what has Geeta taught me

May 17, 2005

ISN’T IT A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE TO BE ALIVE? IS BEING ALIVE A REALITY OR A PERCEPTION OR A MERE DREAM? IF DREAM THEN IT IS THE ONE WITH OPEN EYES.

LIFE IS A PLEURALITY IN SINGULARITY BRACKETED IN A MYTH WHICH IS BODY WHICH IS A CONGLOMERATION OF FIVE FUNDAMENTALS: EARTH THAT IS DUST; WATER; BREEZE OR VAYU( AS IN SANSKRIT ); LIGHT NOT AS EXPLAINED BY PHYSICS BUT WHAT WE SEE WITH ETHEREAL EYES OPEN OR CLOSED AND SPACE WHICH IS BOUNDLESS. ALL THIS IS ONLY BORROWED MATERIAL. ALL THIS PUT ON THE ANVIL OF TIME WHICH IS TOO ABSTRACT TO BE SEEN AND YET TOO VALUABLE TO BE IGNORED AND WE ALL LIVE OR SO WE FEEL. BUT THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO HAS INHABITED IN TO THIS BODY BUT WHICH DOES NOT HAVE SHACKLES OFTIME. IT IS ETERNAL AND IS ONLY A WITNESS. IT IS WHAT WE SAY AS “AATMA”. THE BODY THAT IS DEGENERATING IS WHAT WE UNDERSTAND IS “ME” . BUT THERE IS SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT DIE SO THE REAL JOURNEY IS PERSUIT OF ME IN ME. OR ELSE HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE WITH OUR DEPARTED DEAR ONES? HOW DO WE REMEMBER AND REMINISCE THEIR PLEASANT MEMORIES. TIME CAN KILL BODY BUT NEVER A SOUL. WE ALL YEARN TO HAVE ETERNITY BUT NEVER PONDER TO REACH THE SUBLIME WHICH IS ONLY ONE OF THE NUMEROUS QUALITIES OF OUR BELOVED MASTER WHO HANDLES FLUTE AND SUDERSHAN CHAKRA WITH SAME SMILE AND MAGNIFICENT EASE.

WE ALL HUMANS HAVE TWO COMPONENTS: IMMENSE RESERVOIR OF KINETIC ENERGY AND THE OTHER CONTROLLER MOTIVATOR AND NAVIGATER. THIS DYNAMISM IS BETTER PUT AS PRAN AND PRAKRITY. WE ALL MORTALS ARE THE SLAVES OF PRAKRITY WHICH IS OUTER LAYER OF OUR SUB CONSCIOUS. WE WERE SENT IN THIS MORTAL WORLD TO MODULATE THIS PRAKRITY BUT WE DO EXACTLY OPPOSITE. WE ALLOWED THIS PRAKRITY TO ENSLAVE OUR SELVES. WE HAVE LOST OUR IDENTITY AND COMPLETELY SURRENDERED TO EVER CHANGING MOODS AND LIFE BECOMES A BUNDLE OF ELATION AND DEPPRESION; ONE DISPLACING THE OTHER.

WE ALL KNOW COIN HAS TWO SIDES. WE ARE ALSO LIKE COINS. OUR TWO SIDES ARE PRAN AND PRAKRITY.NO ONE EXPLAINED IT BETTER THAN SANT MIRABAI. ONCE SHE CAME TO VRINDAVAN AND WENT TO PAY OBEIENCE TO SHRI JEEV GOSWAMI BUT WAS REFUSED DARSHAN BY HIS DISCIPLE, REASON HIS MASTER DOES NOT SEE ANY WOMAN. AT THAT TIME ALL THAT SHE SAID WAS THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW OF ANY MALE OTHER THAN THE GREAT LORD EVER EXISTED; IMPLYING THAT HE AND ONLY HE IS ABOVE PRAKRITY . MIRA HAD LOST HER IDENTITY AND WAS MINGLED INTO THE LORD. EVEN TODAY THE IDOL OF LORD KRIHNA AT DWARIKA IS A WITNESS TO THE FACT THAT MIRA ENTERED THE LORD’S IDOL PHYSICALLY NOT LEAVING ANY TRACE OF FLESH AND BONES.

TO RECOGNISE AND FEEL HIM YOU DON’T NEED BRICKS AND MORTAR TO BUILD A TEMPLE WHICH YOU THINK YOU CAN DESTROY. I AM GOING TO INFINITY BECAUSE I CAME FROM THERE. INFINITY MAY SOUND TO CONVEY SOME THING BEYOND WORDS. WE ALL LIVE IN A WORLD OF OUR CREATION FORGETTING CONVENIENTLY THAT EVERY THING THAT WE SEE AND BELIEVE IS NO REALITY. BUT EVERYBODY DIES YEARNING MORE AND MORE OF SO CALLED LIFE. BECAUSE DESIRE NEVER DIES THE SANATAN DHARM ADOCATES LIFE WITHOUT OBSESSION, OBSESSION WHICH IS ACUTE AND COMPELLING.ALL ASHAKTI WHICH DECIDES YOUR NEXT BIRTH WHICH MEANS AGAIN SAME GRIND. THE ONLY WAY OUT IS OPEN OUR DEAREST SHRIMAD BHAGWAT GITA AND BEHOLD ! EVERY THING HE THINKS AND ACTS IS WITHOUT OBSESSION. FROM THE FLOCK OF COWHERDS HE BECAME THE ALL POWERFUL MONARCH OF A GOLDEN EMPIRE AND THE EASE WITH WICH HE DID ALL. LET US LOVE OUR BELOVED INTIMATELY WITHOUT FEAR OR FERVOUR.

maadhav · May 18, 2005

all capitals is not easy to read.

<< EVERY THING HE THINKS AND ACTS IS WITHOUT OBSESSION. FROM THE FLOCK OF COWHERDS HE BECAME THE ALL POWERFUL MONARCH OF A GOLDEN EMPIRE AND THE EASE WITH WICH HE DID ALL. >>

He (Krishna) was God Himself who came to earth.

He was not an ordinary cowboy human who became a king by following Gita. He aleady was the creator God.

May 18, 2005

I loved the incident of Meera Bai. It is a very profound philosophy very simply said.

May 18, 2005

Regarding above comment:He (Krishna) was God Himself who came to earth.He was not an ordinary cowboy human who became a king by following Gita. He aleady was the creator God.

Krishan came on earth in the form of human to teach us how to live our life. note "with ease" and "without obsession" in the original article. Krishna was there in the "yudh bhumi" as a "Karta" .To Arjun through Geeta, He is leading by example. He is the "Saarthi" of Arjun's chariot. The last few lines in the artcle "what Geeta has taught me" are metaphorical. He DID become an ordinary cowboy to teach us through his leelas and his preachings in Geeta. and by the way he followed what he preached.