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ita Yagna - 108 Days by Br. Sandeep Chaithanya of Chinmaya Posted 27 June 2010 - 11:12 AM Bhagavad Gita Yagnas are classes (lecture series) through which the Gita is explained for the benefit of the common people. H.H. Swami Chinmayananda started the tradition of Gita Yagnas in 1951 and many teachers are continuing it through Chinmaya Mission and other organizations. Guru Sandeep Chaithanya of Chinmaya Mission Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala, India) has been conducting a Gita Yagna for 108 days in Cochin. The following is the translation of the summaries of his daily lectures published in Mathrubhumi News Paper in Kerala. Translation is by A.P. Sukumar. wtopic=47016&st=0&p=1422713&hl=calendar&fromsearch=1& (1 of 72)3/8/2011 4:15:29 PM

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Posted 27 June 2010 - 11:12 AM Bhagavad Gita Yagnas are classes (lecture series) through which the Gita is explained for the benefit of the

common people. H.H. Swami Chinmayananda started the tradition of Gita Yagnas in 1951 and many teachers are continuing it through

Chinmaya Mission and other organizations. Guru Sandeep Chaithanya of Chinmaya Mission Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala, India) has

been conducting a Gita Yagna for 108 days in Cochin. The following is the translation of the summaries of his daily lectures published in

Mathrubhumi News Paper in Kerala. Translation is by A.P. Sukumar.

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Day 001

The war begins when jealousy is born War begins when you make others jealous. This message given by the Sage Vyasa is relevant at all times. The palace of Indraprastha was

constructed by Pandawas with such an opulence so as to excite the human senses (indrias). The architect of demons, Maya built this

palace as a ‘bribe’ to Pandawas in gratitude of saving his life from the forest fire of Khandawa. The palace was built to make others

mesmerized and jealous, surpassing the basic needs of a palace, a place to live. In this palace, Suyodhana (Duryodhana) came as an invited guest. Confused by the illusion and appearance of water on the palace floor,

Suyodhana fell down flat exposing part of his body. As the lady of the house, Panchali (Droupadi) should have helped Suyodhana to get

up, but she laughed at him seeing his misplaced robes and partial nudity. This moment is the seed of Mahabharatha war. Duryodhana

decided in his mind to ridicule Panchali by disrobing her in public. It is this decision that evolved into the great war of Mahabharatha.

More often than not, we build our houses, celebrate festivals and wear special clothes all with the aim to amaze others and make them

jealous. The celebration of our weddings and birthday parties are all full of pomp and show just as Pandawas had their Rajasuyam.

Ultimate result of such celebrations is jealousy and quarrel. Any undertaking must be preceded by calm introspection and meditation as it would enable one to take decisions by discriminating

between righteous and unrighteous actions. There will not be any regrets after such decisions. One should see Bhagavd Gita as a dialogue between Man (Nara) and God (Narayana). GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 2 2. Book is irrelevant once the message is conveyed No book has been written for the sake of ‘writing a book’. The purpose of a book is to impart knowledge. Once the knowledge has been

passed on to the reader, the book is no more relevant as its purpose is served. The purpose of lamp oil is to spread light and the oil will be finished by spreading the light. Books are also like that. Don’t approach

Bhagavad Gita as you approach a regular book. Contents of this book are invocation mantras which are beyond words and letters.

Mantras are to be deliberated in mind in deep introspection. A reader is supposed to realize the purpose of the book by imbibing the

message. Study of sastra is like pole-vault: once you reach the goal you leave the hold on the pole. The pole has a purpose only until the

goal is reached. Bhagavad Gita also must be approached with the pole-vault mentality. There is no use in buying a thick, well-bound copy of Bhagavad

Gita and keeping it safe, well-packed in silk. Bhagavad Gita is the comprehensive summary of all scriptures, giving out the essence of

'knowledge' that is worth knowing. Gita can be imagined as a milking cow born out of all Upanishads put together. Krishna is milking the

cow and Arjuna is the calf. Arjuna keeps on asking questions so that Krishna is able to milk the nectar of Gita, just as the calf would hit the

mother cow’s udder to get the milk to flow. There will always be people of noble nature all over the world who will cherish the nectar of

Gita just as there will be bumble bees around the Lotus flower attracted by its honey. By properly learning Gita, a society that respects higher values can be created. When we see the corruption in politics and other areas,

there is no point in lamenting that “this country is never going to excel”. If every one has the mental resolve that “I will never be part of

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GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 3

3. The war of Kurukshetra is the dharma/adharma conflict in the individual mind. Bhagavad Gita guides us in developing introspection within our mind in recognizing righteous and unrighteous thoughts. Gita should not

be approached on the basis of mere history and geography. If we observe closely in the light of scriptural knowledge, we can realize that

the war of Kurukshetra is happening subtly in our own mind. Gita starts with the word “dharma” and ends with the word “mama”. Study

of Gita must be an inquiry into “mama dharma- my dharma”. Then we can find the characters of Mahabharatha within in ourselves. The

blind king Dhritarashtra represents the mind that refuses to see things properly. A flower can be observed in different ways. Some may

look at it as an object to make money by selling it. For a poet, seeing a flower may open up a beautiful world of imagination. The ‘dhritarashtra’ state in people has polluted the whole of Kerala. When the Panmana Ashram and the Bishop house at Neyyattinkara

were attacked, there were huge protests all over Kerala. But when a baby was infected recently with aids virus due to the incompetence of

the government blood bank, no one raised any voice. This mental state - ‘dhritarashtra state’ indicates that the ‘religion’ as it is practiced

now, is hindering the progress of the society. The prevailing ‘dhritarashtra’ state of affairs makes us conclude that we can live peacefully if

there are no temples or churches! GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 4

4. Kaurava- Pandava war is the conflict between the noble and ignoble qualities within us. Kauravas symbolize all the innumerable bad qualities within the individual’s mind whereas Pandavas represent the good qualities which

are few in numbers. Conflict that happens within the mind between these qualities is the war of Kurukshetra. King Dhritarashtra asks Sanjaya: “in the Kurushetra battle field known as the land of righteousness (dharma bhumi), what did my people

and Pandawas do?” Each individual must ask this question within his mind. "Within me, in the land of righteousness, did my good

qualities do anything against the bad ones in me"? That is the relevant question. ‘Dhuryodhana’ represents any one who wastes his wealth in useless pursuits and ‘Dussasana’ is some one who doles out wrong

commands. One should question himself - "what did my Pandawa qualities, interested in spiritual pursuits, do against these kinds of

innumerable bad qualities within me"? Through Dhritarashtra’s question, Sage Vyasa is expounding the complete version of Darwin’s theory of evolution. WhileDarwin’s theory

propounded the evolution of ‘monkey to man’ (vanara to Nara). 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’ - ‘manava to madhava’. In the evolution cycle of man, Dritarashtra is in the 'pupa' stage. Evolved through the Sanjaya and Arjuna stages, man finally reaches the

butterfly state– i.e., Sri Krishna. In order to realize this, one should ask Dritarashtra's questions continuously within oneself. GITA 108 DAYA - DAY 5

5. Ego is the 'Duryodhana' state of mind. Every one of us, when expressing ego, we are showing the Duryodhana state of mind. Symptoms of this include trying to be a ‘big shot’

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everywhere, speaking with spite and giving out commands to people who deserve respect. In the first chapter of Gita, Duryodhana’s dialogue with his teacher Drona is an example of this arrogance. He is telling “have a look at the

army of Pandavas led by Drishtadhyumna who is the son of your arch rival". This dialogue is aimed at enflaming rage in Drona.

Duryodhana shows the audacity of introducing his own army to his perceptor. “In my army also, there are noble people such as yourselves

and Bhishma”, so says Duryodhana. Bhishma represents the fear in man and Drona the state of duality. This nature of seeing things in

‘twos’, is the root cause of fear and confusion. The fear of death is the greatest of all and this fear is primordial as the great grand father

Bhishma himself. Only a ‘shikhandi’ can win over Bhishma – a shikhandi is some one who has cut his locks of hair (sikha). The locks of hair represent the relationships of oneself to the world. Cutting the sikha is done when one becomes a monk and it

symbolizes his renunciation (samnyasa) of the world. Samnyasa is a state where the notions of dualities do not exist. At that state, there

are no man or woman; brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya or sudra. One can win over the fear of death only with this attitude (samnyasa

bhava). The army of Pandavas symbolizes the noble qualities of truthfulness, conviction, liberation, knowledge, prowess and charity. Their men or

army are all equal to Bhima and Arjuna in their ability. Bhima represents noble action and Arjuna, the straight forward and single pointed

wisdom. Gita illustrates the Pandavas as the noble ones carrying bows and arrows. The mantra of pranava (Om) is the bow. Arrow is the atma-

ones own self. The aim is “Brahmam”- liberation. Once the arrow is shot, the goal and the arrow becomes one and the same. This is the

war of righteousness (dharma yudha). This internal fight is the war described in the Bhagavad Gita and not the war with destructive

weapons. All wars fought with weapons have never been able to provide anyone with righteousness (dharma) or peace (santhi). GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 6

6. Gita advises us to be friends with the universe Everyone should become Viswamitra, a friend of the whole universe. Gita advises us to develop non-enmity towards everybody by seeing

the self in all. Gita does not tell us to shoot an arrow into some one's bosom, but it teaches us to see ourselves in others . ‘Maharatha’ is a warrior who is capable of fighting with ten thousand soldiers at the same time. All can be ‘maharathas’ as everyone can

potentially fight and win over thousands of emotions and thoughts as it is not vice to be under their spell. ‘Dasaratha’ is the one who has

won over the desires as well as senses (ten indriyas) and his kingdom becomes ‘Ayodhya’- the land of peace. Ayodhya is the land where

‘ayodhana’ (war fare) has ceased where the pure consciousness –Sri Rama- takes birth. Sita is the mind. The golden deer steers the mind into the clutches of senses. Rama’s sorrow is the agony of the mind being separated

from the consciousness. The Upanishads declare that the face of truth is concealed with a golden lid. Attracted by the names and forms,

people forget the truth beyond them. It is due to the uninterrupted remembrance of Sri Rama (the pure consciousness) that Sita was able

to stay at the ‘asoka vani’ – the place of no sorrow. Dharma is eternal and the field of actions (kshetra) is perishable. The union of perishable and imperishable is the dhrama kshetram- the

field of righteous actions. The Indian philosophical vision (Bharathiya darsanam) has no founder. The sages were able to ‘see’ the mantras; they didn’t create

them. All those are ‘born’ will die and all that are created will eventually be destroyed. But you cannot destroy anything that was not

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created. No one can pollute scriptures (sastras) and everyone deserves to learn them at anytime. No one is unqualified for this study. However, if

one approaches sastras with preconceived notions, he will not be able to internalize the truth or enjoy the beauty expounded so

profoundly in them. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 7

7. There will be no war if the secret of Karna’s identity was known. If we knew who Karna was, there will be no war- because he is our brother!. But he is in our enemy camp now. If we inquire in to the past

of the person we are trying to annihilate, we will find that he shared the same womb from which we originated. Once we know who our

mother is, there will be no enmity. This is the REAL knowledge. If some one claims that in order to be considered patriotic to India, one

should feel enmity towards Pakistan, it is completely wrong. One can never know the truth through enmity. In fact, everyone in Pakistan

represents Karna, our own brother.

The mighty entry of Krishna and Arjuna accompanied by the royal sounds of panchajayam and devadattam in the battlefield indicates

the birth of the noble human race. The human life is considered nobler than that of other species because of our ability to discriminate.

Other animals instinctively spend their life span in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. Viveka- the ability to discriminate is the ability to

select a course from the choices of 1)doing something, 2) not doing it or 3) doing it in a different way. (kartthum, akartthum, anyathaa

kartthum). Five white horses pulling the chariot in the battlefield represent the sense organs that are extremely pure. The mighty knowledge (bodha)

is sitting in the chariot in the form of Lord Krishna. Even in every child there exists the Lord (Madhava). This chariot is said to have been

gifted by the god of fire (Agni) indicating that the life force emerge from Sun. Sri Krishna had killed a demon by the name Panchajana and got a conch (famed as panchajanyam) he had been hiding. Panchajana lived

his life reveling fully in the realm of five sense organs. Asuras (fallen people, demons) live thinking that sensory perceptions, feelings and

thoughts are true. But the Lord lifts them up from that notion and gives them the noble vision (sudarSanam). When the conch is played,

by controlling the sense organs to extol dharma and uphold righteousness, our life evolves in to a Panchajanyam itself. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 8

8. Environmental decay is human decay Only when the microcosm is well looked after and protected, the macrocosm will provide us with desirable and pleasing experiences.

Everything in the universe has been created by the appropriate combination of the five elements, the space, water, earth, air and fire. Our

ancient teachers knew that if we pollute water in a small stream, that will eventually disturb and pollute all the water bodies of the earth. Abhimanyu (son of Arjuna) is pride and Chakravyooha is this world of actions (karma vyooham). One cannot escape in the battle field if

he sits egotistically in the chariot of his own self. He should know what the proper action is, and the proper way of getting out of action,

indicating that one should learn ways of escaping the world of plurality (samsara). Our voice must be like the sound of Pandava's conch because that symbolizes the extolling of the good qualities in humans. Gita says that

the sound of conch reached Kauravas through its echoes in the sky and shudders of the earth. Noble voices have the power of reaching

even the realms of unknown territories and these sound waves survive beyond the limitations of time and space. If we realize that the self

is not affected by the senses, even our words will have the same power. Such words can remove ignorance and impart solace.

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Often our words create fear and doubt in people and many people disturb peace and tranquility of others by their talk. Everyone must

think whether their words are going to sow the seeds that will remove, or promote ignorance in the listener. The greatest knowledge is to

realize and admit if one doesn't know about something. By expressing authoritative opinions on topics of no (or partial) knowledge, many

people misguide others and create worse situations. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 9

9. Body- the chariot; intellect- the driver and sense organs-the horses Ratha kalpana – the symbolic chariot in Bhagavad Gita is a very powerful metaphor. The chariot is our body itself and our intellect is its

driver. Our mind is the rope and the five sense organs are the five horses pulling the chariot in the battlefield. The horses i.e., the sense

organs travel through the senses. The sum total of the combination of various experiences involving sound, touch, form, taste and smell

constitute life in this world. For example, the horse of ‘ear’ travels through the path of sound. The path of smell is reserved for the nose.

Likewise, each sense organ is associated with its corresponding sense object. In this travel, if we have the intellect as the charioteer, there will be no trouble. But in many a time, the fickle mind will try to take

decisions pretending to be the intellect. We must be able to detect this. Fickle mind is like a monkey, but the intellect is calm and steady

like the mighty monkey, Sri. Hanuman. The flag symbol of the chariot of our body should not be a mere monkey (kapi- always moving),

but it must be the best among monkeys -Hanuman- himself who is steadfast in his resolves. The Gita aims at helping fickle minded individuals to develop the power of determination. If the driver loses his goal of destination, the

sense organs will not behave well. If the charioteer is awakened as Sri Krishna, he will easily cross the ocean of Samsara (the sea of

ephemeral world) to attain VaikunTa, the abode of the Truth. The world hitherto considered as sorrowful will become conducive to our

own nature and attain the state of VaikunTa. Stationed between the two armies, Arjuna critically observes the people with whom he must fight indicating introspection of our own

thoughts and actions. We have to identify early which are the emotions in us to be destroyed and for this a mental war is inevitable. Once

we win over this internal war, we will not ever have to encounter any external wars. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 10

10. Recognize the lust that appears in disguise We have to win the war within us against lust, etc., which are born out of ourselves. The lust can appear itself disguised in different ways

and one should kill it by carefully analyzing its origin. The lust in us will present itself along with various value notions. One person may start helping a widowed neighbor with a fatherly

attitude while assisting and extending security. Another person may help a destitute lady on the street with an attitude of a big brother.

But upon careful analysis, we may recognize that it was the lust that manifested itself in fatherly and brotherly disguise. So we must

observe and analyze our emotions such as sympathy and love to realize where they are leading us. In the war front, Arjuna was seeing five generations of people who are dear to him: grand fathers, fathers, friends and acquaintance of his

age, children and grand children. These are all representatives of different attitudes an individual have in him. We are not ready to end

these attitudes because they are so dear to us and we don’t want to destroy the emotions that are pleasing to us. We may even declare that

“I will seek good fortunes (punya) that come from noble actions - except when that involves destroying my favorite activities because

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they please me”. We should be ready to cut and remove what is not suitable in us. In fact a scuplturer is not adding anything new to make a sculpture. He

merely removes the portions of the stone that are not suitable and thus the stone evolves into a divine, worshipful form. When we kill all

our unsuitable emotions and attitudes, we will also evolve to become worshipful human beings.

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Posted 27 June 2010 - 01:09 PM GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 11

11. Sin is, not knowing oneself ‘Sin’ is basically mis-understanding. That is, assuming ourselves as something else! Likewise, we assume others also as something

different. This misunderstanding constitutes the ‘sin’. According to Vedanta, ignorance is not the state of having no knowledge of anything. It is the state where we know everything, except the

'self', our own true nature! The Lord of the three worlds is none other than the consciousness, ‘I’. The three worlds are the three realms of

experiences- waking, dream & deep sleep. ‘Waking’ state is where we experience the sound, touch, taste, form and smell, that is, the Earth. ‘Dream’ state is like heaven and it is the

imagination of the mind. ‘Deep sleep’ is the state of the nether world–hell- the state in which we feel “I didn’t know a thing”. The questions posed by Arjuna to Krishna are the same as the ones that will be arise within the seeker of self- swaroopa (own nature).

Arjuna doubts whether or not he will be responsible for the annihilation of his clan. Our clan is Manukula –meaning the dynasty of the

people of contemplation and the clan deteriorates when contemplation stops. We can’t even call this state to be that of animals because

they do not entertain vulgar thoughts as humans do. Arjuna says that Kauravas deserve death because they are atha-thayis. Athathayis are those who have been involved in murder, stealing,

etc. Everyone commits atrocities such as this atleast in their mind due to the influence of lust, greed, etc.

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So they deserve death penalty! To ‘kill’ lust is, to ensure that it won’t rise up again. If lust and greed took birth in our mind, we must ‘kill’

them as soon as possible. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 12

12. Parents duty is Jambhava Dhrama Our words must be inspirational; for which we should adopt Jambhava dharma. We must recognize the latent possibilities in others to

remind and "wake" them up to achieve greatness. Instead, many people are engaged in "Salya dharma"- Salya, the charioteer of Karna had been telling him discouraging words. Those

words were capable of destroying all the possibilities in Karna. Whereas Sri Krishna's approach is a great model that we all can follow

when talking to youngsters and children. He never denigrated Arjuna, when took a wrong decision, but He created a doubt in Arjuna

regarding the wrongful decision and made him think. Hearing from some one "you are a smart fellow, so why don't you review whether your decision is becoming of you or not" will create a

totally different result from that of hearing "you are an ass-I knew you are only capable of this kind of stupidity". If we don't express great expectations on our children, who else will? So trust them fully. Give them the confidence and courage that "I am

with you" and as Sri Krishna did, give words of solace and compassion. Arjuna's doubt is - which is nobler?- to win over Kauravas or to be won over by them? Symbolically, are we to win over our hundreds of

emotions or should we succumb to them? We fear that we may have to forgo many things. Lord Krishna is advising Arjuna and who is

Lord? He who knows the secret of reality and the secret of dissolution is known as the Lord. Prosperity, dhrama, fame, nobility,

dispassion, and salvation are the "bhagas" ("qualities") present in Bhagavan. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 13

13. Sorrow and knowledge cannot co-exist Every one of us, like Arjuna, lament about things that are not worth worrying about; but we speak lofty ideas as if we are wise. Knowledge

and sorrow do not belong together. Lord Krishna tells that wise people do not lament about the living or the dead. Our selfishness and ignorance manifest as sorrow. The underlying cause for sorrow is either due to our freedom getting curtailed or when

our desires don't get fulfilled. Death is the biggest sorrow. The biggest ignorance is that man thinks he is permanent here. Interestingly, his 'knowledge' is also that I am permanent here. Do not

think that me the body is permanent; but do understand that the energy (chaithanya) that is beyond the body has no decay or death. Dead body is the physical entity that is shrouded by by the cloud of ignorance. Christ resurrects Lazar from the dead by awakening the

true knowledge in him. Sorrows are caused by distress and desires and those who loose their power of discrimination will forgo their

duties (swa-dharma). Even when one takes up swa-dhrama without the true knowledge, it will be with the desire for the fruits of action.

Also, he will be assuming the 'doership'. Obviously, Arjuna uses the words 'I' and 'me' out of ignorance. One should strive to be free from the shackles of relations and relationships. The land and wealth we amass here in thtemporaryare

temperory but we will attain perpetual solace and happiness when we realize the 'permanent'.

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GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 14

14. Be a good host to your emotions We should behave with equipoise when dealing with sense organs and subjects that are sensual. All the dualities such as hot-cold;

happiness-sorrow and loss-gains, etc., come and go as they cannot be permanent. Don’t get identified with them; but be a good host to

them. We should be like mirrors. If a ‘miss universe’ or an ugly person comes in front of it, it will not capture any image for it to keep and enjoy

later. It will reflect and show the true image well. Whatever stays stationary amidst actions, whatever is changeless in the world of change

and whatever exists as a witness to all experiences, it is the true spirit, energy or chaithanya. He who realizes this ‘knows’ immortality. Those who are swayed by the happiness and sorrow of the sensory perceptions do not deserve to know immortality. This doesn’t mean

that one should be sorrowful when feeling happy! Recognize the happy state of the mind; but internalizing such emotions must come out

of courageous choices, not from helplessness. ‘Unreal’ things cannot have a permanent existence and those which are ‘real’ cannot be destroyed ever. Gita declares that whatever is

omnipresent in the universe is something that cannot be destroyed. God is not in any objects nor objects are in God; but everything is God. When we realize that a bubble is not ‘really’ a bubble, rather it is water in a different form, the root ‘cause’ of the sea itself, the notion of

‘bubble-ness’ vanishes. When we see the bubble as ‘real’, there will be birth, death and sorrow. When a potter makes a pot, there is a pot

in his mind as imagination, there is an evolution happening to the clay through his action and the resulting stuff has a name too - a pot.

But these three are ‘unreal’; clay alone is ‘real’. But the body changes and decays - the ‘boy’ dies to become a ‘youth’. The ‘young man’ dies to become ‘an old man’. If we act knowing the

truth that the body decays, but not the spirit, it becomes a noble action (yagna). Without this knowledge, an action becomes a battle. I cannot kill anyone; nor can I be killed by anyone. Actions by those who know this truth are done not by the limited individual in him,

but by the universal energy. This is really non-violence in practice. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 15

15. Death is like discarding old clothes and wearing the new. The self (atman) has no birth or death and ultimate Truth cannot cease to exist after existing for a while. It has no birth or death and it is

ever-present. It has no modifications such as growth or decay. When a body is killed, the self is not killed with it. When the body is injured, the self is not injured. So what is death? In fact it is like

wearing new clothes by discarding the old ones. Just as man disposes off his old worn out clothes to wear the news ones, the indweller of

the body, the self (atman), discards the old body and accepts a new one. If one knows that the Atman has no birth, death, decay or modifications; and it cannot be destroyed, can he ‘kill’ any one? Who would he

kill? Those who do not know this becomes a ‘killer’ as the thought of ‘me and mine’ itself is murder. Viloence is the notion of ‘I’ ness and

‘my’ ness. When we ‘count’ our friends, we are already counting our enemies as well. There are no friends or foes for those who have realized the

Truth. Truth is the unlimited Brahman that is beyond time and space. When we get closer to the nature around us, we will get a better

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picture of our own true nature. “I am the nature and nature itself is God”. It is more prudent to take care of plants and trees than to visit temples. Don’t use an axe on the God Narayana, who is right in front of you

manifested as a tree. In the Paulo Koylo’s story, a shephered started inquiring into his own nature and finally got evolved in to the nature itself. Likewise, we all

must go back to our roots through meditation, reaching back to our mother’s womb, to our father, and to the mother earth. Thus we

become integral part of this universe. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 16

16. When thoughts cease, life begins The self (Atman) cannot be known by sense organs and it is beyond any imagination. It cannot be swayed by emotions either. So our life

becomes meaningful not by thinking, but by living our lives meaningfully. When all thoughts end, life begins. Atman is the founding substratum and essence of the universe. This is not the ‘soul’ referred to in poems. You cannot injure Atman nor

set it to fire. It cannot be dampened by water and it cannot be worn out thin by wind. It exists everywhere and it is permanent. It is immovable and eternal. Even if one imagines that the Atman takes birth and dies everyday,

the Lord reminds Arjuna that he has no right to lament. If one takes birth, death is inevitable! Likewise, if one dies, to take birth again is

also an inevitable consequence. This problem is not something that can be ‘solved’ and so also, there is no reason to lament. Sorrow is born out of ignorance and no one gets stronger by lamenting and it is tiresome to the body. If one is sorrowful, it will make the

people around him miserable by affecting their thoughts and emotions and eventually draining their energy. Imagine our body as a pot and the self (Atman), the air inside. For an observer, the air in the pot appears to be limited by the size and

shape of the pot. Although the pot can be moved anywhere, the air inside or outside is not modified in any way. Even if the pot breaks,

nothing happens to the air. Even the notion of ‘inside air’ getting dissolved in the ‘outside air’ is also a mere imagination. The pot is gone-

that’s all there it is- and death is just like breaking the pot. Atman does not take birth, live, change, grow, decay or die. It is not subject to

any modification at all. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 17

17. Gita makes us talk to ourselves Gita makes us capable of having a conversation within ourselves. The human mind is to be imagined as Arjuna and the consciousness as the Lord Krishna. Consider the senses as Duryodhana. The Lord

reminds that if we deviate from our duties (karmas) Duryodhana (senses) will defeat Arjuna’s body. The Lord is inviting Arjuna, the

unsettled mind, to the realm of consciousness. If we succumb to Duryodhana’s influence, it will lead to adharma (unrighteousness) and

end up in sins. Sin is basically a mis-understading. Misunderstanding is the feeling that you are in the right even while indulging in

unrighteous acts. In this context, everyone has to fight the battle within. In order to create communal harmony, no amounts of pretending or fancy dressing will help. Instead, if we learn the scriptures of all

religions and find similarities in the various visions, communal harmony will prevail. Just by attending and enjoying a Christmas party at

a Christian friend’s home, you will not create communal harmony!. Likewise, there is no use in sending your non-Hindu friends some

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special Onam dishes as a return gift. It is foolish to create communal harmony by dressing children as swamis, maulavies and priests and

making them walk in the hot sun as a procession. Instead of these fancy dresses, if we try to study and understand Gita, Bible and Quaran,

we will have real harmony amongst the people practicing these religions. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 18

18. Withdrawing from self-inquiry is a fall Self-inquiry into the Truth is everyone’s duty and withdrawing from it is a fall. World will laugh at people who run away from their duty. Karma (action) is to know ourselves (self-enquiry) and it is like a white cloth where the stains can be seen vividly. If the inquiry is truthful,

one doesn’t have to give up anything. The notion that one needs to give up all relations and activities in this world to gain true knowledge

is false. None of your Karmas are relevant for you in knowing sasthras (scriptural knowledge). What you have done or haven’t done also is

irrelevant. You cannot stop anyone from pursuing this inquiry as it is everybody’s right to do so. But we do not have the right to judge

anyone. Adi Sankaracharya says: let a person be a yogi (spiritualist) or a bhogi (materialist) or let him be a person living with a family and

other relations or living alone, he will enjoy bliss only if he is interested in pursuing the inquiry in to knowing the absolute Truth. But

the contemplation in seeking the ultimate Truth must not be related to achieving some desirable results such as getting married, getting a

job or getting cured from a disease, etc. If we inquire in that fashion, we will not reach anywhere near the goal. If one seeks experiences

while carrying the baggage of desires, perfection will not be attained as the desires will persist and no experience will be gained. One

should be able to see this independently, standing apart from oneself. Lord Krishna warns Arjuna that if he runs away from his duties, the world will call him a coward. Certain people are afraid of coming into

the world of spirituality-they are afraid that they may become ‘better’. It is the fear to give up those 'bad things' in life that are currently

giving us physical pleasures that we crave for. Don’t think that we will all ‘become better’ by learning the Bhagavad-Gita. We are all basically good even without learning Gita. We are all

different and capable of thinking, but by listening, seeing or thinking, no one will get spiritual awareness. One cannot define spirituality,

but Gita is a scientific scripture that elevates us transcending the realms of the mind. A finger that points to a sandal wood tree is not the

tree itself. Like wise, a scripture is only a sign post. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 19

19. Lust leads to death When the mind is deluded by desires and when it is longing for materialistic happiness, man falls in the grip of lust and ultimately it leads

to his death. When desires preside over our mind, the intellect cannot be steadfast in its function. Some people foolishly believe that

heaven is where all the desires get fulfilled. Those who borrow money to live lavishly with pomp and show fall in this category. They will

borrow money from all the possible avenues, but at the end commit suicide as they are unable to repay the loans. People of Kerala are

being succumbed to such a life style lately. We have to pursue our duties without attachment to anyone or anything. When we can do this properly, we will enjoy the heavenly bliss.

