21.12.2009
CHAPTER 14
Parkritya shunyachitto yah parmadadbhavbhavabah I
Nidrito bodhit ev ksheerhsansarrho hi sah II (1)
Wise when awakened appears to be asleep like any other ordinary being but even appearing to be indulging in sense objects due to material energy after effect, he actually is detached and free from world.
Whose interest in world has exhausted, whose mind is devoid of attachment but thinks out of inadvertence, he is free from worldly bondage.
Lord Krishna tells Arjun in chapter two of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta
Ya nisha sarvbhutanam tasyam jagriti sanyami I
Yasyam jagriti bhutani sa nisha pashayato muneh II(2.69)
The night, which beings sleep, the self-controlled keeps awakening and when the beings are awake, that seems to be night to the awakened one.
There is distinction of materialistic and spiritual approach. The worldly people consider material prosperity as sole achievement of life. This is day time for them. They work hard to attain this acquisition of wealth, property and establishing relations with worldly people. But they keep away from attaining ‘Self Realization’ and it is night for these materially engrossed persons.
In comparison to this an introspective enlightened person, these material properties are nothing to comparison to spiritual accomplishment. He not only realizes himself, he makes others too awakened. Attachment and identification of self soul with material energy and accumulation of wealth has caused bondage of self and embodied it with unending cycle of transmigration.
Self Realization that this self awareness which is spotless and pure; the wise man keeps meditating on Lord Krishna the Supreme Self and conducts all actions of during the period of present embodiment selflessly and preferably for the benefit of others.
Thus the materialism becomes immaterial for those on the path of spirituality and this becomes vise versa for person longing for material accumulation.
Material possession causes theft, injury to others, falsehood, haughtiness, dissension, amenity, distrust, competition, and causes indulgence in all kind of vices.
Those desirous of well being distance the evil of materialism.
Brothers, wives, fathers, and friends, who are very near and dear to the heart, turn foes for a negligent sum of money. Even the least sum of amount upset them and inflames their anger, so much so that they immediately part their company, all cordiality abandoned; they rival and even kill one another.
The wise thinks otherwise. Attaining this human body which even demigods covet, who disregard it mars their own interest, meet an evil end.
If one is daring enough to throw all prejudices and be prepared to accept whatever he may discover, the absolute truth is revealed to him in due course of time, and he is sure to enter an eternal life, full of bliss, and full of knowledge.
True and simple person do attain the absolute truth by complete surrender to Lord Krishna.
kva dhanani kva mitrarhi kva me vishaydasyavah I
Kva shastram kva ch vigyanam yada me galita spiriha II (2)
When I have left no desire, what for I should require money or friends, or what concern I have got with these robbers sense objects?
I have absolutely no use for these Holy Scriptures or knowledge.
Lord Krishna says in chapter two verse 71 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Vihaye kamanayah
sarvanpumanshcharti nisprihah i
nirmamo nirahankarah
sa shantimadhigachhati ii (2.71)
Leaving all desires, a person acts selflessly, without any sense of possession, egoless, attains perfect peace.
This verse is the crux of this entire text of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta. How one can become desire less. One when tries to force desire less ness, he rather entangles himself in mere frustration. But when attachment and identification to actions are diverted to Lord Krishna, one tends to liberate himself from the bondage of transmigration.
When a person frees himself from desires, has no sense of proprietorship of material belongings, body, mind, intellect, senses and sense objects, he feels the peace of mind within himself.
Apoorymarhamachalpartitham
Samudramapah parvishanti yadvad I
Tadvadkama yam parvishanti sarve
Sa shantimapnoti na kamkami II (2.70)
As in, always filled, steadily situated Ocean, the entering water do not cause any disturbance, so to the person of steady mind, the rising desires do not cause any disturbance, but who wishes to satisfy the continuously rising desires never attains peace.
However, a person devoted to Lord Krishna and percepting Lord everywhere and in every thing, stops craving for material sense gratification. It does not mean that this person is doing nothing. As long as this material body exists, it requires limited satiation of sense urges..
Vigyate sakshi purushe paramatmani cheshvare I
Nerashye bandhmokshe ch na chinta muktye mam II (3)
The Supreme Self or Lord and witness Self Soul are not different, I have lost my faith in bondage or liberty and then how can I worry about my liberation.
While living in embodiment the self soul gets to know its real identity as awareness, then it is neither eager to know if it is still in bondage or has been liberated since it is always free. It has been presuming itself to be so. By identification, he has been coming in one scene at one time as another performer in other stage. It is the desire of sense gratification has kept the self soul bonded in transmigration.
Attaining desire less ness is not possible by indulgence but by diverting mind and intellect to Lord Krishna, so that these two robbers are reformed to lead one to state of bliss. When this state of bliss
Esha brahami sitithi
parth naenam prapya vimuhatiI
sithitvaasyamantkaleapi
brahamnirvarhamrichhati (2.72)
This Brahmi proposition, even if attained, at the arrival of end of embodiment, the person dying in this state goes to Lord’s eternal home.
The self soul is ever free from all materialism. it is pure transcendent. The body one attains to clear the works of previous bodies which come in form of happiness and distress.
Lord Krishna is divine gardener.
He keeps the self souls trim and fit for his kingdom by a continual pruning process that is why we undergo afflictions and sorrows.
Once one cultivates a divine prospective, things begin to fall in place. One’s life is transformed. This transformation sometimes takes time unlimited, even life in several embodiments but at other time it happens in the twinkling of eye.
Actually self soul is not the doer. when one allows Lord Krishna to take first place in one’s life in a particular body, one finds that he has not only guided one out of wood but has blessed one to guide all other to whether their tormenting, frustrating and altogether adverse circumstances. Even if this brahmi state is attained at the time of death of a body, the self soul attains its real state and goes to the Lord Krishna’s dominion. Eternal bliss Self soul in this unstained for from the three evolutes of material nature, goes to that abode which is free from the fog of loneliness, misfortune, pain and misunderstanding.
Attaining this supreme state of bliss is possible even if one becomes desire less of material accumulation even at the time of departure from a body.
Antravikalpshunyasy bahih savchhandcharirhah I
Bhrataseyev dashastastastadrisha ev janate II (4)
A realized one can understand the inner state of wise one
appearing childish in outwardly. He is not affected by the modes of material nature even while appearing to be acting under them
Who is same in honor or dishonor, same in parties of friends and foes, who has renounced all endeavors, he is said to be transcendental to modes of material nature.
An all kindled soul is undisturbed when wisdom outcome of goodness mode of material nature (satva) endows upon him, activity born out of passion mode (rajas) and stupor created by ignorance mode (tamsa) as he has attained a position sublime to these modes.
He is always conscious of his inner reality.
He is ever alert, being master of senses, desire less, freed from the all three above modes, while waiting for the time of leaving the embodiment and going to his real abode of ‘Brahman’, gets rid of the cause of embodiment itself by transgressing the cycle of birth and death.
(Here ends the chapter 14)
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