Gita in daily life: Ch. 3 - Dharma Chakra, The Divine Will - Part2 of 2- 3:33 Restraint

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Namaste All.

 

ProfVK Ji wrote:-

>Without discussing these two shlokas and their

>impact for our daily life, the discussion on the

>third chapter cannot be said to be concluded.

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With pleasure, let us go into more details of the 2

slOkAs.

 

Firstly, 3:33 on 'while even a wise man acting to his

nature, what can restraint do'.

 

Taking the analogy of a moving train entering a

railway station in a village, where there are just

about 2 tracks and one standby track for a few

hundered metres. A high speed long distance train is

approaching the small station and has strayed into the

standby track. A little boy blissfully playing on the

tracks notices that something is wrong. Although

he(jIva) cannot restrain the high-momentum

train(Prakriti) on his own, he signals for the

intervention of the station-master (Divine-Will) and

the station-master immediately corrects the situation

by diverting the train(prakriti) to the correct tracks

(Divine-will) and a major accident was averted, to the

joy of all.

 

Here, we have not restrained prakriti. We cannot. Only

that, we have diverted it to the Divine-Will.

 

Further, while discussing about prakriti, about a

person acting as per his nature, it will be

interesting to dissect into the depths of what is

called the nature comprising of the 3 guNAs.

While attraction and aversion guide it normally 3:34,

it is comprised of a store-house of 3 guNAs. When

dissected futher for their origin, we will end up with

Ch-2:62 dhyatO..., whereby, one's thoughts govern the

formation of the 3 guNAs. Hence, it all again boils

down to 2:62 and asking for Divine intervention to

convert/purify the thoughts to the Divine-way. Lord

Krishna says, no effort is lost in this way.

 

We will get to 3:35 by end of this week.

 

 

Love and regards,

Raghava

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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