Gita in daily life: Wishing you all the very best in manifesting the Divine already in you

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Namaste all.

 

I thank you all, the moderators and owners for giving

me the opportunity to serve as the discussion-leader

for the monthly topic, 'gItA-in-daily-life', which was

started on Apr/01/2005.

 

Encouragement and discouragement, both I received thru

private emails and all are helpful in spiritual quest.

 

After this final post from me, the discussion will

continue in able hands and I wish you all the very

best in your spiritul quest in manifesting the Divine

that is in you already- in your daily life, both in

personal life as well as in your career.

 

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The 700 verses of the gItA can be broadly divided into

2 parts-

(1) puraskara (2) krpa.

 

First part of gItA- how to handle the challenge posed

by prakriti to handle for one's own growth. Up to this

point, it is puraskara, or self-reliance and

self-effort.

'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall

find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you' Matt

7,7-8

 

Next comes an awareness of an 'intimation of

immortality' (poet Wordsworth) gently blending with a

faith in the Divine. From now on, life becomes a

partnership between man and God, with the progress of

God becoming more and more as on progresses.

 

If to gain life we need strength, to renounce life we

need greater strength.

After fulfiling of all dharmas, that earlier part of

labour and of evolutionary struggle, at this

juncture(Ch.18), the Divine would gently whisper,

"Renounce and surrender all that developed ego to Me,

the One Divine Self that dwells in all people and in

all nature!".

 

'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,

and I shall give you rest...ye shall find rest unto

your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden light.'

Matt 11,28-30

 

When one surrenders everything to God, God has

manifested in one's heart and one is God-filled. That

is the most meaningful, lofty, and beautiful

consummation of human life.

 

'I, yet not I, but the Christ that liveth in me', said

St.Paul.

"akincana-bhava, self-effacement, of tadiyata, 'as

belonging to Him'", as narada-bhakti-sutra expresses

it.

 

That is the greatest music in the concert of spiritual

life; and it breathes energy and dynamism and bears

the heroic touch. Whoever does it is a hero, a

'dhira'.

--- From 'Divine Grace' by Swami Ranganathananda,

Published by R.K.Math, Mylapore, Chennai.

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Love & Kind Regards,

Raghava

 

 

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