Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 35- Swami Krishnananda.

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Thursday, May 19, 2022. 20:30.

Discourse 44:  The Sixteenth Chapter Begins – 
Divine and Undivine Qualities :

POST-35.

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Na śaucaṁ: Very unclean are their habits, dirty is their

behaviour—inwardly as well as outwardly. We would not like

to go near them due to their unclean behaviour. Na śaucaṁ

nāpi cācāraḥ: They have no good conduct, no special routine

of the day, and they are not aware of such a thing as tidiness,

cleanliness—to be spic-and-span, as we say. All these are

unknown to them. They just act according to their whim.

Na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate means no truthfulness. They say

anything they like, provided they are able to get something

out of it, even if it means exploiting or even destroying other

people. Exploitation is psychological killing; and apart from

that, they may actually deal a blow to the very existence of

people due to the wrong notion that untruth and exploitation

succeed in this world.

Asatyam apratiṣṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśvaram (16.8):

They do not believe in God. The world is complete in itself.

Why should there be a Creator for the world? The five

elements constitute this body. God has not made this body.

The body is made up of only this material stuff, and it has no

transcendent support as others may say. Apratiṣṭhaṁ: It has 

no transcendental support, and there is no God behind it.

Therefore, it is transitory in its nature. It is unreal finally and,

therefore, there is no necessity to be too scrupulous in dealing

with anything in this world, on account of the simple fact that

there is no ruling principle in this world. There is nobody to

punish us. There is no God, no ruler, no administration, and

the world itself is an unreal phantom, so we do what we like. 

Asatyam apratiṣṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśvaram, 

aparasparasaṁbhūtaṁ kim anyat  kāmahaitukam: 

They think that the birth of beings—the coming into being of all

existents in this world—is not due to the will of God, because

God does not exist. It is only a chemical combination, the

coming together of the properties, positive and negative, due

to the desires and passions of people. The concourse of men

and women, and qualities which are positive and negative, and

such other combinations, biological as well as chemical, are

the causes of the coming into being of anything in this world. 

There is no Supernal Creator, and there is no Transcendent

Being.

To be continued ...

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