Gita Satsangh: Chapter 9 - Verses 20 to 25,

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Namaste

 

The following are Swami Venkatesananda’s comments on the

important sloka No.22.

(Note: Incidentally, there was an error in my earlier post.

Swamiji’s comments posted in the previous post were on slokas 20

and 21 and not, as recorded by me, on slokas 19 and 20. I am

sorry for the inconvenience caused).

 

This is the royal secret, the royal road to the realization of

the absolute! We should disengage ourselves from the

self-manufactured snare of illusion. Thinking of God for a while

and then of the objects of the world for the rest of the time

betrays insincerity and a doubt. The test of our sincerity here

is the natural attitude of our mind to be ever conscious of God.

This habit must be cultivated, realizing that it is on account

of his grace that we are able to speak, see, hear, think and so

on. By merely becoming aware of this tremendous truth, we are

freed from our own motivations and we live free, doing whatever

has to be done. We are able to be intensely active, and at the

same time constantly be aware of God’s existence.

 

Krishna uses a clever psychological approach here: ‘Think of me

always; and I shall protect you’. If God protects only those

who constantly think of him, who protects the others? God alone.

To him all are equal and he is not partial towards any, except

inasmuch as they open themselves to him and therefore receive

his grace in greater abundance. If you have the courage and the

intelligence to investigate life, you find that that you needed

at a certain moment had already been created years ago. The

wheat for the bread that you had this morning grew specifically

for you three years ago!

 

When the devotee meditates upon the assurance contained in this

verse, the hypnotic suggestion of the Lord takes effect upon him

and he lets himself go entirely. It dawns upon him like a flash

of lightning that God and God alone is the protector of all; and

thenceforth he abandons all selfish activity and dedicates

himself to the service of mankind in the spirit of the Gita,

remembering God constantly.

 

It does not mean that such a devotee will be indifferent to the

business of the world; on the contrary he will make himself an

egoless, selfless and dynamic instrument in the hands of the

Lord, for His will to be done. The actual technique of attaining

this stage of being will come up in the further slokas of the

Gita.

 

praNAms to all advaitins

profvk

 

 

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Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

My website on Science and Spirituality is http://www.geocities.com/profvk/

You can access my book on Gems from the Ocean of Hindu Thought Vision and

Practice, and my father R. Visvanatha Sastri's manuscripts from the site.

 

 

 

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