When we avoid doing our duties, that will result in conflicts. So it is proper to face and complete our duties with detachment. Pairs of

opposites such as win/defeat, loss/gain or pleasure/pain must not be the basis of our karmas (actions). If we get involved in karmas with

the attitude of being an instrument of action, we will not be anxious about their results.

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20. Act well; do not wish for results The duty of an individual is to perform his actions well; but without 'wishing' for their results. An action performed with the wish of

attaining favorable results will lead ultimately to disappointment. A person can decide how an action should be done; but its result is not within his control. If we expect desirable results over things

beyond our control, we will be affected by anxiety and disappointment. When the mind revels in expectations and wishful thinking, the

action will not get the attention it requires to do it well and doubts will rise. This leads to incomplete actions and such actions will not

bear results. If we cut the ripened jackfruit after smearing our hands with oil, the jackfruit glue will not stick to our hands. Likewise, if we smear the oil

of ‘knowledge’ and act in the world, we will not get attached to anything. Reason to do an action must be ‘chitta suddhi’ (cleansing of mind) and not ‘vastu-siddhi’ (attaining material gain). All actions must be

done with an attitude of surrender to the Lord and such an action is a ‘karma-yoga’. One should not carry out an action aiming at a

particular result nor should one be disinterested in doing any work. Nature and men who live in it are constituted by the three ‘gunas’ (characteristics) – sattvic (noble); rajasic (active); and tamasic

(inactive, dull). In an individual, these qualities are present in various proportions at a given moment. When one of these qualities

becomes predominant, that will be manifested in the person’s behavior. One should strive to achieve a level of nobility that transcends

these three gunas. One can reach that state by realizing the Self where the notions of differences do not exist. At this stage, the person

imbibes the essence of ‘karma-yoga’.

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21. Act with complete understanding A person doing anything must be fully knowledgeable of the action he is performing. For such a person, is ignoble to do an action

accompanied by a wish for its result. Lord Krishna advises Arjuna that he must surrender to the intellect and not to the mind in deciding

on a course of action. When the mind and intellect are working in unison, one becomes a “samadarshi” (the one who has equanimity in

his vision). All action must be done with full sincerity, in a mood of contemplation and prayer. Our hands and feet must work with the complete

awareness of the action performed. Thoughts of inaction must not enter our mind as an option, because negative thoughts can never

initiate ultimate changes in a man’s life. Human minds have become numb by hearing too many “don’ts” from everywhere. For those who perform their actions with equanimity, there are no 'good' or 'bad' karmas. He doesn’t belong to the group of sinners or

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that of virtues. One must strive for the ‘karma-yoga’ that transcends both. Yoga in karma is essentially the auspiciousness and

attentiveness in the action performed. Those who are keenly intelligent reject the fruits of action and stay free from the birth-death bondages. They attain a sorrow-less state

where there are no obstacles. In the hymn -santhi mantra- we pray not for a sorrow-free life, but to attain a mental state that surpass

life’s sorrows. The path to complete freedom is achieved by getting rid of attachment to everything like a yogi, identifying himself with nothing. It is the

state where you are equally at peace in gain or lose. Attachment is the glue that binds us with various things and most of our relations are

born out of selfishness. For example, attachment to son is our wish that he should become ‘this or that’. He should achieve something

which we couldn’t in our life- and we should reap the benefit by achieving that. Many a times, we disguise our selfishness with better

sounding words such as ‘duty’, ‘love’ and ‘responsibility’, etc. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 22

22. Accept others in full We must accept others in full and we must not have any enemies. If I realize that the universe itself is ‘me’, why should I compete or

quarrel with ‘others’? We have to treat an individual as a person who is beyond all criticisms, although his actions may be criticized. A sage (Muni) is the one who is devoid of anger, fear and desire. When desires disappear, man becomes silent (mouni). ‘Muni’ is the one

who is silent, the one who contemplates and the one does not fall prey to futile desires. One should be able to see everything in the nature

as different forms present in a single canvas with all the various shapes, different people, myriad of names and costumes, etc. A man of

steadfast intellect (sthitha prajna) sees himself as one among them. Bhagavan Sri Krishna tells Arjuna, who can be considered a muni. The one who is unperturbed in sorrows and undesirable experiences is

a muni. He is not interested in pleasure and he does not entertain pleasure in memory either. When one is fully devoid of all desires and

mental wanderings and when he revels in himself, he is a sthitha prajna. When the mind revels in outside objects (vishaya), the person is known as “vishayaa-raman”. When his mind revels in himself, he

becomes “athmaa-raman”. Self-enquiry begins when one realizes that happiness is achieved within oneself, by knowing the self. For a

person with self-knowledge, the presence or absence of a thing doesn’t have any effect on him. His intellect is steadfast. Sri Krishna

advises Arjuna that he will become a yogi when his intellect is steadfast. This is achieved by the intellect elevating itself from the

misapprehension of reality through contemplation. All should become yogis, stable as a lamp that doesn’t flicker in wind. We should be

able to overcome desires. Self-enquiry is possible through karma and the liberation (Moksha) is not a posthumous honor. One can be

liberated living in this world by doing his duties without attachment to results. Men of wisdom realize the ultimate by doing actions with

no wishes for results and they do their work whole heartedly and happily. Such works would become an inspiration to do more of the

same. When the mind accepts equanimity as the guiding principle, the work is bound to be pleasant. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 23

23. Learn Renunciation from Sri Krishna We must learn renunciation from Sri Krishna, not from Buddha. Krishna’s renunciation is not by rejecting anything, but by accepting

everything. There is complete acceptance where ‘I’ and ‘me’ are not present. Buddha abandoned his wife and son to embark on spiritual

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enquiry. In the journey within, there should be no difficulty. We should withdraw the senses from their objects of attraction in such a way that

even we should not notice it. It must be effortless like opening of a flower bud. For those who have controlled their senses, their intellect is

firm in their resolves. Sense organs, under the spell of anger, steal the mind of even a hardworking scholar. Sense organs go to their respective sense objects

without us even knowing about it. Even if we sit down in contemplation inside a cave, there will be sense objects (vishaya) dancing in

front of us with their finest glory and beauty to disturb our penance. Here, there is no point in being too stubborn as that can cause nerve

diseases. It is an art to transcend vishayas- it cannot be achieved by fighting them. Most of the austerities can torture our body and mind,

when we undertake them wishing to get something in return. Usually those attempts are in vain. Those who are fasting by forcefully

controlling the urge may be thinking about food all the time. Whatever we want to renunciate that way, our lust for the same will be ten-

fold. A yogi’s renunciation is not like that of a diabetes patient rejecting sugar in his diet. There are desires present in the man who has taken

up hunger strike. A jnaani (wise man) doesn’t run behind sensory pleasure, because he is convinced that they are trivial. As the ultimate

Truth is known to him, a man with his intellect transcended will not have any desires at all. Gita advises us to withdraw our senses from the objects like a tortoise withdrawing its head and limbs. While the tortoise may be doing it

out of fear, the wise man does it out of wisdom. Men with a steadfast intellect direct their senses inward and withdraw them from the

objects. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 24

24. Contemplation is the source of virtues and vices All our actions originate from contemplation and we get what we contemplate upon. We will end up doing our deeds in the same field

where our mind wanders. Nothing in life can be considered an accident. Typically, one would contemplate and decide ahead of time as to how to respond to a

particular situation. The thought process that leads to such conclusions is Dhyana (contemplation or meditation). There are two types of

Dhyanaas –demonic and godly (divine). In demonic contemplation, one would extol materialistic enjoyment (bhoga) as “hiraNyaaya

namaH” – salutations to gold. In divine contemplation, one extols the sacrifice (thyaga) that is Lord NarayaNa. Being constantly thinking about sense objects, we get attached to them. Lust (feeling that I must have ‘it’- a thing or being) is due to

attachment, and when the lust is not fulfilled, our mind becomes furious. In anger, man looses his power of discrimination. In rage, all the

values learned hitherto will be forgotten and intellect ceases to function properly. That is the beginning of complete destruction. One

cannot predict what will happen after that and the person becomes crazy. Culture of the people of a generation takes form through their

thoughts and contemplation. One can say that he is educated only when the knowledge (sasthra) comes to his mind even in adverse circumstances. One can win over

anger if he is reminded of the appropriate knowledge. How can some one get pleasure without peace of mind? Self control is essential and

our mind should not flow hither-thither like a canoe in the windy water. Senses are capable of taking the uncontrolled mind through

various paths. It is not that one should keep fighting the senses rather it is better to transcend the senses. When it is day time, for a Yogi who has controlled his senses, it will be night time and vice versa. When others are attentive to sense

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objects, he will not have any interest in them. He will be fully awake in the spiritual realms when others have no interest in them. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 25

25. Inquire within about the seeker himself Just as the sea is unperturbed by the waters from several rivers gathering in it, a wise man is un-wavered by any amount of desires.

Inquiry must be done within the seeker himself. Truth will not be realized by searching for it in the temples, gurudwaras, monasteries or

churches. You will not find it in all the books of the world. It is present within us. A pilgrimage is a journey seeking our own origin. One should visit forests, oceans and mountains – not just temples. Don’t waste a life

time after booking for a pooja (special worship that are booked years in advance) at a temple – see and enjoy the worship of the nature by

the various movables and immovables present in nature. Now we have placed God in stones, photographs and in the space below the

staircase in our home. Go down to nature and see God there. Whenever man tried to teach about God through temples, all those were futile attempts. When the scriptures were evolved, temples were

not there. It is a pity that a man who does not worry when a river gets polluted would lead a procession in protest if they hear that some

one threw a stone at a temple. A devotee of Lord will never even disturb the nature and the environment in any way. Worshipping a river doesn’t mean that we should

disperse many things in to it, in the name of a pooja. Worship means to know the entity well and to be harmless to it in any way. Through

the lifting of Mount Govardhana and by killing the poisonous snake Kalia (Kaliya mardhana), Sri Krishna demonstrated to us how

worship is to be done. Gita says that when one acts in the world selflessly, with no attachment and desires, he will attain peace by getting in sync with the nature.

Christ also tried to teach people to achieve this internal evolution. External changes are futile and don’t call people with negative names to

inculcate change in them. Just by calling some one a ‘sinner’, all the possibilities in a man can potentially be crushed. No one has the right

to call any one like that. Gita calls every one as Oh! Immaculate one! (anagha, meaning sinless one). Gita advises that running away from

duty is ignoble. Even the smallest particle – an atom- in the universe is continuously acting (or vibrating). He who gives up his worldly

duties in the name of renunciation, but enjoys the thoughts of sensory pleasures is indeed a fraud. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 26

26. Mind is at work, not the senses One who acts in the world without attachment by controlling his senses with his mental determination is indeed a great person. Even

while his senses are immersed in the working world, he is not entangled by the worldly attachments. When we see the beauty queen of the

universe, we should also see the universal hands that created the beauty in her to complete the vision. As soon as we desire to ‘own’ what

we see, notions of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ will over power our vision and they create division, separation, sorrow and even war. There is no point in dividing duties (Karmas) in to ‘good’ and ‘bad’ actions. Work is worship. One must have the same attitude in cleaning

a bathroom or a prayer room. What we get from the temple is holy water, not mere water. We have temples in order to give us this vision.

A temple is the ultimate in this vision. If one ‘knows’ that a piece of stone is God, is there anything that is not God? If we cannot see holiness in the waters outside the temples, we must question whether it is worth allowing the existence of temples at all.

We must be able to consider whatever we eat as a sacred gift from God (prasadam), not just mere food items obtained from the temple.

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Food is the result of a great cooperative endeavor undertaken by the society. Our works are to be performed as a Yagna because whatever

we do without this attitude will end up in attachment to worldly objects. In order to attain liberation, we must act diligently in the world

without wishing for results. Every one of us has our own duties to perform although nowadays people seem to be paying more attention to

other person’s duties. This will not help anyone. Yagna is to renounce the imperfect to attain perfection and if we realize the truth that no

one can ‘own’ anything permanently, we will have the attitude of renunciation (sanyasa bhavam). In the second chapter, Lord Krishna expounded the ultimate truth. In the next chapter, the Lord explains how this can be practically

applied in life. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 27

27. Enjoy life through sacrifices We should live happily by working in the world by sharing and with an attitude of sacrifice. When we try to keep anything for ourselves

selfishly, there will be conflicts. Delight is in giving – look at the nature, she has created us in the spirit of cooperative sacrifice (yagya).

Yagya is the cow that will provide us generously with what we need in life. It is with this yagya attitude that we prosper. Yagya is a

cooperative endeavor undertaken by people having a common goal. In order to keep ‘me’ as ‘me’, a large number of components in nature work incessantly in unison. So our activities also must be conducive

to enriching our surroundings. Gita says that if we make the gods happy through sacrifices, they will also make us happy. This doesn’t

mean spending huge amounts of money in temple rituals and oblations. Making some one happy means that we don’t disturb the person

and allow him to remain as himself. Who are gods? They are the water of the rivers, the air we breathe and the land we stand on, etc.. If

we don’t pollute our rivers with poison, they will make us happy. With this cooperative approach we can attain the ultimate in prosperity.

Those who enjoy the fruits of nature without returning anything are indeed thieves. That’s why people of old generations planted trees

without fail. Philosophically this can also be interpreted that it is our duty to gift our senses (that provide us with the experience of the

world) the experience of the ultimate divinity (Brahman). Noble people, who enjoy the fruits of cooperative sacrifices by serving the nature without wishing for the results will definitely be

liberated from all sins. But cooking food for one’s own consumption and enjoying it alone is indeed sinful. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 28

28. Commercial mind cannot see Yagya A mind immersed in commercial aspects of everything will not be able to attain the yagya spirit. We see everything with the eye of a seller,

even flowers. Just think about us before the birth. Water, earth, air, sun and the moon did so many things for us to be born. It was

through their unselfish submission that we came in to this world. 'This' is not mine, even this entity ‘me’ is not mine. Universe created me and I belong to the universe. This indeed is yagya. Just saying

‘swaaha!’ after spreading bricks will not constitute yagya. Karma precedes yagya and from yagya comes the rain. Rain is the cause for food

(annam). It is from annam everything has been formed. Annam indeed is the mind. Words are formed with the energy of annam. Karma is born out of Brahman and the Brahman is born out of the imperishable supreme self (param atma). Thus Brahman is founded on

yagya. Life of a person is futile if he doesn’t follow this cycle of karma (karma charka). By knowing this, there isn’t 'anything' to be done to gain

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'something' or there isn’t 'anything' to be missed by not doing 'something'. He is the karma and the result of karma (karma phala). There

is no commercial mind here to give and take. Do not reject whatever the universe has given us, at the same time, do not covet something that the other person has been gifted by the

nature. So, if we continue with our work with diligence, without attachment, we will sure get liberation. ‘How’ we do something is more

important than ‘what’ we do. Make your work a worship. The Lord is not in the matter, nor is the matter in the Lord. EVERYTHING IS LORD. Whatever remains after removing the names and

forms is the Lord, because names and forms conceal the Truth. Except in the supreme self, everything is different and unreal. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 29

29. Our action must be a model to others When we take an action, others must be able to consider it as a model to follow. The people around us are anxiously waiting to imitate us

and our children are growing up by imitating us. We should be able to point and show them a few role models and we should also be able

to set ourselves as examples. Our actions must not create confusion in people’s mind. These days, there is a tendency for many to create confusion in the name of

devotion and spirituality. Because of this, inappropriate rituals and blind faiths are getting popular in life. An imprudent man does his work, but with the lust to achieve something where as the wise man does it with out the lust and such works

will be instrumental in enhancing public prosperity. King Janaka acted in the world for the betterment of his subjects. No amounts of power or wealth were enough to distract him from his

karma yoga. The King doesn’t get involved when Sri. Rama sends Sita to the forest, even though she was his daughter. King Janaka had

the knowledge and discrimination with regard to the appropriate action to be taken - that is why he didn’t interfere with Sri Rama’s action

at that time. We should not take pride in our actions and realize that it is the supreme self at work here and not 'me', the limited self. Instead of pride,

we should cultivate self-awareness. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 30

30. Likes and dislikes are a seeker’s enemies A seeker should never succumb to ‘likes and dislikes’. His duty is to submit everything to the Lord to get the full freedom in his actions. Senses have a tendency to reach out to the subject matter of their nature. The liking we develop due to this is ‘ragam’. Whereas when we

don’t like the sensory experience, that creates ‘dwesham’. We should not be swayed under the conflicts of ‘bad and good’ perceived by the

sense organs. Once we realize that this world and everything in it is the energy and aura of the Lord, all worries due to senses that are extroverts will

cease to exist. Then our mind will fly freely like a kite in the open sky. The thread that controls the kite must be the constant awareness

that “Isaavasam idam sarvam” – that, ‘all that is’, is the Lord and nothing but the Lord. Because of this knowledge ‘likes and dislikes’

brought about by the senses will not have any place in our mind.

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All actions must be submitted unto the Lord and in order to do that we must extinguish the “I”, the ego. When the ego dies, self awareness

dawns. The freedom one gets thus is indeed the liberation- “moksham” itself. When a monk takes ‘samnyaasa’ (renounciation), he does a

ritual commemorating his own death, symbolically annihilating the ego. What is left is the intellect that is capable of self inquiry.

Jealousy is a hindrance in annihilating ego. The best way to overcome jealousy is to develop respect towards the very cause that made you

jealous.

#4 IdiveTTu ShaJi

Posted 27 June 2010 - 04:39 PM GITA 108 DAYS- DAY 31

31. We are not equal; we are incomparable Lord does not declare that we are all equal, but he expounds that we are incomparable!. You, I, and whatever we see are all eternal. They

don’t have a state of non-existence, because the basic nature of everything is existence itself. In the body level, death happens in the same

way as a child transforms through adolescence, youth, middle and old ages. It is just a change of state. Men of courage do not get deluded

in this. Being courageous is, not to do anything with out the full awareness what is being done. Nothing can confuse the mind of a man

who has realized the ephemeral nature of pleasure and pain and developed equanimity towards them. (In Vedanta, man and woman are

synonymous) Gita’s attitude is, “let us enquire first if there is life after birth, then let us see if there is life after death”. Observe everything carefully-

reminiscing about our own childhood or pointing an old photo to say, ‘that is me’, etc., are observing the self from a distance. Bring that

observation to the present time as well -cry if you feel like it and laugh when you feel like laughing. Be ready even to die at any moment

and accept everything as provided by the nature wholeheartedly, without any complaint. A wise man will never even ask the Lord to “take

me away without making me suffer in my death bed”. Ask some one whose legs have been amputated to see if his ‘I’ awareness has been injured. This one example is good enough to see that

this ‘I’ is beyond the body. When a tree is born, it is not the death of a seed, but it is the fulfillment of the seed’s life. In life, we see

continuous transformation of the body. Life not like a train that goes through a fixed track, but it is like the flow of the river Ganges. It

flows through the forests and mountains, making a lot of changes in its path, snaking through valleys and plains, carrying and depositing

a lot of things in the journey. It is true that the body will disintegrate, but it has its own duties (dharma) to fulfill. If those dharma expounded in the Upanishads are to

manifest in me, my senses must be energetic. If one suppresses his senses and deny the existence of his body, he will not be able to follow

dharma as these are mutually compatible. A citizen of Bharath should be able to find bliss through knowledge – not by calling out

“Bharath matha ki Jai” slogan adorning a nice sandal wood paste on his forehead. Gita teaches us to learn to know and suffer without

vengeance. We should be steadfast like a mountain or deep sea. There is no use in visiting temples if we do not know the import of such

pilgrimages. The temple helps me developing self-awareness knowing the symbolic nature of the deity, i.e., it represents the Lord within

me. This is where we belong. If we don’t occupy the rightful place where we should, others will take over the place and that will lead to all

kinds of problems. Sage Vyasa does not ask us to join any side. Gita’s aim is to make us see ourselves and develop further, not to assess or

criticize others.

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GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 32

32. Desires are behind the sins Arjuna’s doubt was that ‘who’ makes everyone commits these horrible sins? Lord Krishna replied that the sins are due to the endless

desires born out of ‘rajo guna’. It is the desire that makes people to commit sinful actions. The Indian philosophy doesn’t preach us to deny desires, but the desires must be in accordance with dharma. If we fulfill certain desires

by the single pointed attention of the mind and the intellect, those will be a blessing to the whole world. Assess all desires –whether they

are dharmic or not. If it is according to dharma, one can earn any amount of wealth or perform any action. If the fulfilling a desire is the

goal, check to see if the way to achieve that is dharmic or not. If we undertake a wrong action to fulfill a desire, it will result in a fall and behind all our sorrows, there is a desire. Desires and rage due to

non-fulfillment of desires are man’s enemies.

Truth has been concealed in different levels - at intellectual, mental and at the sense level. Intellectually, it is like the ash covering the fire.

If we blow a little, we can reveal the fire. Mentally, it is like a dirty mirror. One should work hard to wipe clean the mirror. At the sense

level, it is like the baby in the womb, covered by the skin bag, that only the time can remove. Everyone has the ability and power to

remove the cover and find the truth. We just have to work a little. For a wise man, his prime enemy is the desires that conceal the knowledge of the self. We run after money thinking that it can fulfill our

desires, but these journeys create more afflictions in us. Winning over the senses doesn’t mean that we should suppress the senses

because forceful control of the senses will create more problems and illness. It is about observing everything from a standpoint beyond

the sway of the senses. With that vision, one should annihilate those desires destroying our knowledge and experience. Senses are great indeed. Greater than senses is the mind and the intellect is the greatest of the three. But these three are abodes of desires.

But the noblest of all is the ‘self’ and everyone should know this eternal Truth. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 33

33. It is in our minds that the Lord takes birth The lord’s assurance is that “whenever there is a decline in Dharma, I will take birth”. Adhrama happens not in a particular geographical

area, but it is in the minds of each and every one of us. So also, the Lord takes birth in our minds. The decline of Dharma happens within

an individual’s mind and there the Lord takes birth as consciousness. Lord has no special interest in this earth to take birth physically in a

particular place! The birth of consciousness as a premonition that stops us from taking a wrongful action is none other than the Lord himself. It is the

Dharma bodha (dharma consciousness) that creates mental conflicts when we are about to tell lies, for example. The Lord declared that

He will manifest incessantly to annihilate adharmas and to establish dharma in the world. We are all noble, but our actions may take good

or bad turns. The Lord does not call us sinners or evil, but we are capable of doing evil acts. When we are awakened by the continuous

dharma consciousness, we will naturally stay away from any wrong doings. This is what the Lord does in us - his birth (reincarnation) and

actions are for creating this awareness in us. If we ‘know’ the truth behind the Lord’s incarnations, he will not have any more births. With

this revelation, one comes to realize that “I am not this body” and with this realization, one gets liberated from the birth-death cycle. The

Lord’s weapon is ‘Sudarsana’, meaning ‘auspicious vision’. With this vision, he annihilates all evil tendencies in us.

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The Lord tells us: “I had taught the secrets regarding karma & jnana (action and knowledge) to Sun, and he taught them to Manu. Manu

advised Ishwaku on this, but the knowledge got lost eventually. Now I am declaring it again for your benefit”. Here the Lord is the

consciousness and the consciousness advised the intellect (Sun) and he passed this knowledge to his son, Manu, the mind. The mind

disseminated the secret to the five senses as they are in charge of undertaking actions. Senses are kings, but they lost this knowledge. King

Dritarashtra is the symbol of the king who lost this secret knowledge of yogic wisdom. The conflict between the dharma and adharma happens in our mind. Our body is the field to act out dharma and the root cause of war is

the notion of ‘I’ ness and ‘my’ ness. One should think “what all did I do selflessly in my actions?” Pandawas represent people who do

dharmic actions and stay away from adharmic actions based on their knowledge. Kauravas are those who do not undertake dharmic

actions but choose to undertake adharmic actions despite having appropriate knowledge. In this conflict, people who have prepared their

minds ready to give birth to the Lord (consciousness) will realize the ultimate Truth and they are sure to get liberated. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 34

34. Fear disappears when we are Alert In the contemplative state of meditation we become alert and aware. When we do anything with awareness, there is no fear possible.

From the fear enimity and war are generated-do not approach the Lord with fear. Once we know everything as the One, then there is no

fear towards anything and anyone. In Gita, the Lord explains four kinds of the liberation- salokyam, saameepyam, saroopyam, &

sayoojyam. Salokyam is the state in which we continue to see and experience the Truth without the influence of likes, dislikes & anger.

