Monday, May 05, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 76
76. Our Body is the Temple
A devotee is one who lives life truthfully without getting identified with the unreal and he has no pretence. In order to assess our own progress, see ho others respond to our presence.
The Lord says that our body indeed is the field of activity and experience (kshetra or temple). Kshetra is perishable. If it is to become imperishable, it should be in contact with that which is eternal. Then it will have an existence beyond the field of experience. In order to raise the existence of the perishable body to be everlasting, it must be associated with Dharma. Without Dharma, conflicts and destruction will occur.
With the action considered as a seed, body is the field where the fruit of action is harvested and experienced. That is why our forefathers insisted that our actions must be pure. It is not possible to avoid modifications of the body that passes through the stages of birth, life and death. One should realize that the self is beyond all these and ‘I’ am capable of observing these modifications. Knowing ones own body is to realize that ‘I’ am not the body. Kshetrajna is the one who has attained this awareness.
In all kshetras, the kshetrajna – the presiding entity (kshetrajna) is the Lord himself. In the body also, He presides over the functioning of the body as the witness, as the one who is aware of all modifications. Since He is the one aware of all modifications, He is steadfast, and eternal. Such a realization about the kshetra and kshetrajna is wisdom.
Kshetra consists of the five basic elements, ego (doer-ship and enjoyer-ship), intellect (ability to discriminate between cause and effect), the root nature that is vague, sense organs of knowledge and action, mind, sensory objects, desire, enmity, pleasure and pain (experiences and responses that are desirable and undesirable), combination of the senses with the subject matter; life spirit (jeevan) and energy (ojass). Lord says that in the body composed of twenty four components (from five elements to the sensory subject matter), and all the seven emotions exist in it, from desire to energy
A devotee is one who lives life truthfully without getting identified with the unreal and he has no pretence. In order to assess our own progress, see ho others respond to our presence.
The Lord says that our body indeed is the field of activity and experience (kshetra or temple). Kshetra is perishable. If it is to become imperishable, it should be in contact with that which is eternal. Then it will have an existence beyond the field of experience. In order to raise the existence of the perishable body to be everlasting, it must be associated with Dharma. Without Dharma, conflicts and destruction will occur.
With the action considered as a seed, body is the field where the fruit of action is harvested and experienced. That is why our forefathers insisted that our actions must be pure. It is not possible to avoid modifications of the body that passes through the stages of birth, life and death. One should realize that the self is beyond all these and ‘I’ am capable of observing these modifications. Knowing ones own body is to realize that ‘I’ am not the body. Kshetrajna is the one who has attained this awareness.
In all kshetras, the kshetrajna – the presiding entity (kshetrajna) is the Lord himself. In the body also, He presides over the functioning of the body as the witness, as the one who is aware of all modifications. Since He is the one aware of all modifications, He is steadfast, and eternal. Such a realization about the kshetra and kshetrajna is wisdom.
Kshetra consists of the five basic elements, ego (doer-ship and enjoyer-ship), intellect (ability to discriminate between cause and effect), the root nature that is vague, sense organs of knowledge and action, mind, sensory objects, desire, enmity, pleasure and pain (experiences and responses that are desirable and undesirable), combination of the senses with the subject matter; life spirit (jeevan) and energy (ojass). Lord says that in the body composed of twenty four components (from five elements to the sensory subject matter), and all the seven emotions exist in it, from desire to energy
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