Bhaghavath Gita lectures by Sri Sathyadhyana Theertha, Chapter 6, Part 6

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MUKTHI NAIJA SUKHA NUBHUTHIHI: DESCRIPTION OF NATURE OF MUKTHI: MUKTHI

SVARUPA NIRUPANA: ESTABLISHMENT OF MUKTHI ENJOYMENT OF SVARUPANANDA OF

JEEVAS

 

Question: Swamy, You have told us that freedom from ignorance (avidhya) is

Mukthi. How this avidhya can cover a jeeva who is a jnanee intrinsically?

You have told us Brahma by nature jnana & avidhya cannot attack him. This

should apply in Dvaita system also for Jeeva.

 

Sri Srigalavaru: The power of brightness of grand sun is very much greater

than the power of andhakara (darkness). Hence darkness cannot cover sun.

But the weak small kerosene light is not able to over come darkness so

efficiently therefore it cannot make things around visible as sun's light

can make. In the same way, the chethana who has a little knowledge & a

little power can not over come powerful prakruthi with able to remember its

own nature or the nature of God. Just as a man who wares a shirt, though he

generally knows his body,but is not able to see any mark on his chest unless

he removes the shirt. Similarly, the chethana, though generally he knows

his ability to act & to enjoy, he is not able to under stand completely his

ability to act, his jnana & Ananda.

 

Krishna says further (BG 5-15): His natural jnana (awareness) of chethana

is covered by ignorance (avidhya) & hence he is not able to understanding

paramathma & natural dharma of jeeva.

 

Question: Swamy, after becoming free from ignorance (avidhya), does

chethana understand paramathma by his natural jnana?

 

Sri Srigalavaru: Yes, that is Mukthi. Krishna also says the same.

 

BG 5-16: Chethana who is a jnanee by nature but has been covered by

ignorance (avidhya) such a chethana whose covering of ignorance has been

removed by aparokshajnana, his jnana like a bright sun after the eclips in

cleared can understand paramathma. After the destruction of avidhya due to

the effect of aparokshajnana, i.e. Brahma darshana, the jeeva secures the

grace of God, & his natural jnana which was covered so far, arises, & from

it he sees the paramathma direct. All mukthas understand paramathma with

their svarupa jnana (intrinsic ablity to know). Similarly, they become

aware of their natural qualities (dharma). Hence from sentences of Krishna

alone, it becomes clear that Mukthi means the removal of the binding or

covering of avidya.

 

Question: Swamy, you have told us that chethana by nature ajnanee. But in

samsaraa, he has been covered by avidhya etc.... Hence his intrinsic

intelligence (jnana) is not able to understand either paramathma or his own

natural qualities. Further, it cannot over come avidhya jnana has the

natural quality of destroying ajnana. If it cannot destroy ajnana, then it

is not a thing fit to be called jnana. A thing that cannot remove darkness,

call it be called a light? In such situation, even in Mukthas, how can it

directly understand paramathma? Therefore Your explaination is very

doubtful. If chethana by nature a jnanee, for over coming a jnanee(avidya)

he would not required outside help.

 

Sri Srigalavaru:

 

TO BE

CONTINUED.................................................................

 

Lectures on Bhaghavath Geetha (Dhwaitha Siddhantha Vaijayanthi) by H. H.

Sri Sathya Dhyana Thirtha Sri Padhangalavaru, Uttradhi Mutt

Translated into English by Sri Krishnamurthy

 

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