Sameepyam is where we sit close to the Lord and serve him. There is no point in searching for someone at distant places when he is

already very close. Know that the nature indeed is God. Third one is to attain the form of the Lord- Saaroopyam. Sayoojyam refers to a

state where one becomes one with the Lord. This is the ultimate aim. We are all serving and extolling God with a name and a form, and we will be able to attain the Truth through this as well. Continuous

chanting of the Lord's name will make you forget the name. Any one repeating 'Rama.. Rama' will end up chanting Mara.. Mara..- you

don't need to be a SageValmiki to do that. The one who stays put at Rama..Rama.. is not evolving -he is not improving. In chanting the

Rama mantra, the one pointed attention is to maintain the name intact. But as the name gets upside down, the name and the chanter of

the name become one and the same. There Rama takes birth as consciousness. Similarly when we continuously serve the form of the

Lord, eventually the form disappears and He becomes formless. The word vi-graha (deity) is to mean the entity that enables us to grasp a

greater vision in an auspicious manner. Gita is not meant to be learnt by-heart -verse after verse. It is intended to create a transformation in us. There is no point in serving the

Lord if that is not going to make useful changes in our daily life. Gita provides us with the answers to our doubts in times of mental

conflicts and calamity. Its verses are replies provided by the consciousness (aham) of the total mind of the universe. The Lord blesses his devotees most appropriately and adequately, in the ways they want him to bless them. All our present experiences -

without an exception- are the results of our asking. GITA 108 DAYS DAY 35

35. Who is a Brahmana? What is ‘karma’ and ‘akarma’? The particular verse in the Bhagavad Gita: “chatur varnnyam maya srishTam…” is a highly misunderstood and mis-interpreted one.

Even if one explained it as referring to the four castes - Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra, the question remains – who is a

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brahmana?. “Vasoochokopanishad” is a scripture based on this very question. The life force, body, caste, knowledge, occupation or

righteousness do not make one a brahmana. Every body has one life force and so, that cannot make one a brahmana. All bodies are made up of the five elements and so, the body

cannot give one the title of brahmana. According to scriptures, creatures other than human beings gave birth to even sages. Sage Rishya

Srimga was born from a deer and the Sage Kausika was born from a type of grass. Sage Jambooka was born from a fox and Sage

Agasthya from a pot. These instances tell us that the birth and caste of a person do not have anything to do with his “Brahmana-hood”.

People of all walks of life get educated and do their karmas. They also live righteously. So Brahmana-hood does not depend on them

either. Brahmana is the one who has gone beyond the influences of castes, characteristics (three gunas), karma, thirst, hunger, ageing,

death, birth, growth, depletion, and destruction, etc. and devoid of sorrow, delusion, transformation, etc. He has realized the ultimate –

that is the essence inside and outside of everything like space is; that is the substratum of all; that is of the nature of truth, existence,

consciousness, knowledge and bliss. He is adept in the “science of the self" as one would be fully knowledgeable of the gooseberry held in

one’s own palm. He is at peace with himself. The four-fold classification can also be done based on the work we do for a living-

intellectuals, protectors, business men and service men. One should look at all jobs as virtuous. Take our body- various parts of it can be divided in to four. Head, as the seat of intelligence is Brahmana; the hands that protect us are

Kshatriyas; the thighs that sustain us are Vaisyas; and the legs that support us are Sudras. Here, think of the action of hands massaging

the legs when they get tired after a hard days work! Think also about the lotus feet of the Lord that we prostrate. One can understand

truth in four ways through the senses- smell by nose, effulgence by eyes, air by ears and the dampness through skin. If we put a lamp

inside a pot with a number of holes, people would see and perceive light in the shape of those holes. The light inside the pot is the reason

behind the shape, but the light itself is devoid of any shape. The Lord says- due to the variety of characteristics and forms, I appear in four different ways. I am the 'doer' as well as the 'non-doer' of

this arrangement. This is the meaning of the verse in Bhagavad Gita. The inner consciousness (the Lord) explains to us that, all that are

perceived through the sense organs are created by me; but they are not me. GITA 108 DAYS- DAY 36

36. Vision of Karma and Akarma “Actions do not influence me and so I don’t have any desire in the fruits of actions”. If one realizes himself in this way, he will not get

bound by any actions. There are different types of actions. Actions with no notion of doership, actions with wrong notions (asad bhava

karma) about it and actions with the notion of doership. There are also actions done with the right attitude (sad bhava karmas) of two

kinds – kartthavya and akartthavvya karmas. Last type is the actions that are forbidden (vikarmmas). Those who sees ‘akarmma’ (Brahman) in the universe that is moved by actions, and in that Brahman observes the dynamism of actions is

indeed a wise man. He is a yogi who does his actions in its completeness. Each movement occurs in the universe in the realm of

consciousness which is motionless and in each movement exist the consciousness. Lord Krishna expounds the same thing in a different

way through the verse “chatur varnnyam mayaa srishtam…” When a transparent disc with different colors around it is rotated in front of a light source, lights of different colors fall on the stage. The

light emanating from the bulb is colorless, but colors are created by the colored sheets on the disc. The multitudes of colors are ‘created’

by the bulb, but at the same time, they are ‘not created’ by the bulb. The bulb says: “chatur varnnyam mayaa srishtam….” Likewise, all notions of various characteristics have been created by the Lord (consciousness). He is the ‘doer’ as well as the ‘non-doer’ of

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them. Bhagavad-Gita is not giving legitimacy to any kind of caste systems here. Gita proclaims that one should teach others that which

would free us from all that are inauspicious. But if we practice the caste system as we know now, we will never get liberated. Men of wisdom should burn all their desires in the fire of knowledge. Those who work without wishing for the fruit of actions and without

depending on anything, is not ‘doing’ any actions. When takes up an action with his consciousness as the witness, for the sake of his

body’s existence leaving out all possessiveness and with out any desires, he doesn’t get entangled in the bondage of action (karma bandha) Be contented with whatever comes in your way. Be aware of the dualities of pleasure–pain, happiness-sorrow, and gain-loss, and rise

above their influences. Actions by those who are steadfast and devoid of selfish competitions whether they get something or not, are

indeed a service to the whole world. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 37

37 All actions are worship of the Brahman All actions are worship of the Brahman and therefor are conidered yagna. Yagna is doing an action with no 'doership'. The notion of “I am

submitting “is wrong because in complete submission, there is no ‘I”. Oblation in a yagna is Brahman. The material (haviss) that is placed in the yagna fire is also Brahman. Fire is Brahman and the person

placing the haviss is also Brahman. The ultimate realization and the path to achieve that is also Brahman. The seeker, the sought, the goal

and the methods are all Brahman itself. Whatever we do is Brahman. The Lord is within ourselves, although we seem to seek Him outside.

One should realize the yagna that is taking place inside of us more than the external yagna and oblations that feed the yagna fire. In the

inner yagna, one should burn the fire of self control in order to submit the oblations of sensory desires. Different people conduct yagna in their own unique ways. Some people consider God as the aim and path of yagna and fill their inner self

with godly wealth and thus get rid of demonic impulses. Some others make the yagna itself as the path and the goal. Some control their

senses and others control their mind. Some people submit their thoughts and other sensory activities in the body including the life forces

as oblations in the fire of self control. Some people take up charitable missions and thus submit oblations of materials in yagna. Some

people are engaged in the yagna of contemplation and penance. Some are in the yagna of teaching others and others do yoga as their

yagna. There are people who lead a noble life by controlling their breath (pranayama) and food habits. These widely varying activities are

all intended for the benefit of the world and are bonafide yagnas. All these will help create a better world. Those who eat the remnants of yagna for their sustenance reach the ultimate goal. (All that we enjoy are results of yagnas- even the

movies we watch are ‘yagna sishta’ and we should enjoy all with this awareness.) For those who do not participate in yagna, there is no

world, then how can he get liberated? The different kinds of yagnas are all expounded in the Vedas and they are all borne out of Karmas.

Those who know this will get liberated. So we should do all our actions with the attitude of worshipping Brahman. Karma (action) and

jnana (knowledge) are the two wings of a bird. If one is broken the bird cannot soar and reach its goal. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 38

38. One who believes in God is as good as dead One who believes in God is a dead person. The main problem of the world is that we are all God-believers. In belief there is always doubt!

We must become God inquirers. If we inquire diligently we will understand it. Once you know it, there will be no sin, virtue, pleasure,

pain, mantras, pilgrimage, Vedas, teachers or disciples.

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Those who are diligently attentive, and who has control over his senses gain wisdom. This ‘knowledge’ is capable of imparting ultimate

peace. When you are diligent, there will be questions and inquiries. The diligence comes out of love. Those who are inquisitive about the

ultimate truth, should have the diligence of a mother in inquiring about her infant child. Yagna of knowledge is superior to the material yagna. Owner of material wealth is always fearful of losing it. But all actions end up in

gaining knowledge. Knowledge is indeed freedom and lack of knowledge is dependence. One would get the knowledge by submitting the

ego by full body prostration to the source. A mind thus prepared will be calm and serene and such a mind produces healthy and relevant

questions. With an attitude of reverence and service one must approach the source (place, teacher) where he may be able to gain this knowledge.

Then visionaries will inspire the seeker with the knowledge he is seeking. No one can deny knowledge to a student. Bhagavad Gita accepts

everyone, including the worst sinner. The 'university of Bhagavad Gita' is always open – anyone can come in and go out in complete

freedom. Past actions or mistakes need not hinder this inquiry as even the worst sinner can cross the sea of samsara (confusion, i.e. the sea of the

physical world of plurality) by the boat of knowledge. All ‘actions’ and their effects will be burnt in to ashes in the fire of knowledge. There

is nothing else in the world as sacred as the knowledge. Yogis realize this over time on their own within their self. This is the knowledge of

self and the realization that there is nothing out there other than the self. Finally he comes to realize that even the knowledge he is seeking

is not separate from his own self. There is nobody ‘out there’ sitting ready to make your life better or miserable. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 39

39. See the Sky, not the Clouds A ‘sannyaasi’ (renuncuiate) is one who has attaned that which is eternal and stable. Concepts of ‘permanent’ and ‘non- permanent’ are

like the sky and the clouds. We say that we are looking at the sky, but what we ‘see’ are usually the small clouds only. Then we miss the

‘sky-ness’ altogether. What is steadfast and stable is the ‘I’ in me. Actions and their results, thoughts and emotions, etc. come and go in

‘me’ as the clouds appear and disappear in the sky. Gita advises us not to have hatred towards anything. Everything is God and if we feel hatred towards anything, it is the hatred towards

God. A ‘sannyyasi’ is one who does not hate anything, does not have any desires and he is unwavered by the pairs of opposites such as

gain and loss. He is completely free from all bondages of action. Yoga of knowledge (jnana yoga) and the yoga of action (karma yoga) are essentially one and the same . If we practice either one well, we

will be benefited with the fruits of both. But Sri Krishna reminds Arjuna that ‘karma yoga’ is superior to renunciating karma altogether.

One must do his duties in any case. Those who are not aware of the jnana yoga, will not become a ‘karma yogi’. A ‘jnana yogi’ will not be

able to practice it without being a ‘karma yogi’ either. So Gita advices us to cut asunder the doubts emnating from the ignorance with the

sword of wisdom. A ‘doubter’ perishes. It is those who cannot comprehend the Truth take refuge in ‘believes’. So a believer is always

doubtful. A doubter’s knowledge is incomplete and the doubts emnate from lack of diligence. He will be restless and he will not be able to

enjoy even this world, then what to talk about attaining the ultimate bliss? A sin is basically ignorance and it is a false impression. In the fire of knowledge all sins get burnt into ashes. It is in this process of

incineration that one becomes free from all confinements. A wise teacher (guru) imparts knowledge when a disciple asks with an attitude

of service and reverence. Guru is the one who removes darkness by bringing in the light of knowledge in the disciple.

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40. There is no need to wear special attire to be a sannyasi Gita advises us on the approaches we should take in conducting our day to day activities. Renunciation (Sannyaasa) does not mean that

you are being entrapped in a system. It is a state of being completely free. Sri Krishna never ignored the external world; but internally, He

accepted the One that is worthy of accepting-without the ego. Look at other species in nature- animals for example- they don’t have ego

and so, to be ‘animal’ like is a state above the ‘human’ state as far as the ego is concerned. It is ego that keeps us away from nature. The seeker (yogi) who has the inner knowledge also sees, hears, touches, smells, talks, holds, walks, excretes, breathes, closes his eyes and

sleeps. But he is aware that these actions are done by the sense organs and not by ‘me’. Yogi knows that he is doing everything, but at the

same time, he realizes that it is not ‘me’ who is acting. Gita talks about the renunciation one should achieve within the house holder’s ordinary life. One should do and experience everything; at

the same time he should reject the ‘ownership’ of such actions. Till today we thought of all actions as ours, but now we realize that they are

not so. If there is any change occurring inside, it must be natural, without even us consciously knowing about it. Renunciation

(Sannyaasa) is not suppressing or forcefully rejecting anything in life. It is being able to do and experience everything in life without

getting attached to the results of such actions. Sannyaasa is difficult to achieve without ‘karma yoga’. One attains sannyaasa through proper actions. In order to know that the state of

sannyasa is a ‘friend’ and the goal, one should not limit himself. A house-holder does not become a sannyaasi by wearing saffron colored

robes and rosaries (rudraksha). If the wife adorns saffron clothes and calls her husband “son, come here,” he will not be able to

understand that. A house-holder must execute his duties in their respective roles of a sibling, a husband, a wife and a child without falling

in the trap of attachment. A house-holder goes through many complexities of life and they will benefit the most by practicing sannyasa in

their actions; not the monks sitting in forests or caves. One becomes complete by being a ‘sannyaasi’ and it is everybody’s right to be one.

In this sannyaasa, we are not ‘rejecting’ anything, but we are not ‘accepting’ anything either as our own.

#5 IdiveTTu ShaJi

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41. The Lord did not ‘create’ this world Lord of the universe has no ownership of actions and he is not the one who ‘created’ the world. He doesn’t own the world either. He is not

responsible for the appropriation of actions and their results. Everything works in accordance with their own innate behaviour and

nature. Lord is not the one who sits somewhere and ‘orders’ around to ‘provide’ us with something and ‘makes’ us act. One need not find

him, but should know him from within. So don’t proceed with actions on your own and accuse Him of ‘executing’ them. Those who have controlled their senses mentally renounce all ‘actions’ and thus stay ‘action–less’, even while engaged in various kinds of

activities. This state of having no mental claim of ‘doer-ship’ is the essence of the verse “chatur varNNyam maya srishtam”. I am the doer

and non-doer at the same time. I remain at peace - I am not ‘doing ‘anything nor do I make others ‘do’ anything.

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Sannyasa must be the love of our life and we should embrace it wholeheartedly. But the society sometimes look at sannyaasa as a way to

escape from life when failures engulf in one’s life. Running away from life is not sannyasa. Do not tie sannyasa with anything - a sannyasi

is not living by resisting anything. Daily activities are not at all a hindrance to a sannyasi. Situation of those who perform their actions by submitting everything unto the Brahman, devoid of any thoughts on the fruits of actions is

like water sitting on lotus leaves. He is not getting ‘wet’ by sin or misunderstandings. His life is like that of a lotus – an ideal example to

show how to live life. Roots of the lotus flower is well immersed in the dirty and smelly swamp; but it stays slightly above the water

(world) to spread its radiance and fragrance. Water cannot wet the lotus- but if there is a bit of water on it, that only enhances it’s beauty.

In that water droplet, one can see the reflection of the sun and the moon and even our own image! What we need is the detachment of the

lotus. Remain in the world, slightly above the ‘normal’ level, without making any imprints; but spread the fragrance you attained to the

surrounding world thus becoming one with it. Lord’s eyes, hands etc. are often compared to lotus exemplifying this unique nature- not

because the lotus is soft to touch. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 42

42. Liberation is not a Posthumous Award ! For liberation, one need not wait to die; liberation is possible here and now. Those who have no mis-conceptions and doubts; those who

have self control and have conquered the anger and lust; those who are true friends to all beings and those who are capable of finding

bliss in themselves know Brahman, the ultimate reality and they attain liberation, here and now. In this life itself, before the death calls upon us, we should be able to control the mental agitation raising from anger and lust. That is all

one need to know. Pleasurable experiences from senses are sources of sorrow because they have a beginning and an end. A wise man does

not get reveled in it- not that he doesn’t experience it. To know something means, to have an insight in to it. While a religious scholar,

proud of his prowess struggles in the waves of ignorance, the wise man who has realized the self will easily escape from the trials and

tribulations of life. Men of wisdom do not get indulged in the activities of the senses; but for them also, the senses are perfectly functional. A man of

knowledge is not someone ‘out there’; but any one can be wise and knowledgeable by leading an ordinary life in the world. It will take only

a split second to undo the hook of the shackle from within to open up a whole new world of freedom. A lightning in the pitch darkness

shows us for a split second everything that is to be seen around. One will not forget that scene even if the journey after that vision is still

through the darkness. Wisdom is such that once attained, it will not leave you. Remain where you are and recognize this state whole

heartedly. You don’t need to go to Kashi or some Ashrams for that. Even if you are placed in the market place, you should be able to

realize it. You can’t get that wisdom somewhere else! It is within us! Wise man sees oneness in all; whether it is a Brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog or a dog-eater. He has no sense of separateness. He

doesn’t even have the desire to work or attain anything particular. He has already become that which is to be attained. He is not opposed

to anything. The Lord is not ‘taking away’ anyone’s sins as His own. He is not taking away anyone’s’ virtues either. It is our misunderstanding that

“Lord gave me all these”. Bhagavan is not the ‘doer’. ‘Doership’ is only a human concept. We say “I did this” due to our ego. The Lord does

not take our ‘doership’ because He wants all of us to evolve and become the Lord. Those who make their actions for exhibition purpose

move away from the Lord. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 43

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43. Youth is being ruined by politics and religion. You should not become weapons that others can use; youth is not intended to be a force of destruction. Youth is the stage when a person

is able to bring out the best in him to be useful to himself and the world. Don’t ruin your youth and waste your precious time of your life

by stoning buses, setting fire to effigies and getting involved in ragging. Politics and religion are using you to get involved in destructive

activities- don’t get into that rut. Youth must be like a banyan tree – it is not pliable for a carpenter for making something or even for fire

wood. At the same time, a banyan tree has an individuality and existence that is a blessing to the surrounding world. Youth has a lot of

energy and it must be directed for noble purposes. Youth is not ‘useless’; they are being ‘used less’. Now useless people are making use of

the youth. Don’t surrender your creativity and individuality at the feet of useless people. We are our own friend and foe. When we elevate ourselves to evolve as a better human being, we are our friend. When we succumb to

lower tendencies and purse that path, we are our own enemy. We must awaken our tiresome mind by our discriminatory intellect. Do not

slight yourself. The Lord warns that it is not true when some one says “I am there for you”. Because, in fact, there is only “you are there for

you”. Only with your permission you can get in to trouble. You are the one responsible for your own rise and fall. Karma (action) is the

cause for attaining ‘yoga’ state. It was when Laotse of China saw a ripened leaf falling from the branch of a tree that he got realization.

What we need is only a swift moment of a split second to get enlightenment. Once we have this wisdom, we can control our mind and

attain the yoga state. Those who act in the world without getting attached to the results of their actions is a sannyasi. He is being reborn every second. He is

aware and vigilant like a soldier who has entered the enemy camp, but he is as unattached as an empty street in a city. Those who avoid

doing actions is not a yogi or a sannyasi. We should keep the stuff ‘outside’ out- Gita advises us not to look outside, but to look inside. Now we look at others to assess their

qualifications. Once you start contemplating on Sri Krishna, the mind typically takes us to ‘Krishnan Nair’ and the money he owes you.

Otherwise we end up in sleep. In meditation we should keep the pace of our breath uniform and should concentrate on a single point. This

is how we realize our dear Lord and be God ourselves. Don’t be afraid of God and don’t threaten others quoting God. If there is anyone

that we shouldn't be scared of, it is God. He is the most dependable friend of all. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 44

44. Meditation Lord Krishna addresses Arjuna as “Pandawa” to remind him of Pandu who went to the forest after giving up everything. Although Pandu

had left the external world, his internal desires were not extinct and he was burnt to death in the fire of desires (forest fire). If he had

chosen to live in the world, devoid of internal desires, he would not have had to face this fate. Just by giving up one’s actions or choosing a

particular style of life externally, one will not become a sannyasi or a yogi. Sannyasa is a stage where one is able to say good bye to past

actions and their results once for all. Non-attachment is the essence of sannyaasa. After developing deeper insights in to our conscious mind, we need not depend on anyone else other than ourselves. Once we have won

over ourselves, we are our best friend. For others they are their own worst enemy. All pairs of opposites have the same effect on those who

are peaceful and have control over mind. For those who are steadfast in their resolve, gold and dirt are of equal value. Not that the yogi

will throw away the gold that comes in his way, but he has clear awareness of the truth and cause behind everything. He is aware of their

relative existence, but he is not at all concerned about gaining or losing either one of them. It is a unique quality to have an attitude of equanimity, and behave equidistant to the pairs of opposites. Not that one should not get

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involved in anything; we should act, but with full awareness and perform the action without any emotional attachment to it. Don’t expect

anything- even an expression of gratitude from anyone. Only when the mind is well settled and devoid of worries, one can attain the state

of meditation. One cannot meditate amidst a mayhem. One develops insight through meditation. Ideal time to meditate (brahma muhoortham) is indeed the time an individual is able to make

his mind calm and serene- may be in the morning or in the evening or at noon time. Sit down at a clean place after cleaning your body and

the surrounding. Don’t sit at a high elevation or at a low place. Fold up a straw mat and spread a piece of thick clean cloth over it to set up

your seat. If you sit on the floor directly, your leg may go numb. Select a room in your home with good air flow, where there are no

distractions. Wear loose comfortable clothes. Don’t start your meditation after eating to help us be alert. Keep your body, neck and head

in one vertical line and without moving, concentrate your sight at the tip of your nose. Be fearless and direct your mind to concentrate in

the consciousness. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 45

45. Don’t cheat yourselves in the matter of meditation It is not right to think that meditation is beyond reach by the ordinary folks and it is reserved for ‘great’ people only. Any one can master

the art of meditation with training and regular practice, but, we must not cheat ourselves in meditation. It calls for complete sincerity and

surrender, because, in contemplation, we are trying to get to know ourselves. Verses 10 to 14 in the Dhyana yoga Chapter of the

Bhagavad Gita give us the guidelines to do proper meditation. By analyzing my thoughts in contemplation, ‘I’ am becoming aware of the

consciousness that supports the flow of thoughts. Mind is the flow of thoughts that come one after the other. When we observe and

analyze each and every thought and venture beyond it, we become aware of the consciousness. Subtle body is the consciousness that

pervades our inner awareness. Meditation makes us capable of going even beyond the subtle body. We cannot attain the state of

meditation by being stringent like a military exercise. Meditation should become the natural way of life. Both over eating and improper

eating are against meditation, so is oversleeping and the lack of sleep. Everything must be practiced in moderation and in an orderly

fashion. There should be a control in our physical as well as mental activities. One can start practicing meditation anytime, starting from

the young age GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 46

46. Only the incomplete are affected by desires ‘I’ pervade everything and if one realizes that ‘I’ am everywhere, he will not have any more needs or desires. Basis of any desire is the

notion that possessing ‘this particular thing’ is going to make me ‘complete’. But we should found our life in the clear understanding that

we are giving reality and legitimacy to the universe and not the other way round. It is the ‘I’ consciousness that is enabling everything

around us to exist. When we enter in to the realm of sleep, there is no time and space as they get dissolved in an unknown realm. Thus we

are entering daily albeit unknowingly in to an experience of bliss. In meditation, we enter in to the state of bliss with full awareness. We

should strive to be like a steady flame. Eating, sleeping and our activities must be done in moderation. This will enable us in knowing the Truth. We don’t need to put in extra

ordinary efforts to achieve this. Those who follow a proper program of moderate eating, activities for pleasure and work, sleeping and

waking up will definitely benefit from the yoga and they will be sorrow less. In meditation, one is well aware and vigilant, without the

preconceived notions of the past or anxieties of the future. Meditation is a withdrawal in order to recharge our energy. One progresses

from meditation not on to sleep, but on to actions. It is a state of being fully engaged in the present. We will see and hear everything, not

with the external senses, but from within. It is the life force (prana) that is the inner eye of the eyes; and the inner ear of the ears. Think

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about the eyes that see and the ears that hear in a dream. In meditation, our subtle senses will be active and we cannot determine what all

thoughts will appear, when and how. They will come, but don’t go after them. A yogi sees himself through the self and he revels in himself. When we look a tree, if we ‘see’ it with their identity (such as: a mango tree, coconut tree, etc.), we cannot realize the truth behind them.

In mediation, we take the visions and sounds to a realm that is indescribable. This state is beyond thought. The whole universe is a dance

and in dance, the artiste is not separate from the art. They are well integrated with each other. In that meditative state, one can enjoy the

music of the earth and the moon. When we look through a window, if we don’t see anything new, we are incapable of ‘seeing’ anything at

all. Nowadays everyone looks at a thing with a commercial eye and attaches a monetary value to everything. Meditation enables one to

shift the paradigm amidst all the previously existing conditions. It is an ascent towards a higher state. When our mind is unaffected by

distractions, uncompromising and do not depend on anything but the self, all desires will vanish. Mediation is not an external activity.

Some of us always call out the Lord verbally – thereby pretending to be doing meditation outwardly, looking everywhere except inside of

ourselves. The Lord is inside and finding him is the aim and the goal of meditation. Senses have been built to face and function outwardly; but those who want immortality will seek inward to inquire about the Truth behind

everything. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 47

47. Repudiation is a hindrance to self-realization. In spiritual life, repudiation is irrelevant. By negation and denial we cannot reach the goal of self-realization. There is a natural tendency for man to pursue things that are denied to him. The decree of denial goes directly in to his ego and a natural

urge will raise in him to oppose the order. It can be said that denial and negation are food for the ego. It is better to accept and experience everything rather than negating the existence of something undesirable, such as a ‘bad’ thought. This

allows one to observe ‘them’ carefully and go beyond them by knowing their futile nature. When we accept everything, our ego vanishes.

This is what Lord Krishna demonstrated through his life. During a war, he would be the most fierce fighter, but when he played his

‘lila’ (divine sport), he was fully engrossed in it as well. Increase in competitions is not at all good for a spiritual life. Results of all types of

competitions are terrible -whether it is Olympics or India-Pak cricket match. Ultimately their results will be awful and they create rivalry.

No amount competition can bring about changes, but being able to bring about change is noble indeed. GITA 108 DAYS - DAY 48

48. Don’t separate God from you Statements such as “the Lord is not there, but He is only here”; “He is that and He is not this;” etc., are trying to separate the concept of

God (Iswara) from us. Gita tells us to bring our fickle mind under control, away from the various sense objects and subjects it is presently

engaged in. Then the mind should be brought to the realm of ‘self’. That means, the mind should be re-directed from the sensory world to

God. When we hear the name ‘God’, our immediate thoughts are of the temples or of our prayer room. But those who have realized

everything as God (Isaavaasyam idam sarvvam), wherever the thoughts take him, they will all be nothing but God. Let the mind wander

anywhere, but know that they are all God. Thus we come to know the truth behind all and realize the eternalness of what we experience.

