The Yoga of the Division between the Divine and the Devilish

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16 discusses the importance of retaining our

true divine nature. When the divinity takes the right place of

residence, "our hearts" we become seekers and ultimately get

liberated. This discourse from Chapter 16 of Bhagavad Gita is

important and very instructive to all persons who wish to attain

happiness, prosperity and blessedness. Also this chapter provides the

guidance to seekers in particular, who wish to attain success in

their spiritual life. Lord Krishna brings out quite clearly and

unmistakably here the intimate connection between dharma,

spirituality, life of virtue, God-realization and liberation.

Bhagawan contrasts two sets of qualities of opposite kinds - the

divine and the devilish, and urges us to eradicate the latter and

cultivate the divine qualities.

 

The entire chapter focuses on several questions: What kind of

character we should develop? What should be our conduct? How should

we lead our life if our goal is to attain God and obtain divine

bliss? These questions are answered with perfect clarity and

authority in this chapter. Lord Krishna asserts that the pure divine

qualities are conducive to peace and liberation. He warns us that the

devilish qualities will only lead us to bondage. Purity, good conduct

and truth are indispensable to spiritual progress and to lead a

peaceful and honorable life here.

 

By losing the purity of heart (mind), good conduct and truth, and

having no faith in God we will degenerate into a two-legged beast of

ugly character. Our devilish actions will ultimately take us to the

darkness of hell. We become our own enemy and the destroyer of the

happiness of others as well as our own. Caught in countless desires

and cravings and a slave of sensual enjoyments our life ultimately

ends in misery and degradation. Haughtiness, arrogance and egoism

lead to this dire fate. Therefore, a wise person, desiring success,

must eradicate vice and cultivate virtue. The divine can occupy our

heart if and only if we vacate the devil.

 

The three gates of passion, anger and greed bind us from liberation.

By releasing from these three qualities we can attain salvation and

reaching the highest goal, namely God. Thus the sacred scriptures

teach wisely the right path of pure, virtuous living. We should

therefore follow the injunctions of the sacred scriptures and fine-

tune our actions by their noble teachings.

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <RamChandran@a...> wrote:

> Namaste:

>

> Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16

 

One question which was missed in the previous message is 3:36 -

 

atha kena prayukto.ayaM paapa.n charati puurushhaH .

anichchhannapi vaarshhNeya balaadiva niyojitaH .. 3\-36..