Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

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Namaste Sis Kariji,

 

Thanks for sharing this by Rohit Mehta, much enjoyed it, Lao Tzu and

all

 

Om Namah Shivaya

Sy

 

, "karisprowl"

<karisprowl@e...> wrote:

> 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.