THE HOLY GITA

Saturday 9 March 2019

THE HOLY GITA CHAPTER 13 VERSE 30 KSHETRA KSHETRAJNA VIBHAGA YOGA OR THE DISCRIMINATION OF THE KHETRA AND THE KSHETRAJNA

THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER NUMBER 13
VERSE NUMBER 30
KSHETRA KSHETRAJNA VIBHAGA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE DISCRIMINATION OF THE KSHETRA AND THE KSHETRAJNA:
TEXT IN TRANSLITERATION:
yadaa bhootaprrthagbhaavam ekastham anupasyati
tata eva cha vistaaram brahma sampadyate tadaa
SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANING IN ENGLISH:
Yadaa = when: bhoota prrthag bhaavam = the whole variety of beings: ekastham = resting in the one: anupasyati = sees: tatah = from that: eva = alone: cha = and: vistaaram = the spreading: brahma = Brahman: sampadyate = (he) becomes: tadaa = then.
TEXT IN ENGLISH:
When he realizes the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and is an evolution from that One alone, then he becomes Brahman.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The wave, the billow, the ripple, the tide, the breakers, the froth—all these modifications belong to the sea. The potentiality of the sea expresses itself in all these forms, which have no existence independent of the sea. In this manner, the inscrutable Mayaa Sakti inherent in Brahman manifests itself as the multitudinous beings resting on Brahman. Neither the beings nor the Sakti who is their root, is extraneous to Brahman. The knower of this truth becomes a Brahma Jnani.

SRIMAT SWAMI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA AS QUOTED BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The static Brahman and the kinetic Sakti are in fact one and the same. The Absolute Sat-chit-ananda Brahman is also the omnipotent, omniscient and all blissful Cosmic Mother. As fire and heat are one and the same, Brahman and Sakti are the same.

COMMENTARY NOTE BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

When the variety of nature and its development are traced to the Eternal One, we assume eternity. “He realizes the all-pervading nature of the Self, inasmuch as the cause of all limitation is absorbed into the unity of the Self.” Aanandagiri.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

A man attains to unity with the Supreme when he knows or realizes through intuition that all these manifold forms are rooted in the One. As waves in water, atoms in the earth, rays in the sun, organs in the body, emotions in the mind, sparks in the fire, so verily are all forms rooted in the One. Wherever he turns his gaze he beholds only the one Self and enjoys the bliss of the Self.
When he beholds the diversity of beings rooted in the One in accordance with the teachings of the scriptures and the preceptor, he realises through intuitive experience that all that he beholds is nothing but the Self and that the origine and the evolution of all is from That One alone. Compare with the Chhandogya Upanishad, 7.26.1.

Comments by the blogger:
The central theme of Oneness of the Source that is seen by the ordinary people as many in the world gets repeated beautifully. Mahatma Gandhi says that he simply loves this mode of teaching. So it is Brahman who comes here masquerading as many beings and for the uninitiated beings like many of us or the most of us, shall I say, the world appears as containing many beings who are complete in their individual form and name. But only the initiated can attain that esoteric wisdom that all indeed emanate from One Single Brahmic Source and thus all are one and the same Brahman. Doubtlessly the initiated must go through the spiritual life seeking Knowledge daily for hours together for countless years before attaining this Wisdom. Here the term REALIZES is important. It is not enough to just become clear in the mind about the Oneness of all the variety of beings as resting in Brahman, but one must REALIZE that all the teeming variety of beings of this world have one and the only one resting place or origin in the only Brahman. Mere forming of a good and stout and intellectual knowledge of this verse of the Holy Gita is not enough at all. It is a matter of seeking in the Spiritual world and field for countless days and months and years.
For example, Gautama, the Buddha left his palace as a young man and went through all forms of meditation before finding out the One type which suited him, and he persisted for countless years in practising this form of Yoga before he REALIZED  the fact as being the substratum of all the sorrows of the human beings; He REALIZED that it is avariciousness which is at the root of all kinds of human sorrows! It must be remembered that He, the Buddha came to the world well after some two thousand years of the time of Srimad Bhagavad Gita! Avariciousness, among other factors, is found as the root cause for all the human sufferings in the Gita! But this will not belittle the Yogic Efforts of Gautama, the Buddha who came to the same conclusion which was proclaimed by Sri Krishna to Arjuna thousands of years earlier.
The prodigious Mathematician, Ramanuja re-iterated and re-discovered many a mathematical theorem that had indeed been found out by other Mathematicians of the world! But Ramanuja’s efforts and his original genius cannot be belittled by that fact. Likewise, Gautama, the Buddha re-discovered the Upanishadic Wisdom exclusively in his own Yogic way.
What matters is the REALIZATION of the Truth individually by all the human beings that we all, the flower and fauna,  share but one Single Brahman as the source.     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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