Lord Krishna Tells Arjun in Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta that the wise embodied self soul transcends the material world while living in the body by mentally renouncing attachment and identification with reactions of material nature and desire for fruits from them.
Karmajam budhiyuktah hi falam tyakatva manishirhah I
Janambandhvinirmuktah padam gachhantianamayam II (2.51)
Renouncing reactions born out of actions, by complete surrender to Lord, the sages transgress the cycle of birth and death; then go to the eternal planet of Godhead.
The sages completely surrendering unto Lord Krishna renounce all the reactions born out of actions.
By this simple way, these devotees transgress mode of repeatedly coming into being and dying.
They thus attain eternal peace and tranquility. This is not position which can not be achieved by men of ordinary prudence. They can easily attain it by surrender of all actions unto Lord Krishna.
A man is born with tendencies (Sanskaras- fate) that he acquires commensurate with his activities in his past embodiments.
This proves that life itself is eternal.
It never ends, this journey of self soul is always joyful but this foolish self soul identifies itself with those naturally coming actions and desires for their fruits,
This whole universe of relations has been established by the eternal self soul and its material association.
Quantum of attachment of self soul with goodness, passion and ignorance causes the character of a being in next body.
All his actions and thoughts are dictated by those tendencies stored in unconscious mind. One’s character is molded by one’s tendencies.
One act in such a manner that events play as destined. If one develops detachment with this naturally coming action and side by side become desire less for fruit of those actions, one can definitely be assured of going back to home.
In Bhagwad Mahapurana Lord Krishna says:
Devaadhine sharireasmin gurhbhavyen karmarha I Vartmaneabudhastatra kartaasmiti nibadhayate II
(Bhagwad Mahapurana 11.11.10)
Living in the body which is under the sway of resultant past actions, foolish one, on the action done by organs, becomes bound by identifying with them.
To cleanse the attachment, the body, mind, intellect, senses, work out actions with organs indulging in sense objects. Fruit are happiness-sorrow, hot-cold, love-hate etc. having opposite meanings.
The self seated in the embodiment, presumes him to be the doer of act and desires fruit of that act. he is neither doer nor he undergoes the fruit, it is the material nature which prompts body, mind, intellect, senses to act so as to liberate this self soul from embodiment. Living entity in the embodiment is simply a seer of all states. When body is at rest this witness is seer of dreams. In that state too it is merely an onlooker.
But the impact of divine evolutes is so great that the self soul, presuming it to be the doer starts hoping for their fruits whereon he has no right nor has any control over these results.
The embodiment is the store of reactions of past deeds which go on changing every moment. A man with Millions of Dollars goes penniless in a moment and in next minutes; man worth nothing acquires an empire.
One tends to make it a result of fate.
Human beings out of their ‘ego’ are making searches and researches forgetting their real aim of self realization.
By indescribable power of Lord in form of three modules (gunas), the universe exists, vanishes and is still coming into being. All the workmanship of doer, doing and done rests in the material nature in form of three qualities. But self soul assumes doer ship by its identification with material nature in form of mind body set.
Self is neither doer, nor receiver of any action or its fruit.
The Lord is always willing to take him back to home but the self soul is not ready.
How the self, the sustainer of all can be doer?
It is the ‘jeeva’ the individual self who has done an act of attachment only by outer identification with these acts of material nature and thereby binding itself.
It is the mindset which is to be rectified. Salvation is exists right now, just before you, it is to be felt.
But for ignorance, the blissful self is free.
Yogasthah kuru larmarhi sangam tyaktva dhananjay I
Sidhasidhyoh samam bhutva samatavam yog uchayate II (2.48)
Arjun! You should do your prescribed duty with equanimity, with no attachment to success nor failure, this is yoga of equipoise.
Lord advises Arjun to act selflessly without any attachment to success or failure. Since it is the material ego which has
bonded self soul. Out of this ego it has identified itself with body, mind, intellect, senses and sense objects. But when it shines upon the self soul that all this is the cheating game of ‘Maya’ it detaches itself from actions and desire for their fruit. Actions done by body, mind, intellect, senses lose binding effect as they are coming naturally to emancipate the self soul, as a mother cleaning a dirty child by applying soap and water. Nature is graceful depiction of nature, very attractive, fascinating. The self soul has caused dirt of identification thrown at it by itself.
Attachment through simple identification with material nature is the real reason for bondage.
Out of sheer attachment, one develops desire to satisfy senses by acquiring sense objects. All the troubles which an embodied soul faces result from identification. This mischief is committed by mind which is nothing but a bundle of contours of different identifications.
If one is attached to one thing, he may be envious of its opposite. One desires to be happy by acquiring material possession in the farm of wealth, property, material acquisition of different kinds. Thereby he develops relations, but with these possessions, one can not find satisfaction. Selfless discharge of one’s duties gives the most sought mental satisfaction and peace. This reflects awareness. This awareness is show case of our real self.
The Lord has time and again laid emphasis on selflessness of acts. In chapter 4, verse 22 Lords says:
Yadidrchhalabhsantushto dvandvatito vimatsarah I
Samah sidhavsidho ch kritvaapi na nibadhyate II (4.22)
The Karamyogi, who is contented with whatever he gets without effort, free from jealousy, has transcended all opposites like pleasure and pain, joy and grief and is same in success and failure, is not bound by action.
