THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 11, VERSE NUMBER 29, VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 11

VERSE NUMBER 29

VISVARUPA DARSANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF THE VISION OF THE COSMIC FORM

VERSE IN TRANSLITERATION:

yathaa pradeeptam jvalanam patangaa

     veesantee naasaaya samrddhavegaah

tathai ‘va naasaaya visanti lokaas

     tavaa ‘pi vaktraani samrddhavegaah

SANSKRIT WORDS AND PHRASES AND THEIR MEANING IN ENGLISH:

Yathaa = as: pradeeptam = blazing: jvalanam = fire: patangaah = enter: naasaaya = to destruction: samrddha vegaah = with quickened speed: tathaa = so: eva = only: naasaaya = to destruction: visanti = enter: lokaah = creatures: tava = thy: api = also: vaktraani = mouths: samrddh vegaah = with quickened speed.

TEXT IN ENGLISH:

As moths rush headlong into a blazing fire for destruction, so do these creatures hurriedly speed into Your mouths for their destruction.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

Though merged in the ocean, the waters of the rivers continue to play their parts in the cosmic function. Whereas, as moths rush only to perish in the blazing fire, these multitudes are marching into the coming conflagration for their destruction which has become a cosmic necessity. But their redemption lies in their being reborn with a change of attitude.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

These beings blinded by their own ignorance are rushing to their destruction and the Divine Contoller permits it, as they are carrying out the effects of their own deeds. When we will a deed, we will its consequences also. The free activities subject us to their results. As this law of cause and consequence is an expression of the Divine mind, the Divine may be said to execute the law. The writer points out through the conception of world form how the whole cosmos with its vastness, beauty and terror, gods, blessed souls, animals, plants are all there in the plenitude of God’s life. God cannot move outside Himself, having all within now with one object and now with another. We think consecutively but the Divine mind knows all as one. There is no past to it nor future.

Comments by the blogger:

The simile of moths and fire brings out the sense of inevitability of beings including human beings to want to submit themselves to the universal will of the Lord of Gita. Man is afraid of death only till death occurs to his body and once when the astral body gets separated from the  material body at the time of death of a human being there is an intense realization by the soul inside the astral body about the inexorable cause of creation and the purpose of material life on the earthly plane. Man also realizes the number of births and deaths he had hitherto suffered. There is a great rush to get the deserts. After the death of a human being his soul unencumbered by the erstwhile material body but still subject to praraptha Karma and other two Karmas within the four walls of which the soul has to work out the accumulating Karma. The life on the earth is a great conundrum only till a man dies materially and there occurs a simultaneous separation of the astral body from the gross body. But once death occurs, immediately Man’s mind and soul realize the purpose and plan of the humanly life on the earth. There is a great exuberance for those who have not indulged in the five forms of sinful activities in the life that has just now ended. There is an ecstatic pleasure in the realization of the yet another innings on the earthly plane has come to an end. Those who have indulged in the five forms of sins like murder, rape, etc., pay the penalty of the realization of their foul play against the Lord’s Will and such men and women regret intensely and this itself is the suffering in the Hell. Those who have not indulged in the five forms of sins on their earthly playing-out do not have much to regret except the occumulation of fresh bout of samskaras to be worked out through actions in the world at the next innings. They wonder how they could forget completely the existence of the Cosmic Master, God, and indulged here on the earth on various activities of exertions to accumulate wealth beyond a measure and paid scant importance to worship the Lord Master by indulging in good and noble earthly activities besides the ability to work out their Karma with an unaffected mind while trying to live, grab and get the purely worldly things and wealth.

All the delusion with which the humanly life on the earth evaporates as morning dew in the face of the relentless sun. Once the death, an ending of an innings on the earthly plane, occurs there is a great rush to submit to the will of the Lord Master with prayers to take the next innings on the earth quite purposefully devout. Because till all the samskaras are worked out without there being freshly accumulation of samskaras the coming to the plane of the earthly life is inevitable.

Thus there is a great rush on the part of the dead persons to enjoy the fruits of their good actions and come backe here on the earth with a renewed will to spend as much Karma as possible.