The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 7.6 Swami Krishnananda.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2020. 08:38. AM.
Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding-6.
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This is the sum and substance of the Samkhya and the Yoga expounded in the Second Chapter of the Gita, amounting to a precise answer to the complicated question which Arjuna raised in the First Chapter. And, inasmuch as the questions of Arjuna arose from the various levels of his personality, the answer also has to be equally relevant to those levels from where the questions arise. That is the reason why the Bhagavadgita is not exhausted merely by the Second Chapter, though, for all practical purposes, it appears as if we have given a suitable and complete answer. We have laid the foundation for a correct and full answer but the details shall follow in the chapters to come.
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Our problems do not arise merely from one level of our being, as homeopaths tell us that the disease is not merely in the physical body. It is a total organic condition, and unless the root of it is dug out, the disease is not cured. The whole of the Bhagavadgita is the panacea, the remedy, the medicine that is prescribed as an antidote to the diseased questions which arose from the disintegrated personality of humanity in general, represented in the individuality of Arjuna.
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We are also told, towards the end of the Second Chapter, how such a poised person conducts himself in this world, into which details we need not enter here, because they are obvious from what we have studied up to this time. Every one of us would be able to understand how such a perfect person would conduct himself in the world. There is no necessity to offer a commentary thereon. Everything would be welcome, everything would be all right. All shall be for the best for that person who has ceased to be a person any more. That person has become an ‘imperson’ and, therefore, everything is welcome and everything gets absorbed into the impersonality of the person, the genius of an individual. Just as every river is welcome to the ocean and it absorbs all the waters into its bosom, such is the comprehensiveness and the charitableness of the impersonal person, the Sthitaprajna, the perfected individual of the Second Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. One with established understanding, whose consciousness does not flicker or waver when the winds of the world blow over it, such a person is a spiritual stalwart, known sometimes as the Jivanmukta in the language of the Vedanta philosophy.
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What a wondrous message we have in a single chapter! And what a wondrous problem we picked up in the First Chapter! Duty is the name of this wisdom-charged admonition of the great Master of the Bhagavadgita, Bhagavan Sri Krishna.
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