Verse 5
The divine nature is
deemed for liberation and the demoniacal for bondage. Grieve not, O Arjuna, for
thou art born with divine properties!
Daivī saṁpad vimokṣāya
“If these divine qualities are
adopted in your daily life, they will lead you to final liberation gradually,
stage by stage.”
Nibandhāyāsurī matā
“But if you resort to the undivine
qualities, you shall be bound hand and foot more and more every day, until it
will be difficult for you to extricate yourself from this bondage. Arjuna!
Don’t be afraid. You are born of divine qualities.”
Mā śucaḥ: “Don’t be afraid. Don’t grieve.”
Saṁpadaṁ daivīm abhijāto’si
“You are born with qualities that
are divine. You are really good and gentlemanly in your nature. You are a
divine person.”
The sequence of each line, each expression in
these verses, even while the author starts writing on them, he is awestruck as
to How beautifully the sequence has been built by the lord. Let us
see the beauty of the sequence of this verse.
1) The Lord gave the
divine and the demonic qualities in the earlier verses.
2) Now, the Lord explains the
consequences of having divine / demonic qualities.
3) Though the verse does not pronounce
explicitly, it has to be observed that as per the qualities/ characteristics
one is endowed with, his actions are shaped accordingly. Good thoughts/ good
nature leads to good actions and ultimately to liberation whereas demonic
nature leads to evil/ bad actions which fetches karma accordingly and for
clearing those KARMAs, man is born again and again and hence, the lord says,
such nature/qualities will lead to bondage.
4) Even while the listener tends to
get panic on hearing the above and starts looking into his past actions, his
nature etc, the Lord comes to the rescue and like a Big God Wave
reveals the real nature of the wave which is grieving and fearing
its imminent death, Lord here says,
5) “Don’t be afraid. Don’t
grieve.” “You are born with qualities that are divine. You are really good
and gentlemanly in your nature. You are a divine person.”
Thus, reminding the Bhakta
that
* you are
not the wave which you think you are, you are the substratum water,
* you are
not the drawings on the pure canvass, you are the pure canvass yourself,
* you are
not the shape of various pot good/bad/worse/ugly/beautiful etc., you are verily
the space within the pot,
* you are
not the ornament which you think, you
are verily the Gold,
O
Bangaru!!!!
Verse 6
There are two types of
beings in this world—the divine and the demoniacal; the divine has been
described at length; hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the demoniacal!
Daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta
“Now, I have mentioned to you
something about the good qualities, saintly qualities, divine qualities, in the
earlier verses.”
Lord Krishna has not actually gone
into detail, but yet he says, “I have gone into detail in regard to the good
qualities.”
But actually he goes into greater
detail in the description of the demoniacal qualities.
Actually, there is no need for
reading about these demoniacal qualities because every day we are witnessing,
facing, reading only about manifestation of demonic qualities in human beings.
But, several thousand years ago,
Lord had anticipated that the next Yuga will be filled with human beings
with such demonic qualities and hence, Bhagwad Gita describes even the
demonic qualities in this chapter!!
Love.
