Gita Jyothi week No.35 Sloka (Part #1 )

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Sri Krishna Parabrahmane Namaha:

 

[ This is the translation of Gita Jyothi Week No.35 Sloka graced by our Sri Sri

Sri Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji in Bhakthi Nivedana]

 

u:rdhvam gachchhanthi saththvasttha:ha

madhye: thishttanthi ra:jasa:ha |

jaghanya guna vruththisttha:ha

adho: gachchhanthi tha:masa:ha ||

 

saththvasttha:ha = those who are ripened with Sathva guna

u:rdhvam = for Moksha

gachchhanthi = are going

ra:jasa:ha = who have Rajo Guna as their primary quality

madhye: = in between

thishttanthi = remain

tha:masa:ha = who have Tamo guna as their primary quality

jaghanya guna vruththisttha:ha = end up immersing themselves in tamo guna

filled abhorrent activities

adhaha = are slipping lower and lower

gachchhanthi = are going

 

 

Lot of people desire to spend their lives doing service to Mankind. However,

having a wish to spend their lives in service to God is a more commendable path.

Leading a life as Service to God shouldn't be limited to us but the desire

should expand to witness such a quality in all the beings. Only Man can make

such a wish ! Man's intellect should aid him in helping his fellow beings. Only

then, is his purpose of life, fulfilled. Shastras say - Man should have the

realization that irrespective of any being he helps, the Lord within , is the

actual reciever and is the One who is filled with happiness.

 

One lives just for the sake of the world. While another lives just to exploit

the world. Why are there so many differences ? What is the force behind all of

this ? - these questions are being researched for ages. Lord Krishna gives us

the answers. Change of characteristics in a person, the different bodies that

one acquires; all these are dependent on the qualities ( Gunas ) present while

leaving the earlier body. "Gunasango:sya sadasadyo:nijanmasu".

 

What are those qualities ? Those 3 qualities are Sathva, Rajas and Thamas.

Realise that these three qualities are varied. How does each quality work ? What

does it give ? How does it influence one's behaviour ? How do you suppress it ?

All these have been clarified in great detail in the 14 chapter by the Lord.

This conglomeration of qualities has been described by Lord as - "sadasadyo:ni

janmasu ka:ranam " .

 

"chaturvarnyam, mayasrushtam gunakarma viBhagasaha " - " Depending on the gunas

( qualities ) and the karmas, I have created the four divisions (chaturvarnyam

)," so said the Lord in the 4th chapter.

 

What are these four divisions ?

To be continued...

 

Jai Srimannarayana,

adiyen ramanuja dasaha

Vamsi Mudumbai