The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita : 4. Sri Swami Chidananda
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11/10/2019
4. A Practical Guide.
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A book may give all about the sugar industry, all about the various aspects of the growing of cane, the fertilisation, the care of the cane crop, the necessary manure and the method of transporting the cane to the factory—all about the machinery in the factory and all about the science of proper manufacture of sugar; and yet it may not give us practical guidance as to how we might get at the commodity, consume it and enjoy the actual bliss of the sweetness of this sugar.
On the other hand, there may be a very practical guide—very short and not so elaborate, not so erudite, not so very technical, but yet which tells us a direct and easy method of gaining actual access to a mine of ready-made sugar from which we can take as much as we like to consume and ever be in continued enjoyment.
A man who is more concerned with achievement, rather than with the accumulation of facts, of data, would prefer the latter-mentioned book. Even so, those of the Jivas that are disgusted with the sorrows, with the vexing problems, with the limitations and pains of this bound earthly life, those who yearn to get free of these Samsaric afflictions, who are fired with the zeal and aspiration to break these fetters of Samsaric life, and who wish once and for all to rise up to the consciousness of a higher existence and who wish to enjoy the plenitude, the power and the beatitude of Atmic experience, a life of perfection, of freedom, of immortality, of eternal bliss,—they will be ever on the look out for what practical guidance they can gain from the Gita in order to help them in this achievement.
They are eager to completely annihilate all limitations, weaknesses, and bondage, to completely eliminate all sorts of afflictions and pain and to secure the permanent acquisition of light, power and wisdom, and bliss of the highest experience of Sadhana. This is the test of the Utility of any scripture for us. Readily Gita fulfils this demand of the struggling aspirant, of the awakened Jiva, who wishes to transcend this Samsaric life and soar into the empyrean of blissful, magnificent, Atmic experience.
This is the goal of every Bharatiyan; and every son born in this Punya-Bhumi of Bharatavarsha, has got this element of aspiration ingrained within himself.
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11/10/2019
4. A Practical Guide.
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A book may give all about the sugar industry, all about the various aspects of the growing of cane, the fertilisation, the care of the cane crop, the necessary manure and the method of transporting the cane to the factory—all about the machinery in the factory and all about the science of proper manufacture of sugar; and yet it may not give us practical guidance as to how we might get at the commodity, consume it and enjoy the actual bliss of the sweetness of this sugar.
On the other hand, there may be a very practical guide—very short and not so elaborate, not so erudite, not so very technical, but yet which tells us a direct and easy method of gaining actual access to a mine of ready-made sugar from which we can take as much as we like to consume and ever be in continued enjoyment.
A man who is more concerned with achievement, rather than with the accumulation of facts, of data, would prefer the latter-mentioned book. Even so, those of the Jivas that are disgusted with the sorrows, with the vexing problems, with the limitations and pains of this bound earthly life, those who yearn to get free of these Samsaric afflictions, who are fired with the zeal and aspiration to break these fetters of Samsaric life, and who wish once and for all to rise up to the consciousness of a higher existence and who wish to enjoy the plenitude, the power and the beatitude of Atmic experience, a life of perfection, of freedom, of immortality, of eternal bliss,—they will be ever on the look out for what practical guidance they can gain from the Gita in order to help them in this achievement.
They are eager to completely annihilate all limitations, weaknesses, and bondage, to completely eliminate all sorts of afflictions and pain and to secure the permanent acquisition of light, power and wisdom, and bliss of the highest experience of Sadhana. This is the test of the Utility of any scripture for us. Readily Gita fulfils this demand of the struggling aspirant, of the awakened Jiva, who wishes to transcend this Samsaric life and soar into the empyrean of blissful, magnificent, Atmic experience.
This is the goal of every Bharatiyan; and every son born in this Punya-Bhumi of Bharatavarsha, has got this element of aspiration ingrained within himself.
NEXT : 4. Earthly Pleasure is Transitory
To be continued ...
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