5.12.2009
FOURTH CHAPTER
Hantatamgyasya dhreerasy khelto bhgleelya I
Na hi sansarvheekermudhe sah samanatah II (1)
True it is, that a self realized person appears to be playing the game of enjoying sense objects but he cannot be compared with those who are attached to these games and identify with them.
Truth is that past reactions of identification with three evolutes of material nature i.e. Goodness, Passion, Ignorance, causes formation of particular embodiment. None can estimate as to from which time a particular self soul has been in cycle of transmigration but one thin is certain that we are not this embodiment. There is no embodiment which is free from three evolutes of material nature.
Lord Krishna says in verse 40 of chapter 18 in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Na tadasti prithviyam va divi deveshu va punahI
Satvamprikritijermuktamydebhisyadsyadtribhirgurhei II (18.40)
None, in the world of Demigods, in ether, or on this earth, is without the effect of three qualities of the material nature.
All creation is three modes oriented.
If one realized embodied soul appears to be doing acts like that one who is ignorant, he cannot be clubbed with such a person as former appears to be undergoing the reactions while latter does all acts identifying with them. While realized one does not have any desire for fruit but ignorant always expects favorable results.
Yatpadam prepsavo deenah shkradya sarvdevtah I
Aho tatra sithito yogi na harshamoupgachhati II (2)
The state for which all demigods including Indra yearn for disconsolately, self realized self soul feels no excitement having found that Supreme state.
Even the demigods having attained high celestial planets and some divine powers also remain dissatisfied in their realms as they desire more and more. They are no different from a man trying accumulation through material acquisition. But desire brings more and more dissatisfaction.
Self Soul is desire less. Realized person has no desire left as this soul is doing all activities as per reactions of nature.
A desire less embodied soul is Braham himself.
Desire less ness is the key for salvation. This is inner state. Nothing has to come from blue sky.
You are life, you are consciousness, you have no desire, you are san every sense and do not require their objects.
Your duty is to keep your body till its falls to destiny and you leave it for freedom from transmigration.
Tajgyasy punyapapbhayam sparsho hiantarna jayate I
Na hi akasho dhumen drishmanaapi sangatee II (3)
Just as space is not touched by smoke, however much it may appear, so realized person who has known himself, is untouched within by good or bad deeds.
Lord Krishna has termed the embodiment as a field and its knower as Himself. In every body there is consciousness which keep the body charged and illuminated. This illuminator is Lord Himself.
Supreme self has infused His Supreme power of divine consciousness in all beings.
Bhutanamasmi chetna (10.22)
(Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta)
You cannot have more than this proof that you are part of almighty.
Lord Krishna declares in verse seven of chapter 15:
Mamevansho jeevloke jeevbhutah sanatanah (15.7)
Self soul in an embodiment is my eternal fragment---
Atamevvedam jagatsarvam gyatam yen mahatmana I
Yadidrachhya vartmanam tam nishedhum kshamet ka II
Aabrahamastamparyantam bhutgrame chaturvidhe I
Vigeyasav hi samarthayamichhaanichhavivarjane II
Atamanam uveam aschitjanati jagdishawaram I
Yadvettib tats kurute na bhayam tasy kutrachit II (4-6)
None can stop from a self realized who has come to know the whole of universe as a spectrum of Supreme self, from living and behaving as per reactions of material nature.
One Self realized soul among all four types of beings, possesses will power to be desire less and renounce even this feat too.
Who percept the innermost consciousness to be Lord, he is not afraid of any eventuality.
Supreme self infused His consciousness in all beings. Otherwise also it is the inanimate creation too is superimposition of Consciousness.
It is Lord Krishna Himself created this universe and by entering into it Himself he is holds it and causes its destruction. He is pervading this entire creation. Lord Krishna says in verse 13 of chapter 13 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Sarvatah parhipadamtatsarvatoakshi shiromukham I
Sarvatah shuritimalloke sarvamavritya tishthti II (13.13)
It has hands and feet on all side, eyes, head, mouth in all directions, and ears all around; for it stands pervading all in the universe.
This is the elaboration of the self.
It is all pervading self without any other.
It is not difficult to know this. But it is rather very difficult to convince yourself about it. On account of ego embodied self soul has become so conditioned that despite having been put in different sketches by the lord, the self soul is still wailing for the relations of this body as that of its own. Such is the force of ego factor.
Even the most learned man falls from the top because of his ego and his identification with it.
Here Lord Krishna has explained the omnipresence of all pervading Lord.
While describing His Material as well as Superior Eternal nature in chapter 7 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta Lord Krishna says:
etatad yonini bhutani sarvarhinitiupdharay I
aham krisanam jagatah parbhavah parlayastatha II (7.6)
Presume all the beings held in the union of these two types of nature and I with these two forms of nature, create and destroy this universe.
What a wonderful phenomena of seeing being coming, staying and finally going to come again in renewed form, But it is very unfortunate that one in human form and blessed with intellect, still failing to realize self.
Embodiment after embodiment by transmigration is resultant.
Life does not cease with an end of body.
World is daily changing its form and new species come into being , old still being subsisting and changing, going and vanishing their form not to come back again in same form.
Mattah partram naanyat kinchitasti dhananjay i
Mayi sarvamidam protam sutremarhigarhaev ii (7/7)
Dhananjaya! There is nothing other than me; I am sewn in all this like beads of thread.
Though the bondage can be shed in twinkling of an eye, but it is still difficult,
Miraculous indeed is the inscrutable three folded power of Lord Krishna!
The lord says that there is nothing except me all around.
I pervade this universe like beads in one length of thread are sewn in that length only.
While beholding beads a wise man can see only thread all around but an ignorant person shall see separate beads without looking at actual thread length.
Such an easy spectrum cannot be realized by ignorant because of power of material nature overpowering them.
Without having inside glimpse of ones own ‘Self’ ignorant sees different shapes and forms emanating from one another.
Ignorant sees difference in the shape of modification.
When embodied self soul sees different color, forms and action of self, it is confused about even its own identity.
Such is the inscrutable power of the qualities of nature that self souls have forgotten their true selves.
in upcoming verses lord is going to further elaborate it.
Identification with material nature in the form of mind body set up binds self soul.
Identification tag put with this mind body set up has been constant cause of bondage.
(Here ends the Fourth Chapter)
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