Gita Satsangh IX.4-6

October 8, 2002

Hello All,

The Bhagavad Gita, amongst other things, is a dramatic production and those

of us who are reading this will most likely be identifying with Arjuna. We

are invited to get into his spirit of trusting openness and thus are prepped

for coming, as the Shakers put it, under operations.

The initial pause given to that fly wheel of rationality, the principle of

non-contradiction is in IX.1,2. IX.3 is descriptive of the fate of those

who have not achieved the state of the 'coincidence of opposites' (Nicholas

of Cusa).

What follows next is not so much a tour of theological speculation -

Manifest/Unmanifest, Absolute/Relative

as it is

a bold attempt by Krishna to stop Arjuna's (our) mind. Everything we know

at this level of polar concepts is wrong.

IX.6 brings another image for the stopped mind to take the shape of. Wind

or breath is the earliest methaphor for spirit and it occurs in the

Indo-European languages. Spiritus, pneuma, ruah (Hebrew). It is a seed

image, 'the wind that blows where it wants'. Breath is harnessed as a

method of 'praying without ceasing' - Soham.

Like wind in space we abide in that presence and yet without being in

contact with it. How?

Ciao & Blessings

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