CH 5, Verse 18

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Chapter 5

Verse 18

 

Vidyaa-vinaya-sampanne braahmane gavi hastini /

shuni ch'aiva shvapaake cha panditaah sama-darshinah

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The knowers of the Self look with an equal eye on a

learned Brahmana endowed with humility, a cow, an

elephant, a dog, and a dog-eating outcaste.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 50

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

“The knowers of the Self look with an equal eye on a

learned Brahmana endowed with humility, a cow, an

elephant, a dog, and a dog-eating outcaste.”

 

The self-realized sages obviously see Brahman

everywhere and in everything. All the time they

intuitively behold Brahman. To them, every object in

the world is Brahman and the whole universe is a form

of Brahman. As they see Brahman in a learned Brahmana,

they see it in a cow, an elephant, a dog and an

outcaste.

 

For an ordinary man, everything in this universe looks

different from each other. But the vision of a

self-realized sage is different. He sees the same

reality in everything. His attitude is that of

evenness. For instance, there are different types of

ornaments made of gold like necklaces, bangles,

finger-rings, etc. Although the ornaments are of

different shapes, in essence, they are gold, because

they are made of gold. So the man of knowledge sees

all the ornaments with evenness. He sees the gold in

them and not the forms. In the same way, the pandits,

the learned men of realization, see only Brahman in

all objects in the world and not the forms.

 

 

 

 

 

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