THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER THREE
KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOD OF ACTION
VERSE NUMBER 11
Text in Transliteration:
devaan bhaavayataa ‘nena te devaa bhaavayantu vah
parasparam bhaavayantah sreyah param avaapsyatha
Text in English:
Cherish the Devas with this; and may those Devas cherish
you; thus cherishing one another, you shall reap
the supreme good.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
Etymologically the word deva means the one that is shining.
In the human frame the senses are called devas. They are shining in their own
way and they bring ligh to the dweller in the body. If food be not supplied to
the body, the senses become weak and unable to function. If the senses be
abused then also they get worn out. But when they are properly cherished they
become useful to bring knowledge and efficiency to man. To the extent man gets
enlightened he looks after the senses with added wisdom and attention. Mutual
fostering takes place this way causing good to both. Life becomes enriched thereby.
Highly evolved souls are called Devas wherever they happen
to be. Cosmic forces are also called Devas because of their efficient
functioning. The characteristic of the good and the enlightend is that they are
always engaged in the welfare of all. It is Yajna to aid them in their noble
and auspicious endeavours. The good and the boble in the world spontaneously
come forward to serve the doers of good and to promote their noble causes. Those who sacrifice themselves
completly to God get their reward accordingly. As the fuel that gives itself
away to fire becomes fire in its turn, the devotees who surrender their
everything to the Lord, become all Divinity. By sacrificing his all to Gd , man
attains godhood. This is the supreme good that yajna brings.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:
Whatever you offer to the Lord is returned to you ,
magnified manifolds. Take card , therefore , that you do not offer anything bad
to him.
COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:
See Mahabharata., santiparva, 340, 59-62, where the mutual
dependence of gods and men is described in similar terms.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:
Deva literally means ‘the
shining one’. By this sacrifice you nourish the gods such as Indra. The gods
shall nourish you with rain etc . The highest good is the attainment of the knowledge
of the Self which frees one from the round of births and deaths. The highest
good may mean the attainment of heaven also. The fruit depends upon the motive
of the aspirant.
Comments by the blogger:
In verse number 10 the Creator Prajapati is said to have
created sacrifice along with men and said, by this you shall propagate and let
this by your milch cow which will bring everything desired of. Man cannot live
without sacrifice and Vishnu is an eater of sacrifice. This is the basic plane
of action man and woman are sent to this plane to indulge in action. For a man
who does not sacrifice this world is an Adamantain chain he has to pull where
ever he goes. Verse number 11 represents the same in a superb manner through
what may look like an allegory, but it inheres in its quintessential state in
Truth.
Paying incomtax is not a duty of a citizen, it is one of the
incidences of citizenship, and as such it becomes A RIGHT OF THE CITIZENSHIP.
WITHOUT AVAILING THIS RIGHT, ANOTHER RIGHT OF VOTING AT THE ELECTION WILL NOT
BE ATTACHED TO CITIZENSHIP AS ANOTHER FORM OF RIGHT. THUS VOTING AND PAYING ONE’S
INCOME TAX ARE FUNDMENTAL DUTIES OF THE
CITIZEN.
THEN, THERE IS IS A HIHGER EXISTANCE THAN THIS WHER THE
RIGHT AND OBLIGATION ARE CALCULATED ON A UNIVERSAL LEVEL.
MAN (VERESE 10) WAS CREATED WITH SACRIFICE, AND WHEN THAT IS
DON PROPERLY , EVEN ORDINARY MAN, A HUMBLE TILLER BECOMES THE OWNER OF THE
WHOLE UNIVERSE AND HE IS RESPONSIBLE TO IT UPKEEP.
NOW THE SHINING ONES EXIST ON BOTH LEVEL.
ON THE UNIVERSAL LEVEL THEY ARE THE RIG-VEDIC ELEMENTAL GODS
WITH AGNI ACTING AS THE COSMIC AND INTERSTELLER AND INTERCOSMIC CONVEYAR AND
BRINGER OF OBLATIONAL THINGS.
Man has to sacrifice. Simply because I happend to have a
good pair of eyes, I can’t see blue films; it is a killer of atman. It is used
in excess. The faculty of vision, when excessively used, it molests both the
individual self and the universal self. An American thinking about the unhigyen
way a South African is brought up eckos and revebrates the whole Universe,
apart from affecting the wave maker, the American, and the South African child
even though one single dollar is fished out for the emelioration of the child. That
assignment is taken care of the universal spirit which cause the intesteller
echo of one American man to arrive at the right man of woman or organisation
and reverberate in their heart, and then that child gets digestible biscuits and
egg powder soon!
There is a constant contact between the fundamental
elemental gods and Man AS FOUND SINGULARLY OUT BY THE RIG VEDIC SAINT IN INDIA,
OTHER SAGES IN EEGYPT AND OTHER COUNTRIES WHICH HAD ELEMENTAL GODS FOR
WORSHIPPING.
THROUGH OUT THE RIGVEDA SAINT AFTER SAIN PROPITIATE THE
ELEMENTAL GODS AND INDIRA AND THE SHINING ONES SO THAT THEIR EARTHLY LIFE MAY
BE MADE GOOD ,SAF AND SOUND. THAT PERIOD AND THE LATER UPANISHADIC PERIOD WERE
THE ACME OF GREATENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL AND THE
UNIVERSAL SOUL. SUCCEEDING HISTORY OF THE MANKIND IS TO BE MEASURED IN
PROPORTION TO WHICH HE HAS BEEN MAKING HIMSELF UNRECEPTIVE TO SUCH THEORIES OF
MOST ORIGINALITY!
WE ARE BUT PAUPERS IN COMPARISON TO OUR FOREFATHERS WHO HAD QUESTIONED
EVERYTHING, RESEARCHED EVERYTHING MEDITATED ON EVERY QUESTION, AND FOUND OUT
FULSOME ANSWERS TO ALL THE RELVANT POINTS AND ISSUES. WE ARE RAG PICKERS AND
SAY THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO ENJOY THEMSLEVES AND UNDERSTOOD LIFE AS AN ENDLESS
SACRIFICE AND PROPITIATING.
EVEN AFTER THE SAME EXTERNANALAIZE SACRIFICES GOT
INTERNALIZED AND MAN EVOLEVED, NOW WITH HIS SIGHT HAVING TRANSCENDING THE
UNIVESAL SOUL AND REACHING OUT TO THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, AND WITH THAT A
CHANGE IN THE SACRIFICES HAVING COME INTO EFFECT , AND GREAT RISHIS MEDITATED
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS HAVING NUTRALIZED THE INTERNAL BREATH INTO EXTERNAL AND
EXTERENAL INTO THE INTERNAL AND THUS TAKING THEM QUITE OUT OF THE ONSLOUGHT OF
THIS UNIVERSE AND ITSE INSUFFICEINET LAW, THEY MEDITATED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
AND FOUND OUT THE CREAER OF THE UNIVERS ITSELF.
BUT , WE, THE MODERN MEN AND WOEMEN HAVE NO TIME FOR THOSE
METHODICAL MASTERS. WE HAVE OUR PUNI UNDERSTANDING OF THINGS , MEN AND MATTER. AND WE LIVE FOR
OURSELVES OR AT LEAST THINK SO. BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
MAN AND SACRIFICE WERE CREATED IN THE BEGINNING BY THE
PRAJAPATI. UNLESS WE INDULGE IN SACRIFICE WE HAVE NO CHOICE OF REALISING OUR
SOUL.
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