Have been making a rather serious and earnest enough attempt to read the Baghavad Gita for quite sometime now.In my attempt to get explanation for the Gita shlokas,one which truly caught my attention was talks by Swami Sandeep Chaitnaya.Thanks to the effort taken by a noble soul to put it all down for the benefit of all.
What impressed me most about the extract of these talks is that: here the war between the Pandavas and Kauravas is compared to the state of our minds.
So in this talk all the innumerable bad qualities in our mind is compared to Kauravas and the good qualities to Pandavas. The conflict that happens in our mind between these qualities is the war of Kurukshetra.
The Gita starts with the shloka:
Dhritrashtra uvaach:
"dharmakhshetre kurukhshetre samvetaa yu-yutsavah
maamakaah paandavaashchaiva kimkurvat sanjaya"
King Drithirashtra asks Sanjaya: In the Kurukshetra battle field known as the dharma bhumi or land of righteousness what are my people and the Pandavas doing??(It is amazing and believable to note here that Sanjaya, sitting right next to Drithirashtra, he could see the exact scene at the battlefield of Kurukshetra).Each one of us must pose this question to ourselves,to our mind:'within me in the land of righteousness did the good qualities in me,do against the bad ones within me??Seems a very relevant question, if only we took time to think I believe.
Swamiji goes on to say that Duryodahana is one who wastes his wealth on useless pursuits and Ducchasana is one who doles out wrong commands.It would be of interest to observe and question ourselves as to what the Pandava qualities in us interested in spiritual pursuits do against these kind of innumerable bad qualities within us?
We have all read and heard of Darwin's theory of evolution 'monkey to man'(vanara to nara).Through Drithirashtra's question Sage Vyasa expounds the complete version of Darwin's evolution theory.Sage Vyasa's philosophy deals with the evolution of 'man to god'(Nara to Narayana).This is indeed the metamorphosis of 'man to man-perfect' or 'Manava to Madhava'. In the evolution cycle Drithirashtra is the 'pupa' stage.Evolved through many many stages man finally reaches the 'butterfly' stage ie 'Sri Krishna'.
If we are to reach this stage we need to constantly observe our thoughts and question ourselves all the time.
Time to wear our thinking caps and start questioning ourselves maybe.......
More on the way....
Jai Guru Dev!!!
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