Monday, May 05, 2008
GITA 108 DAYS - Day 92
92. Those who hate wars in fact love it
Those who hate wars do so since there is a battle going on inside of them. Whatever we try to oppose vehemently, it will be present inside of us in its full strength, twice over. Man of equanimity is not opposed to anything. A satvic man does not hate actions that are inauspicious nor does he become entangled in auspicious karmas. Even the intense desire to serve others is also a type of bondage. They hope to achieve and recognition behind such insistence.
One should do all karmas fully accepting that they are to be executed, but do it without affinity towards their results and attachment to the karma itself. He should feel that it is my opportunity to undertake it and I am the chosen to execute it best. Don’t take it as an unpleasant task. It is a rajasic sacrifice to give up karmas that may mete out physical hurt and sorrow. It is not logical to give up obligatory karmas- do not take up sannyas (life of renunciation) discarding your wife and kids. Sacrifices borne out of such ignorance are tamasic in nature. Here the Lord indicates that the bliss enjoyed by a sannyaasi while chanting Om is same as the wisdom and contentment one gets when engaged in cutting vegetables to prepare food for the needy. Sannyasa state is not to be entered into by leaving things unfinished. Sannyas is the renunciation of karmas with the expectation of results. Sacrifice is to let go of all fruits of all actions. Both are the same in its essence. Do not discard yajna, tapass, charity and such karmas. If we consider all actions to be yajnas (auspicious undertakings) is there anything to be discarded? When we realize in the wisdom of Isavasyam idam sarvvam (everything is the abode of Lord) that there is nothing that can be claimed as ours, what is there to be sacrificed? All obligatory yajnas and tapass are to be undertaken without any attached desires for results. Karmas are to be executed just as the birds fly about in the sky- without making any marks. If not, fruits of those karmas will search and find us as a calf would find its own mother even in the herd of thousand cows.
Those who hate wars do so since there is a battle going on inside of them. Whatever we try to oppose vehemently, it will be present inside of us in its full strength, twice over. Man of equanimity is not opposed to anything. A satvic man does not hate actions that are inauspicious nor does he become entangled in auspicious karmas. Even the intense desire to serve others is also a type of bondage. They hope to achieve and recognition behind such insistence.
One should do all karmas fully accepting that they are to be executed, but do it without affinity towards their results and attachment to the karma itself. He should feel that it is my opportunity to undertake it and I am the chosen to execute it best. Don’t take it as an unpleasant task. It is a rajasic sacrifice to give up karmas that may mete out physical hurt and sorrow. It is not logical to give up obligatory karmas- do not take up sannyas (life of renunciation) discarding your wife and kids. Sacrifices borne out of such ignorance are tamasic in nature. Here the Lord indicates that the bliss enjoyed by a sannyaasi while chanting Om is same as the wisdom and contentment one gets when engaged in cutting vegetables to prepare food for the needy. Sannyasa state is not to be entered into by leaving things unfinished. Sannyas is the renunciation of karmas with the expectation of results. Sacrifice is to let go of all fruits of all actions. Both are the same in its essence. Do not discard yajna, tapass, charity and such karmas. If we consider all actions to be yajnas (auspicious undertakings) is there anything to be discarded? When we realize in the wisdom of Isavasyam idam sarvvam (everything is the abode of Lord) that there is nothing that can be claimed as ours, what is there to be sacrificed? All obligatory yajnas and tapass are to be undertaken without any attached desires for results. Karmas are to be executed just as the birds fly about in the sky- without making any marks. If not, fruits of those karmas will search and find us as a calf would find its own mother even in the herd of thousand cows.
# posted by Sukumar Canada @ 9:08 PM 
