Sunday, May 25, 2008

 

GITA 108 DAYS - Day 107


107. The Lord’s feet are the feet of life itself


Feet of life are the Lord’s feet indeed. Meaning of ‘going to the Lord’s feet’ is to accept life completely and wholeheartedly as it is presented before us. Only when we break away from the unimportant stuff we will be able to accept the supreme. Serving God is to know God. The Lord didn’t ask us to make a lot of temples, but he asked us to know ‘I’ through self inquiry with the help of scriptural knowledge. We should propagate the scripture and at least our family members should be directed to this path of inquiry. Bhagavan says that he who teaches scriptures well and introduces ‘me’ to others is very dear Him. There is nothing nobler than this knowledge transfer. Supreme worship is to learn the scriptures without wavering from dharma. If some one even listens to the scriptures without jealousy, he will get benefited as well.

One should listen to the scripture with one pointed concentration. There is no point in listening mechanically. Hearing should be followed by analytical thinking of the subject. Learn the word meanings and the purport so that all delusions end. We are the ‘chosen’ ones even to get opportunity to listen to the scriptures. That’s why Gita warns that the scriptures should not be advised to people with no devotion and penance, people who do not serve others and to those who are jealous of other people’s prosperity. It must be imparted to only those who are really interested. Some people think that Sudras and women are not entitled to Brahma vidya, the knowledge supreme. The Lord has clearly stated who do not deserve this knowledge. Here the cast, religion, clan or sex of a person does not matter. Those who do not make an effort to know should not be imparted of this ‘secret’. Thapass (penance) is the pursuit one undertakes cheerfully. They know that it is the service to the Lord to serve the country and devotion to the people is the devotion to the supreme self. Those who do not serve others do not serve the nature. Those who are jealous to others when they prosper is indeed envious to none other than the Lord.

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