what swamy vivekananda said on the sloka of gita( II-3)

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please read what swamy vivekananda has to say on the sloka "

klaibyam..."

 

kishore

 

"Let us now read a little from the second chapter:

Sanjaya said:" To him who was thus overwhelmed with pity and

sorrowings, and whose eyes were dimmed with tears, Madhusudana spoke

these words:

" The Blessed Lord said:

"' In such a strait, whence comes upon thee, O Arjuna, this

dejection, un-Arya-like, disgraceful, and contrary to the attainment

of heaven?

" ' Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Pritha!Ill doth it become

thee. Cast off this mean faintheartedness and arise, O scorcher of

thine enemies!'"

( Gita II chapter )

In the slokas beginning with " Tam thatha kripaya vishtum'- how

poetically, how beautifully, has Arjuna's real position has been

painted! Then Shri Krishna's advises Arjuna. And in the words "

klaibyam ma sma gamah partha" etc., why is he goading Arjuna to

fight? Because it was not that the disinclination of Arjuna to fight

arose out of the overwhelming predominance of pure Sattva Guna

(quality); it was all Tamas that brought on this unwillingness. The

nature of a man of Sattva guna is, that he is equally calm in all

situations in life- whether it be prosperity or adverisity. But

Arjuna was afraid, he was overwhelmed with pity. That he had the

instinct and inclination to fight is proved by the simple fact, that

he came to the battlefield with no other purpose than that.

Frequently in our lives also such things are seen to happen. Many

people think they are sattvika by nature, but they are really nothing

but Tamasika. Many living in an uncleanly way regard themselves as

paramahansas. Why? Because the shastras(scriptures) say that

paramahansas live like one inert, or mad or like an unclean spirit.

Paramahansas are compared to children ,but here it should be

understood that the comparision is one sided. The The paramahansa and

the child are not one and non-different. They only appear similiar,

being the two extreme poles, as it were. One has reached to a state

beyond jnana and the other has not got even an inkling of jnana. The

quickest and the lowest vibrations of light are both beyond the range

of our ordinary vision; but in the one it intense heat, and in the

other it may be said to be almost without any heat. So it is with the

opposite qualities of Sattva and Tamas. Tehy seem in some respects no

doubt to be the same, but there is a world of difference between

them. The Tamoguna loves very to arry itself in the garb of the

sattva. Here, in Arjuna, the mighty warrior, it has come in the guise

of Daya(pity)!

in order to remove this delusion, which had overtaken Arjuna, what

did the Bhagawan ( Lord) say? As I always preach that you should not

decry a man by calling him a sinner but that you should draw his

attention to the omnipotent power that is in him,in the same way does

the bhagawan speak to Arjuna- 'naithathwa upa paddhathe" - it doth

not befit thee. Thou art that Atman imperishable, beyond all evil..

Having forgotten thy real nature, thou hast , by thinking theyself a

sinner, as one afflicted with bodily evils and mental grief- thou

hast made thyself so- this doth not befit thee. So says the bhagawan"

klaibyam ma sma gama partha" - Yield not to unmanliness O son of

pritha. There is in the world, neither sin nor misery , neither

disease nor grief; if there is in the world which can be called sin,

it is this-' fear" ; know that any work which brings the latent power

in thee , is Punya ( virtue); and that which makes thy body and mind

weak is , verily, sin. Shake off this faintheartedness ! " klaibyam

ma sma gama partha- Thous art a hero, a vira; " this is unbecoming of

thee" If you , my sons, can proclaim this message to the world "

klaibyam ma sma gama partha naithathwa upa paddhathe"- then all this

disease, grief, sin and sorrow will vanish from off the face of the

earth in three days. All these ideas of weakness will be nowhere. Now

it is everywhere-this current of the vibration of fear. Reverse the

current; bring in the opposite vibration, and behold the magic

transformation!Thou art omnipotent- go, go to the mouth of the

cannon,

fear not, Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior>

Turn they gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman( Supreme self)>

Proclaim to the whole with trumpet voice,"There is no sin in thee,

there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent

power.Arise , awake, and manifest the Divinty within"

If one reads this one sloka, one gets all the merits of reading the

entire gita; for in this one sloka lies embedded the whole message of

the gita

( from complete works of Vivekananda; vol IV p 102-110)

 

kishore

 

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