Monday, May 05, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 85
85. Devotee as envisaged in Gita is yet to be born
Nowadays, the so-called devotees do not agonize over a tree being felled or a hilltop being cleared by the greedy timber lobby. But if an idol is missing from a temple or a stone in a temple got misplaced or someone threw something at a place of worship, there will be huge trouble. We have kept the Lord inside of a few temples- Guruvayoor, Sabarimala, Chottanikkara and so on. Running from temples to temple without knowing His import, it is tantamount to insulting Him. Bhagavan declared that “I exist in the centre of all- with no exception”. Memory, wisdom and absent-mindedness are all Him only. Only with His blessings do we remember certain things, know certain things and forget the worst tragedies of life. It is ever present in us as constant stimulation by being generous with something and removing certain other things. By studying the self, we can know the universe. Macrocosm (Brahma-andam) exists in each of us as microcosm (pinda andam). Unfortunately we always look for ‘It’ outside of us!
All elements in nature are ephemeral and they have the names and forms. They are perishable entities (kshara-purusha). But the imperishable entity (akshara-purusha) that remains changeless and devoid of names and forms enable others to change and evolve in this universe. The Lord, who is beyond the kshara-purusha and nobler than the akshara-purusha is the supreme entity (uttama-purusha). He remains indispensable, inspiring all the three worlds – the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states of experiential existence.
Here we can understand the tree of samsara (world) as the kshara-purusha and it’s seed as the akshara-purusha. The roots that support all these can be taken as the Brahman, the supreme purusha. It is the Lord that fills nourishments in fruits and digests them inside us when we consume them. He manages the assimilation of the necessary and needed portions of what we eat. Zoologically, we have been created as vegetarians as our nails, teeth, jaws, and saliva are not suitable for eating meat. He has prepared appropriate food for us so that we can develop inspirational thoughts, words and strong minds. To eat wrong food, that is, the food against our nature is to upset the Lord within us.
Nowadays, the so-called devotees do not agonize over a tree being felled or a hilltop being cleared by the greedy timber lobby. But if an idol is missing from a temple or a stone in a temple got misplaced or someone threw something at a place of worship, there will be huge trouble. We have kept the Lord inside of a few temples- Guruvayoor, Sabarimala, Chottanikkara and so on. Running from temples to temple without knowing His import, it is tantamount to insulting Him. Bhagavan declared that “I exist in the centre of all- with no exception”. Memory, wisdom and absent-mindedness are all Him only. Only with His blessings do we remember certain things, know certain things and forget the worst tragedies of life. It is ever present in us as constant stimulation by being generous with something and removing certain other things. By studying the self, we can know the universe. Macrocosm (Brahma-andam) exists in each of us as microcosm (pinda andam). Unfortunately we always look for ‘It’ outside of us!
All elements in nature are ephemeral and they have the names and forms. They are perishable entities (kshara-purusha). But the imperishable entity (akshara-purusha) that remains changeless and devoid of names and forms enable others to change and evolve in this universe. The Lord, who is beyond the kshara-purusha and nobler than the akshara-purusha is the supreme entity (uttama-purusha). He remains indispensable, inspiring all the three worlds – the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states of experiential existence.
Here we can understand the tree of samsara (world) as the kshara-purusha and it’s seed as the akshara-purusha. The roots that support all these can be taken as the Brahman, the supreme purusha. It is the Lord that fills nourishments in fruits and digests them inside us when we consume them. He manages the assimilation of the necessary and needed portions of what we eat. Zoologically, we have been created as vegetarians as our nails, teeth, jaws, and saliva are not suitable for eating meat. He has prepared appropriate food for us so that we can develop inspirational thoughts, words and strong minds. To eat wrong food, that is, the food against our nature is to upset the Lord within us.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 8:58 PM 