Here we do not belittle or negate any experience. Bliss is our essential nature. To say that “I am unhappy” is akin to saying that “I am not home” while sitting at our own home. A yogi

cannot say that “I am not Brahman”. Mind that has attained peace, devoid of ego, enjoys the eternal bliss with the help of rajo guna. Just

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as a mother sees her children of widely different manners, one should be able to see the eternal truth in all and should be able to develop

equanimity in our outlook. ‘See’ the ‘One’ behind all and ‘see’ ourselves in all. ‘See’ all in our own self as well. The Lord declares that those

who sees himself in all and sees all in himself never perishes. If there exists God in us, it is because of this vision. Alas! Now we seem to

want everything ‘from’ God, and we do not want God Himself. Actions of those who serve the Lord present in all beings with equanimity

are Godly indeed and all his actions take place in God as well. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 49

49 We are the Light on our path There is no one other than us to shine the light on our path and it is important not to entertain desires that will extinguish this light. Face

the sorrow and happiness with equanimity. Don’t laugh too much – not that we may end up crying a lot later- when laughter arises in you,

do laugh well; when you feel like crying, cry well too; but understand the reasons behind each and realize that both are transitory.

That which is the substratum of this world is complete in itself and we, as the created entities are also ‘complete’. There is no room for the

notion of ‘incompleteness’ as when we ‘take’ infinity out of infinity, it remains as infinity- no less. In fact, we are not ‘taking anything’ out.

We should know the truth that is not subject to modification under time and space. Inquire and realize what is real and what is unreal and

thus we can win over maya. Mind is attached to the sense organs and it gets agitated by them. Although controlling mind is as difficult as controlling the flow of air, by

relentless effort, one can achieve this. Vairagya is the stage where we are attracted towards the ‘real’ while maintaining no attraction

towards the ‘unreal’. Only those who have their mind as their slave can achieve yogic state. Such a person will closely examine each and

every desire with the help of the intellect to determine whether that desire is worthy to be fulfilled or not. He is a true aspirant to be a

yogi. A tree has two birds on it. One is jumping from branch to branch eating sweet fruits all the time. The other one is quietly observing the

first bird and its activities. The bird on the move is our mind and the observant bird is the consciousness. Likewise, one should be able to

observe his own mental activities without getting entangled in them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 50

50 Tune your life just as you tune the strings of a lute Sleep a lot; or not to sleep at all; eat a lot or not to eat at all; etc. are examples of extreme indulgences peculiar only to humans. Our mind

is always looking for the extremes, not the moderate. When strings of a lute are too tight or too loose, there will be no music. Life style,

spiritual practices, sleeping, eating, etc. should be tuned appropriately like the strings of a lute. Do not take severe and harsh vows as the

mind cannot attain peace if the body is tortured. Arjuna asks Krishna as to what happens if one dies without attaining complete knowledge even after striving for it diligently. The Lord

assures him that such an effort will not go futile. Those who have started on the path of inquiry will not perish and those who have done

good deeds will not end up in disaster either. The knowledge that was kindled in us will definitely lead us to a state of permanent serenity.

Such a soul will find a suitable environment and body when it takes a new birth – may be in a prosperous house hold or in a family of

knowledgeable people- to complete or advance the inquiry already started in the past life. Although we are complete, when we take birth, the ‘wholeness’ will only manifest partially. It is akin to having our entire body being tied

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Some one has tried to teach us about the Ultimate Truth in various ways and our present inquiry is also a continuation of that path of

investigation started by someone, somewhere.

#6 IdiveTTu ShaJi

Posted 27 June 2010 - 05:02 PM GITA 108 DAYS - Day 51

51 Life is a series of experiences When Gita says that we would reach the ultimate peace after passing through a number of lives, it means that we would realize the Truth

through a lot of experiences. If for some reason one had to leave this body while inquiring Truth, the subtle body will continue that

inquiry through the next body and so on. It may be because of that we feel familiarity with certain things, even when we see them for the

first time in life. We should do justice to our pursuits for self realization because, even a sincere aspirant who is just keen to know the

secrets behind Yoga will be able to face the fruits of his past actions courageously however unpleasant they may be. A Yogi is nobler than those who undertake penance or those who are in the path of knowledge. He is even nobler than the karma itself,

because he identifies himselves with the Supreme Truth. He lives the knowledge he has aquired and experiences the ‘Self’ in all. His

actions and wisdom are inseparable. In the story of Kausika, the noble brahmana, who was trained a scholarly monastery had to finally ‘learn’ about the Supreme Truth from a

house-wife and a butcher! Wisdom, is to know everything by knowing our Self. One should strive to know the Self by taking refuge in ones

own self. It is impossible to partially ‘know’ God. ! Lord Krishna is assuring that he will expound on the knowledge and the corresponding experience, after knowing which one need not

have to know anything more. That Thou Art (thath thvam asi) is one of the great aphorisms (maha vakya). Those who have ‘heard’ it

contemplate upon “the Conciousness is Brahaman” (prajnanam brahma) and “the Self is Brahman” (ayam atma brahma). At the end,

the resulting experience comes out as a declaration- “I am Brahaman” (aham brahmasmi). Only one in thousand strive for this and

among them only one in thousand realize this knowledge through experience. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 52

52 Those who pollute the nature cannot become a devotee The Lord is explaining his nature: earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and the conscious ego are all ‘His’ nature. He works in all

these as the supreme Self. Everything in nature is comprised of these 8 components and they are all Lord Himself. A devotee is always in tune with the nature and he will be able to hear the song of the universe resonating in him. Thus he becomes one

with it. We must behave with utmost respect to the diversity of the nature, the God Himself. Earth is capable of tolerating everything and it imbibes all variations. Water surpasses all obstracles softly and finds its own path. Fire

cleans everything. We also must be able to imbibe these specialties in our life.

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If we do a ritualistic worship of the earth (bhoomi pooja) and distribute sweet in plastic cups, we are actually polluting it. Factories

situated by our rivers emiting poison gas are indeed modern Kaliya (Kaliya, the serpent). For us, different gold ornaments are visible, but

for the seller, they are all mere gold. So also if we know that all are composed of the five elements, we will not fall prey to delusion. We

must be like the sea- sea doesn’t accept anything unnecessary. Even if it is a blade of grass, sea will bring it back to shore, as it doesn’t

want to take it in. If it accepts one blade of grass, all kinds of other grasses also would want to join in, thus altering its innate nature. But I

should remain, maintaining my individuality. Accept those that come naturally- don’t succumb to compromise with whatever comes and

goes. By doing the rituals after death by the relatives, the dead person is not getting anything really. But we should perform the ritual very

carefully anyway. That is done to rejuvenate the tradition that is asleep. It is also a way of giving solace to ourselves and doing our duty. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 53

53 If there is a leader for Hinduism, the ‘Sanathana Dharma’ will perish. If a person takes on as the leader of Hinduism, the Sanatana Dharma will perish. The Bhagavad Gita is giving us the courage and

conviction to establish freely and fearlessly without any restrictions imposed by any clergy. Gita is not talking about the Krishna who is

the son of Vasudeva. It is talking about the universal energy (chaitanya) that is the basis of the existence of the universe itself and that

must not be limited to any bodily image. Nature is the gross form of the Lord himself. In the subtle form, the Lord is the root cause of the life force. From the subtle generates the gross. Everything that has been created in the

universe has been expressed by the union of the subtle and gross form of the Lord. As they are the cause of creation, they indeed are the

cause for dissolution. All these are within the Lord as the pearls strung on a thread. If one looks for the thread of the chain, it is invisible;

but the thread is the most important one as the chain exists because of that. Our ancestors gave forms to the thread in order to develop

devotion and an attitude of surrender to it. They didn’t do it to get anything in return. This thread is not dependent on faith or the lack of

it. It is the subtle essence of everything. It is the wetness of water and it is the brightness in light of the son and the moon. It is the ‘Om’ in

all the Vedas; it is the sound of the sky; it is the humanness in the human beings; smell of the earth and effulgence in the fire. It is the

essence of the life energy and the primordial seed. It is the wisdom of the men of intelligence. It is the effulgent aura of the men of

realization. It is the penance of the yogis and the strength and vitality of the powerful, devoid of lust and desires. Penance is the concentrated effort of pursuing to realize something, sacrificing all likes and dislikes. Penance is the pain one endures

happily as a mother endures the hardship of pregnancy. All our deeds must be a penance. The efforts put forth by a child learning to write

the first letter of the alphabet and the meditative endurance of the yogi are penance indeed. But if we boast about the hard work done, it

cannot be called a penance. Real power is not the power held by Hitler or Chenghis Khan. Real power is the power of the Lord’s energy

born out of love. Brutal power is cowardly. Power must be used for enhancement and not for destruction. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 54

54. Performing rituals is not serving God Undertaking rituals is not serving the Lord. Great Sankaracharya himself apologized to the Lord saying that he has committed three

‘mistakes’ – “I mediated upon Your form knowing fully that You are form-less.! I extolled Your virtues with words although words can

never describe You. I went around in pilgrimages pretending to scale Your entire abodes and thereby tried to limit Your unfathomable

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vastness”. When we do these, we should do it with the full knowledge of their limitations and realize that they are not the truth itself.

When we go to a temple, we should have this attitude or otherwise, the Lord will be a mere stone for us. Old temples were never used to

be covered in gold nor were there any notices showing information on the cost of doing certain rituals. One shouldn’t go to a temple to get

a job, cure a disease or pass an examination. One should go to the temple to seek the truth and to attain mental peace. Serving God is to inquire into Him and one wins over the delusion of maya by becoming an inquirer. He is unattached and is dependent

on nothing. He doesn’t have any worldly relationships and he is unaffected by the three ‘gunas’ – satvic, rajasic and thamasic. He has no

concern about anything to be gained or anything to be protected. He has discarded the fruits of actions, the sense of ownership of actions,

and all dualities such as sorrow and happiness. He has even abandoned and surpassed the Vedas to be steadfast in the chosen path of self

realization. Such a person is not affected by maya. Bhagavan declares that all the three kind – satvic, rajasik and tamasic- of emotions have been originated in Him. “They all exist in Me,

but they are not Me”. It is like the ocean declaring that the waves are in me, but I am not the waves. We do not realize God as we are

covered by the three gunas. Only those who look internally within will know God and win over the power of maya. Those who are

engrossed in sensory pleasures and demonic attitudes will have their knowledge veiled by maya. Such people will end up doing evil acts

and such fools do not attain God. Three types of people worship God. -those who are suffering due to the fact that they are not achieving the desired objects, those who are

desirous of gathering knowledge or wealth and those who want liberation. Among these, some are very rare and special- they are men of

wisom, steadfast in their conviction that the Lord is not different from them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 55

55. Those who sees God as an individual is deluded In order to know who Lord Krishna is, we must refine our outlook. If we take Him as the son of Vasudeva, we will have trouble in realizing

the truth. In Bhagavad Gita, He declares that those who are not intelligent enough to know my changeless and sacred nature treat me as

an individual although I cannot be limited by any form. We must realize that this is true for us also, because, if we relate ourselves just as

individuals, we will start limiting our potential. No one can see the Lord as his vision is covered by the veil of maya consisting of names

and forms. Unperceptive people do not know that the Lord was never born and so, He has no death either. For those who are born, death

is inevitable. When we celebrate Srikrishna Jayanthi, (Lord Krishna’s birthday), we must be aware of this truth. Only unintelligent people

will consider birth and death as important. Some people want to limit God as a sculpture or a piece of metal within the confines of the temple walls. Religion depends on ensuring

that God will not show up, so that we can keep calling out for Him!. Nowadays people are afraid of ‘knowing’ God, because we have a lot of

desires and we are afraid that we may loose them. Our God is where our attention is and due to our innate tendencies, we serve particular

deities to satify these desires. For those who depend on these devas (sense objects), the Lord gives them unwavering attention to satisfy

their needs. We get what we seek from the deities we propitiate. Those who want the Lord, they attain the Lord and for those who want to

get ‘from the Lord’, that is also provided. All that we experience in life are the results of our own asking. There is no point in blaming

situations and circumstances when undesirable things happen. Sri Budha asks: how dearly do you love those shackles that prevent you

from attaining your goal! People engage in and enjoy activities that bind us, sometimes as a household, despite the fact that they may be

denigrating to us. All achievements obtained as a result of the prayers by us,the limited intellect will eventually perish. But at the end of

enumerable number of lifes, men of wisdom realize that Everything is Vasudevan, the Lord.

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GITA 108 DAYS - Day 56

56. Do not describe our world as hell People who pray to God to liberate them out of the ‘hell’ they are presently in will not flourish. Such people will always make a hell

wherever they go or live in. It is not fit for a devotee to portray his surrounding as hellish. That kind of an outlook is against all our

scriptures. Treat our surroundings to be the best it can possibly be. Human life is considered to be the most virtuous and the Lord asks us

not for making a mere external change, but for bringing the change from within. Conducting protests and demonstrations in the name of God is not wise at all. One need not establish the Lord’s position and reputation

forcefully by protests because He is beyond all that we can do. Leave the people alone when they say undignified things about Gita. Only

the imprudent would call a conference to protest against such people. “I know everything that happened and all that is going to happen because I am eternally present. Although I am ever present, no one

‘knows’ Me”, says the Lord. He means that, no one is realizing the eternal truth which is nothing but the self that is witnessing everything.

The pairs of opposites (happiness/sorrow, profit/loss, honour/dishonour, etc.) are direct results of our likes/dislikes and are created by

the body. But those who undertake actions with a meditative mind will go beyond the pairs of opposites by removing the misapprehension

and they will remain steadfast in their convictions. “Those who have controlled their minds will know Me even at the time of their death”. This is a spontaneous revelation. Once I ‘know’ it,

‘I’ am not there to know it. I will leave this world knowing that I am beyond the world. Those who strive with the full conviction to attain

liberation from the birth-death cycle will come to realize Brahman, spiritual secrets and they will comprehend the karma principle. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 57

57. Observe death just as you witness a sand house being destroyed by the sea Just as we walk away smiling when we see the sandhouse we made so carefully getting washed away by the sea, we should be able to get

away from the attachment to the body when it perishes. Adhibhootam is the state of being ephemeral. Adhidaivatam is the state of eternity. The Lord is the presiding force in the body and one

knows Him even at the time of death. He will know his own nature (Brahma), the eternal and supreme reality, along with its spiritual

purport, the Jeeva bhavam. He will also comprehend the nature of karma. We attain the same state of being as what we remember at the time of shedding our body. Those who remember the Lord at the time of

death will attain Him. Those who remember sense objects will attain those as well. Only if we can comprehend the Lord while we are alive

and well, will we be able to remember the Lord at the time of death. So our mind should always remember Him. This doesn’t mean that

we should be chanting aloud the Lord’s name every moment. It is the state of clear understanding that there is nothing other than the

Lord and all our activities are worship of the Lord (Brahma pooja). No one can predict the time of death and so we must incessantly keep

the Lord in mind. By regularly meditating with a steadfast mind, man attains the supreme purusha who is self effulgent. Those who medidate upon the

higher, even at the time of death, with one pointed concentration, aimed at the centre of eyebrows will attain liberation. This supreme

essence (param porul) is the all knowing, timeless, controller of the world. He is self effulgent as Sun, the atom of the molecules and the

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‘Om’ (pranava) is the ‘object’ of silent meditation that is to be done sitting alone at a place without distraction. A life led by remembering

pranava will liberate us. This meditation should not be a symbol of conflicts. Displaying the symbol Om on the walls and telephone posts

of the streets to threaten others is akin to ridiculing Sanatana Dharma. When we display pranavam outside, it will stay outside. We

should wear it inside us and write it on the walls of our hearts. Don’t throw it on the streets as a road divider or for securing own land.

People use religeous symbols for these purposes as they know that the government will not touch them in a so-called secular country. The

fact is that they do not value symbols of their own religion. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 58

58. We are ever awake in Brahman When we sleep, we are in the Brahman state of being; so should we be in Brahman state when we are awake as well. Worlds such as

Brahma loka (experiencial world) are cyclical in nature. They come and go. Even Lord Brahma has birth and death. Only the one who has

attained God will get away from the cycle of birth and death and for them there is no return. Lord Brahma’s day time is one thousand

eons. Night is also that long. Those who understands this ‘knows’ time. He realizes that we are insignificant in comparison to the universe.

Lord is beyond time. Our concept of time starts with the ‘second’ because the Lord is the ‘first’. Gita imparts the knowledge that, it is

impossible to comprehend the premordial state of being, that is before time, even before the knowledge itself. An endeavour undertaken

without the attached desires, knowing this truth is a true selfless act. In the day of Brahma, movable and immovable beings spring forth and appear from the latent unmanifested energy – chaitnaya prakriti.

In the night, all these will return to the unmanifest state. Our life is also like this; the world around us manifests when we are awake.

When we sleep, there is no world. The world is there only for the awakened. Once awake and awakened to the higher state a little, we will

realize that we do spend a lot of energy on insignificant things. Living entities come to life again and again with the Lord’s knowledge. Not

even a tree leaf will move or fall without his knowledge. With one pointed devotion, we can attain Lord who is omnicient and ever present in all that is manifested. He is easily accessable to those

who remember him incessantly. Let the mind wander wherever it wants, but know that everything is Lord. To attain God is not to get

attached to anything impermanent. Pranavam (Omkaram), the essence of all sounds, is the sacred mantra to attain the supreme goal. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 59

59. Love all; do not see faults in others When you love all, you cannot see faults in anyone. Jealousy is the origin of all fault findings. When you superimpose faults in the virtues

of others, it becomes jealousy. Only when we are devoid of jealousy we will be able to know the supreme truth. Knowledge that reveals the principles of the self is the secret of all secrets and the king of all wisdom. It is pure, perfect and it can be

comprehended. It is easy to practice and it is in accordance with Dharma. It is imperishable. The Lord who has no specific form, but He

fills the entire universe. All are in Him; but He is not in any of them. This is the state of dettached attachment. “I am not the doer, nor the

enjoyer”, says the Lord. “I am just a witness of nature”. We also must develop this attitude. Emotions can rise in us, but we should not

happen in emotions.

Those who are not careful about this Dharma and its results continue to dwell in the world of plurality. Those who leave this body in fire,

day time, full moon and when the sun is in its Northern traverse (uttaraayanam) will attain Brahma. Others who leave in smoke, night,

new moon and when the sun is in its southern traverse (dakshinayanam) will return to the world of samsara.

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The path of light is the path of knowledge. When the person who does virtuous deeds guided by the path of knowledge leaves his body, it

is uttrayanam. Dakahinayanam is the path of people who have the misunderstanding that “I am the body”. So live your life and act

beyond the limitations of time. Do not consider that it is ignoble for a leaf to fall in a sewer; nor it is noble just because it fell inside the

temple compound. If our mind runs after any desire, it will not reach its desitnation. So act without any attachment to desires to go beyond all limitations. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 60

60. What we need is logically sound knowledge Supreme knowledge is beyond logic, but the inquiry in to that knowledge requires a logical approach that is scripturally ordained. Only an

ignorant person will keep extolling the Lord’s virtues like a politician blabbering on his favourite topic. Lord says that those who do not

realize my noble attribute as the controller of ‘all’, is actually ridiculing me as someone who is dependent on a human body. Inquire in to

the attributes of the creater through the created. There is no god separate from trees, water, creatures or the earth. Everything exists in god just as the air fills vast expands of the space. We also should exist like this. Don’t ‘try to do’ anything, but do

everything any way. Gain everything without claiming anything. Deluge is when everything gets absorbed in the Lord (pralayam) and

from Him comesforth all living and non-living beings. Due to own innate tendencies, influended by the nature, these will come to life

again and again. These actions do not affect the Lord as He is devoid of any attachment in them. He remains as if He has no interest at all. Those who have futile desires end up undertaking fruitless actions guided by the useless knowledge are mis-guided in their intellect. They

are under the influence of violent, lustful and arrogant nature (aasuriikam). But men of wisdom serve the impershable Lord with one

pointed vision realizing that He is the cause of everything. To serve others is to serve Lord. With a humble attitude, one should meditate

upon the Lord and extoll His virtues with utmost care and hard work. Any conversation we engage in diligently is indeed a prayer

(keerthana). It is this humility that is being portrayed in the Gita as stringing a bow. When we string a bow, the lower end will rise up and

the upper end will come down. This is indicative of the ego getting perished and the rising of self awareness. With prostration, we attain

the state of self-control. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 61

61 To take revenge is not the way of “sanatana dharama” One cannot limit the Lord to a particular time period or to a geographical area. People misunderstand the means of achieving a goal for

the goal itself. All known sacred places are now subjects of controversy; be it Jerusalem, Hazarathbal or Ayodhya. Ayodhya is not the

name of a geographical area. It is the land where all fighting has ended. People do not understand it to be the human mind itself. We say that the Lord is the embodiment of compassion and peace; but we get upset and threaten others when someone talks ill of the

Lord! It doesn’t make any sense! If some draws a cartoon or says something about the Lord, there is no point in getting upset. No anti-

social elements can injure the Lord! When the Lord himself is unaffected, why should we feel injured? Some see the completeness of the universe through the yagna of knowledge gathering. Some worship the reality as one single entity where

as the others worship Him as many. The ritual of yagas, scripturally ordained actions, yagna by the sages, food dedicated to the

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accepting these also, do that with the attitude of “everything is Lord”. All contradictions are also Him, but He is unaffected and He exists beyond all these. Lord is the father, mother, and grand parents of

everyone. What we must ‘know’ is the Lord who wears the universe. He is the veda; He is the Omkara, the pranava. He is the ultimate

goal; he is the governor, the administrator, the witness and the seat and substratum of everything. He is the friend, the creator, sustainer

and annihilator. He is the changeless seed that is imperishable. He is behind heat, cold and the rain. He is the death and immortality. He

is the existance in all that exist and He is the emptiness in all that is void. Those who do scriptural rituals reach heaven and when the

merits of their virtues get depleted, they return to the realm of human life. Those who are concentrating their efforts in virtuous deeds

expecting good results will end up repeating the cycle of births and deaths

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62. Realize the potential from within We must endeavour to realize and bring forth the amazing potential latent within us, meaning, we must not forgo the opportunity for us

to become the Lord himself. The Lord says in the Gita that “I accept even a drop of water, a leaf, a flower, or a fruit submitted with care

and devotion”. This means that He is ready to accept whatever we are giving Him with utmost care- not that He expects us to harvest and

submit all the fruits and flowers to the temple. This is about the symbiosis of the macrocosm and the microcosm. This is the jist and secret

of life cycle. All life forms were originated in water. It is the leaf that came out of water becomes our food. Flowering is the process of becoming able to

create a progeny and the life of a flower finds its completion in becoming a fruit. It becomes the seed for the next life. When we are able to

understand our path of progression from the life force originated in water, our attitude will become submissive and humble. It is this

humility that the Lord accepts. If one ‘knows’ this secret once, he becomes the Lord. There is no distinction after that. Whatever we do –eating, enjoying, submitting material in the sacrificial fire as oblation, giving charitable donations, undertaking penance

– all should be done with an attitude of submission unto Him. Then ‘I’ will not be there. We will never be able to say: I did…, or because of

me…, or I , or me,…etc. Whatever is being done is all Lord himself. That is service to the Lord. Then brushing the teeth will become

‘brahma pooja’. Taking bath becomes bathing the beloved Lord. ****ual intercourse will be equivalent to a sacrificial ritual. The Lord says

that He will look after the one who meditates on ‘me’ without getting entangled with any other thoughts. “Sri Krishna is the one and only

god”is not stated as a ‘claim’ here. I am the self and the 'other' gods are thoughts that wander and subjects that are related to senses.

Leave all those and concentrate only on the supreme self, that is ‘Me’ GITA 108 DAYS - Day 63

63. Gita refuses all kinds of discriminations. Gita refuses to discriminate anyone and declares that all are entitled to learn scriptures. Sr Krishna declares that the traditionally

discriminated group of people – the ladies, men of commerce (vaisyas), service class (soodras), people of illegitimate birth – all will

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attain the ultimate goal by approaching ‘me’. All differences cease to exist when we ‘know’ Him. Even a criminal- who is the epitome of worst behaviour- would be able to become noble if he applies his mind towards that goal. The

culture of Bharatha is not keeping anyone at bay based on their behaviour. If one happens to ‘know’ the Lord, he becomes immortal.

Meditating upon the Lord with complete concentration, persevering to gain knowledge, devotional service, etc. are different paths to

reach the supreme self. Even the people who worship deities of sensory experiences are also ultimately worshiping the Lord only. He has

created them too. But as that worship is not well ordained, there could be some descend. We should show our obeisance to the principle

behind the image and not to the image itself. In this impermenant and sorrowful world, one should worship the Lord all the time to attain

happiness and immortality. This doesn’t mean that one should chant the Lord’s name all the time. All our day to day activities are to be

done by remembering the Lord and with out attachments to the fruits of action. That is the incessant ‘bhajan’, or non stop worship. Lord is the embodiment of equanimity. He has no love or hatred towards anything. He doesn’t have affection for the one who extolls His

virtures nor will He be angry with the one who talks ill of Him. He is not giving anything to anyone either. The Lord exists in those who

realize the self, the ‘atma chaithanya’; and they exist in Him. Gita teaches us as to how to become God; not how to get something out of

Him. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 64

64. Accept and then internalize Do not avoid anything for the sake of it; do not hinder anything. Accept all and then internalize everything to help evolve them to

perfection. Non-violence, sense control, compassion towards other beings, patience, peace, penance, meditation and truth are flowers

dear to the Lord. Those who always count everything as ‘mine and theirs’ are violent in nature. Even the thought that ‘I am not going to be

violent towards anyone’, is violence. The moment we think ‘mine and theirs’, violence has taken birth with it. Intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, patience, truthfulness, willingness to suffer for attaining the higher, contentment, pleasure, pain,

nothingness, fear, refuge, non-violence, equanimity, happiness, penance, charity, reputation or notoriety etc. are workings of the mind, all

originated from the Lord. The seven sages (sapta-rishi) and four ‘manus’ are His mental attitudes. Manu’s are the four states of the mind-

waking, dreaming, sleeping & awakened (jagrat, swapna, sushupti and thureeya) states. Seven sages are the seven qualities of the mind -

cunnigness, profit-motiveness, impracticality, practicality, day dreaming, intellectualism and thoughtlessness. These are like electricity

manifesting through different equipment. Breeze, light and heat are all created by the electricity, but these are not electricity itself. One

should know the expanse (vibhoothi) and the symbiotic relationships of entities to each other. It is the maya that makes the ‘One’ appears

to be ‘many’. ‘Vistaram’ is the concept of expanding the truth to be as vast as the universe. In this, ‘yoga’ is the ‘dettached attachment’.

