Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-1.5 : Swami Krishnananda
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06/12/2019.
Chapter-1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-5.
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This is Yoga Sastram; and the purpose of this is to contact God directly. There is no use of thinking God, praying to God, feeling God, and imagining that one day we will realise God. It is necessary to confront Him every day, if it is true that He is present in every atom, as they say. In every atom He is vibrating, as the sun is vibrating in the solar system. If that is the case, He is to be contacted just now. God is a here and a now, and not an afterwards or a somewhere or a someone. He is without these limitations of the concept of space and time.
Contact with God is contact with timelessness, with eternity, with just-ness, now-ness and here-ness. Such is the import of the final teaching of the Bhagavadgita, where the soul communes with God in its realisation of the perfection that it has to achieve finally through the Yoga Shastra. This is the practice of the discipline necessary in this world in the light of the knowledge of Brahma-vidya, which is the theoretical education that we receive of how the world is made, finally.
First we have to know, then we have to do, and then we have to realise. A similar reference is made in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. It is not enough if we merely see and know, but we have to enter into it. It is necessary for us to enter into God in our daily life. It is not enough if we are merely thinking as a kind of outer whitewash on our body. Then it will remain like a whitewash outside only, and it will not be part of our structure.
The entry into God’s existence every day is the living of the divine life, and we should not think that this is a very hard thing.
Who can enter into God every day?
Where is God?
Is He in some unimaginable infinity?
It is nothing of the kind.
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-13. Slokam-13.
Slokam :
"Sarvatah pani-padam tat sarvato-kshi-shiro-mukham,
sarvatah srutimal loke sarvam avrtya tishthati."
sarvatah = everywhere;
pani = hands;
padam = feet;
tat = that;
sarvatah = everywhere;
akshi = eyes;
shirah = heads;
mukham = faces;
sarvatah = everywhere;
shruti-mat = having ears;
loke = in the universe;
sarvam = everything;
avritya = pervades;
tishthati = exists
Translation :
"Everywhere are His hands and feet, eyes, heads, and faces. His ears too are in all places, for He pervades everything in the universe."
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-7. Slokam-7.
Slokam:
"Mattah parataram nanyat kinchid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva."
Mattah = than me;
para-taram = superior;
na = not;
anyat kinchit = anything else;
asti = there is;
dhananjaya = Arjuna, conqueror of wealth;
mayi = in me;
sarvam = all;
idam = which we see;
protam = is strung;
sutre = on a thread;
mani-ganah = beads;
iva = like.
Translation :
"There is nothing higher than myself, O Arjuna. Everything rests in me, as beads strung on a thread."
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Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti(7.7):
Outside God, nothing exists. If that is the case, what is the distance between us and God? Distance is abolished. It is a distanceless, timeless contact. That is possible for us, provided that we open the gates of our personality, open the windows to the sunshine of the Supreme Being that is illuminating us perpetually, and melt our egos, which affirm that “I also exist together with God”.
The affirmation of the ego in the presence of God :
“If you are there, I am also there.” The devotee says, “God, Thou art, but I am also there to contemplate You.”
That devotee should not be there at all. Let that devotee melt, and then God possesses him. The ocean enters into the rivers, and the world melts into the consciousness which is a now and a here.
Chapter-1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- ENDS HERE
NEXT 2: The First Chapter – Vishadha Yogam, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit
To be continued ....
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06/12/2019.
Chapter-1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-5.
======================================================================
This is Yoga Sastram; and the purpose of this is to contact God directly. There is no use of thinking God, praying to God, feeling God, and imagining that one day we will realise God. It is necessary to confront Him every day, if it is true that He is present in every atom, as they say. In every atom He is vibrating, as the sun is vibrating in the solar system. If that is the case, He is to be contacted just now. God is a here and a now, and not an afterwards or a somewhere or a someone. He is without these limitations of the concept of space and time.
Contact with God is contact with timelessness, with eternity, with just-ness, now-ness and here-ness. Such is the import of the final teaching of the Bhagavadgita, where the soul communes with God in its realisation of the perfection that it has to achieve finally through the Yoga Shastra. This is the practice of the discipline necessary in this world in the light of the knowledge of Brahma-vidya, which is the theoretical education that we receive of how the world is made, finally.
First we have to know, then we have to do, and then we have to realise. A similar reference is made in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. It is not enough if we merely see and know, but we have to enter into it. It is necessary for us to enter into God in our daily life. It is not enough if we are merely thinking as a kind of outer whitewash on our body. Then it will remain like a whitewash outside only, and it will not be part of our structure.
The entry into God’s existence every day is the living of the divine life, and we should not think that this is a very hard thing.
Who can enter into God every day?
Where is God?
Is He in some unimaginable infinity?
It is nothing of the kind.
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-13. Slokam-13.
Slokam :
"Sarvatah pani-padam tat sarvato-kshi-shiro-mukham,
sarvatah srutimal loke sarvam avrtya tishthati."
sarvatah = everywhere;
pani = hands;
padam = feet;
tat = that;
sarvatah = everywhere;
akshi = eyes;
shirah = heads;
mukham = faces;
sarvatah = everywhere;
shruti-mat = having ears;
loke = in the universe;
sarvam = everything;
avritya = pervades;
tishthati = exists
Translation :
"Everywhere are His hands and feet, eyes, heads, and faces. His ears too are in all places, for He pervades everything in the universe."
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-7. Slokam-7.
Slokam:
"Mattah parataram nanyat kinchid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva."
Mattah = than me;
para-taram = superior;
na = not;
anyat kinchit = anything else;
asti = there is;
dhananjaya = Arjuna, conqueror of wealth;
mayi = in me;
sarvam = all;
idam = which we see;
protam = is strung;
sutre = on a thread;
mani-ganah = beads;
iva = like.
Translation :
"There is nothing higher than myself, O Arjuna. Everything rests in me, as beads strung on a thread."
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Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti(7.7):
Outside God, nothing exists. If that is the case, what is the distance between us and God? Distance is abolished. It is a distanceless, timeless contact. That is possible for us, provided that we open the gates of our personality, open the windows to the sunshine of the Supreme Being that is illuminating us perpetually, and melt our egos, which affirm that “I also exist together with God”.
The affirmation of the ego in the presence of God :
“If you are there, I am also there.” The devotee says, “God, Thou art, but I am also there to contemplate You.”
That devotee should not be there at all. Let that devotee melt, and then God possesses him. The ocean enters into the rivers, and the world melts into the consciousness which is a now and a here.
Chapter-1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- ENDS HERE
NEXT 2: The First Chapter – Vishadha Yogam, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit
To be continued ....
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