Guest guest Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Hari OM, It is the declaration of the Scriptures that the Eternal Spirit in man ,asserting its false relationships with his body, comes to feel bound by a thousand relationships with the world of things and beings among the outer objects. The same perfect principle-in-life,playing on the field of the mind ,comes to experience the imperfections of the emotional world as its own. The Divine Spark of life,again, as it often is, assuming a false identity with the intellect,comes to sob and suffer for its hopes and desires,its ambitions and ideologies,which are the characteristic preoccupations of the intellect. The Self thus getting reflected in the intellect,body and senses is the ego which is a victim of the world of objects, feelings and ideas. To this ego belongs all the sad destinies of life and the fleeting thrills of acquisition and possession. It is the ego in Arjuna that came to suffer its nuerotic condition, goaded by its own delusion and its instinctive misapprehensions. Lord Krishna knew in his infinte wisdom that misapprehension of Reality can take place only when it is preceeded by a pitiable nonapprehension of Reality. Therefore, in order to cure the very source of Arjuna`s delusion, Lord Krishna advices him the very cream of knowledge as declared in the immortal books of the Hindus: the Upanishads. Bhagawan Srikrishna has commenced His entire Geeta lessons with his attempt at the re-education of Arjuna. Krishna starts His instructions to Arjuna with a direct discourse upon the eternal Reality. He points out that Bhishma and Drona are not merely the body-encasements in which they were now functioning. The inner equipments of both Bhishma and Drona allowed through them a glorious expression of life-principle or the soul in them, and these great men were incomparable due to this divine shine beamed out through them. To consider that the cultural soul of Bhishma and Drona would be wounded and their life would be ended in the war is a mere delusory concept of an uninitiated understanding. By this statement Lord Krishna has indicated to Arjuna the existence of the Self greater than the ego in every embodiment. (to be continued). G.Balasubramanian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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