Bhagavad Gita Summary :After listening to Arjuna, Krishna
has smiled and started speaking those words, which are going to be the
underlying principles for living and non living beings in the world and across
universes. Krishna has told Arjuna, that he is grieving for which, he shouldn’t.
He told, as human changes the dress on daily basis, the soul also changes its
body. The soul which is born in this world with a body, over a period of time,
will leave the body through death, and will again take the new body and will
born.
“Our life: We all know, every day new cells are born and old cells die in our
body. The birth and death takes place in our brain, heart, hand and everywhere.
Yet, we are not aware of! Because it’s taken care by the supreme power! For
many of us, it’s science! (Now if your friend or wife says, that you are not the
same as of yesterday, you can accept with smileJ)"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna went ahead and told Arjuna, the wise man will take pleasure and
pain the same way, the body is perishable can't be protected , but the soul is
imperishable and no one can cause destruction to them.
"Our Life: If a farmer
thinks, he shouldn’t remove a blossoming flower from the plant, he is ignorant,
and the flower will be perished on its own. However the same farmer thinks, the
soul of the plant can be destructed, that’s not possible, because the soul
takes the next birth. Now I have a question, if 10000 years before if the world
had only thousands of human , then only the same count of soul will be there,
but how come today, we have 500 crore people , it means 500 crore souls , how
the new souls came in ?... oops... no... I got the answer, the soul count
includes animals and plants also, we destroyed so many of them, and they are
born among us to teach a lesson to us :)"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna told Arjuna; whoever
thinks that they kill the soul, is ignorant. The soul is not newly created and it’s
never destructed but they attach to a body, based on the attachments they
gained. The soul which has carried the goodness/sins/desire/etc takes the
body/form (animal/plant/human/etc) it deserves , but the soul which never
carries anything, but has only supreme personality of God as goal, will not
born with a body, but will stay with god. The soul can never be
fired/burnt/wetted/cut or be in to any destruction. If this truth, you are only
killing the body and not the soul. For something born here, death is certain.
For something dead here, birth is certain.
It’s like PMBOK/ ISO/ Global standard definition for the term
"Project”: Every project has Start and End :)
"Our Life: Don’t we
know, we will die in some time. Yes we all know, but at least for me it will
not be near, may be for Sam or John or Raghu that could be early!!! , we are happy
to think like this. We always believe that we will live 70 years minimum. Who gave
us the guarantee?!! Ok... let it is... Even having this Guarantee,
what do we do?!!! We want to study engineering or MBA or CA, etc, get a
big salary, buy 1 or 2 houses and pay installments, have 1 or 2
kids, search for schools, run for college seats, pension plan, good four
wheeler, full of loan( when we pay out a loan, we go for next loan) and
son or daughter stays in far away city/country, deposit money in a
senior citizen plan and one day get admitted in hospital !!! (Some of
them think back and feel, they never did what they wanted and they lived such a
poor life) This the life 400 + crore people living and in the past most
of them had similar life... So who are we? do you know , someone who lived in Mumbai(in
Dadar) in some bungalow, 25 years back or someone lived in a palace in Rajasthan
in A.D 1247 ... We don’t know.. We don’t know our purpose of life! But we all
want this body to be there for minimum 70 years with us, to do what? I don’t
say that we have to be a historical personality or a popular person... Do we know,
how many literatures & languages are lost, how many
great people are unknown, do we know anyone who lived 12000 B.C, etc, No ...
Even history and fame also goes away with the time. It’s all about
understanding that this body is not owned by us, and don’t get attached to it,
but only to our soul. That will lead us to a birth-less state,
however it doesn't mean, not to perform the duty, but not to get attached to
worldly things and relationships, beyond a limit (self realized state -where we
can separate as we demand)"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna told Arjuna, the duty of a warrior is to fight and by not
fulfilling his duty he will achieve sin. The world will not appreciate the one,
who has turned down his duty, and people may think because of fear he
left the battle field. By killing these bodies of the greedy one, you will
fulfill you duties and may achieve the rightful position. Krishna went ahead
and told the one who treats pleasure and pain, gain or loss, victory and
defeat, alike will not achieve sin, because he performs his duty and he is not
gaining anything out of the result and he is not bothered on result.
"Our Life: Performing
duty, according to us, limit’s to our family and our job. Most of us don’t bother
anything outside our life. Fulfilling our needs is a part of duty but that's not
all! We don’t give our voice for anything! Sorry, we do... We all talk to our
friends and family about injustice/scam/social needs/changes to make in
country, etc and also we strongly believe that someone will do the job for us
:) (Perhaps we have faith in others, more than self) We go behind popular
social cases, and we take road and we walk with candle light, but we forget to
step in to our next door and stop the discrimination happening there.
We talk about what happens in Srilanka and in Delhi, but we don’t talk and take
action on what happens in the nearby community or street. Beyond this, how many
of us think that we need to keep the environment clean outside our house, how
many of us dare to question a person who is polluting the
society/economy/politics/health/environment, etc... Rare...But we all are
duty conscious... We run for our bus, we run for our work, we run for our
sleep and we run for everything...but only for us and only for what we
need !!!"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna has started speaking about yoga to Arjuna, The one who is
resolute has single mind of determination, the one who is not has his mind
following different branch of thoughts and will be inconclusive and confused.