Lord is the beginning of all. Everything is working in Him. By keeping our mind well established in the truth and by integrating the life

force (prana) with pranava (Omkara), we would realize this noble and mutually complementary relationship. “Even the divine beings

(devas) and sages (maharshis) do not know my origin, because I am the pre-mordial entity existent even before their origin” says the

Lord. Devas are senses and maharshis are mind and the intellect. The Lord is beyond all of them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 65

65. Treat the Nature as our Guru

The nature knows everything and it is waiting to impart wisdom to us. If we sit down in a corner with a sincere question churning in our

mind, even a mosquito will be able to impart the truth- “Brahma-sathyam - Bhaman alone is Truth”. We can understand everything from

the humming of a mosquito. Go to a garden, flowers will impart knowledge to you. Nature is not blessing us enough because we think that

saffron-clad monks are the only ones capable of teaching the eternal Truth. What is God and how are we to ‘know’ Him? The Lord

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explains them in detail in the “vibhoothi yoga”. His explanation is inexhaustible but here we try to look at the most important sections

only. Soul – the atma- within everything is the Lord. He is the beginning, middle and the end. The best imagery for someone to meditate upon is Sun. Sun blesses the whole universe by giving life and nourishment to all. He imparts

light that is capable of removing the darkness of ignorance. We should also become Sun-like, spreading the light of wisdom to the

surroundings. Sun in the macrocosm is like the intelligence in the microcosm. When our intelligence is hot, our mind should be cool.

Moon is the mind and no conflicts should be allowed to raise there. We should keep in us always the Sun and the Moon as they

significantly influence us. Ignorance is the only thing that the Lord destroys in us. Darkness of the ignorance is removed by the wisdom of

light. God is bliss, but many people search for it in vain without knowing how to attain it. Everything that is noble as well as ignoble has

come from the Lord. Bhagavad Gita doesn’t discriminate the noble things and beings as godly, nor the ignoble things and beings as

satanic. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 66

66. Vision within a Mirror house

We should realize the Lord’s glory as we see ourselves in the myriad of reflections as we enter a mirror house. All are our own images; but

they are all Lord’s as well. When we bark like a dog at those images, they will also bark back at us until we are tired of these futile

utterances. The whole activity has taken place because of the ignorance that the image is indeed our own. Once we realize that it will be a

blissful experience. The Lord explains His most significant glories by taking the most special in each category of things and beings. Each of those embodies

the greatness of the particular category. Once we know that it is the Lord Himself, there is no need to talk about the others. The Lord is

thus giving a goal for each of us to behold and pursue. He is show casing all the possibilities that can be achieved and guiding us as to

what we should all try to become unto like Him. Those greatnesses explained by the Lord are highly inspirational and worth meditating

upon. He is Vishnu among the adityas; He is Sun among the glowing objects; He is marichi among the maruths; He is the moon amongst the

stars; Sama in Vedas; Indra amongst the Devas; Mind among the senses, Energy in living beings; Sankara among Rudras; Kubera among

yakshas, Fire among the vasus; Meru among mountains; Brahaspati among Gurus; Lord Subrahmanya among warriors; Ocean in water

bodies; Brugu among sages; Omkara in words; Japa in yagnas; Himalaya among the unwavering; Banyan in trees; Narada in celestial

sages; Chitrarathan in Gandharvvas; Sage Kapila among siddhas; Ucchaisravas among horses; Iravatham among elephants; kings among

men; Vajra among weopons; Kamadhenu among cows; Kamadeva among the progenitors. Vasuki among serpants; Anantha among

snakes; Varuna among water-based beings; Aryama among the forefathers; Lord Yama among the implementers of the law. Prahlada

among the demons; Time among concepts; lion among animals; Garuda in birds; Wind among the cleaning agents; Sri Rama among the

weapon wielders. Makara among fishes; Gamga among rivers; Spiritual virtue among knowledge; dialogue among the debaters; Letter ‘A’

among the alphabets; dual conjugates among sandhis; time among that which are imperishable; All encompassing ruler and lawgiver, etc.

are all Lord’s glories. These are all highly inspirational indeed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 67

67. There is no difference between an atheist and a believer. An atheist and a believer are standing in one place! The atheist negates the energy behind the world, but accepts the world as real. A

believer accepts the God, but negates the world as real. Both leads to division. Gita does not ask you to think against the world. Gita

enables you to know the Lord and the world simultaneously. We have been learning the universe using many measures that we have

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devised over the time, none of these measures will be able to assess the universal truth. Glory of the great ladies, prosperity, words, memory, courage and patience are all Lord himself. We should give god-level respect to what

the women have to say because they are more patient and courageous than men. The Lord is Gayatri Mantra among the hymns. Gayatri

is not any one religion’s property. By chanting that hymn we meditate upon the ultimate truth that is the substratum of everything. May

that divinity be the guiding light that inspires our mind which has been matured through righteous thoughts and actions. It is said that if

a pregnant lady chants and meditate on Gayatri, her offspring will become bright and intelligent. Do not accept knowledge without the maturity to imbibe it because that will cause many misunderstandings. It is like warning some one

not to enter a nuclear reactor without the necessary precautions! That is why in the old days, it was insisted that only a ‘qualified’ person

should enter the temples. Now it is doubtful if even the priests are well qualified. They are concentrating more on the rituals. Anyone who

has realized the universal energy- Brahma Chaithanya- can become a priest and thus make the temple an avenue to know god. Otherwise

it will degrade itself and become something else. In sama songs, He is brahat sama; in months, He is dhanu (December); He is the spring in seasons; effulgence in those who have it;

endeavour and winning; nobility of the noble people; Vasudeva among Vrishni Clan; Arjuna among the Pandawas; Vyasa among sages;

Sukra among poets; law and order of the winners; silence in the secrets and knowledge of the wise are all the Lord (Bhagavan) Himself. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 68

68 Priests Hinder the Universal Vision Lord is ‘claiming’ that He is the game of dice among gambling and the whipping among punishments to indicate that He is everything,

noble and the ignoble. There is no end to His vast and omniscient glory. The whole world is but a small part of Him and He shows Arjuna

His Universal form. That vision is as bright as if a thousand suns had risen at once in the sky. Arjuna sees many things that he had never

seen before. As this vision is impossible to perceive with the ordinary human eyes, Lord Krishna gave him the divine eyes to behold the

Universal Vision. Innumerable faces; eyes; wonderful scenes; divine ornaments and weapons adorn that form. The whole world is in it along with its many

divisions, forms and colors. It encompasses the first cause of the universe, divine beings; movables, immovables and the nature itself. The

Lord is giving an indication to us that we also should be able to ‘see’ the universal vision when we see others. The viswaroopa (universal

vision) episode should not be taken as a story about someone in history getting a divine gigantic vision. No Calendar can portray it. No

lines in a drawing can depict it. Each one will get his vision in his own unique way. If we are able to get the vision of unity in diversity, that

is, no doubt the universal vision. One cannot see it with the ordinary eyes- it takes the inner eyes of wisdom to behold it. Once we get the universal vision, there will be no more religions. All priests will end up removing their robes and retire. Priests insist that

these are ‘old stories’ and ordinary people cannot see the vision. They also discourage all kinds of enquiries. At present, our vision is

limited as if seeing a palace through a key hole- seeing bits and pieces of the magnificent building. What we should do is to open the doors

widely to get a complete vision. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 69

69. All Scenes are Universal Vision Lord’s universal vision is not all-blissful. Understand that everything is part of it. Good and bad. Blooming of a flower and the most pitiful

incident are in it. We should be able to see both with the same attitude as life will pose in front of us many experiences, including many

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heart-breaking incidents. Gita provides us strength to deal with such situations. Frightening scenes are also part of the universal vision. Lord fills everywhere- sky, earth and the space between. Arjuna says that by seeing this wonderful frightening form, every one in the three

worlds was petrified. ‘He’ had numerous mouths, eyes, thighs, hands, feet, stomachs and canine teeth. It was a horrifying scene indeed. It

had no beginning or end, it had huge eyes, and the mouth was spewing fire. The people from the clan of Kaurava and Pandawa, the

grand sire Bheeshma, Perceptor Drona and the warrior Karna were all fast approaching that terrible mouth of fire. Some were seen with

broken down bodies stuck between His teeth. It was like flies falling in to the fire and several rivers flowing unto the ocean. All are moving

closer to the mouth of death. The same energy field is the cause behind the sun and the moon giving effulgence to the whole world by

extending His infinitely long arms. All actions and plans of the external world are included here in the depiction of the universal vision. Arjuna, having held this vision, realizes that the Lord is the ultimate Brahman. He is the substratum of everything. It is imperishable and

the soul of the universe and is in charge of implementing all natural and righteous laws. This is the wisdom one should get through the

universal vision (viswaroopa darsanam). The Lord is not sitting in one place as He is everywhere. He is everywhere we look and see and

not see. No one can give you special divine eye to see Him nor you can accept it from some one else. It is the maturity one develops to find

the self through ultimate love and surrender. Any one can have this level of vision. Then he can ‘see’ an ocean in a drop of water and the

whole forest within a seed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 70

70 Rules are Caged Boundaries Lord Krishna revolted against rules in his life and he didn’t approve traditions for the sake of accepting them. But He gave fullness to

everything He touched. Gita is giving us the complete freedom, and it enables us to open up our own path. Gita urges us to break out of all

the shackles and get out of the cages so that we can walk on your own. You would not need the help of any priests or middlemen when you

stand on your own. After beholding the wonderful, terrible and gigantic universal vision of the Lord, Arjuna says: Oh Lord, I bow unto thee. This is the

attitude we should develop. We typically curse the Lord at tragic circumstances. When facing complex situations, and dealing with

situations that are beyond our control, what we should develop is not an attitude of judgement, but a mentality that “I want to know Him,

who is behind everything”. This will lead to better clarity in our life. With the attitude of the universal vision (attitude), even ugly

sceneries will become beautiful. There, good and bad, real and unreal, and all dualities end. Lord is the time that is ‘destroying’ the world

every moment of passing. But this is the way of sustaining the world as relentless change is the basis of existence itself. Lord Krishna says that “these warriors will die even if you are not there to kill them. Death is also a definite thing born with a birth. You

are only playing a part”. Act out in the world with this attitude and enjoy the world with all its prosperity. It is said that by seeing the

universal vision, all ran hither and thither to indicate that all continue to act in the world relentlessly in presence of the Lord. Through the

Viswaroopa Darsana, Arjuna relaized that Lord Krishna is the ultimate truth that is beyond the real and the unreal. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 71

71. Remove the Lord from all Names and Forms Arjuna prayed to the Lord to pardon his indiscretions. By omission, he called Him a friend, by the name Krishna, comrade and Yadav.

This is the realization in Arjuna that the Lord is not an individual. It is also the realization that the individual I considered as my father,

mother, wife, friend, child, husband, etc. so far is not that person in the real sense. There can be dialogue only between individuals. He is

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forms. All rituals are meant for developing concentration through submission for arriving at a meditative state of mind. These rituals are not to

be done by others for you. They are to be done by you without any compulsion from outside. Arjuna is addressing Him as Viswa moorthe

(Oh! the one with the universal form!). Only when we remove Him from all imageries of individual forms would HE become the Viswa

moorthy. If we ‘see’ Him in one form; we are limiting Him to just that one form. He has thousand hands; we also have thousand hands

and that many possibilities. Krishna assures Arjuna that no one else would be able to see the Viswa roopam, even if they do scriptural studies, charity work or

penance. Here Arjuna represents us, who are keen and anxious to know. The Lord consoles Arjuna by telling him not to be scared or

mesmerized by His terrible form. Then he assumes the noble form of Sri Krishna. In the universe there are two forms- one that we like

and the other, we don’t. Some people see only the drawbacks and problems in life. Only when we work with the attitude of ‘everything is

Lord’ would our knowledge turn into wisdom. In that wisdom, the Lord becomes the Father of the universe, guru, air, death, fire, god of

the seas, Varuna, Moon, creator, ancestor, etc, etc. Bow down and prostrate to the earth by submitting own body unto it. Think of the path

you traversed. With this attitude of humility, we should see the universe. Then each of us will find and develop our own explanations for

the Gita. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 72

72 We Must ‘See’ the Ultimate as well as the Apparent Truth We learn history as the journey of mankind from the period of ignorance to the time of know-how that is today. That is, the stone age to

the modern age. But the sages had a different way of learning the history all together. The Upanishads say: son, there existed the knowledge and the truth alone and from there the journey has been towards ignorance. Lord

didn’t create the world out of nothing- as nothing can be created out of nothing. When that noble ‘stuff’ desired to become many, it

occurred so. Because many things came out of the one, it appears that many creations have occurred. This treatment of the subject matter

is available only in the upanishads and the Gita, not in the scriptures of other traditions. Universal vision is to ‘see’ the real in everything. We must see the truth that is apparent and the Truth that is ultimate. We must be able to enjoy the sunrise with the full understanding

that it is an unreal phenomena, because the sun never rises or sets. It just exists. Sunrise and sunset are the illusions of the people living

in this world. The main hindrance to see the Lord is the burden of desire we carry along with us. When we see a flower with the desire of

owning it, we loose the vision of the flower itself. Only with the unwavering devotion can one see and realize the Lord. A real devotee is always vigilant, but the modern devotees tend to

leave everything to the Lord and do nothing. Those who act for Him, those who have Him as the only goal and those who have no enmity

towards all will attain Him. (when we have different aims and when desire for ‘other things’, we will not attain that blissful state) We are

afraid that if we keep our ultimate goal as the Lord we may not ‘get’ all the ‘other things’. But the fact is that, once we attain the Lord, all

‘other things’ will fall in place properly. Lack of clarity in our goals is the problem here. Arjuna asks Krishna: who is the nobler? the saguna (through deities, temples and rituals) worshipper or the nirguna (treating Lord as the

formless ultimate reality with no attributable qualities) worshipper ? The Lord tells Arjuna- just as a loving mother would tell her child

holding his hands: “you are my precious son”. He says that a little child requires a lot of care and guidance, but those who worship me

without any attributes is nobler indeed. They meditate without limiting Me, in any name, form, or space.

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GITA 108 DAYS - Day 73

73 Those who Love do not Perish When eating a sweet fruit, tell it: “I am taking your sweetness, but dear fruit, you will not perish. I assure you that you will live on as sweet

words I give to others”. This is submission, meditation and love. In love, there is no death. There is no buying and selling; no one is

eloping and there is no marriage. We mistake lust for love. Lust can lead to destruction where as love is devotion. We develop care from

love. Care is the attitude a mother has toward her child who is playing in the yard even while she is busy working in the kitchen. From this

comes inquiry. We all must become god-inquirers, not believers. An inquirer will keep his pursuits on until he attains the goal. One can worship anything in nature as the Lord. Be it a piece of stone, wood, fire, tree, water, sun, or soil – anything is fit for worship. The

object we selected is of no significance – sun itself or a bit of soil, doesn’t matter- but with what care do we worship, is the significant

question. An Idol (vigraha) is something that gives us a clear grasp on the essence it conveys. Temples are the keys to the lock that is

Iswara. Concepts of temples have come forth from the depths of human consciousness and no one is capable of negating their validity. A

temple should, through reflection, resonate the mantra sound in the atmosphere thereby eliminate stray thoughts from the devotees

mind to lead him to one pointed concentration. In the old days people went to temples to attain God consciousness- not merely for getting

a job, for getting married or for getting cured of a disease. Such trivial visit to the temple is being careless in our pursuits. Worshipping the Lord in some form is Saguna worship. There is no one in the world, who can say that he is not a saguna-worshipper. In

the national flag, the nation is represented. In party flags we see the party and instead of chanting mantras, we chant party slogans.

Instead of temples, we build memorials for the fallen comrades. Those who ask what is wrong in destroying temples do not want their

party flag destroyed even though it is only a piece of cloth. Even to say good morning (suprabhatam) and bidding goodbye (subhayatra)

in sanscrit is considered religious by some ‘modern’ folks! Everything is about projecting our own beliefs on to some object to worship

that entity. If one is considered a ‘blind belief’, everything is so. There is no rational mind needed when we can see and believe something.

Rationalization is required in order to ‘see’ something beyond the obvious and visible. One can achieve God through worship in ether way

– by meditating on the Lord with a form or without a form. There is no need of temples and rituals to realize God. Having them is not a

hindrance either. There is no conflict between the two approaches. Both are noble indeed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 74

74 Live Revelling in Reality Worshipping the Lord without a form is revelling in Brahma that is devoid of any modifications. But know that It helps others to move; It

is imperishable, in comprehendible and omnipresent. It is motionless as It covers the whole space. In this worship, one controls his

senses of action, knowledge and the mind. He develops the sense of equanimity and he is interested in the wellbeing of all. For those who

are body conscious, this worship is difficult to pursue. Those who mediate by submitting all actions unto Him (that is to have the mind and the intellect aligned with the hands and legs, i.e,

actions) without wishing for results, but with ultimate care will escape from the ocean of death and the worldly trials and tribulations

(samsara). Gita advises many methods to meditate on the Lord. Keeping the mind and intellect attached steadfast in Him is one method. Take everything in the universe and observe them in two ways-

one that is with ‘me’ and the other without ‘me’ in it. If the vision is with ‘me’ in it, it will be incomplete and that is the duality – the nature

and ‘me’ are different in this notion. When ‘I’ perish, then there is only the world and in this notion of complete surrender everything gets

purified. This is meditation.

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Gita advises us not to withdraw from the pursuit just because we are unable to control our mind. He assures us that by regular practice,

this can be overcome. If that is impossible, do all actions for the Lord’s sake. Do actions that will enable us to fulfil our own life’s purpose.

If one is incapable of doing this, act well in the world with restraint, but sacrifice the fruits of actions. Now in this concept, there is no

‘doer’; there is only witness. This is living life in the real sense. Our mind travels from the real to the unreal. Accept all experiences –good

and bad- with the knowledge that none of these are really ours. It is noble to get knowledge through exercise; but nobler is the meditation resulting from the knowledge. Meditation leads to sacrificing

the fruits of action and from there emanates peace. If we have experienced peace any time, that must have been associated with some sort

of sacrifice. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 75

75. Devotees do not have Complaints or Expectations. Lord Krishna explains the characteristics of the devotees who are dear to Him. Those who are devoid of hatred or disgust toward anyone

and anything; those who are compassionate and are friendly with all; those who are impartial to all; those who are unselfish; those who

are patient; those who are ever contended; those who submit their unwavering mind and intellect unto Him, are all dear to me. World is

not getting agitated because of any true devotees. World is not giving agitation in the devotees mind either. There should be no conflict

between the nature and man. Don’t judge anything to be better than the other. Such judgements are all mistaken mental imaginations.

Devotees are free from happiness, anger, fear and anxiety and worry. They will not have any complaints or expectations. When one

realizes that everything is Lord, there is no need for expectations. Silence is the state of mind devoid of expectations. Annihilation of

enemies (shatru samharam) for a devotee is to eliminate ignoble emotions. There are no other enemies for a devotee. “Those who do not have any needs and therefore no desires to be fulfilled, intelligent people who have not gone under the influence of

blind beliefs, people who are clean in their thoughts and actions, those who are impartial to all, those who are not swayed by worries and

those who have sacrificed the attitude of doer-ship are all My devotees. They do not rejoice in temporary pleasures and gains and they do

not accuse anyone. They do not have any differentiation between the noble and the ignoble, or good and the bad. They see friends/

enemies; honour/dishonour; hot/cold and pleasure/pain etc. with equanimity. They are happy with what they get. They do not need a

specific place to stay as they see the whole universe as their abode. There is no ‘me and mine’ attachment for them. They are capable of

directing others also to follow this path. Their minds are steadfast in the Lord. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 76

76. Our Body is the Temple A devotee is one who lives life truthfully without getting identified with the unreal and he has no pretence. In order to assess our own

progress, see ho others respond to our presence. The Lord says that our body indeed is the field of activity and experience (kshetra or temple). Kshetra is perishable. If it is to become

imperishable, it should be in contact with that which is eternal. Then it will have an existence beyond the field of experience. In order to

raise the existence of the perishable body to be everlasting, it must be associated with Dharma. Without Dharma, conflicts and

destruction will occur. With the action considered as a seed, body is the field where the fruit of action is harvested and experienced. That is why our forefathers

insisted that our actions must be pure. It is not possible to avoid modifications of the body that passes through the stages of birth, life and

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death. One should realize that the self is beyond all these and ‘I’ am capable of observing these modifications. Knowing ones own body is

to realize that ‘I’ am not the body. Kshetrajna is the one who has attained this awareness. In all kshetras, the kshetrajna – the presiding entity (kshetrajna) is the Lord himself. In the body also, He presides over the functioning of

the body as the witness, as the one who is aware of all modifications. Since He is the one aware of all modifications, He is steadfast, and

eternal. Such a realization about the kshetra and kshetrajna is wisdom. Kshetra consists of the five basic elements, ego (doer-ship and enjoyer-ship), intellect (ability to discriminate between cause and effect),

the root nature that is vague, sense organs of knowledge and action, mind, sensory objects, desire, enmity, pleasure and pain (experiences

and responses that are desirable and undesirable), combination of the senses with the subject matter; life spirit (jeevan) and energy

(ojass). Lord says that in the body composed of twenty four components (from five elements to the sensory subject matter), and all the

seven emotions exist in it, from desire to energy GITA 108 DAYS - Day 77

77. Indicators of Knowledge In the Gita, the Lord describes twenty characteristics as indicators of knowledge and wisdom. First among them is being devoid of ego,

the “me-sense” leading to humility (amanitvam). A tree lowers its head when it is full of fruit. Second characteristics to be devoid of

pretence and pride (adambhithvam – that is not to be preventive of the qualities you don’t have). Non-violence is the quality beyond the

usual meaning of all non-injury to others. It is the state where one has no “me and mine” differentiation. Root cause of all violent

activities are the “me and mine” attitude. Peace emanates from concentration as a mind full of thoughts cannot be calm. Integrity is the

quality of being straightforward and honest, the courage to speak the truth. Nothing will be complete without serving your teacher, the guru. One should approach a guru for attaining knowledge with complete

surrender. Choose anyone – be it a monk, own father, mother, children, sun, ocean, etc. To attain knowledge, it is essential to have purity

in speech, body, actions, family and the mind (pancha suddhi). One should also have self control and an attitude of renunciation towards

sensory subject matter and he should be firm in his resolutions. Devoid of ego, having no sense of doer-ship; having no sense of sorrow in the modifications of the body- birth, death, old age, disease, etc;

having no pointless attachment towards the family, wife and sons; having no passionate desire for anything; facing desirable and

undesirable results with equanimity; having relentless devotion towards the Lord without vacillation, living a life of solitude at least once

a moth, having no desire to be in the crowd or to know details of the life of people around, keeping the mind steadfast in spiritual inquiry,

and to be aware of the benefit of scriptural and philosophical wisdom are all indicators of knowledge. All the rest are ignorance. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 78

78. There is no God- External or Internal Gita doesn’t envision a god who is external nor internal. God is the universe itself. He is inside and outside. He is the movable and

immovable. He is the subtlest of the subtle and He is far and near. For those who inquire, He is close; for others, He is far away. Since the

inquiry is on the inquirer himself, He is very subtle All hands and legs are that Brahman only. Its head, face, eyes and ears are pointed towards all directions. It is not possible to visualize a

form for something that encompasses the whole universe. Human beings have the urge in them to go beyond limitations and to attain the

ultimate, limitless state of being just as a seed desiring to become a fully grown tree. Everything in the universe has the desire to become

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many and human being’s ultimate metamorphosis is to become God. All characteristics of sense organs are brought to light by Brahman which is the only real thing, but ‘It’ is not affected or entangled by the

senses. Although It is devoid of qualities and It has no relation with anything, It governs over everything. It is the substratum of all. It appears to be divisible, but it is indeed indivisible. It is the effulgence of lights, beyond all darkness and exists

in everybody’s heart. It is the knowledge, the thing to be known and that which is to be gained by knowing. Only those who ‘knows’ all

these is fit to become God. Both the nature (prakruthi) and self (purusha) have no beginning. Emotions and qualities emerge from the nature and it is the root cause

of work and reason (karya and kaaranam). The omnipresent self is the cause for experiences that include pleasure and pain. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 79

79. Actions do not affect the Self No action affects the self. All actions- good and bad- affect our mind. Space provides an abode for everything, but it is unaffected by

anything. Sun illumines everything; so does self – illumines all bodies. That which is seen as many is essentially one. Gold ear rings,

chains, bangles and other ornaments are all gold in various shapes and designs. All actions emanate from nature (prakruthi). Every being

undertakes action as directed by its own innate nature, but the self is not ‘doing’ anything. Those who see God in everything and

everywhere without any differentiation do not denigrate own self. Some people see death everywhere and are frightened. Others are

blissful knowing that everything is god. Swami Vivekananda said “I am not against anything. I enjoy every drop of the sweet juice of an

orange”. In perishable things, one should see ‘Him’ as the eternal energy. Death of a seed results in the birth of a tree. Of course, the seed is not

dying. When you see the budding of the seed in to a sapling, see Parameswara, the Lord. Everything – movable and immovable – has

been created by the appropriate unification of matter and energy (kshEtra and khsetrajna – object and subject), including thoughts.

Those who cannot know this through meditation (dhyana), analytical contemplation (Samkhya) or karma yoga will realize the self (atma

chaithanya) by listening to others who have had this experience. Meditation is a mental activity that gives strength to our minds.

Samkhya gives intellectual prowess and karma yoga imparts impeccable practice. In the absence surrender in this level, failure occurs.

Life ahead – to be noble or ignoble- is determined by the life force’s (jeeva) association and attachment with the various qualities (gunas). GITA 108 DAYS - Day 80

80. Brahman is the Universal Womb; Lord, the Seed Lord declares that the great Brahman is indeed the womb (yoni) of the universe and I impregnate it by placing the seed. All creatures-

movable and immovable- are created from it. Universal womb includes all wombs and everything originates from it. It is the path to take

birth. For whatever bodily births occur, the yoni is the nature (Brahma- prakruthi) and the father is the Lord himself. The concept being

a father and a mother should always be thought of in light of the universal fatherhood and motherhood. Amongst the various qualities (gunas) of nature, the sattva guna (the noble, effulgent and immaculate) binds the imperishable self with

the body by means of attachment with bliss and knowledge. The rajo guna (the active and agitated) binds the self through activities

carried out to satisfy desires. The thamo guna (the ignorant and lazy), born out of ignorance deludes everyone. It shrouds the wisdom and

takes one to do wrong. Mistake is to comprehend one thing for another- i.e., misapprehension of reality. Each of these gunas expresses

themselves by covering the other two. A person with the predominance of thamo-guna, at the time needs rest and sleep. Even if he tries to

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undertake work, it will not be complete. One should work in accordance with the guna state he is in. Those who have attained the Lord through experience and wisdom do not take birth even at the beginning of creation. They have no

sorrow at the deluge either. They don’t have births and deaths. Once we realize that all are nothing but gold, there are no ornaments.

