Thursday, May 31, 2012

Srimad Bhagvad gita verse which changed my orientation of life...




शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः। 
गृहित्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात्॥१५- ८

जैसे वायु गन्ध को ग्रहण कर एक स्थान से दूसरे स्थान पर ले जाता है, उसी प्रकार आत्मा इन इन्द्रियों को ग्रहण कर जिस भी शरीर को प्राप्त करता है वहां ले जाता है।







TRANSLATION
The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas.





  When the Lord takes up this body (he brings in with him the mind and the senses) and in his going forth too (casting away the body) he goes taking them as the wind takes the perfumes from a vase. (sri aurobindo)

 Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another.When and how the mind and senses accompany the jiva or embodied being in the process of transmigration from one body at the time of death to another at the time of conception is clarified by Lord Krishna. The purport is that wherever the jiva departs from a body and whenever it is compelled to accept another body the atma or immortal soul migrating from one body to another, arrives with the subtle forms of the mind and senses in tact to perform their functions through the physical body which has been allotted due to karma or reactions to previous actions. The Supreme Lord clarifies this with the analogy of the wind carrying the scents of flowers to various locations...........1(Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya Kesava Kashmiri)

Here the living entity is described as isvara, the controller of his own body. If he likes, he can change his body to a higher grade, and if he likes he can move to a lower class. Minute independence is there. The change his body undergoes depends upon him. At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. If he has made his consciousness like that of a cat or dog, he is sure to change to a cat's or dog's body. And, if he has fixed his consciousness on godly consciousness,It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body everything is finished. The individual soul is transmigrating from one body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background of his next body. One gets a different body according to karma, and he has to quit this body in due course. It is stated here that the subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle for existence...........2(Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada )





Exactly fifteen months back, my life was like a wooden log drifting on top of the river , After changing my location to this city,  away from my mentor gradually slipped to such a state of mind where I was unaware of myself and the life was like a drifting log, there was no clarity about what i was doing, just floating with the life pace, it was like caught in the midst of a whirl pool. One day i met a character named Archie(name changed), this person make me woke up again , gradually brought back to  the  same wakeful state which was there when i was living with my mentor. While talking to this person there was inner divine call to read Srimad Bhagvad gita, though i was reading it before as on random basis, but i never read it in a stretch or continuously.This time took oath to read it in full and continues.

As the chapters progressed my interest in the gita also increased, as if some thing from within guiding me to understand, the understanding which were alien to me before, started to revealing itself.
Until finally my deep attachment  got broken once i read above verse.As per my oath i have completed the reading of gita but from inside i got struck up here.

On careful reading of the verse there is an understanding developed in me that
The mind and senses accompany the jiva or embodied body, this line was eye opener for me, This can also be understand like what ever i am today, my present life is  the same or the sum total of all my previous birth's, subtle forms of the mind and senses intact to perform their functions through the physical body which has been allotted due to karma or reactions to previous actions. They were not destroyed  that simply means I remain the same  person with same mind , same attitude, same thoughts., If i would have been reprogrammed in that life,could have been in better position?, why am I identifying my self with problems  so much?, Why would I get irritant with some particular person? why would i say to myself am encircled with so many unresolved challenges ? such questions flowed in mind. Answer is in the programmed of our subconscious mind, the same hard disk with different case cover isn't it?,  is it not simply self explaining that the program written there were all the before past living environment got accumulated in one disk,The external up gradation might have happened without changing the program  installed in the same hard disk and ram speed, to new flat screen monitor? Which lead me to the curiosity  to know more about myself from with in? who am i?

That's where i felt its waste of time to seek solutions for my problems from books,people or from any other external source, when the trouble is in my mind why am trying to find solutions outside? Why I shouldn't probe my mind?, and seek solution, after an year am fully confirmed that there are lots of program installed including so many viruses, which has to be removed to take a leap in the life. All my mentor words started revealing in itself.Strive to make better tomorrow than today.

1 comment:

  1. Such a divine secret revealed in simpler words.thanks for the wonderful translation of every word and the meaning.could understand better as its written in simple familiar language.thank you ji.

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