From From Mind to Supermind, a Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

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by Rohit Mehta

 

The man of devotion has no fixed abode-- he is Aniketa, one without a home. Such

a

man is entirely uncommitted. To have a home is to have a committment. Here the

home is to be understood not in its physical sense, but in its psychological

aspect. A

man without psychological committment is a man who is completely free, his mind

not tethered anywhere. He upholds nothing and so he has not to defend anything.

He

is content with anything that comes, and yet he is of firm mind. To recieve life

as it

comes is not to show a tendency of mental drift. The man who drifts is carried

away

by the current, but one who receives life as it comes floats with the current

and is yet

as a witness to it. He who is carried away by the current cannot receive life

that comes

in the next moment. One who is a witness in the midst of participation is truly

firm

and yet is content to receive what life gives. This is the quality of the man of

devotion. Devotion is not sentimentality; it is sensitiveness. Devotion is not

addiction

to a code; it is free movement having no centers of attachment whatsoever. it is

of

such a man of devotion that Lao-Tzu speaks when he says:

 

He looks not at self, therefore he sees clearly,

He asserts not himself, therefore he shines,

He boasts not of self, therefore he has merit,

He glorifies not himself, therefore he endures.

 

It is the man of faith who alone endures-- all others perish. The man of faith

has

given up the known, and is not afraid to face the Unknown. Devotion has meaning

only with reference to the Unknown. The man who has thrown away all the

securities

that the world can offer, he alone knows the true security of the Unknown. To

endure

in the midst of constant flux is to see the Permanent in the fleeting. It is to

the Eternal

Vision that the Gita takes us as it speaks of the Field and the Knower of the

Field.

 

Thanks, love, K.