THE HOLY GITA--CHAPTER 10, VERSE 05, VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 10

VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS:

VERSE NUMBER 05

Text in Transliteration:

Ahimsaa samataa tushtis tapo daanam yaso ‘yasah:

Bhavanti bhaavaa bhootaanaam matta eva prithagvidhaah:

Ahimsaa = non-injury; samataa = equanimity; tushtih: = contentment; tapah: = austerity; daanam = beneficence; yasah: = fame; ayasah: = ill-fame; bhavanti = arise; bhaavaah: = qualities; bhootaanaam = of beings mattah: = from; eva = alone; prthagvidhaah: = of different kinds

Text in English:

Non-injury, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and obloquy—these different qualities of beings arise from Me alone.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

Samata or equanimity is the balanced state of mind in the midst of the happenings of the desirable and undesirable occurrences.

Tapas or austerity is the determined change of life-habits from bad to good through a rigorous self-discipline

Danam or charity is the gift of the good and useful things made to the deserving persons.

Yasah: and Ayasah: or fame and obloquy are the outcome of doing the right or wrong deeds.

Electric power utilized by man expresses itself differently through different instruments. According to their attainments acquired through their karma in this life and in the past lives, men become the instruments for the expression of the Sat-cit-ananda positively as well as negatively. The qualities mentioned herein are all come from the same source—Iswara.

Who are they that have been the vehicles for the abundant expression of the glories of Iswara? The adumbrations ensues in the next stanza.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

Ahimsa: non-violence; in old texts it means non-hurting, especially non-killing.

All these separate states of being issue in accordance with the past karma of beings. The Divine is indirectly responsible even for the pain and suffering of the world. He is the lord of the world and guides it, though He is unaffected by its oppositions.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

Ahimsa is non-injury to living beings in thought, word and deed. Samata is that state wherein there is neither raga (like) nor Dvesha (dislike), when one gets pleasant or unpleasant objects. There is neither exhilaration when one gets pleasant or favourable objects not depression when one gets unpleasant or unfavourable objects. Tushtih is satisfaction or contentment. The man of contentment is satisfied with whatever object he gets through Prarabdha. He is satisfied with his present acquisitions. He is free from greed and so he has peace of mind. Contentment makes a man very rich. It annihilates greed. Greed makes even a rich man a beggar of beggars. A greedy man is ever restless. Tapas is restraint of the senses, with bodily mortification through the practice of fasting and slow reduction of food. The strength of the body and the senses is reduced through fasting.

Danam is beneficence. It is sharing of one’s own things with others according to one’s own things with others according to one’s own means, or distribution of rice, gold, cloth, etc., to a worthy person, in a fit place and time, especially to one who can do nothing in return.

Yasas is fame due to Dharma or virtuous actions.

Ayasah: is ill-fame or disgrace due to Adharma or sinful actions.

All these different kinds of qualities of living beings arise from Me alone,  the great Lord of the worlds, according to their respective Karmas.