The Resolute understands that everything here is taken from here and one day he
will need to leave all this and go, also he understands that all the beings
here will change over a period of time and they are destroyable.
"Our Life: Most of us actually are living in simulation more than
real current happening. How much we talk in our mind! How much we talk to
others in our mind! How much we create people and their behaviors in
our mind! We pre-decide about what the other person will talk, when we say
something! We pre-decide what the situation will be when we enter an
office/function/etc. It means we spend huge amount of time in simulation, and
many of them simulate the long future also... They think, what will happen to
their life, what money they would have earned, etc.... Neither they live in
current nor do they live in future. Some simulate the past and think, if this
could have been that way, which would have been nice! The mind lays out
branches for us to travel, but it’s up to us to cut those branches and live in the
present and be determined only about the supreme power or connected to our soul
and perform actions without expectation on result"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna told Arjuna that Veda’s (holy rules) can guide a person to reach the
demi gods (Sun, moon, other forms of gods) and to get good life, however the
one who has attained the Yogic state is not pleased by them nor impressed
by the power it gives. He who is in Yogic state can control the senses and
still be living a normal life. When he meets the supreme power he also loses
the worldly interests and reaches the god without any obstacles. For that yogic
person, Veda’s serve no purpose.
"Our Life: We have
seen, most of us don’t understand Veda’s clearly and their purpose. There are
few, who has learnt Veda’s, but I am not including them here... Most of us do
lot of ceremonies/rituals in our house/temple without knowing the purpose, but
with the belief it’s god's language or ceremony and he will be pleased with
that. We always forget, that solely thinking about him in our mind/heart and
perform our duty, will please him more than anything! But the truth is, we
believe rituals alone will bring peace and harmony to us and our
family. How untrue is this! We also see, there are some VIP's/rich people who
enter in to temple/church/mosque and get high priority for them and get some
good words from priests and they think that god has blessed them. God is equal
for every living being here and no need of any mediator here (the concept of
Guru is different) and the importance given to them is a manual happening and it’s
not from god. The first thing, believe your god is knowledgeable. Don’t think
he can be fooled! Similarly we see some temples/churches/mosques getting high donations;
I am sure more the money comes from Sin and as part of share for the Sin. We
believe god will reduce our punishment, if we give him some share :)"
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna told Arjuna, being in Evenness
in success and failure is called Yoga and yogic state. The one who performs the
actions given to him, without worries/interests in the result,
is actually getting in to the Yogic state. He is not bothered about
the fruitive result and he is in steady state. The one who is self
satisfied for what he is! He is said to be in steady wisdom.
"Our Life: How many of us feel, till date we had very good life
without any hassles, and how many feel, my life is the best! Not
many... we still look at some other's life as best life, we still look at
someone as best person. We still need something else to make us satisfied. If I
remember the movie "castaway", that showed a man who nearly attained
self satisfaction in the island, but that’s more by force of nature and not by
wish. All the materialistic things and living beings will not leave you to be
on your own and they will never make you as self satisfied person on your own.
Just, we need to leave them!!! There are many among us, who can’t live without
phone, who can’t live without TV, who can’t live without friends, who can’t
live without something... Attachment to something, makes us more comfortable
and not letting us to think about who we are? We all are very comfortable, by
not allowing ourselves to know, who we are and what we are doing... We need
more internal control, to start thinking about ourselves...Sit somewhere
quietly and think who you are... again don’t think, what Sam and Raghu does to your
life and don’t think how your wife/son/parents behaves with you... it should be
only you! There is nothing beautiful than you in god's creation and there is
nothing holier than you in god's creation!”
Bhagavad Gita Summary :Krishna went ahead and told Arjuna, when we are subjected to
senses and allow them to dominate, the attachments come, from the attachments
we get desire , from unfulfilled desire/broken desire the anger comes, from
anger the delusion comes, from delusion we get confusion in memory and we lose
reasoning and that leads to ruining.
In that chain of speech, I can remember holy Buddha stating similar
words....by the way; all these are more or less same, because the truth is
single.
“There is no three or four gods in the world, neither so many of them ruling
this world. Its one supreme power, which has created and maintains this
universe and other universes and even the micro organisms. And that supreme
power is Krishna! If you think, this is what I am going to say, I am sorry!
This could be Nabhi or Jesus or any one, but there is a supreme power. Just
because in my region (correlated with religion), we believe in the form of Krishna,
i call him as supreme power, but if am born in Saudi or in Italy, I will call him
differently. Never Krishna has crossed and went to Rome, nor Nabhi went New Zealand,
nor did Jesus go to Vietnam. The religion and rituals are born from
the region and conditions, however it doesn't mean there is no god. There is
one supreme power which is beyond imaginable knowledge and power, which runs
everything. The sad part of human is, unless he understands something, he
believes they are not true. Before Edison, no one knows about electricity, the
older generation would have thought about him as fool, but now electricity is a
subject with few marks...Just because we don’t see something/hear
something/feel something, we can’t say there is nothing... it’s our limitation
.... It’s beyond the current science, its belief... that’s the only way to see
the god!!!”