There are no ear rings, chains and bangles. Everything is gold. This doesn’t mean that we will see only a gold bar in place of ornaments.

Even while seeing the ornaments, we realize that the Gold is not undergoing permanent changes.

#8 IdiveTTu ShaJi

Posted 27 June 2010 - 05:28 PM GITA 108 DAYS - Day 62

62. Realize the potential from within We must endeavour to realize and bring forth the amazing potential latent within us, meaning, we must not forgo the opportunity for us

to become the Lord himself. The Lord says in the Gita that “I accept even a drop of water, a leaf, a flower, or a fruit submitted with care

and devotion”. This means that He is ready to accept whatever we are giving Him with utmost care- not that He expects us to harvest and

submit all the fruits and flowers to the temple. This is about the symbiosis of the macrocosm and the microcosm. This is the jist and secret

of life cycle. All life forms were originated in water. It is the leaf that came out of water becomes our food. Flowering is the process of becoming able to

create a progeny and the life of a flower finds its completion in becoming a fruit. It becomes the seed for the next life. When we are able to

understand our path of progression from the life force originated in water, our attitude will become submissive and humble. It is this

humility that the Lord accepts. If one ‘knows’ this secret once, he becomes the Lord. There is no distinction after that. Whatever we do –eating, enjoying, submitting material in the sacrificial fire as oblation, giving charitable donations, undertaking penance

– all should be done with an attitude of submission unto Him. Then ‘I’ will not be there. We will never be able to say: I did…, or because of

me…, or I , or me,…etc. Whatever is being done is all Lord himself. That is service to the Lord. Then brushing the teeth will become

‘brahma pooja’. Taking bath becomes bathing the beloved Lord. ****ual intercourse will be equivalent to a sacrificial ritual. The Lord says

that He will look after the one who meditates on ‘me’ without getting entangled with any other thoughts. “Sri Krishna is the one and only

god”is not stated as a ‘claim’ here. I am the self and the 'other' gods are thoughts that wander and subjects that are related to senses.

Leave all those and concentrate only on the supreme self, that is ‘Me’ GITA 108 DAYS - Day 63

63. Gita refuses all kinds of discriminations. Gita refuses to discriminate anyone and declares that all are entitled to learn scriptures. Sr Krishna declares that the traditionally

discriminated group of people – the ladies, men of commerce (vaisyas), service class (soodras), people of illegitimate birth – all will

attain the ultimate goal by approaching ‘me’. All differences cease to exist when we ‘know’ Him. Even a criminal- who is the epitome of worst behaviour- would be able to become noble if he applies his mind towards that goal. The

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Meditating upon the Lord with complete concentration, persevering to gain knowledge, devotional service, etc. are different paths to

reach the supreme self. Even the people who worship deities of sensory experiences are also ultimately worshiping the Lord only. He has

created them too. But as that worship is not well ordained, there could be some descend. We should show our obeisance to the principle

behind the image and not to the image itself. In this impermenant and sorrowful world, one should worship the Lord all the time to attain

happiness and immortality. This doesn’t mean that one should chant the Lord’s name all the time. All our day to day activities are to be

done by remembering the Lord and with out attachments to the fruits of action. That is the incessant ‘bhajan’, or non stop worship. Lord is the embodiment of equanimity. He has no love or hatred towards anything. He doesn’t have affection for the one who extolls His

virtures nor will He be angry with the one who talks ill of Him. He is not giving anything to anyone either. The Lord exists in those who

realize the self, the ‘atma chaithanya’; and they exist in Him. Gita teaches us as to how to become God; not how to get something out of

Him. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 64

64. Accept and then internalize Do not avoid anything for the sake of it; do not hinder anything. Accept all and then internalize everything to help evolve them to

perfection. Non-violence, sense control, compassion towards other beings, patience, peace, penance, meditation and truth are flowers

dear to the Lord. Those who always count everything as ‘mine and theirs’ are violent in nature. Even the thought that ‘I am not going to be

violent towards anyone’, is violence. The moment we think ‘mine and theirs’, violence has taken birth with it. Intelligence, knowledge, discrimination, patience, truthfulness, willingness to suffer for attaining the higher, contentment, pleasure, pain,

nothingness, fear, refuge, non-violence, equanimity, happiness, penance, charity, reputation or notoriety etc. are workings of the mind, all

originated from the Lord. The seven sages (sapta-rishi) and four ‘manus’ are His mental attitudes. Manu’s are the four states of the mind-

waking, dreaming, sleeping & awakened (jagrat, swapna, sushupti and thureeya) states. Seven sages are the seven qualities of the mind -

cunnigness, profit-motiveness, impracticality, practicality, day dreaming, intellectualism and thoughtlessness. These are like electricity

manifesting through different equipment. Breeze, light and heat are all created by the electricity, but these are not electricity itself. One

should know the expanse (vibhoothi) and the symbiotic relationships of entities to each other. It is the maya that makes the ‘One’ appears

to be ‘many’. ‘Vistaram’ is the concept of expanding the truth to be as vast as the universe. In this, ‘yoga’ is the ‘dettached attachment’.

Lord is the beginning of all. Everything is working in Him. By keeping our mind well established in the truth and by integrating the life

force (prana) with pranava (Omkara), we would realize this noble and mutually complementary relationship. “Even the divine beings

(devas) and sages (maharshis) do not know my origin, because I am the pre-mordial entity existent even before their origin” says the

Lord. Devas are senses and maharshis are mind and the intellect. The Lord is beyond all of them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 65

65. Treat the Nature as our Guru

The nature knows everything and it is waiting to impart wisdom to us. If we sit down in a corner with a sincere question churning in our

mind, even a mosquito will be able to impart the truth- “Brahma-sathyam - Bhaman alone is Truth”. We can understand everything from

the humming of a mosquito. Go to a garden, flowers will impart knowledge to you. Nature is not blessing us enough because we think that

saffron-clad monks are the only ones capable of teaching the eternal Truth. What is God and how are we to ‘know’ Him? The Lord

explains them in detail in the “vibhoothi yoga”. His explanation is inexhaustible but here we try to look at the most important sections

only. Soul – the atma- within everything is the Lord. He is the beginning, middle and the end. The best imagery for someone to meditate upon is Sun. Sun blesses the whole universe by giving life and nourishment to all. He imparts

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light that is capable of removing the darkness of ignorance. We should also become Sun-like, spreading the light of wisdom to the

surroundings. Sun in the macrocosm is like the intelligence in the microcosm. When our intelligence is hot, our mind should be cool.

Moon is the mind and no conflicts should be allowed to raise there. We should keep in us always the Sun and the Moon as they

significantly influence us. Ignorance is the only thing that the Lord destroys in us. Darkness of the ignorance is removed by the wisdom of

light. God is bliss, but many people search for it in vain without knowing how to attain it. Everything that is noble as well as ignoble has

come from the Lord. Bhagavad Gita doesn’t discriminate the noble things and beings as godly, nor the ignoble things and beings as

satanic. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 66

66. Vision within a Mirror house

We should realize the Lord’s glory as we see ourselves in the myriad of reflections as we enter a mirror house. All are our own images; but

they are all Lord’s as well. When we bark like a dog at those images, they will also bark back at us until we are tired of these futile

utterances. The whole activity has taken place because of the ignorance that the image is indeed our own. Once we realize that it will be a

blissful experience. The Lord explains His most significant glories by taking the most special in each category of things and beings. Each of those embodies

the greatness of the particular category. Once we know that it is the Lord Himself, there is no need to talk about the others. The Lord is

thus giving a goal for each of us to behold and pursue. He is show casing all the possibilities that can be achieved and guiding us as to

what we should all try to become unto like Him. Those greatnesses explained by the Lord are highly inspirational and worth meditating

upon. He is Vishnu among the adityas; He is Sun among the glowing objects; He is marichi among the maruths; He is the moon amongst the

stars; Sama in Vedas; Indra amongst the Devas; Mind among the senses, Energy in living beings; Sankara among Rudras; Kubera among

yakshas, Fire among the vasus; Meru among mountains; Brahaspati among Gurus; Lord Subrahmanya among warriors; Ocean in water

bodies; Brugu among sages; Omkara in words; Japa in yagnas; Himalaya among the unwavering; Banyan in trees; Narada in celestial

sages; Chitrarathan in Gandharvvas; Sage Kapila among siddhas; Ucchaisravas among horses; Iravatham among elephants; kings among

men; Vajra among weopons; Kamadhenu among cows; Kamadeva among the progenitors. Vasuki among serpants; Anantha among

snakes; Varuna among water-based beings; Aryama among the forefathers; Lord Yama among the implementers of the law. Prahlada

among the demons; Time among concepts; lion among animals; Garuda in birds; Wind among the cleaning agents; Sri Rama among the

weapon wielders. Makara among fishes; Gamga among rivers; Spiritual virtue among knowledge; dialogue among the debaters; Letter ‘A’

among the alphabets; dual conjugates among sandhis; time among that which are imperishable; All encompassing ruler and lawgiver, etc.

are all Lord’s glories. These are all highly inspirational indeed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 67

67. There is no difference between an atheist and a believer. An atheist and a believer are standing in one place! The atheist negates the energy behind the world, but accepts the world as real. A

believer accepts the God, but negates the world as real. Both leads to division. Gita does not ask you to think against the world. Gita

enables you to know the Lord and the world simultaneously. We have been learning the universe using many measures that we have

devised over the time, none of these measures will be able to assess the universal truth. Glory of the great ladies, prosperity, words, memory, courage and patience are all Lord himself. We should give god-level respect to what

the women have to say because they are more patient and courageous than men. The Lord is Gayatri Mantra among the hymns. Gayatri

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is not any one religion’s property. By chanting that hymn we meditate upon the ultimate truth that is the substratum of everything. May

that divinity be the guiding light that inspires our mind which has been matured through righteous thoughts and actions. It is said that if

a pregnant lady chants and meditate on Gayatri, her offspring will become bright and intelligent. Do not accept knowledge without the maturity to imbibe it because that will cause many misunderstandings. It is like warning some one

not to enter a nuclear reactor without the necessary precautions! That is why in the old days, it was insisted that only a ‘qualified’ person

should enter the temples. Now it is doubtful if even the priests are well qualified. They are concentrating more on the rituals. Anyone who

has realized the universal energy- Brahma Chaithanya- can become a priest and thus make the temple an avenue to know god. Otherwise

it will degrade itself and become something else. In sama songs, He is brahat sama; in months, He is dhanu (December); He is the spring in seasons; effulgence in those who have it;

endeavour and winning; nobility of the noble people; Vasudeva among Vrishni Clan; Arjuna among the Pandawas; Vyasa among sages;

Sukra among poets; law and order of the winners; silence in the secrets and knowledge of the wise are all the Lord (Bhagavan) Himself. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 68

68 Priests Hinder the Universal Vision Lord is ‘claiming’ that He is the game of dice among gambling and the whipping among punishments to indicate that He is everything,

noble and the ignoble. There is no end to His vast and omniscient glory. The whole world is but a small part of Him and He shows Arjuna

His Universal form. That vision is as bright as if a thousand suns had risen at once in the sky. Arjuna sees many things that he had never

seen before. As this vision is impossible to perceive with the ordinary human eyes, Lord Krishna gave him the divine eyes to behold the

Universal Vision. Innumerable faces; eyes; wonderful scenes; divine ornaments and weapons adorn that form. The whole world is in it along with its many

divisions, forms and colors. It encompasses the first cause of the universe, divine beings; movables, immovables and the nature itself. The

Lord is giving an indication to us that we also should be able to ‘see’ the universal vision when we see others. The viswaroopa (universal

vision) episode should not be taken as a story about someone in history getting a divine gigantic vision. No Calendar can portray it. No

lines in a drawing can depict it. Each one will get his vision in his own unique way. If we are able to get the vision of unity in diversity, that

is, no doubt the universal vision. One cannot see it with the ordinary eyes- it takes the inner eyes of wisdom to behold it. Once we get the universal vision, there will be no more religions. All priests will end up removing their robes and retire. Priests insist that

these are ‘old stories’ and ordinary people cannot see the vision. They also discourage all kinds of enquiries. At present, our vision is

limited as if seeing a palace through a key hole- seeing bits and pieces of the magnificent building. What we should do is to open the doors

widely to get a complete vision. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 69

69. All Scenes are Universal Vision Lord’s universal vision is not all-blissful. Understand that everything is part of it. Good and bad. Blooming of a flower and the most pitiful

incident are in it. We should be able to see both with the same attitude as life will pose in front of us many experiences, including many

heart-breaking incidents. Gita provides us strength to deal with such situations. Frightening scenes are also part of the universal vision. Lord fills everywhere- sky, earth and the space between. Arjuna says that by seeing this wonderful frightening form, every one in the three

worlds was petrified. ‘He’ had numerous mouths, eyes, thighs, hands, feet, stomachs and canine teeth. It was a horrifying scene indeed. It

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had no beginning or end, it had huge eyes, and the mouth was spewing fire. The people from the clan of Kaurava and Pandawa, the

grand sire Bheeshma, Perceptor Drona and the warrior Karna were all fast approaching that terrible mouth of fire. Some were seen with

broken down bodies stuck between His teeth. It was like flies falling in to the fire and several rivers flowing unto the ocean. All are moving

closer to the mouth of death. The same energy field is the cause behind the sun and the moon giving effulgence to the whole world by

extending His infinitely long arms. All actions and plans of the external world are included here in the depiction of the universal vision. Arjuna, having held this vision, realizes that the Lord is the ultimate Brahman. He is the substratum of everything. It is imperishable and

the soul of the universe and is in charge of implementing all natural and righteous laws. This is the wisdom one should get through the

universal vision (viswaroopa darsanam). The Lord is not sitting in one place as He is everywhere. He is everywhere we look and see and

not see. No one can give you special divine eye to see Him nor you can accept it from some one else. It is the maturity one develops to find

the self through ultimate love and surrender. Any one can have this level of vision. Then he can ‘see’ an ocean in a drop of water and the

whole forest within a seed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 70

70 Rules are Caged Boundaries Lord Krishna revolted against rules in his life and he didn’t approve traditions for the sake of accepting them. But He gave fullness to

everything He touched. Gita is giving us the complete freedom, and it enables us to open up our own path. Gita urges us to break out of all

the shackles and get out of the cages so that we can walk on your own. You would not need the help of any priests or middlemen when you

stand on your own. After beholding the wonderful, terrible and gigantic universal vision of the Lord, Arjuna says: Oh Lord, I bow unto thee. This is the

attitude we should develop. We typically curse the Lord at tragic circumstances. When facing complex situations, and dealing with

situations that are beyond our control, what we should develop is not an attitude of judgement, but a mentality that “I want to know Him,

who is behind everything”. This will lead to better clarity in our life. With the attitude of the universal vision (attitude), even ugly

sceneries will become beautiful. There, good and bad, real and unreal, and all dualities end. Lord is the time that is ‘destroying’ the world

every moment of passing. But this is the way of sustaining the world as relentless change is the basis of existence itself. Lord Krishna says that “these warriors will die even if you are not there to kill them. Death is also a definite thing born with a birth. You

are only playing a part”. Act out in the world with this attitude and enjoy the world with all its prosperity. It is said that by seeing the

universal vision, all ran hither and thither to indicate that all continue to act in the world relentlessly in presence of the Lord. Through the

Viswaroopa Darsana, Arjuna relaized that Lord Krishna is the ultimate truth that is beyond the real and the unreal. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 71

71. Remove the Lord from all Names and Forms Arjuna prayed to the Lord to pardon his indiscretions. By omission, he called Him a friend, by the name Krishna, comrade and Yadav.

This is the realization in Arjuna that the Lord is not an individual. It is also the realization that the individual I considered as my father,

mother, wife, friend, child, husband, etc. so far is not that person in the real sense. There can be dialogue only between individuals. He is

not an individual, and all our arguments are irrelevant. He is a presence – experience it, remove Him from all boundaries of names and

forms. All rituals are meant for developing concentration through submission for arriving at a meditative state of mind. These rituals are not to

be done by others for you. They are to be done by you without any compulsion from outside. Arjuna is addressing Him as Viswa moorthe http://www.punchapaadam.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47016&st=0&p=1422713&hl=calendar&fromsearch=1& (50 of 72)3/8/2011 4:15:29 PM

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(Oh! the one with the universal form!). Only when we remove Him from all imageries of individual forms would HE become the Viswa

moorthy. If we ‘see’ Him in one form; we are limiting Him to just that one form. He has thousand hands; we also have thousand hands

and that many possibilities. Krishna assures Arjuna that no one else would be able to see the Viswa roopam, even if they do scriptural studies, charity work or

penance. Here Arjuna represents us, who are keen and anxious to know. The Lord consoles Arjuna by telling him not to be scared or

mesmerized by His terrible form. Then he assumes the noble form of Sri Krishna. In the universe there are two forms- one that we like

and the other, we don’t. Some people see only the drawbacks and problems in life. Only when we work with the attitude of ‘everything is

Lord’ would our knowledge turn into wisdom. In that wisdom, the Lord becomes the Father of the universe, guru, air, death, fire, god of

the seas, Varuna, Moon, creator, ancestor, etc, etc. Bow down and prostrate to the earth by submitting own body unto it. Think of the path

you traversed. With this attitude of humility, we should see the universe. Then each of us will find and develop our own explanations for

the Gita. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 72

72 We Must ‘See’ the Ultimate as well as the Apparent Truth We learn history as the journey of mankind from the period of ignorance to the time of know-how that is today. That is, the stone age to

the modern age. But the sages had a different way of learning the history all together. The Upanishads say: son, there existed the knowledge and the truth alone and from there the journey has been towards ignorance. Lord

didn’t create the world out of nothing- as nothing can be created out of nothing. When that noble ‘stuff’ desired to become many, it

occurred so. Because many things came out of the one, it appears that many creations have occurred. This treatment of the subject matter

is available only in the upanishads and the Gita, not in the scriptures of other traditions. Universal vision is to ‘see’ the real in everything. We must see the truth that is apparent and the Truth that is ultimate. We must be able to enjoy the sunrise with the full understanding

that it is an unreal phenomena, because the sun never rises or sets. It just exists. Sunrise and sunset are the illusions of the people living

in this world. The main hindrance to see the Lord is the burden of desire we carry along with us. When we see a flower with the desire of

owning it, we loose the vision of the flower itself. Only with the unwavering devotion can one see and realize the Lord. A real devotee is always vigilant, but the modern devotees tend to

leave everything to the Lord and do nothing. Those who act for Him, those who have Him as the only goal and those who have no enmity

towards all will attain Him. (when we have different aims and when desire for ‘other things’, we will not attain that blissful state) We are

afraid that if we keep our ultimate goal as the Lord we may not ‘get’ all the ‘other things’. But the fact is that, once we attain the Lord, all

‘other things’ will fall in place properly. Lack of clarity in our goals is the problem here. Arjuna asks Krishna: who is the nobler? the saguna (through deities, temples and rituals) worshipper or the nirguna (treating Lord as the

formless ultimate reality with no attributable qualities) worshipper ? The Lord tells Arjuna- just as a loving mother would tell her child

holding his hands: “you are my precious son”. He says that a little child requires a lot of care and guidance, but those who worship me

without any attributes is nobler indeed. They meditate without limiting Me, in any name, form, or space. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 73

73 Those who Love do not Perish When eating a sweet fruit, tell it: “I am taking your sweetness, but dear fruit, you will not perish. I assure you that you will live on as sweet

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words I give to others”. This is submission, meditation and love. In love, there is no death. There is no buying and selling; no one is

eloping and there is no marriage. We mistake lust for love. Lust can lead to destruction where as love is devotion. We develop care from

love. Care is the attitude a mother has toward her child who is playing in the yard even while she is busy working in the kitchen. From this

comes inquiry. We all must become god-inquirers, not believers. An inquirer will keep his pursuits on until he attains the goal. One can worship anything in nature as the Lord. Be it a piece of stone, wood, fire, tree, water, sun, or soil – anything is fit for worship. The

object we selected is of no significance – sun itself or a bit of soil, doesn’t matter- but with what care do we worship, is the significant

question. An Idol (vigraha) is something that gives us a clear grasp on the essence it conveys. Temples are the keys to the lock that is

Iswara. Concepts of temples have come forth from the depths of human consciousness and no one is capable of negating their validity. A

temple should, through reflection, resonate the mantra sound in the atmosphere thereby eliminate stray thoughts from the devotees

mind to lead him to one pointed concentration. In the old days people went to temples to attain God consciousness- not merely for getting

a job, for getting married or for getting cured of a disease. Such trivial visit to the temple is being careless in our pursuits. Worshipping the Lord in some form is Saguna worship. There is no one in the world, who can say that he is not a saguna-worshipper. In

the national flag, the nation is represented. In party flags we see the party and instead of chanting mantras, we chant party slogans.

Instead of temples, we build memorials for the fallen comrades. Those who ask what is wrong in destroying temples do not want their

party flag destroyed even though it is only a piece of cloth. Even to say good morning (suprabhatam) and bidding goodbye (subhayatra)

in sanscrit is considered religious by some ‘modern’ folks! Everything is about projecting our own beliefs on to some object to worship

that entity. If one is considered a ‘blind belief’, everything is so. There is no rational mind needed when we can see and believe something.

Rationalization is required in order to ‘see’ something beyond the obvious and visible. One can achieve God through worship in ether way

– by meditating on the Lord with a form or without a form. There is no need of temples and rituals to realize God. Having them is not a

hindrance either. There is no conflict between the two approaches. Both are noble indeed. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 74

74 Live Revelling in Reality Worshipping the Lord without a form is revelling in Brahma that is devoid of any modifications. But know that It helps others to move; It

is imperishable, in comprehendible and omnipresent. It is motionless as It covers the whole space. In this worship, one controls his

senses of action, knowledge and the mind. He develops the sense of equanimity and he is interested in the wellbeing of all. For those who

are body conscious, this worship is difficult to pursue. Those who mediate by submitting all actions unto Him (that is to have the mind and the intellect aligned with the hands and legs, i.e,

actions) without wishing for results, but with ultimate care will escape from the ocean of death and the worldly trials and tribulations

(samsara). Gita advises many methods to meditate on the Lord. Keeping the mind and intellect attached steadfast in Him is one method. Take everything in the universe and observe them in two ways-

one that is with ‘me’ and the other without ‘me’ in it. If the vision is with ‘me’ in it, it will be incomplete and that is the duality – the nature

and ‘me’ are different in this notion. When ‘I’ perish, then there is only the world and in this notion of complete surrender everything gets

purified. This is meditation. Gita advises us not to withdraw from the pursuit just because we are unable to control our mind. He assures us that by regular practice,

this can be overcome. If that is impossible, do all actions for the Lord’s sake. Do actions that will enable us to fulfil our own life’s purpose.

If one is incapable of doing this, act well in the world with restraint, but sacrifice the fruits of actions. Now in this concept, there is no

‘doer’; there is only witness. This is living life in the real sense. Our mind travels from the real to the unreal. Accept all experiences –good

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and bad- with the knowledge that none of these are really ours. It is noble to get knowledge through exercise; but nobler is the meditation resulting from the knowledge. Meditation leads to sacrificing

the fruits of action and from there emanates peace. If we have experienced peace any time, that must have been associated with some sort

of sacrifice. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 75

75. Devotees do not have Complaints or Expectations. Lord Krishna explains the characteristics of the devotees who are dear to Him. Those who are devoid of hatred or disgust toward anyone

and anything; those who are compassionate and are friendly with all; those who are impartial to all; those who are unselfish; those who

are patient; those who are ever contended; those who submit their unwavering mind and intellect unto Him, are all dear to me. World is

not getting agitated because of any true devotees. World is not giving agitation in the devotees mind either. There should be no conflict

between the nature and man. Don’t judge anything to be better than the other. Such judgements are all mistaken mental imaginations.

Devotees are free from happiness, anger, fear and anxiety and worry. They will not have any complaints or expectations. When one

realizes that everything is Lord, there is no need for expectations. Silence is the state of mind devoid of expectations. Annihilation of

enemies (shatru samharam) for a devotee is to eliminate ignoble emotions. There are no other enemies for a devotee. “Those who do not have any needs and therefore no desires to be fulfilled, intelligent people who have not gone under the influence of

blind beliefs, people who are clean in their thoughts and actions, those who are impartial to all, those who are not swayed by worries and

those who have sacrificed the attitude of doer-ship are all My devotees. They do not rejoice in temporary pleasures and gains and they do

not accuse anyone. They do not have any differentiation between the noble and the ignoble, or good and the bad. They see friends/

enemies; honour/dishonour; hot/cold and pleasure/pain etc. with equanimity. They are happy with what they get. They do not need a

specific place to stay as they see the whole universe as their abode. There is no ‘me and mine’ attachment for them. They are capable of

directing others also to follow this path. Their minds are steadfast in the Lord. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 76

76. Our Body is the Temple A devotee is one who lives life truthfully without getting identified with the unreal and he has no pretence. In order to assess our own

progress, see ho others respond to our presence. The Lord says that our body indeed is the field of activity and experience (kshetra or temple). Kshetra is perishable. If it is to become

imperishable, it should be in contact with that which is eternal. Then it will have an existence beyond the field of experience. In order to

raise the existence of the perishable body to be everlasting, it must be associated with Dharma. Without Dharma, conflicts and

destruction will occur. With the action considered as a seed, body is the field where the fruit of action is harvested and experienced. That is why our forefathers

insisted that our actions must be pure. It is not possible to avoid modifications of the body that passes through the stages of birth, life and

death. One should realize that the self is beyond all these and ‘I’ am capable of observing these modifications. Knowing ones own body is

to realize that ‘I’ am not the body. Kshetrajna is the one who has attained this awareness. In all kshetras, the kshetrajna – the presiding entity (kshetrajna) is the Lord himself. In the body also, He presides over the functioning of

the body as the witness, as the one who is aware of all modifications. Since He is the one aware of all modifications, He is steadfast, and

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eternal. Such a realization about the kshetra and kshetrajna is wisdom. Kshetra consists of the five basic elements, ego (doer-ship and enjoyer-ship), intellect (ability to discriminate between cause and effect),

the root nature that is vague, sense organs of knowledge and action, mind, sensory objects, desire, enmity, pleasure and pain (experiences

and responses that are desirable and undesirable), combination of the senses with the subject matter; life spirit (jeevan) and energy

(ojass). Lord says that in the body composed of twenty four components (from five elements to the sensory subject matter), and all the

seven emotions exist in it, from desire to energy GITA 108 DAYS - Day 77

77. Indicators of Knowledge In the Gita, the Lord describes twenty characteristics as indicators of knowledge and wisdom. First among them is being devoid of ego,

the “me-sense” leading to humility (amanitvam). A tree lowers its head when it is full of fruit. Second characteristics to be devoid of

pretence and pride (adambhithvam – that is not to be preventive of the qualities you don’t have). Non-violence is the quality beyond the

usual meaning of all non-injury to others. It is the state where one has no “me and mine” differentiation. Root cause of all violent

activities are the “me and mine” attitude. Peace emanates from concentration as a mind full of thoughts cannot be calm. Integrity is the

quality of being straightforward and honest, the courage to speak the truth. Nothing will be complete without serving your teacher, the guru. One should approach a guru for attaining knowledge with complete

surrender. Choose anyone – be it a monk, own father, mother, children, sun, ocean, etc. To attain knowledge, it is essential to have purity

in speech, body, actions, family and the mind (pancha suddhi). One should also have self control and an attitude of renunciation towards

sensory subject matter and he should be firm in his resolutions. Devoid of ego, having no sense of doer-ship; having no sense of sorrow in the modifications of the body- birth, death, old age, disease, etc;

having no pointless attachment towards the family, wife and sons; having no passionate desire for anything; facing desirable and

undesirable results with equanimity; having relentless devotion towards the Lord without vacillation, living a life of solitude at least once

a moth, having no desire to be in the crowd or to know details of the life of people around, keeping the mind steadfast in spiritual inquiry,

and to be aware of the benefit of scriptural and philosophical wisdom are all indicators of knowledge. All the rest are ignorance. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 78

78. There is no God- External or Internal Gita doesn’t envision a god who is external nor internal. God is the universe itself. He is inside and outside. He is the movable and

immovable. He is the subtlest of the subtle and He is far and near. For those who inquire, He is close; for others, He is far away. Since the

inquiry is on the inquirer himself, He is very subtle All hands and legs are that Brahman only. Its head, face, eyes and ears are pointed towards all directions. It is not possible to visualize a

form for something that encompasses the whole universe. Human beings have the urge in them to go beyond limitations and to attain the

ultimate, limitless state of being just as a seed desiring to become a fully grown tree. Everything in the universe has the desire to become

many and human being’s ultimate metamorphosis is to become God. All characteristics of sense organs are brought to light by Brahman which is the only real thing, but ‘It’ is not affected or entangled by the

senses. Although It is devoid of qualities and It has no relation with anything, It governs over everything.

