THE HOLY GITA
CHAPTER THREE
KARMA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF ACTION OR THE METHOED OF ACTION
VERSE NUMBER 28
Text in Transliteration:
Tattvavit tu mahaabaaho gunakarma vibhaagayoh
Gunaa runeshu vartanta iti matvaa na sajjate
Text in English:
But, O mighty-armed, the one intuitive into the nature of
Guna and karma knows that Gunas as senses merely abide with Gunas as objects,
and does not become entangled.
COMMENTARY BY CHIDBHAVANANDA:
There is a kinship
between the senses and their respective ohjects. They are both constituted of
the same elements and of the same Gunas. The element fire for example has its
own combination of Gunas. Emitting ligh is characteristic of fire. The combination
of Gunas in fire takes one form as the sense of sight and another form as the
objct of sight. Because of the sameness of nature in both of them sense
experience becomes possible. And this is the fact in regard t all the five
senses. Atman which is consciousness, remains unaffected by the sensation, even
as Ajasa is substratum to the dashing couds. The sage who realises this truth
is free from entanglement.
COMMENTARY BY DR.S. RADHAKRISHNAN:
Prakrti and its modes represent the limits of human freedom
such as the force of heredity and the pressure of environment. The empirical
self is the product of works even as the whole cosmic process is the result of
the operation of causes.
COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:
He who knows the truth that the Self is entirely distinct
from the three Gunas and actions does not become attached to the actions. He who
knows the truth about the classification of the Gunas and the respective
functions understands that the qualities as sense-organs move amidst the
qualitites as sense –objectes. Therefore he is not attached to the actions. He knows,
“I am Akarta—I am not the doer.”
Comments by the blogger:
What is in the ‘Anta’ or the Univers is in the ‘Pinta’, or
the human body. The Anta or the Universe is made of triguna, namely, Sattvic,
Rajasic and Tamasic. These three gunas in the Anta or the Universe are in
perfect equilibrium. That was well before the Big Bang. And at that time there
was no creation. And the universe was in perfect internal alignment with three
gunas. There was one single huge planet and the rest was the infinite sky. At that
time there was perfect equilibrium. There was no creation. But the object of
this perfect co-ordination between the single planet and the vast sky with the
three gunas was to move toward Creation and disruption in the perfect equilibrium
in the three gunas. That objective had to be brought to bear by the Big Bang. We
should never forget that the Big Bang
was to facilitate creation and consummation of God’s purpose for this universe.
The one and single planet was the representative of the ‘prana’ or shakti and
the rest was the infinitely extending sky. The Big Bang was as pre-ordained as
the creation of organic being. We should never forget this. The Big Bang was not an accident or coincidental thing. Silly
it would be to think so. After the big bang the one planet of hard palpable and
tangible thing broke, and that was the first atomic fission. For the entire and
huge and single planet just one atom had to be split and that had probably
happened because of the internal creative pressure somewhere inside the huge
single planet, and with the result of the big bang the whole universe, not
necessarily as we see it tody, came into being. (for it should have taken
million of trillion light years for the Milky Way and other planatory
configuration elsewhere to have happened). Nothing was without the purpose. And
the purpose was creation of the single cell organism. The Big-Bang itself was a
God-Pre-Ordained event. Even before that the single planet in the vast vacuous
sky was scintillating with the universal and cosmic intelligence along with the
sky. The Big Bang itself might have been cause by the force exerted by the
vacuous and infinite sky on the single planet continuously. At some
pre-ordained time the three gunas existing inside of the single planet and the
vast sky outside might have become of the single palpitating value and
vibration. When the said two vibrations met for a split second, (there was time
before the Big Bang for the huge planet was a cauldron and it emitted light
continuously so the there was only day and no night!) there was atomic fission
brought to bear inside, in the middle of the of huge single globe or planet
which was in elliptical in form. The sky also should be elliptical or oval in
size like everything here in being and non-being. We have nine elliptical holes
or nine oval-sized holes in the body, note the incidence and all the planets
are elliptical or oval in size. Man has nipples though he has no use for them,
and it was because of the proximity he had had for nine months to female organism, His mother, who has big half-oval sized breasts. If the two breasts
were to be cut at the base and joined end to end so that the cut part would
become into contact, there would be a perfect one single OVAL SIZED breast. )
Before the big bang the single and enormous planet was like the yoni or the
vagina of the creative Goddess or Force, and the nuclear fission that had
taken place inside of the elliptical and single planet was an act of vast non
acting sky, Lord Shiva, and the Shakti or the great single elliptical vagina or
yoni of the planet, was the first love making! The sky has energy and it has resent
quantified. But it remains non acting.
