Monday, May 05, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 80
80. Brahman is the Universal Womb; Lord, the Seed
Lord declares that the great Brahman is indeed the womb (yoni) of the universe and I impregnate it by placing the seed. All creatures- movable and immovable- are created from it. Universal womb includes all wombs and everything originates from it. It is the path to take birth. For whatever bodily births occur, the yoni is the nature (Brahma- prakruthi) and the father is the Lord himself. The concept being a father and a mother should always be thought of in light of the universal fatherhood and motherhood.
Amongst the various qualities (gunas) of nature, the sattva guna (the noble, effulgent and immaculate) binds the imperishable self with the body by means of attachment with bliss and knowledge. The rajo guna (the active and agitated) binds the self through activities carried out to satisfy desires. The thamo guna (the ignorant and lazy), born out of ignorance deludes everyone. It shrouds the wisdom and takes one to do wrong. Mistake is to comprehend one thing for another- i.e., misapprehension of reality. Each of these gunas expresses themselves by covering the other two. A person with the predominance of thamo-guna, at the time needs rest and sleep. Even if he tries to undertake work, it will not be complete. One should work in accordance with the guna state he is in.
Those who have attained the Lord through experience and wisdom do not take birth even at the beginning of creation. They have no sorrow at the deluge either. They don’t have births and deaths. Once we realize that all are nothing but gold, there are no ornaments. There are no ear rings, chains and bangles. Everything is gold. This doesn’t mean that we will see only a gold bar in place of ornaments. Even while seeing the ornaments, we realize that the Gold is not undergoing permanent changes.
Lord declares that the great Brahman is indeed the womb (yoni) of the universe and I impregnate it by placing the seed. All creatures- movable and immovable- are created from it. Universal womb includes all wombs and everything originates from it. It is the path to take birth. For whatever bodily births occur, the yoni is the nature (Brahma- prakruthi) and the father is the Lord himself. The concept being a father and a mother should always be thought of in light of the universal fatherhood and motherhood.
Amongst the various qualities (gunas) of nature, the sattva guna (the noble, effulgent and immaculate) binds the imperishable self with the body by means of attachment with bliss and knowledge. The rajo guna (the active and agitated) binds the self through activities carried out to satisfy desires. The thamo guna (the ignorant and lazy), born out of ignorance deludes everyone. It shrouds the wisdom and takes one to do wrong. Mistake is to comprehend one thing for another- i.e., misapprehension of reality. Each of these gunas expresses themselves by covering the other two. A person with the predominance of thamo-guna, at the time needs rest and sleep. Even if he tries to undertake work, it will not be complete. One should work in accordance with the guna state he is in.
Those who have attained the Lord through experience and wisdom do not take birth even at the beginning of creation. They have no sorrow at the deluge either. They don’t have births and deaths. Once we realize that all are nothing but gold, there are no ornaments. There are no ear rings, chains and bangles. Everything is gold. This doesn’t mean that we will see only a gold bar in place of ornaments. Even while seeing the ornaments, we realize that the Gold is not undergoing permanent changes.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 8:50 PM 
