Mind (was Gita Satsang)

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Dear Shri Frankji,

I am not sure if I understand your message well.

Firstly, in the light of advaita, why blame the mind alone

for the wrong? Is not that mind also a part of the Brahman?

Also the fact that we can see certain things as good and apart

from the bad, is that not also due and thanks to what we call

the mind?

Namaskars,

Surjit

> "f. maiello" <egodust

> Re: Gita Satsang

>

> hariH OM!

>

> in our common way of thinking, we in our [global] society

> tend to glorify the men or women who go out to war. we call

> them heros and regard them as especially brave and honorable.

>

> many commentaries on the bhagavad gita, as well as allusions

> within the gita itself, take this stance.

>

> i don't see it this way. at all. i first of all see that

> each individual is alotted a role in life [ordained by isvara

> in conjunction with the pre-requisites and needs of the soul]

> that in the earlier phases of the individual's understanding

> (i.e. based on the notion that one is a separative ego and

> therefore has a separative free-will), is referred to as

> svadharma (dharma pertaining to the individual).

>

> secondly, i see that those who go into war, performing acts

> of 'bravery,' shouldn't be thought of as heros [above and

> beyond anyone else in this world!]. why not?

>

> as many List members may know, the word 'dhira,' although

> literally translated as 'hero,' actually refers to one who

> has successfully subdued or defused the Mind. to me this

> is closer to the truth, yet still not quite.

>

> the way i've come to see it, the hero (or heroine) is innate

> [at all times!] to everyone. why? because everyone--bar

> none!--is facing, at all times, the most formidable enemy

> conceivable in existence. and that enemy is the Mind.

>

> from the most heinous criminal to the most exalted saint,

> the Mind is ever-ready to strike and destroy. obviously,

> the difference is that one is more vulnerable than the

> other. nevertheless, both are yet its potential prey.

>

......

>

> it's not impossible. the fact *is*, it's already done.

>

> OM svaha!

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