Just imagine the underwater ship or submarine (nuclear or
otherwise) and the thickness of it’s steel wall determine the maximum deapth it
can attain in the mighty ocean. Because there is water body’s pressure on the
body of the underwater ship’s body and if the ship dives more than it’s steel
wall could withstand, then the Oceanic waters’ pressure would breake it like it
were just a co-conut shell!
The same is the case with the singe planet, a vast yoni or
cauldron or Sri Dhevi and the vast almost infinite sky all around it and the energetic
pressure it had been continuously brought to bear on the planet. The love
making was the longest one taking million of trillion years and the ecstatic
moment occurred when the vibrating number of the yoni or the planet and the sky
or Lord Shiva came to a meeting point. When the atomic vibrating number
co-incided for that split second there was a mighty fission we call the Big Bang! It
was the Brahmic extacy enacted in honour of Creation. (we have already seen one
Brhamic bliss includes..... and the Big Bang was just an infinitesimal quality
and quantity of that Brahmic Bliss!
After the Big Bang other elements like gas, water and earth
were made as the children in honour of that cosmic coitus!
Now, after the Big Bang several thousands of millions suns
were created out of the centripetal force with which the fissiparus parts as
small as the earth and the moon. Several millions or trillon parts are still travelling,
at the speed of ligh, away from our own sun from the moment of the Big Bang! Such
the the volume of the elyptical sky!
After the Big Bang seasons came into being as the offshoot
of the day and night owing to the planets circling our sun. Thus the night was
created by light by default after the Bang. The darkness has it’s own power and
value. For it acts upon our Tamasic tendency and brings sleep having set our
biological clock. And dream and dreamless sleep are the products of the night. And
we should give respect and worship as much to the night as the daylight!
When the Big Bang occurred, several million suns were born
and around them several planets were made to travel in an elypticl yonic way! And
there was torrid places on the earth as well as snow clad mountains. Some times
heavy heavenly objects from outside the eleptical circle came crashing toward
the earth and banged on such snow clad mountains and becase of the impact and
simultaneous heat and the resultant chemical reaction in the frozen water in
the iceberg single cell organisms came into existence.
These single cell organisms had the cosmic intelligence
besides partaking of the cosmic body which is the conglomeration of the Five
Primal Elements like, earth, water, air, fire and the sky. Atom is nothing but
the shakti, infinitesimally small point of shakti encapsulated by the sky.
Thus what is there in the ‘Anta’ or the Universe or cosmos,
is there in the ‘Pinta’ or animal body, including human beings’.
The Universe has the three primal Gunas, Tamasic, Sattvic
and Rajasic and we also have them. So these Gunas are at once senses and sense
objects. It is the sense in us goes out to be among the sense objects. So all
the actions are wrought out by the Universe through us. This is what is
mentioned in verse number 27 also. But the Nirguna Braman or fondly called by
the Vedhopanishadic saints and sages as ‘Turiyam’ have these senses and thus no
proclivity to have attraction for the sense objects. We are indeed single light
point of that Turiam, the Nirguna Brahman. That is what our Self is. But we are
robed of our knowledge of this fact and thus we always want to indulge in sense
pleasures. Once that is known and intuited, then the compulsion to indulge in
the sense objects voluntarily goes out, but we eat ,drink and sleep and do
other self ordained actions knowing fully our senses alone go to inhere in the
midst of the sense objects and we are pure Self! The moment this happens the
light of knowledge dawns on us.
But till then we have to do our pre-ordained duties or
swadharma, and Arjuna’s swadharma as an incomparable warrior is to give battle
to his enemies. We have to turn the bondage giving actions into bondage annihilating or killing actions. And this can be done only by carrying duly our
swadharmic actions without no personal stake in them. Then, by gradation the
pull of illusion exerted by mother Nature on us would fall asunder by gradation
and we would get to seeing our true Self which is contemperoneous with the
TURIYAM , THE NIRGUNA BRAHMAN!
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