Monday, May 05, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 81
81. We Shouldn’t Leave the World Without Experiencing it
We should not live life without experiencing the world. When rajo-guna increases, greed (lobham) arises and it leads to action aimed at gaining favourable results. This leads to agitation and longing for more and more. There will be no calmness in action and we will be ‘on the go’ all the time. When sitting down for eating, mind is in the moon. While spending time with the wife, mind is in the office in Uganda. Mind never travels with the person when he is under the spell of rajo guna. We should break this ‘machinery mode’ and come down to being natural. Even our children have come out of unintentionally.
Satva-guna is in its full glory when the doors of our organs of knowledge are effulgent with wisdom. Although we lock ourselves down and keep the key in our inner pocket, we keep lamenting that the locks cannot be opened. At the predominance of thamo-guna occurs the ignorance, lack of clarity, laziness, wrongful action and delusion. Those who leave the body at the peak of satva guna attain the path of the men of wisdom. The body-consciousness ceases to exist in wisdom and this is the only way to overcome death. Those who die at the peak of rajo-guna take births as creatures attached to being very active. Those who die at the peak of thamo-guna will take birth in lower wombs. Satva-guna begets noble results and rajo-guna results in sorrow. Thamo-guna results in ignorance.
From Sattva comes knowledge; from rajo guna, lust and greed; and from thamo guna, mistakes, delusion, and ignorance. Sattva people go up in evolution. Rajo-gunis stay where they are and thamo-gunis go down in progress. When a man of wisdom knows that there is no ‘doer’ separate from the gunas. When he realizes that the self is beyond all gunas, he attains the Lord
We should not live life without experiencing the world. When rajo-guna increases, greed (lobham) arises and it leads to action aimed at gaining favourable results. This leads to agitation and longing for more and more. There will be no calmness in action and we will be ‘on the go’ all the time. When sitting down for eating, mind is in the moon. While spending time with the wife, mind is in the office in Uganda. Mind never travels with the person when he is under the spell of rajo guna. We should break this ‘machinery mode’ and come down to being natural. Even our children have come out of unintentionally.
Satva-guna is in its full glory when the doors of our organs of knowledge are effulgent with wisdom. Although we lock ourselves down and keep the key in our inner pocket, we keep lamenting that the locks cannot be opened. At the predominance of thamo-guna occurs the ignorance, lack of clarity, laziness, wrongful action and delusion. Those who leave the body at the peak of satva guna attain the path of the men of wisdom. The body-consciousness ceases to exist in wisdom and this is the only way to overcome death. Those who die at the peak of rajo-guna take births as creatures attached to being very active. Those who die at the peak of thamo-guna will take birth in lower wombs. Satva-guna begets noble results and rajo-guna results in sorrow. Thamo-guna results in ignorance.
From Sattva comes knowledge; from rajo guna, lust and greed; and from thamo guna, mistakes, delusion, and ignorance. Sattva people go up in evolution. Rajo-gunis stay where they are and thamo-gunis go down in progress. When a man of wisdom knows that there is no ‘doer’ separate from the gunas. When he realizes that the self is beyond all gunas, he attains the Lord
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 8:51 PM 
