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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste all.

 

More illuminating verses fro the 'Gitopanishad':

 

In the early chapter (2.7) Arjuna said to the Lord,

 

"kArpaNya doSopahat svabhAvaH

pRcchAmi tvAM dharma sammUDha cetAH,

yaccreyaH syA nnizcitaM brUhi tan me

ziSyaste te 'ham zAdhi mAM prapannam"

 

"My nature is weighed down with the TAINT of feeblemindedness;

my UNDERSTANDING is CONFUSED as to right duty.

 

I ENTREAT You, say definitely WHAT IS GOOD FOR ME.

I am Your DESCIPLE. Do instruct me WHO have TAKEN REFUGE IN You."

 

Arjuna confesses that this crisis has driven him to the position of

a 'Kripana'.

 

The Upanishad says that he who does NOT STRIVE for spiritual

enlightenment is a 'Kripana'.

 

"anyacchreyo 'nyadutaiva preyaste ubhe nanArthe puruSaM sinItaH

tayoH zreya AdadAnasya sAdhur bhavati hIyate 'rthAd ya u preyo

vRNIte"

 

"One thing is the good and quite another, the pleasant;

being of different requisitions, they both BIND man.

Holy becomes he who pursues the GOOD, but

falls the man from the goal, who chooses the PLEASANT."

 

Arjuna finds himself now at the cross-roads between the PLEASANT and

GOOD.

 

He who was all along the kinsman and comrade of Sri Krishna, now

becomes a DESCIPLE and SUPPLICATES for the gift of 'Sreyas'- the

GOOD.

He SURRENDERS himself to the Lord.

 

This FRAME of mind is PREREQUISITE to the ATTAINMENT of spiritual

ENLIGHTENMENT.

He who SEEKS to make a sacred study of the Bhagavad Gita will do well

to CHANT this verse every time and to EVOKE in himself the attitude

of SELF-SURRENDER seen here in Arjuna.

 

It is a PRAYER complete in itself.

 

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