The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 1.6. Swami Krishnananda

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02/03/2020.
Chapter-1: This Drama of Life-6.

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1. UNITY OF PURPOSE :

#Now, when you take up a particular part in an enactment or a drama, you know very well that there are other actors also, and you are not the sole actor in that performance. Your relationship to other people in that particular performance is the vital thing you have to understand. 

There may be friends and enemies, which are the roles you may have to play – maybe you are enacting the Ramayanam or the Mahabharatam or some such thing. Every actor performs a particular duty. And in the sense of that particularisation of the duty, one is different from the other. There is no vital connection between one actor and another, inasmuch as one actor is concerned only with his or her role, and not with the role played by other people in the drama. 

In that sense every one of us is independent – you have no connection with me, I am not concerned with you. I do what I am expected to do in the little circumference or the circumscribed area of my life, and so on is the case with you also. 

##But, there is a unity of structure in the whole play; otherwise it would not be a play at all. 

In spite of the individuality and the isolated performances of the different actors, maybe hundreds in number, there is a unity of purpose, an aim and objective with which the drama is played - 

the objective being in the mind of the director who knows which actor will play which role and what unity there can be between the performance of one and the performance of another. 

It is not merely the director as an individual that is supposed to know the unity of purpose. 

###Even the individuals will be aware of it, without which knowledge there would not be a harmonious element in respect of other elements, notwithstanding the fact for the purpose of their performance they are individuals.

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2. RESTRAINT AND FREEDOM NOT OPPOSITES :

#Here is a little hint that I place before you as to the structure of our social life itself. We are, outwardly speaking, independent persons. Each one is a free bird – we can fly in any way we like - but we are not so free as we may imagine, under the pressure of an error of thinking. In a democratic set-up of a government, each person is free; that is the very meaning of democracy. 

##You are not a shackled person; you are not limited in the operation of your daily performance – you are a free man. That is democracy. But you are not a hundred percent free; a hundred percent freedom given to every person would end in a destruction of the very system of democracy, because two hundred percents are unknown – like two infinities. 

###There will be a clash of persons in one second. In spite of the independence and freedom given to individuals in this free set-up of things, there is a restraint exerted upon each individual which you call the operation of law; you may call it the government if you like. So, there is a restraint that you have to exercise on your part, together with the freedom that you are exercising in life. 

*So restraint and freedom are not opposites, though they are opposites from the point of view of a dictionary meaning of these words. How can restraint and freedom be the same thing? They are two different things, but they are not contradictories. 

#Do you know that in the exercise of your freedom as a citizen of a democratic nation, you are also restraining yourself from interfering with the freedom of other people? 

*Is it not restraint? 

##Do you say that the restraint is in any way opposed to the freedom that you are endowed with? 

###So, freedom and discipline are not opposites, and perhaps the one cannot be there without the other.

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To be continued ....

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NOTE  - THIS IS A LESSON FOR OUR BHARATIYA POLITICS AND POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICIANS;

ALSO TO THE PEOPLE OF BHARATHAM, HERE THE MINORITIES DICTATE THE MAJORITY COMMUNITY AND PRODUCE CHAOS, AND COMMIT ATROCITIES, AND DESTRUCTION.

THE COMMUNAL POLITICS AND ANTI NATIONAL MEDIA ARE THE CAUSE OF ALL THE RECENT ACTIONS, WHERE A STRAIGHT FORWARD ACT IS OPPOSED FOR NO REASONS,

AS GITA SAYS, WHEN THE AUTHORITY USE SAMA, BHEDA, DHANA, THE FINAL TOOL DANDAM MUST BE USED AND CRUSH THE UNREASONABLE UNDEMOCRATIC ACTION FROM ANYBODY.

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