Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Bhagwad Gita - Post 64


Verse 8 


Naiva kinchit karomeeti
Yukto manyeta tattwavit;
Pashyan shrunvan sprishan jighran
Nashnan gacchan swapan shwasan.


“I do nothing at all”—thus will the harmonized  knower of Truth think—seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, sleeping, breathing.

One engaged in this process of yoga or the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the absolute  consciousness perceives himself  as separate from the activities of the body and that the senses reside in the very sense objects desired. Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting are the functions of the organs of knowledge - the eyes, ears, hands, nose and tongue. 

The knowers of the Brahman or the spiritual substratum pervading all existence being free from all conceptions of doer-ship are not subject to reactions from their actions although performing so many activities. 

The Vedanta Sutra VI.I.XVI states that when knowledge of the Brahman is realized, the result is the permanent eradication of all previous reactions and the inability to receive reactions for any subsequent actions. 

How does the Sankhya Yogi react when he sees someone acting?

He simply says, “That person is not acting, because he is “ATMAN”. What is perceived as action is executed by his body, and this action is colored by his intrinsic nature of three gunas.”

A normal jiva, on the other hand, thinks that it is he or the lower self which acts, but as far as the yogi himself is concerned, it is always the body which acts, irrespective of whose body it is. He is totally above the “body consciousness”.

In Yoga Vasishta, Sage Vasishta  advised Lord Rama:


Karta bahirkartāntarloke vihara rāghava

“O Rama, externally engage in actions diligently, but internally practice to see yourself as the non-doer and God as the prime mover of all your activities.”

In this divine consciousness, the karma yogis  see themselves as mere instruments in the hands of God.  

In one of the talks, the author  went on to teach few sadhakas that neither Sai nor any incarnation, nor a jivanmukhta, actually do anything like normal human beings do.

In both cases, in case of an avatar or a Jivanmukhta, from time to time, on a moment to moment basis, whatever is required to be performed by them, such actions just happen, and they do not plan or deliberate such actions.

And once such actions manifest from / through them, even while acting and after the action is over, they attach least importance to  such actions. 

Living, speaking, eating, acting apparently like any other human being, they are eternally in the realization of the truth that while their body / mind acts as per the requirement of the hour, the pure atman that they really are, is unmoved!

While the whole world may not be aware of the above truth about them, they have no urge / reason to even think as to why or whether the world is aware about such secret about their action less actions or the world is not aware at all.

Love.



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