A selfless embodied soul does neither attaches itself to action nor desires its fruit, satisfied with whatever it gets, without making a desire for it, Remains detached to profit and loss, completely satisfied in self , such self soul appearing doing actions does not bind itself in the cycle of transmigration.
In the same chapter Lord in verse 19 says
Yasya sarve samaarmbhah kamsankalapvarjitah I
Gyanaagnidagadhkarmarham tamahu panditam badhah II (4.19)
Whose all undertakings are free from desire and sense of worldly attachments, is termed as sage with all his actions burnt up by the fire of wisdom.
Sage does not mean a person in saffron clothes but who has renounced his desires and attachment with the act coming naturally. His actions become fruitless on account of wisdom.
In verse 24 of chapter 4 Lord says:
Barahmaarparham baraham havirbarhamagno barahamrha hutam I
Barahamev tein gantavyam barhamkaramsamadhina II (4.24)
In practice to see Braham (Supreme Self) every where as a form of sacrifice, Brahma is the spoon (wooden ladle with which oblation is poured in fire) etc; Brahma again is the oblation; Brahma is the fire, sacrificer is Brahma; Braham constitutes the act of pouring oblation into the fire; Brahma is the goal to be reached by him who is absorbed in Brahma.
Every aspect which we come across is nothing but super imposition of supreme self. When there is only self all around, one finds only super imposition of self in shape of different forms. It may be success or failure we are not disturbed. We have to see it direction by Lord Krishna himself. He loves the deprived one most.
We have been there with him, serving him but we decided to become one like him. The material energy of Lord attracted self soul, the fragment of Lord himself. Self soul has to face utter failure in its endeavor. It is better to surrender to Lord.
Love of Lord, complete surrender to him, is the beginning of wisdom. By the advent of this wisdom, one is enabled to find solace even in the most adverse circumstances. By loving Lord we find him an omnipresent phenomenon.
To attain yoga of sameness, we have to love to serve him through his self souls all around us. To seek blessings of Lord and his representative in form of Guru, we have to pray Lord through sincerity of heart and steadfastness. We have not to be alarmed when disaster comes. This is the opportunate time to wait for his blessings. This is the moment one has to cling to him so that we are honored with his grace. It may come in any form, we should accept it.
Whatever happens, accept it as blessing from him. In uncertainties, we have to show best of our humble state. We have to be patient since gold is tested in furnace of fire.
Furnace of humiliation is a test for you. Trust him, and rest assured he will uphold you.
Durerh hivaram karam budhiyogaddhaanjay I
Budhou sharnamanvichh kriparhah falhetvah II (2.49)
Oh winner of wealth, keep the fruitive actions at a distance by yoga of devotion. You should surrender to Lord in that consciousness. Those who want fruit of their labor are miser.
Lord Krishna addressing Arjun as winner of wealth, stresses upon him to sacrifice the actions for which one expect results for own self, by resorting to devotional yoga. By devotion he will be able to see sameness even in adverse circumstances.
By positive thinking one can develop this.
The person having negative thinking is never successful in his life as he always sees wrong side of every happening.
Ego of embodiment leads to false pride.
Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far too selfless service.
Those who want to enjoy the fruit of their work are miser. There is a reason behind this. Doer has no control over the fruit of action.
Liberation may come just now, may be deferred to decades or million of years.
A wailing self soul can do nothing about it.
He may go on indulging in pride but ultimate end of his desire is negative.
If one has no desire and expectation of fruit of natural action, it will neither be binding nor do they generate negative thinking.
Lord Krishna has delivered His eternal message in a very simple and easily understandable dictim:
Budhiyukto jahateeh ubhe sukritdushkrite I
Tasmadyogai yujasva yogah karmsu koshalam II (2.50)
Immersed in yoga of sameness by devotion, you should transcendent both good and bad deeds. Therefore you fight while merged in yoga; yoga is the art of all works.
When one comes to understand that this body itself is the result reactions past attachment with material nature, it is afraid of indulging in more of it, the reactions are coming in form of acts of body, mind, senses, intellect. Self is owner of entire universe which has long been trapped in a prison of material energy. From owner, it has been reduced to the level of deaf and dumb slave of material energy. When it realizes this, then it enlightens upon him that he is not the doer.
When we are talking about realizing self, we are not talking about understanding one’ physiology or one’ psychology alone, rather we are talking about the understanding the fundamentals as to who we are, what is the purpose of this human form?
Lord Buddha did not lack material acquisition when he left his beautiful wife, new born Rahul and well to do Nepal kingdom
When ‘A’ sees himself, he sees himself a body of a person but one must analyze as to how this person happened? When this body was born, it was so small but now it has increased enormously in size as well as volume- but how?
Whether this body was created from outside or inside?
No doubt it was created inside.
Who created this body?
When body was created from inside, it means, the creator is inside this body.
Creator of the ‘person’ is within the body.
Without knowing him you cannot know yourself.
When very source of creation is within, self realization means befriending the creator within.
If this creator is one’s friend then there is no problem in life.
Life as it is bliss but its contamination with material energy has caused dualities of happiness and distress, sorrow and joy and other like dualities.
Feel this witness within you.
Even when your mind is busy in indulgence with tendencies, this onlooker consciousness is witnessing mind.
This is your real identification.
This is your real ‘I’.
This I which is identified with material body is fake, false, frivolous, concocted by your mind and ego of embodiment
Free from good and bed results of past deeds, one can become liberated from the chain of life and birth. This is possible by the blessings of spiritual person having him realized.
This is the peak of your well being and must be attained in this form alone.
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