CH 2 V. 39 & Lesson 1 Pt. I

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Chapter 2

Verse 39

 

Eshhaa te'bhihitaa saaNkhye buddhir yoge tvimaa.n

shRiNu /

bud.hdhyaa yukto yayaa Paartha karma-bandhaM

prahaasyasi //

 

The wisdom of self-knowledge has been declared to you.

Now, hear the wisdom of Yoga, endowed with which, O

Arjuna, you will break through the bonds of karma.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 1 (Part I)

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

Compiled by: Swami Dattananda

Bhakti Mala, January 1992

 

God may visit us at any time in any guise. A

householder will keep his house clean and keep

everything ready for a visit of an important guest.

In the same way, a devotee of God makes himself pure

in thought, word and deed and gets ready to receive

his life. He frees himself from the shackles of evil

habits and cultivates good qualities. Thus he remains

ever vigilant not to miss the divine grace.

However intelligent one may be, if one is not

vigilant, one is easily knocked out of his path by the

mire of delusion. The senses are so powerful as to

draw away the mind from his chosen divine ideal.

Therefore, night and day, at all times and under all

circumstances, vigilance is necessary to preserve the

mind from lapsing into impurities. The devotee

therefore, remembering always the key word

‘vigilance’, should engage himself in practices to

discipline his mind and keep it always pure and

sublime.

 

Man’s mind is engaged in a thousand and one

activities. It is endowed with tremendous speed. It

can go to the moon and come back within a second.

Assisted by sense organs, it runs after sense

pleasures ceaselessly. In short, it is engaged in all

activities except the one that will lead it to

Godhood. Hence comes the necessity of restraining its

activities, imposing controls on it and putting it on

the proper track.

 

When Arjuna wanted to know from Sri Krishna the cause

of man’s indulging in sinful activities even against

his wish, the Lord replies, “It is desire – it is

anger, born of the energy of Rajas (the impulse of

passion,) all devouring and all sinful; that know you,

is the foe here (in this world).” (Chapter 3, Verse

37).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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