A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 34 - Swami Krishnananda.
Swami Chinmayananda:
Thursday 06, June 2024 06:48.
Chapter 7: The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative -4.
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A good teacher is also a good psychologist. The teacher descends from his high pedestal to the level of a particular student and communes himself with the mentality, feeling and difficulty of the student, as a good doctor descends into the condition of a patient who is suffering. Not only does he understand his physical suffering, but also his mind and feelings, and the causes of his illness which may be psychological, or anything. So he is a parent. A good doctor or teacher is a father and mother, and a Super-man is also a father and mother, as the Lord will tell you in his message.
Na buddhibhedam janayed:
Do not go on telling, “You are wrong.” Nobody is wrong. They are all in one category, one degree, and you are also in one condition. They are like a baby crawling, and why should you condemn that crawling baby as if you are now superior to it? Everybody is on a level of evolution, and every level of evolution is a compulsory stage; therefore, nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, and no work is bad, no work is good. There is dignity in every work, and every relationship is divine in its meaning.
Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah ahamkaravimudhatma kartaham iti manyate (Gita 3.27).
Ignorant people become ignorant of the fact that Prakriti's gunas operate among Prakriti's gunas in the form of objects outside. You are involved in the perception of the world and do not understand what is actually taking place when you perceive the world. When you perceive the world, when you become conscious of the object outside, what the Gita is telling you is that Prakriti is impinging on Prakriti.
Now, the cosmological evolutionary theory, which I mentioned to you sometime back, the entire Purusha-Prakriti arrangement, would have enlightened you to the fact that the three gunas – sattva, rajas and tamas – are the constituents of your own individuality also. You are made up of only these gunas in all your sheaths – Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya, Ananadamaya. The very same gunas are also the constituents of objects outside. The only thing is that in your case there is a mind, there is an intellect, there is a prana and other things involved in this kosha arrangement, whereas in the object, which is the adhibhuta prapancha, there is a predominance of tamas. There is predominance of tamas in the objective world, predominance of rajas in the subjective individuality, and predominance of sattva in the adhidaiva, which is the divinity.
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