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It is the substratum of all. It appears to be divisible, but it is indeed indivisible. It is the effulgence of lights, beyond all darkness and exists

in everybody’s heart. It is the knowledge, the thing to be known and that which is to be gained by knowing. Only those who ‘knows’ all

these is fit to become God. Both the nature (prakruthi) and self (purusha) have no beginning. Emotions and qualities emerge from the nature and it is the root cause

of work and reason (karya and kaaranam). The omnipresent self is the cause for experiences that include pleasure and pain. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 79

79. Actions do not affect the Self No action affects the self. All actions- good and bad- affect our mind. Space provides an abode for everything, but it is unaffected by

anything. Sun illumines everything; so does self – illumines all bodies. That which is seen as many is essentially one. Gold ear rings,

chains, bangles and other ornaments are all gold in various shapes and designs. All actions emanate from nature (prakruthi). Every being

undertakes action as directed by its own innate nature, but the self is not ‘doing’ anything. Those who see God in everything and

everywhere without any differentiation do not denigrate own self. Some people see death everywhere and are frightened. Others are

blissful knowing that everything is god. Swami Vivekananda said “I am not against anything. I enjoy every drop of the sweet juice of an

orange”. In perishable things, one should see ‘Him’ as the eternal energy. Death of a seed results in the birth of a tree. Of course, the seed is not

dying. When you see the budding of the seed in to a sapling, see Parameswara, the Lord. Everything – movable and immovable – has

been created by the appropriate unification of matter and energy (kshEtra and khsetrajna – object and subject), including thoughts.

Those who cannot know this through meditation (dhyana), analytical contemplation (Samkhya) or karma yoga will realize the self (atma

chaithanya) by listening to others who have had this experience. Meditation is a mental activity that gives strength to our minds.

Samkhya gives intellectual prowess and karma yoga imparts impeccable practice. In the absence surrender in this level, failure occurs.

Life ahead – to be noble or ignoble- is determined by the life force’s (jeeva) association and attachment with the various qualities (gunas). GITA 108 DAYS - Day 80

80. Brahman is the Universal Womb; Lord, the Seed Lord declares that the great Brahman is indeed the womb (yoni) of the universe and I impregnate it by placing the seed. All creatures-

movable and immovable- are created from it. Universal womb includes all wombs and everything originates from it. It is the path to take

birth. For whatever bodily births occur, the yoni is the nature (Brahma- prakruthi) and the father is the Lord himself. The concept being

a father and a mother should always be thought of in light of the universal fatherhood and motherhood. Amongst the various qualities (gunas) of nature, the sattva guna (the noble, effulgent and immaculate) binds the imperishable self with

the body by means of attachment with bliss and knowledge. The rajo guna (the active and agitated) binds the self through activities

carried out to satisfy desires. The thamo guna (the ignorant and lazy), born out of ignorance deludes everyone. It shrouds the wisdom and

takes one to do wrong. Mistake is to comprehend one thing for another- i.e., misapprehension of reality. Each of these gunas expresses

themselves by covering the other two. A person with the predominance of thamo-guna, at the time needs rest and sleep. Even if he tries to

undertake work, it will not be complete. One should work in accordance with the guna state he is in. Those who have attained the Lord through experience and wisdom do not take birth even at the beginning of creation. They have no

sorrow at the deluge either. They don’t have births and deaths. Once we realize that all are nothing but gold, there are no ornaments.

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81. We Shouldn’t Leave the World Without Experiencing it We should not live life without experiencing the world. When rajo-guna increases, greed (lobham) arises and it leads to action aimed at

gaining favourable results. This leads to agitation and longing for more and more. There will be no calmness in action and we will be ‘on

the go’ all the time. When sitting down for eating, mind is in the moon. While spending time with the wife, mind is in the office in Uganda.

Mind never travels with the person when he is under the spell of rajo guna. We should break this ‘machinery mode’ and come down to

being natural. Even our children have come out of unintentionally. Satva-guna is in its full glory when the doors of our organs of knowledge are effulgent with wisdom. Although we lock ourselves down

and keep the key in our inner pocket, we keep lamenting that the locks cannot be opened. At the predominance of thamo-guna occurs the

ignorance, lack of clarity, laziness, wrongful action and delusion. Those who leave the body at the peak of satva guna attain the path of

the men of wisdom. The body-consciousness ceases to exist in wisdom and this is the only way to overcome death. Those who die at the

peak of rajo-guna take births as creatures attached to being very active. Those who die at the peak of thamo-guna will take birth in lower

wombs. Satva-guna begets noble results and rajo-guna results in sorrow. Thamo-guna results in ignorance. From Sattva comes knowledge; from rajo guna, lust and greed; and from thamo guna, mistakes, delusion, and ignorance. Sattva people go

up in evolution. Rajo-gunis stay where they are and thamo-gunis go down in progress. When a man of wisdom knows that there is no

‘doer’ separate from the gunas. When he realizes that the self is beyond all gunas, he attains the Lord GITA 108 DAYS - Day 82

82. Characteristics of those who transcended the material nature “Gunatheethan” is the one who has transcended characteristics of the material nature. While in contact with it, he doesn’t have anything

against knowledge, action or even ignorance. Many people live life cursing and self-hating lamenting about their past deeds. Qualities are

ephemeral, so there is no point in getting angry at their appearance and disappearance. Do not long for the material qualities that are not

with us. Also, do not carry on the memory of pleasures experienced in the past and dwell in those thoughts. A man of wisdom does not

waste his present time dwelling in the memories of the past or in the anxieties of the future. A ‘gunatheethan’ is always engaged in the

‘now’. He is not affected by gunas (modifications and qualities). He is not partial to any activities to the point of being uninterested in them. His

mind is unwavering knowing that the gunas express their innate characteristics as their dharma. He will cry aloud if he feels like it; he will

laugh when he feels like laughing. He doesn’t identify with them or internalize them. We should be our own masters. He is calm, unaffected by the dualities of pleasure & pain; likes & dislikes and honour & dishonour. He understands the essence of a piece

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blame anyone nor do they feel compelled to justify all their deeds. He is a man of courage who takes praise and insult with the same

attitude. He is equal towards friends and enemies. He is devoid of “I the doer attitude” in all his endeavours. A gunatheetha is very careful

and he is well aware of what happens in him –be it sadness, anger or happiness. Through unwavering devotion, he serves the Lord and

transcends all material nature. He is beyond all modifications realizing that ‘I’ am the abode of Brahman, the imperishable nectar of bliss

and the eternal dharma.

. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 83

83. Liberation is like the water reflection of the Sun joining the Source. Just as the reflection of sun in the water joins back the sun as the water dries up, we will also return to the supreme self. Once we reach

there, there is no return, it is said. The concept of ‘joining back’ is just imagery. In reality, there is no coming, going or returning

anywhere. Everything is supreme light and it is supreme self. Sun, moon or any other light source cannot shine enough light to show my supreme state. The Lord says that there is no return once we

reach that state. He compares the life tree to a Banyan tree with its roots up and branches growing down. Leaves are the Vedas. Some

branches go up and some go down. Supreme reality, Brahman is at the top- It is the root cause of everything. It is the substratum of all; it is omniscient and is the reason for

life itself. Branches are the gross life. Some branch up with noble thoughts and some grow down with ignoble ones. Knowledge or the

Vedas are the leaves of that tree. It is in the knowledge that we should be fulfilled. Just as leaves, they are to be shed and new leaves of

knowledge are to be blooming. Nurtured and nourished by the material nature, the tree of world has its roots spread all over human lives. This tree is not visible. One

cannot comprehend its beginning or end. Its roots are so well entrenched that they must be cut asunder by the weapon of detachment in

order to pursue a self enquiry in to the supreme state. Attachment will hinder our growth and so one should cut away the shackles of

karma. Part of the Lord’s eternal existence becomes an individual self (jivaatma) and drag all senses including the mind. We should be able to

control and guide our senses. Bhagavad Gita is the handbook that tells us how to make the best use of our human life. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 84

84. Appetite for food is the Lord Himself The Lord, as appetite (the fire of hunger, jatharaagni), digests the four kinds of food we consume with the help of four airstreams

(pranan, vyanan, apanan and samanan). Food can be consumed in four ways- by biting, chewing, drinking and licking. Food is of four

kinds – in the form of smell, effulgent, air and water. Prana facilitate intake of food while apanan facilitates excretion. Upanishad is telling us to stop putting the food stuff in external fire and to start putting it in the internal fire, jatharaagni. Feed the

hungry as we have an obligation to all living beings. Our ancestors have started certain rituals to enable feeding the needy creatures. The

ritual of giving rice balls given to ancestors on their death anniversary is to feed the birds and other creatures. We make the floral motifs

(kolam) with rice powder every morning in our front yard to feed ants. Without knowing the essence of the ritual, nowadays people use

insecticides along with the rice powder to make kolams. It is the Lord’s effulgence that gives brightness to Sun and the moon. Sun intern brightens the whole world. We should realize the Lord’s

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presence in their company. It is the same energy that makes us move. Without realizing this, we keep searching for the Lord who is telling

us, stretching His four hands “my dear son, open your eyes and ask what you want”. The Lord sustains everything in the world with His

energy. He doles out all the nourishments we need in the form of fruits. Without knowing this magnanimity, in the epitome of ignorance,

we lament and weep in front of temples “you did this to me; you never gave me anything, etc.” Men of wisdom see the life force (jeeva, the self) as the in dweller of the body, that which leaves the body, that which is enjoying the sense

objects. Those who are impure at heart will not be able to see the self within, however much they toil. The self enjoys the sense objects

with the help of the mind and sense organs. All sense organs work in accordance with the innate tendencies accumulated and the culture

imbibed by the mind. If one looks at anything with an eye of fault-finding, everything will be understood as faulty. Now our eyes are

incapable of seeing the process of blooming of a bud to a flower. When the mind gets stronger, it can direct the sense organs to subtler

and virtuous realms. We should hear only the virtuous and see only the pious in anything and everything. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 85

85. Devotee as envisaged in Gita is yet to be born Nowadays, the so-called devotees do not agonize over a tree being felled or a hilltop being cleared by the greedy timber lobby. But if an

idol is missing from a temple or a stone in a temple got misplaced or someone threw something at a place of worship, there will be huge

trouble. We have kept the Lord inside of a few temples- Guruvayoor, Sabarimala, Chottanikkara and so on. Running from temples to

temple without knowing His import, it is tantamount to insulting Him. Bhagavan declared that “I exist in the centre of all- with no

exception”. Memory, wisdom and absent-mindedness are all Him only. Only with His blessings do we remember certain things, know

certain things and forget the worst tragedies of life. It is ever present in us as constant stimulation by being generous with something and

removing certain other things. By studying the self, we can know the universe. Macrocosm (Brahma-andam) exists in each of us as

microcosm (pinda andam). Unfortunately we always look for ‘It’ outside of us! All elements in nature are ephemeral and they have the names and forms. They are perishable entities (kshara-purusha). But the

imperishable entity (akshara-purusha) that remains changeless and devoid of names and forms enable others to change and evolve in

this universe. The Lord, who is beyond the kshara-purusha and nobler than the akshara-purusha is the supreme entity (uttama-purusha).

He remains indispensable, inspiring all the three worlds – the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states of experiential existence. Here we can understand the tree of samsara (world) as the kshara-purusha and it’s seed as the akshara-purusha. The roots that support

all these can be taken as the Brahman, the supreme purusha. It is the Lord that fills nourishments in fruits and digests them inside us

when we consume them. He manages the assimilation of the necessary and needed portions of what we eat. Zoologically, we have been

created as vegetarians as our nails, teeth, jaws, and saliva are not suitable for eating meat. He has prepared appropriate food for us so that

we can develop inspirational thoughts, words and strong minds. To eat wrong food, that is, the food against our nature is to upset the

Lord within us. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 86

86. Cut Bondages Just as Separating Watermelon from its Vine We should separate our bindings just as a watermelon separating from its vine when it is ripened. Once become mature by accepting and

assimilating nutrients from the vine, the watermelon separates itself naturally without any pain. Neither the vine nor the watermelon has

any grievance about it. Accept and assimilate experience from the universe and be mature in knowledge. Then we are also ready to discard

the relations and bondages with the world, just as a watermelon. This is the ‘mrutyunjaya mantram’- the secret of winning over the

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death. Fearlessness (abhayam) is the outcome of having this knowledge. Fearlessness, mental purity, hunger for and regular practice for obtaining wisdom (jnana yoga), charity, sense control, yajnas (serving

the world), truthfulness, integrity, eagerness to learn, non violence, renunciation, mild temper, calmness, compassion for all beings, not

finding fault with others, yearning for nothing, softness in dealings, modesty, determination, radiance, patience, courage, cleanliness, un-

perturbing and the lack on ‘I and mine’ attitude are all divine qualities. To be firm in these qualities should come naturally to us. While doing a charity, we should feel that it is not mine, but it is His. I am only

an instrument. We should feel privileged and thankful to be able to do it. In the Indian tradition, the receiver is nobler than the giver.

Noblest of charity is not harassing or aggressive with anyone. We can be a pain to others by ‘giving’ something mentally of physically.

Many of our charities become an act of aggression. It is intended to keep the other person under control. We should give the most

necessary thing in charity. Sense control is not being forcefully stopping the senses from acting. It is being aware of the mechanism of the senses and their activity.

When we get angry, be aware of the fact that anger is raising within. Truth is giving light to the stuff within. It is the realization that all

living beings are another form of ‘me’. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 87

87. Diabolic qualities and Life in Hell Divine qualités (deva-guna) cause libération and the diabolic qualités (asura-guna) cause bondage. Asuras are the ones who revel in

physical comforts and sense pleasures thinking of them as real. Their minds are caught up in the net of misunderstandings and their mind

is never at peace. They indulge in sensory pleasures and end up in the ignoble realm of hell. Hell is not a place away from the earth. It is

here, wherever man experience sorrow. The three doorways to hell are lust, rage and greed. They prevent us from gaining wisdom and

denigrate the self. They are to be discarded. Those with asura-nature do not know what is to be undertaken and what is not worthy of our attention. They are clean and they are not

truthful. They do not know how to behave or what to speak and when. They don’t comprehend their limitations and they don’t follow

traditions either. What we should do is to know our limitations and to try overcoming those consciously. There is no point in lamenting or

cursing our fate or surroundings. For the people of asuric tendencies, the world is not proper and there is no reason behind it. There is no

God and we have no symbiotic relationship with other creatures. According to them, desire is the sole cause of everything. They indulge in

activities that are of no use to anyone and they treat all others as their adversaries. These dull-witted people, under the influence of

unending desires, undertake cruel and unthinkable deeds that destroy the world. Pride, illusion and arrogance are their trademarks. They

want to amass wealth using any means. “I did this, I have amassed this much wealth, I have killed my enemies, I am mighty, I will enjoy, I

have given so much in charity, I will do rituals” are their utterances based on their wealth, pride and position. These are enumerated here

to measure ourselves. If we look at others with these ‘qualities’, we are also being asuric. To be revengeful against these tyrants and to

hope for appropriate punishments for them is also being asuric in nature. A student of Gita should try to redirect these asuric individuals

to the path of knowledge. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 88

88. Let the Scriptural Science be the Authority In all our activities, let the scripture be our authority. Those who act as they please, ignoring scriptures and science will not attain the

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we choose. In the Indian scriptures you can see in detail everything needed to be undertaken by man starting before the birth and until

after the death. It is from penance (thapass) that everything originates according to Indian culture. A woman accepts her suitable mate

through thapass. It is through thapass that a child is procreated. When to get married, how should we behave in married life, how to

spend the pregnancy period, naming of the child, what and how to feed him/her, how to educate him/her, how to see the death, what to

do after the death, how to build a house and how to behave with others are all available in these scriptures. Only when the nature is a

willing participant should we undertake anything, otherwise it will result in unnatural results. A scripture raise our level through appropriate advices. If we don’t have any books to refer, try to look inside in a meditative mood. Right

answer will emerge. Actions emanating from introspection will not create agitation in others. One should try to get god realization by

penalizing own mind and body or by disturbing others. Immature and ignorant people undertake strange and self paining thapass that are

not scripturally ordained. They harass the elements in the body, the self and the surroundings. No scripture ask you to inflict injury by

piercing spear through the mouth or hacking the head with a sword. No scripture asks us to sacrifice chicken or other animals. Our faith

and nature (sraddha) are very much correlated and they are developed as per our cultural background. Sattvic faith leads to rituals and

yajnas to enhance the god-energy. Forestation and cleaning of rivers are part of this yajna. People of rajoguna propitiate the aggressive and diabolic nature and the people of thamoguna, the entities of the netherworlds. Whatever

we put our faith into, we attain that. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 89

89. Strength of a marriage is not in sharing leftovers Strength of marriage is not in sharing the leftover food from the husband’s plate. No scriptures tell you to do that. Everyone should eat

their food when they are hungry. A lady need not wait for the husband’s convenience and time to eat her dinner. Not to eat on time is akin

to insulting the Lord, ‘Vasivanara”. Left-over food, (even if it was just sat over by flies, it is a remnant), cold and stale, tasteless, smelly and rotten food are all unhygienic and

tainted. People with tamo-guna tend to eat these types of food. People of rajo-guna tend to eat hot, spicy, salty, tangy food with not much

oil or fat. These foods tend to increase diseases, sorrow and delusion in them. Sattvic people prefer healthy foods that tend to increase endurance, virility, strength, happiness and contentment. Those are food with

ample fats, taste and are nourishing for developing body muscles. One could know the full history of evolution of such foods. Only

vegetarian foods– specifically the leaves and fruits- are of this category. Quality and quantity of food intake influence our mental

disposition and behaviour. If we eat rotten food, putrid thoughts will arise in our mind. Satvic Yagnas are where we undertake action by keeping our mind steadfast in it without desiring for a particular result. In such an

activity, we are contented that we are able to undertake it. All yagnas done to achieve certain results or to show off magnanimity are

rajasic in nature. People of tamo-guna undertake yagnas without regard to scriptural injunctions, without the proper care procedure,

without mantras and fee to the priests. They are also reluctant to feed the people. Respecting and worshipping divine being, brahmanas, preceptors, cleanliness, straightforwardness, following the path of truth (brahma

marga) and non-violence are bodily penance. Experiencing the presence of the teacher is also part of it. It is the penance by words to be

soft, congenial, truthful, well thought, un-agitating and convincing in speech. We should not end up having to say ever “Oh I said it

without thinking, please pardon me”. Do not injure anybody’s mind with your sharp tongue. Mental serenity, gentleness, silence, mind

control and purity of conduct are all penance of the mind.

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90. Give Charity depending on time and place A charitable act becomes satvic when we help out some one when and where it is appropriate. We must make sure that the charity has

been received by a deserving party. Even our gifts, prizes, donations and contributions are all charity in different forms. Nowadays we

give donations in fear. Do not give donations to temple committees approaching you with programs such as mimics parade and musical

night. These programs are not aimed at enhancing the temple culture, but they indeed spoil the atmosphere. Do not give money for

bringing elephants either. It cannot be sattvic to capture elephants by trapping them in the forests where they used to live happily, care

free and fearless. They were forced out of forests which are the Lord’s abode and garden. Throwing money from a running vehicle to a

hundi (money box) is also a careless charity. As unnecessary wealth accumulate, corruption and theft results even in places of worship. It is a rajasic charity to expect return of favor or give charity with great difficulty. To give charity at wrong place and time is tamasic. It is

also tamasic to give charity without respect to the received. It is an insult to make someone stroll many times for collecting the previously

pledged charity. One should be respectful to the person receiving charity. It is a tamasic penance (tamasic tapass) if it results in harassing others or ourselves. Tamasic fellows are always doubtful and they engage

in activities without any sense of direction. Rajasic penance (rajasic tapass) is where people engage in austerities and ritualistic galas to

show off pride under the influence of ego. These types of tapass will not survive for long. Satvic penance (satvic tapass)is when we do it

with care, without any attached desires. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 91

91. All acts without care are ‘Asad’ All acts (karmas) undertaken without proper care are tainted and unworthy. With such activities, one will not get solace here or hereafter.

Even while doing the karma, or having completed it, there will be no peace of mind. Penance, Yajnas (ritualistic worship) and charity

done without care will result in the state of restlessness in us. Any karma done with the sounding of one of the words in “Om tat sat” will

become satvic as these words indicate the ultimate reality, Brahman. That is why Brahmanas and Vedas have been created. So, men of

wisdom undertake Penance, Yajnas (ritualistic worship) and charity by chanting the mantra ‘Om’ (pranava mantra). It is with the ‘Om’

chanting that we should undertake any activity such as- taking, giving and working. The pranava mantra, Om purifies everything. Those who long for liberation undertake various karmas without desiring for their fruits by chanting ‘tat’. Whatever be our ultimate goal,

these mantras purify our actions by allowing us to detach ourselves from wishful desires associated with those activities. Desire-less life

doesn’t mean that one should live the life of a poor man. One should be able to accept all kinds of experiences with the same attitude.

Don’t be fond of something and detest others. If a king’s life is being given, enjoy it with contentment. On the other hand, if the life

extends you a life of poverty, living under a tree, enjoy that also with ease. Don’t get identified with any such situations as they are

transient. In this wisdom, we can live in the world, experiencing everything, dealing with all situations with ease. ‘Sad’ is used to indicate true and good. Regularity, care and promptness in yajna, thapass and charity and the associated karmas, are ‘sad’.

What we are doing is to take and transfer a portion of something that is existent in the universe in all the three states. Wise men consider

themselves to be an instrument while giving charity. There is nothing ‘new’ here to take or give. Ignorant people pride themselves

thinking that “I gave this, and this much”. Neither the giver nor the receiver is going to benefit with such attitudes.

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92. Those who hate wars in fact love it Those who hate wars do so since there is a battle going on inside of them. Whatever we try to oppose vehemently, it will be present inside

of us in its full strength, twice over. Man of equanimity is not opposed to anything. A satvic man does not hate actions that are

inauspicious nor does he become entangled in auspicious karmas. Even the intense desire to serve others is also a type of bondage. They

hope to achieve and recognition behind such insistence. One should do all karmas fully accepting that they are to be executed, but do it without affinity towards their results and attachment to

the karma itself. He should feel that it is my opportunity to undertake it and I am the chosen to execute it best. Don’t take it as an

unpleasant task. It is a rajasic sacrifice to give up karmas that may mete out physical hurt and sorrow. It is not logical to give up obligatory

karmas- do not take up sannyas (life of renunciation) discarding your wife and kids. Sacrifices borne out of such ignorance are tamasic in

nature. Here the Lord indicates that the bliss enjoyed by a sannyaasi while chanting Om is same as the wisdom and contentment one gets

when engaged in cutting vegetables to prepare food for the needy. Sannyasa state is not to be entered into by leaving things unfinished.

Sannyas is the renunciation of karmas with the expectation of results. Sacrifice is to let go of all fruits of all actions. Both are the same in

its essence. Do not discard yajna, tapass, charity and such karmas. If we consider all actions to be yajnas (auspicious undertakings) is

there anything to be discarded? When we realize in the wisdom of Isavasyam idam sarvvam (everything is the abode of Lord) that there is

nothing that can be claimed as ours, what is there to be sacrificed? All obligatory yajnas and tapass are to be undertaken without any

attached desires for results. Karmas are to be executed just as the birds fly about in the sky- without making any marks. If not, fruits of

those karmas will search and find us as a calf would find its own mother even in the herd of thousand cows. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 93

93. Not ‘killing’ anyone even if you kill Lord says that even if one kills the whole world without any desires for the results etched by his intellect and with no the sense of ‘doer-

ship’, he is not ‘killing’ anyone. Those karmas do not bind him at all. He revels in the sat-chit-ananda state, the state of truth,

consciousness and bliss. He has no hatred towards anyone and no one detests him. His actions do not create any fondness either as where

there is like, there is dislike. Knowledge, knower and the known are three entities and they are the force behind karmas. Whenever we do

anything we should know the motivation behind it – be it a helpful deed or an act of aggression. Once we know the motive our actions will

have better commitment and resolve. No one will be able to shake that resolve. Because of the need for sustaining the body, one cannot discard karmas altogether. Real renunciation is to let go of the results of karmas.

