Bhagavad Gita Summary : Arjuna asked Krishna to explain
what is field, who is the person known of field, what is knowledge, what is
nature and what is living being in it. Krishna explained to Arjuna, the body of
the self is called Field, the person who understand his body and its senses, is
called person who knows the field. The understanding of them is
knowledge. The body has five great elements, egoism, intellect, ten senses and
mind, desire, hatred, pleasure, pain, intelligence, fear, etc and when they
combine with mind they derive all the actions.. The humility, modesty,
forgiveness, service to teacher, purity, steadiness, self control, absence of
attachment to objects, absence of egoism, Clarity in perception of birth-
death- old age-sickness and pain, unattached to affection of son, wife, home and
maintaining equality for desirable and undesirable, constant in self
realization, all of them are called knowledge. The things which are
opposite to this is called ignorance. The one who understand his body and
separate himself with his knowledge is the one, who reaches me.
"Our Life: Have you noticed;
wherever you find a mirror, irrespective of how many times we have seen ourselves
in a day, many of us like to see once again in the mirror!! Check when you are
in office washroom, restaurant, hospital, shopping market, anywhere... If
we take a stock that how much time we spend time in gratifying the bodily
senses, it might be very interesting information for us... We spend lot of time
in external care of the body, the look, the color, skin care, hair growth and
so on ( good for cosmetics seller :)) then we spend time in satisfying the
taste senses , search for food, restaurants, snacks and then physical and
mental satisfaction on through various activities.. Most of us live for the
sake of satisfying the body and its senses and nothing more for us... Do we
ever try to distinguish the body and our self separately?!! Very rare...so when
a pain comes to your body, it heavily impacts your mind and senses, because you
have always given your body the priority... When your senses are not satisfied,
you get wild, your mind goes out of control (example: if you don’t have tasty
food for few days, are not you get wild with family member or service
provider?)... Some people have low confidence, because physically they don’t
appear great, whose mistake is this!! It’s only theirs... Knowledge is
superior, and our mind should constantly work on it, then our body and its
senses take less priority, so that we can control”
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Bhagavad Gita Summary : Krishna told Arjuna, the supreme
power is in every being, it’s smaller and larger, it’s undivided but yet
divided, it’s unmoving but yet moving, it’s the light and also darkness, the
understanding of these phenomenon is knowledge. The nature has all the
materialistic things span across and that's the cause, the living
being with their characters like desire, ego, attachment, senses they
utilize the nature and produce actions, which will result in good/bad,
pleasure/pain, etc. I am the lord as a spectator, a permitter, a enjoyer and a
non-enjoyer, I keep performing my duties without any attachments. The one who
understand these, and performs the action, will never born again. The one can
see supreme lord in all beings and he never destroys the self, because of this
virtue and he reaches god. A man who understand that all desires and actions
are based on this nature and senses, he will attain the supreme god. The one,
who can understand, the body, knowledge of body, nature and living being
characteristics, will be able to cross over and reach the supreme god.
“Our Life: We develop our
knowledge based on the question "Why", and we understand the logic in
the answer and we gain our knowledge. From childhood, this is the technique we
follow to gain our knowledge. Hence most of the time, we need some logic which
we can understand, to qualify an information as knowledge and store in our mind
and work accordingly. However not always we need logic to satisfy ourselves and
act, this is very much true when there is high negative or positive benefit is
involved. In that case, we accept anything without logic. While walking in a
street, someone says, in Next Street there is a street pump which flows lava
(volcano eruption) in to the street and many of them injured, we will not even
go there... Though we might be knowing, there is no possibility of that... Even
when someone said, the gods' idol is drinking milk, we all carried milk... When
someone takes away gods' idol from his mouth, we all see that as god’s blessing...This
very nature of us, runs in the mind and controls the senses. When someone says,
don’t think about a monkey, we think about it... why, because we want to know why?
If they say to you, the moment you think about monkey, you will die...again you
will think.. It’s because fear! ... Fear of change/impact is a major reason to
think adversely...Why do we have fear? Because we like the current position of
us and we don’t want change from it...more than that we are very much attached
to the elements, body, relationship, etc.. so we don’t want change, so fear
creeps in, when fear is there - we don’t need logic, our knowledge breaks... in
that situation, we can act as ill, superstitious, cry and lower our stability.
So we have to keep using the question "why", but when we don’t use
it, it means there is something that we need to take care of it.. At the same
time, we take little information about a logic (which we can understand) and we
store them as knowledge. (Fire will burn! we don’t test it, we just take this
information as knowledge)... So the knowledge have to be complete even about
our body, attachments, senses and everything... If we don’t have it, then
senses (like fear, happiness, etc) will start controlling us, which leads only
to misery.
God's creations and he himself is an Oxymoron or conflicting thing.... unless we understand him, this would be our view point. The smallest atom, when split can destroy a country! The lightest air can uproot any structure! The smallest of a cell, can create a human! And so on, how the sky is clear and visible at a distance, but when you reach there, there is no end to it, that’s how god also! He has no end and no beginning and he is the smallest but the largest, he kept the secrets and knowledge of all secrets in our mind also and in the universe also! Like water he fits in the form you want! It’s up to us to think in the way we want! You think him as a flower; he comes to you as flower! You think him as knife; he comes to you as knife! So it’s up to us (by the way, when i say us, it includes him also, without him, there is no you, i and us!)"
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