Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 22-4. Swami Krishnananda.

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Friday, July 08, 2022. 06:00

Chapter 22: The Integration of Sannyasa and Yoga - 4.

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The mantram  of the Kathopanishad goes on further. 

Tad yacchec chantav-atmani: Mysteries these are. 

We people who are so much engrossed in material perceptions and social problems cannot actually understand what these Upanishads are saying. Yet, they have something to say. As a loving mother and a very affectionate father, a parent, the Upanishad speaks to us, whether we understand it or not. There is something more than even a cosmical understanding. That is the peaceful Self, the supreme state of Godhood or Creator, Chit, the Universal resting in itself, not being even conscious of the fact that it is a universal something. It rises above this universal Self-consciousness. As this is not the subject of our study at present, we shall leave it at that.

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However, the slokam of the Bhagavadgita continues. 

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"Yatendriya-mano-buddhir munir moksha-parayanah

vigatechchha-bhaya-krodho yah sada mukta eva sah."  (BG 5.28)

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Yata indriya mano buddhi :  yata = controlled; indriya = senses; manaḥ = mind; buddhiḥ = intellect; 

Thus restraining the senses, the mind and the buddhi, the reason, the intellect, the understanding, one becomes silent. He becomes a muni. ‘Silent' means ‘completely self-controlled'. It is not merely a silence of the speech, it is the silence of the sense organs. It is the calmness of the Pacific Ocean, with no turbulent waves anywhere, and it is the silence of the mind. It has nothing to think because there is nothing outside it. Therefore, the mind is muni; it is silent. It is observing mauna. One who observes mauna is called muni, and mauna is silence. It is silence of every kind of extrovert activity whether it is sensory, psychological or rational. So the manas is muni. The buddhi also is muni. What happens there?

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moksha-parayanah :  moksha = liberation; parayanah = dedicated;

Engaged only in the large magnificent expectation of liberation, there is nothing that is expected. Like a servant waiting for salary on the first of the month, this attuned understanding is waiting for the descent of the grace of salvation. There is nothing else that attracts. All the joys of the world have been seen through. They cannot any more pull me. The delights of sense have been probed into, threadbare. They cannot attract me anymore, and I have now known the structure of the whole atmosphere in which I am living. I am not living in Rishikesh; I am not living on this Earth. I am living in this universe. What a grand conclusion! Where am I living? I am living in the universe. You will feel this by a sincere acceptance of the meaning of this statement that you made. Sincerely you should accept the hidden meaning of this little statement: “I am living in this universe.” You will find that you become a different person in one second. You will not be this little puny person. Your hair may stand on end due to a comfort, due to a peculiar kind of strength that seems to seep into your body through all the elements outside. “I am living in this cosmos.” Why should you not feel that? That is expectation supernal, supreme. Vigatecchābhayakrodha: There is no desire, no longing of any kind, no other expectation except this supreme expectation of the melting down of this particular in the largest universal, the supreme creative principle, God the Almighty.

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yah sada mukta eva sah :  yah = who; sada = always; mukta = liberated; eva = certainly; sah = that person

If this thought can be entertained in our mind, we are already liberated. The passport is already in our hands. The plane is to take off any day, and we need not bother about it. When our plane is booked and the date is also decided, why are we worrying? This conviction which we have been considering in these few minutes is the satisfaction that our passport is ready, our visa is granted, and our plane is about to take off. Therefore, we are already free. We are already liberated from this world. Even if the physical body is lumbering here for a few days, let it be there. It is like a person whose date of departure is already fixed. The mind has already gone out. It is not here. “Yes, I know I am out.” Physically you are here for a few days, but really you are not here because you know that you are not to be here. Practically you are not here, even if for some days you are physically here. Therefore, such a person is already liberated, a jivanmukta purusha. Living, you are free.

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To be continued .....

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