What is needed is the paradigm shift towards the results. Those who are not ready to let go of results, they appear in three different ways -

Likeable, dislikeable, and mixed. They will experience the world in these three ways as well. A sannyasi do not face these three here in this

life or hereafter. All karmas have five causes. Abode (seat), the doer (individuality), sense organs of actions and knowledge (indriyas of jnana and karma),

various gestures and the power of nature, the Lord are these five causes. These five are the cause for a man to undertake any work –

rightly or otherwise- using his body, words and mind. Because of ignorance, the uncultured intellect does not see the truth and takes

himself the ‘doer’. He thinks: ‘I’ did this and it is ‘my’ strength and prowess; and ‘I’ am enjoying the fruits, etc. This is the attitude held by

Duryodhana. Duryodhana is thought less where is the Lord is devoid of thoughts. For them both, war is not an issue. But Arjuna has lots

of thoughts: he stands in the middle. One can go either down to Duryodhana state of ignorance or rise up to the Lord’s state. Those who

have started on their path of inquiry, the option is obvious- rise to the Lord state.

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GITA 108 DAYS - Day 94

94. Knowledge that is noble (satvic) Satvic knowledge is the wisdom to see the one indivisible, imperishable self in all the myriad of creations of the world, seemingly

differentiated and divided. Everything in the universe is the varying combinations of the five elements: space, air, fire, water and earth.

The brave one does not get deluded as he knows that everything is made up of these five. One should be able to see the ‘sat’ (the truth, the

essence) in the multiplicity. Rajasic knowledge is to know and understand the different aspects separately. The common thread that binds all is not apparent in rajasic

vision. It is like a poet and a merchant looking at flowers with different aims. People of different background see the universe according to

their differing views. Tamasic knowledge is unrealistic and stubbornly attached to certain ideas. They are incomplete and illogical. People who argue that since

one cannot traverse a ship in a drop of water the ship cannot travel in an ocean either. They ‘see’ logic in these arguments. When we execute our obligations without any expectations or attachment towards the outcomes; devoid of like-dislike dualities, we are

engaging in satvic actions. All activities originate in the mind. Thoughts become words. Gross form of words is activity leading to

behaviour, tradition and culture. Culture takes form in our thoughts and the mind is influenced by what we eat. Food habit of people reveals their culture. So, in order to

protect and preserve our sanatana dharma (culture of India) what we need is the revolution of thought and nothing else. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 95

95. Know your body From the satvic component of each of the five basic elements (space, air, fire, water, earth), organs of knowledge (ears, skin, eyes, tongue,

nose) were created. From the satvic constituents of the macrocosm formed the mind, intellect and the consciousness. From the rajasic

components of each of the elements, organs of actions- speech, hands, feet, genitals and anus - were formed. From the rajasic constituents

of the macrocosm, five pranas (panca prana- prana, apana, samana, udana, vyana, udana) were created. Thamasic component of the

macrocosm is formed by the process of fusion (pancheekaranam) of each of the elements with constituents of the other four elements.

These are elements that had undergone the process of fusion. From these elements, various cosmic eggs (brahma-anda) were formed.

Earth and the fourteen worlds are part of this formation. Within the earth, various creatures took birth. Within each of the bodies a life

force (jeeva) is present and the cosmic body (brahma anda) is presided over by the Lord, Iswara. Sree Sankaracharya declares in the

Tatvabodha that the macrocosm (jeeva) and the microcosm (Iswara) are interconnected in this manner. We should not harbour the

thought that the jeeva and Iswara are different and separate from each other. The ‘self’ is different from the causal bodies - subtle and gross. It is beyond the sheaths of food, mind, knowledge and bliss (annamaya,

manomaya, vigyanamaya and aanandamaya kosas). It is the ever present entity, existence-consciousness-bless (sat-chit-ananda

swaroopa) witnessing the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states. One should realize that the self is the knowledge (chit) that exists in all

the three states (sat) and is joyful (ananda) in nature. Sree Sankaracharya portrays the characteristics of a seeker. Discriminatory intellect to differentiate between the real and the unreal, not

having the desire for pleasures in this life or for a heavenly life hereafter, patience, self control, be impeccable in executing own duties,

accepting the pleasure and pain with equanimity, grace of the guru, care and eagerness to learn scriptural science, mental concentration

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and a strong yearning for liberation are the qualities of a seeker. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 96

96. Be aware of the knowledge and ignorance simultaneously Wisdom is to be aware of knowledge and ignorance at the same time. Satvic intellect is existent when we are able to know vividly what is

activity and improper activity; work and forbidden work; fear and fearlessness and the bondage and liberation. It is like cutting jackfruit:

in order to avoid the glue from sticking to your hand, we should smear oil in our palms before cutting the jackfruit. Not to understand this

properly is rajasic intellect and to mis-comprehend this is tamasic intellect. Drithi is the courage to pursue and complete intelligent activities already undertaken inspired by the words of the Lord. Mind is aligned;

pranas (life forces) are fully awakened and the sense organs are at their best. This is in the satvic realm and it is the ability to rise to the

occasions and to express the intellectual dexterity. ‘Om’ represents satvic knowledge; ‘tat’ the satvic karma and the ‘sat’, symbolizes the satvic doer. Life force is the subtlest form of karma.

Wherever there is life, there is action. When we take the air inside with the Om meditation, it is the satvic knowledge. All activities under

the influence of Om become satvic karmas. All activities undertaken with great difficulty and under the influence of desires and ego are

rajasic karmas. All activities undertaken carelessly, without thinking about the future or how they will affect others originate in ignorance

and they are tamasic karmas. A satvic doer is one who takes up work without attachment or pride in the activity. He reacts equally to

positive and negative results. A rajasic doer is addicted to sense pleasures and he lusts for favourable results. He is stingy, unhygienic and

he would even torture others to get his way. He is happy and miserable at the same time. A tamasic doer is the one who is lazy, sloppy,

uncivilized and he has a mind that is illogical. He takes up work reluctantly and disturbs others in the process. They insult others and

create troubles for people around them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 97

97. Be aware of the knowledge and ignorance simultaneously Wisdom is to be aware of knowledge and ignorance at the same time. Satvic intellect is existent when we are able to know vividly what is

activity and improper activity; work and forbidden work; fear and fearlessness and the bondage and liberation. It is like cutting jackfruit:

in order to avoid the glue from sticking to your hand, we should smear oil in our palms before cutting the jackfruit. Not to understand this

properly is rajasic intellect and to mis-comprehend this is tamasic intellect. Drithi is the courage to pursue and complete intelligent activities already undertaken inspired by the words of the Lord. Mind is aligned;

pranas (life forces) are fully awakened and the sense organs are at their best. This is in the satvic realm and it is the ability to rise to the

occasions and to express the intellectual dexterity. ‘Om’ represents satvic knowledge; ‘tat’ the satvic karma and the ‘sat’, symbolizes the satvic doer. Life force is the subtlest form of karma.

Wherever there is life, there is action. When we take the air inside with the Om meditation, it is the satvic knowledge. All activities under

the influence of Om become satvic karmas. All activities undertaken with great difficulty and under the influence of desires and ego are

rajasic karmas. All activities undertaken carelessly, without thinking about the future or how they will affect others originate in ignorance

and they are tamasic karmas. A satvic doer is one who takes up work without attachment or pride in the activity. He reacts equally to

positive and negative results. A rajasic doer is addicted to sense pleasures and he lusts for favourable results. He is stingy, unhygienic and

he would even torture others to get his way. He is happy and miserable at the same time. A tamasic doer is the one who is lazy, sloppy,

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create troubles for people around them. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 98 98. Sudra (working class) is the protector of dharma. For a Brahmana (scholars or priestly class), it should be natural to have the qualities such as self control, tranquility, penance,

cleanliness, patience, straightforwardness, knowledge, experience and care. For the kshatriya class, (warriors and protectors), courage,

valour, braveness, cleverness, charity, authority, and able to fight without receding are the expected qualities. Protecting cows, looking

after farming and trade are the duties of Vysya (farmers and tradesmen) class. To serve everyone is the duty of Sudras. Sudras are entitled to attain the goal dharma (duty) and Vysyas, the arthha (wealth). Kshatriyas are entitled to kamas (aspirations) and

the Brahmanas to moksha (liberation). Gita is not talking here about the birth rights of any class; everyone attains their chosen rightful

path in accordance to their innate tendencies. A businessman (Vysya) becomes a Brahmana as he embarks on spiritual inquiry. There is

nothing in the universe that is not under the spell of qualities (guna). When one executes their duties well, following the right path, he

attains the supreme state. It is the rajasic urge (dhrithi) to pursue dharma, arthha and kama without caring for the ultimate goal moksha. It is the tamasic urge to be

sleepy, fearful, sorrowful, proud, brutal and mentally dull. Although it may appear to be toxic in the beginning, bliss born out of self awareness evolves in to divine nectar in the end. This is satvic

joy. On the other hand, the rajasic delight is nectar-like in the beginning turning into poison later. Rajasic delight results when sense

objects merge with sense organs. Tamasic joy is delusive beginning till the end. Slumber, lethargy and foolishness are the cause of tamasic

elation. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 99

99. Kara-nyasa (Treasure to be held in hand) Some of the stanzas of the Gita have been classified as ‘kara-nyasa’, treasure that is always to be held in ones own hand. We should

become Gita by invoking kara-nyasa to express as kara-chalanam (work by own hands). We meditate and invoke the blessings of the sage Vyasa as the one who imparted this knowledge. We seek the blessings of sages to attain

the intellectual prowess to comprehend this knowledge. Let Gita be the words we speak. Let our speech be guided by the scriptures and let

Goddess Saraswathi revel on our tongue. Meditate upon Sri Krishna, the supreme self, imagining Him as seated in the heart, at the centre

of everything. Gita originates with the lines that say about our state of being. “talking like learned men, but keep lamenting about that which is not

worthy of concern” This is the root cause of all our problems. Men of wisdom do not mourn. Real strength is in discarding dharma as well

as adharma, surrendering unto ‘that’ ultimate reality. This doesn’t mean that we should discard work, family and the house to pursue the

higher truth. We should not take the momentary things to be real and eternal. Gita has given us the foundation peg, the assurance that the

Lord will rescue us from all transgressions. Let us tie down ourselves to this peg of assurance. Science does not interfere with the ultimate truth. Fire does not burn it. Water cannot wet it. Wind does not dry it up. Self is eternal,

omniscient and unfaltering. Everything in the universe is the Lord’s various forms. Stanzas (shloka) 23 and 24 in chapter2; 5th shloka of

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the chapter-11 are to be chanted with meditation directing our attention towards the fingers and the heart. Our words, mind and actions

must be guided by this knowledge. Shlokas from the Gita must become protective armours and weapons in our quest. Ashtotthara-namavali (108 holy names) includes all the various aspects of the Holy Gita. Once we evolve ourselves to become the Gita

itself, the compilation of the Lord’s name is verily ours and it is there for the purpose of worshipping the Self. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 100

100. Worship is executing own duty Those who worship the omnipresent supreme self by well executing their own duties (dharma) attain success. It is nobler to undertake

own duties- however ineffective they may seem- than to do other’s karma. It is ignoble to discard own karma with the excuse that it

cannot be done well or by assuming that it may result in something bad. One can find fault with any action one way or other, but don’t

discard your duties succumbing to your cynical mind. Who is eligible for attaining supreme bliss? He remains in solitude armed with the strength of pure intellect controlling his mind,

discarding all the dualities such as likes and dislikes. He eats modestly to keep his bodily functions active and he remains revelling in a

realm beyond names and forms. His words, mind and actions are well aligned and they support each other. He is in meditative mood

where there is no doer-ship or enjoyer-ship. He has no compulsion, arrogance, lust or anger and he has no sense of ‘i-ness’. Such a yogi

attains supreme bliss. In order to carve out an idol out of a mere stone, what we do is to remove the unnecessary portions of the stone that is not part of the idol.

Ego takes us away from nature and stops us from attaining the absolute. We are afraid of getting aligned with the nature due to the fear

that we may loose something. Gita advises us to keep the mind peaceful by avoiding confusing mayhems in our life. When we categorize people based on action, with their innate tendencies guiding them, there are no life-long brahmana or life-long

sudras. When one meditates in the morning, he is a brahmana. When he undertakes trade activity later in the day, he is a vysya. When he

fights for the country, he is indeed a kshatriya. When he is doing work for the societies benefit, he is a sudra. Everyone has all these four

qualities. This is the message we must learn from Mahatma Gandhi’s life. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 101

101. Truth is effortless to attain Truth is easy to attain. It is effortless and uncomplicated. We keep failing, trying to open the lock which does not exist. We make the

simple things complex by over analyzing and explaining. Those who have attained Brahama doesn’t lament about anything. He has no

desire either. As he has a vision of equanimity over all creatures, he is blessed with great devotion. One should get liberation now in this

life and not after death. Enter the realm of the Lord by analysing the principles (thava-vichar) in devotion. For this one need not visit

temples and it doesn’t depend on the size of the sandal wood or vermillion marks on the forehead. One need not call out His names to

surrender unto Him. It is being aware of the consciousness that is behind all intellectual constructions. During meditation, in the solitude,

one comes to know these by diving deep in to the inner self. Submit all activities unto Him. It is the state when our hands (actions) are

harmonized with our mind and intellect. One need not bring in a different God with a name and form in this quest. Don’t think of another

thing while pursuing one activity. While cutting vegetables there is no need to chant the Lord’s name. Don’t think of anything else. Give

your full attention to the act of cutting vegetables. When we give full attention to our activities we are getting more and more aligned with

the supreme self. This will lead to attaining the serene and supreme self. Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that even if he decides not to take part

in the war, due to his pride and ego, the nature will force him to go through with it. That is because Arjuan’s innate tendencies are those of http://www.punchapaadam.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47016&st=0&p=1422713&hl=calendar&fromsearch=1& (66 of 72)3/8/2011 4:15:29 PM

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a warrior. Everyone is destined do actions in accordance with the natural qualities and tendencies (vasanas). It appears as if all living

creatures are mechanized toys moving and acting about with the Lord at the centre, working as the controller. We can see the world in

four different ways. First one (vasthu-drishty) is to see it as such, as it appears- a lady, a man, a book, a table, etc. Second is the image we

attaché to each (pratheeka drishty)- as a mother, a father, Holy Gita, a dining table, etc. Third is the divine vision (divya drishti), to see

everything as the glory of the Lord. Fourth vision is the supreme vision (param divya drishti). That is to realize that the glory of the Lord

is nothing but ‘me’. Bhagavad Gita guides and enables us to attaining this evolutionary growth. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 102

102. Questions arise, meditation begins. It is necessary to have the inquiry in to what is happening in my own inner mind. In human minds the dharma-adharma conflicts

(virtuous vs. non-virtuous) are occurring incessantly. We are fighting against ourselves in these conflicts. When a question arises in the

mind, meditation begins. There is no point in dwelling on what happened in the past. What is the purpose of me undertaking this now? In

my mind what are the noble (Pandawas) and ignoble (Duryodhanas) aspects of my actions that are at odds with each other? When

emotions lead our actions, Duryodhanas are in control. When our thoughts are in control of our actions, Pandawas are in charge.

Brahman is the aim for a sadhaka where Universe is the bow and the self is the arrow. Gita is the lesson of this archery that a guru teaches

to his disciple. Entering of Krishna and Arjuna in to the chariot is akin to birth of a child. White horses symbolize the pure self, the

consciousness. The glory of the body is that in it resides the power of discrimination and the Lord himself. Panchajanyam (born out of five), the official conch used by Sri Krishna in the battle field represents the people who consider the world of

five senses (sound, touch, taste, form and smell) to be real. The Lord uses their bodies to extol the virtue of dharma by rescuing them from

the ignoble tendencies. Once He plays through us, everything that comes out of us will be virtuous. We should just allow Him to use us as

his flute. In order to make melodious music, there shouldn’t be anything inside the bamboo piece. When we say that the sound of

panchajanyam trembles the world and the sky, it means that voice of dharma will remain beyond time and space. Arjuna asks the Lord-

who is making me do sinful deeds even though I don’t want to. Desires of various kinds are the reason behind these deeds. World

becomes prosperous with the help of people with no selfish desires. People with selfish desires annihilate the world. Those who have no

desires attain peace easily. “All our actions undertaken for our contentment must enable others to be happy” so said Sri Narayana Guru.

Let this be our motto. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 103

103. Everything gets purified in knowledge Gita makes everything an auspicious undertaking (yagna). In the fire of self control, the senses are sacrificed. A vision is also a yagna. We

should not add color to it as we sacrifice it in the fire of knowledge. Accepting the universe in the fire of knowledge is indeed yagna and in

knowledge everything gets sanctified. Most holy is the knowledge itself. Some people ask – is it not beneficial to serve the poor and feed

the hungry than engaged in teaching of the Gita. Those who want to serve the destitute always want them to exist and indirectly they love

problems. Knowledge transfer is the attempt to nurture a culture that will ensure that no destitute is produced. This leads to permanent

liberation. Our creations are all in the spirit of yagna and when there is a hindrance to this attitude, even an unscrupulous person will be annoyed. In

order to rise above desires, we should reinvigorate our mind with the intellect that has acquired knowledge from scriptures. Don’t go with

the whim and fancy of the thoughts and emotions and do not denigrate yourself. Biggest sin is to indulge in and worry about the

insignificant events, issues and thoughts of the past. One cannot become a sannyasi or a yogi without discarding wishful thoughts. A http://www.punchapaadam.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47016&st=0&p=1422713&hl=calendar&fromsearch=1& (67 of 72)3/8/2011 4:15:29 PM

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sannyasi is one who undertakes work without wishing for results. He does not harbour thoughts of hatred; he doesn’t desire anything; he

has discarded thoughts of sense gratification; he has no feeling of duality. It is a simple life. Karma and knowledge (jnana) are not different for a sannyasi. One attains the goal through karma what can be achieved through jnana.

They are mutually supportive to each other. Karmas are to be done as per our innate nature and it is para-dharma (other’s duty or

unnatural) even to think that we are separate from the supreme. Don’t think that I am this body, thoughts or emotions. Even to say that “I

am killing” is unnatural and para-dharma. I don’t ‘own’ the work (no doer-ship) and we are truly blissful in nature. We can experience

this through meditation. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 104

104. There is no status higher than the Motherhood Motherhood is the highest status- a sannyasi needs to bow down only to his mother. A mind getting ready to meditate pays obeisance to

the mother, father and the guru. Then pray to the earth as it sustains the myriad types of lives in it. For the effulgence and energy, bow

down to the sun, moon and the stars. Then remember all the various life forms to get the divine vision of their essence. Remember the

cow and banyan tree before meditation– they give out the best by accepting the least useful stuff from nature (milk, after consuming grass

and oxygen after accepting carbon dioxide). Before sitting down for meditation, have a resolve in mind that I will not waver from the attempt to know and realize the Truth and I will

not recede until reach the goal. All actions must begin in meditation. It is the feeling of awe and surrender to those unknown hands which

prepared us ready to take up this endeavour. It requires high level of vigil to observe the activities of mind with the mind. If one cannot sit

in a yoga pose such as pathamasana for meditation, they can sit in a chair or by stretching the leg. But do not cheat yourselves in the path

of self inquiry. Doubts emanating from the peaceful mind lead us to the path of truth. But doubts of an agitated mind will lead us to

diseases. All actions become crazy deeds when done without awareness. One should develop full knowledge on actions undertaken. Just as we observe the external world, see the inner world of mental actions as well. Know sound and silence. When you start observing

the mind, it becomes powerful. A mind that is not observed is like a closed room. Within this universe, one can accept anything as the

guru. A book, a person, ocean or a leaf- whatever you want. Guru’s function is that of an alarm clock to help people wake up on time. That

is all one needs from a guru. If that person is not capable of waking you up, do not accept him as your guru. Likewise, don’t hesitate after

accepting a guru. Submit completely to accept his guidance. Religion, teachers and gurus are all exist because of various issues and

problems are there in people’s life and they typically like it that way. They want to conduct elaborate rituals (worship, homa, etc.) to ‘solve’

issues for you. Don’t go after such people. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 105

105. Gita is giving freedom to do as we please Bhagavad Gita gives us the unlimited freedom to do as we please. Bhagavan tells us that he is going to divulge the secret of all secrets.

Then he asks us to analyze and critique his advises and then to follow the path of our choice. He spreads before us all the facts and figures

and empower s us to pursue as we feel in the light of knowledge. Thus he encourages us to bring about all the possibilities latent in us. All the likes and dislikes of the world are within us. We should look at the world as we look at the mirror. The universe is a reflection of

our self. Only with the eyes of wisdom can we see this. Only the one who has had seen enough of the sunrises, moon and flowers would be

able to say that he doesn’t need another birth. Even Swami Vivekananda said that he would like to take birth again in the holy land of

India. We came through this universe and it has been kept ready for us to experience. When we contemplate with reverence the paths we http://www.punchapaadam.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47016&st=0&p=1422713&hl=calendar&fromsearch=1& (68 of 72)3/8/2011 4:15:29 PM

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traversed, we get to deserve certain imageries. Through meditation we can travel through the paths we passed. Meditation is like learning

to ride a bicycle. While learning, we need to follow the rules without any compromise. No one will ride a bike free hand during the

training period. Once mastered the feat, one can ride the cycle anyway he chooses- with or without hands on the handle bar. Once we

master the art of meditation, we can try to seek new possibilities. Then we need not sit down at one place to meditate. Those who have

attained the wisdom of self knowledge will be always in a state of meditation. This is achieved through knowledge and through tough

experiments. Don’t be obstinate about the path and thus forgetting the goal. Also, don’t be repentant about the wrong doings in the past.

Don’t foster the thought “I would have done such and such in my time, but now I am incapable”. Whenever we pursue the path of self

knowledge, do it with diligence (Sradha). That is of paramount importance. Swami Tapovanam used to say “those who pursue self inquiry

sitting at home should not try to imitate the yogi who is meditating sitting in the forest or vice versa”. A house-holder with discriminatory

intellect embraces the world without selfish intentions considering it as his dharma and thus he reaches his goal. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 106 106. What are the duties fit to be discarded? Bhagavan assures us that ‘if you discard all duties (dharmas) and seek refuge in me, I shall redeem you from all sins; don’t worry’. This

sloka, one of the most prominent in the Gita has created a lot of confusion. Some people follow it literally as an excuse to abandon all

responsibilities and avoid taking up a job or taking care of the family. They believe that the Lord wants them to stay in a monastery or as a

freeloader near a temple. Dharma is the essential quality of a thing without which the thing is not. For example, if you remove the heat and light from fire, it will

cease to be fire. Thus the universe is borne by Brahman. All values that take us to Brahman are dharma for us. Rejecting Brahman is not

being referred here. Bhagavan advises us to ‘know me, the one and only Brahman through meditation’. Here knowing is surrendering.

Gita wants us to get rid of the notion of ‘I am doing’ in the activities of our body (Sarira dharma)- seeing, hearing, thinking, etc. If I don’t

have anything as ‘my own’, there is nothing to be discarded. This is akin to empowering someone who is watching the sky through the

window to get out of the room enabling him to enjoy the open sky. Here there is not duality. Discarding dharma here is getting rid of the

doer-ship. A sin is the deed that would create an inferiority complex. A thought of lament “Oh, this has become my fate” is a sin. To surrender in the

Lord is to live and accept a life of reality without indulging in imaginary life. This surrender is like a wave realizing that ‘I am the ocean’.

This is the only aim one should entertain in life as all other prostrations are futile. Whomever we prostrate and surrender to, do it with the

attitude of surrendering unto the supreme consciousness. Bhagavan didn’t ask us to surrender ourselves to a temple, a priest or an idol.

To become a devotee is to realize that ‘I am not a separate entity from the universe’. Any injury to the universe is affecting me. It is my

duty to preserve and to take care of this universe. When the Lord says ‘you are dear to me’, it means that the relationship between you and

the nature is symbiotic. It is your love towards all beings in nature that makes you my favourite. This can be achieved only through

knowledge- not merely by going to temples every morning after taking a bath and applying sandal paste on the forehead. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 107 107. The Lord’s feet are the feet of life itself Feet of life are the Lord’s feet indeed. Meaning of ‘going to the Lord’s feet’ is to accept life completely and wholeheartedly as it is

presented before us. Only when we break away from the unimportant stuff we will be able to accept the supreme. Serving God is to know

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God. The Lord didn’t ask us to make a lot of temples, but he asked us to know ‘I’ through self inquiry with the help of scriptural

knowledge. We should propagate the scripture and at least our family members should be directed to this path of inquiry. Bhagavan says

that he who teaches scriptures well and introduces ‘me’ to others is very dear Him. There is nothing nobler than this knowledge transfer.

Supreme worship is to learn the scriptures without wavering from dharma. If some one even listens to the scriptures without jealousy, he

will get benefited as well. One should listen to the scripture with one pointed concentration. There is no point in listening mechanically. Hearing should be followed

by analytical thinking of the subject. Learn the word meanings and the purport so that all delusions end. We are the ‘chosen’ ones even to

get opportunity to listen to the scriptures. That’s why Gita warns that the scriptures should not be advised to people with no devotion and

penance, people who do not serve others and to those who are jealous of other people’s prosperity. It must be imparted to only those who

are really interested. Some people think that Sudras and women are not entitled to Brahma vidya, the knowledge supreme. The Lord has

clearly stated who do not deserve this knowledge. Here the cast, religion, clan or **** of a person does not matter. Those who do not make

an effort to know should not be imparted of this ‘secret’. Thapass (penance) is the pursuit one undertakes cheerfully. They know that it is

the service to the Lord to serve the country and devotion to the people is the devotion to the supreme self. Those who do not serve others

do not serve the nature. Those who are jealous to others when they prosper is indeed envious to none other than the Lord. GITA 108 DAYS - Day 108 - Final

This is the last page of the 'Gita 108 days' book. Thanks for your kind suggestions and encouragements. Special Pranams to Swamiji.

SOBG will be publishing this. 108. Integration of action and spirituality is essential Sri Krishana is the Lord of all yogas (yogeswara) and He personifies spirituality. Arjuna, (Parthan) the warrior with the bow and arrows

exemplifies the action. When these two are in harmony, prosperity, victory, affluence and appropriate justice will result. When the action

is not well connected with spirituality, world will be chaotic. It appears that United States has Parthan and no yogeswara while India has

spirituality and no Parthan. What we need is the harmonious integration of the worlds. Take out all the possibilities in us to better the life

of human race. When we work together, there will be no room for atom bombs or wars. Arjuna declares that his inner self has got awaken by the wisdom of discrimination. He already had that light in him; the Lord facilitated

the process, that’s all. Arjuna assures the Lord that he will follow His advice; that is to live life in accordance with nature. Once we decide

to act in harmony with the nature, how can those actions create a dissonance? Bhagavad Gita takes us to the inner meanings of the great statement (mahavakya) – tat tvam asi – (that thou art). Out of the eighteen

chapters of the GIta, the first six chapters analyse and expound on ‘tvam’ (i.e., you- thou). Six chapters in the middle of the book deal with

‘tat’ (i.e., that – the supreme self). Final six chapters describe how the two (tat and tvam) are integrally connected (asi) to each other.

Through scriptural erudition, we must develop the conviction: ‘that is you’ and from there evolve to realize: ‘I am Brahman’ (aham

brahma asmi). All our activities must be aimed at realizing this ultimate wisdom.

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