It is a simple life.
Karma and knowledge (jnana) are not different for a sannyasi. One attains the goal through karma what can be achieved through jnana. They are mutually supportive to each other. Karmas are to be done as per our innate nature and it is para-dharma (other’s duty or unnatural) even to think that we are separate from the supreme. Don’t think that I am this body, thoughts or emotions. Even to say that “I am killing” is unnatural and para-dharma. I don’t ‘own’ the work (no doer-ship) and we are truly blissful in nature. We can experience this through meditation.
Gita makes everything an auspicious undertaking (yagna). In the fire of self control, the senses are sacrificed. A vision is also a yagna. We should not add color to it as we sacrifice it in the fire of knowledge. Accepting the universe in the fire of knowledge is indeed yagna and in knowledge everything gets sanctified. Most holy is the knowledge itself. Some people ask – is it not beneficial to serve the poor and feed the hungry than engaged in teaching of the Gita. Those who want to serve the destitute always want them to exist and indirectly they love problems. Knowledge transfer is the attempt to nurture a culture that will ensure that no destitute is produced. This leads to permanent liberation.
Our creations are all in the spirit of yagna and when there is a hindrance to this attitude, even an unscrupulous person will be annoyed. In order to rise above desires, we should reinvigorate our mind with the intellect that has acquired knowledge from scriptures. Don’t go with the whim and fancy of the thoughts and emotions and do not denigrate yourself. Biggest sin is to indulge in and worry about the insignificant events, issues and thoughts of the past. One cannot become a sannyasi or a yogi without discarding wishful thoughts. A sannyasi is one who undertakes work without wishing for results. He does not harbour thoughts of hatred; he doesn’t desire anything; he has discarded thoughts of sense gratification; he has no feeling of duality. It is a simple life.
Karma and knowledge (jnana) are not different for a sannyasi. One attains the goal through karma what can be achieved through jnana. They are mutually supportive to each other. Karmas are to be done as per our innate nature and it is para-dharma (other’s duty or unnatural) even to think that we are separate from the supreme. Don’t think that I am this body, thoughts or emotions. Even to say that “I am killing” is unnatural and para-dharma. I don’t ‘own’ the work (no doer-ship) and we are truly blissful in nature. We can experience this through meditation.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 9:19 AM 
