Guest guest Posted December 27, 2007 Report Share Posted December 27, 2007 praNams Advaitins, I have a question about Gita in daily life. If the elders feel it is out of scope, please feel free to delete it. Where do we draw the line between a truly insensitive person and a sthita pragna gyani? How does one differentiate between a gyani naturally practising the amanitavaadi gunas of Gita 13(8-12) and someone who is " truly heartless " ? namaSHkaar Ramakrishna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 advaitin , " Ramakrishna Upadrasta " <ramakrsn wrote: > > praNams Advaitins, > > I have a question about Gita in daily life. If the elders > feel it is out of scope, please feel free to delete it. > > Where do we draw the line between a truly > insensitive person and a sthita pragna gyani? How > does one differentiate between a gyani naturally > practising the amanitavaadi gunas of Gita 13(8-12) > and someone who is " truly heartless " ? > > namaSHkaar > Ramakrishna > Namaste Ramakrishna-ji I am sure we can distinguish the 'truly heartless' from the jnAni who has the amanitvavAdi guNas of Gita 13th chapter. The distinction comes from the traces of selfishness that will certainly show up, in spite of all attempts to hide it, in the 'truly heartless' person. It is the total absence of even an iota of selfishness that distingusihes the jnAni from another who shows a worldly indifference that might be mistaken for a spiritually based detachment! PraNAms to all advaitins. profvk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 advaitin , " V. Krishnamurthy " <profvk wrote: > > Where do we draw the line between a truly > > insensitive person and a sthita pragna gyani? How > > does one differentiate between a gyani naturally > > practising the amanitavaadi gunas of Gita 13(8-12) > > and someone who is " truly heartless " ? > I am sure we can distinguish the 'truly heartless' from the jnAni who > has the amanitvavAdi guNas of Gita 13th chapter. The distinction > comes from the traces of selfishness that will certainly show up, in > spite of all attempts to hide it, in the 'truly heartless' person. > It is the total absence of even an iota of selfishness that > distingusihes the jnAni from another who shows a worldly indifference > that might be mistaken for a spiritually based detachment! prAnams Shri Professorji, Thanks for the reply. That my question was ill-framed was clear to me once I sent it! There can of course be no spots on the jnAni, who is like the Sun, helping and enlightening people wherever he/she goes, and bringing nothing but endless joy to everyone around. Actually the context to this question is the following: I was thinking about the assassination of a political leader yesterday and took it " objectively " , thinking Karma had caught up with her. Further, in all foolishness, I was justifying to myself, that my " objective thinking " was entirely justified, according to *those* beautiful verses of Gita. Sorry! The mail was only an extension of those thoughts. praNams again, Ramakrishna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Namaste: Our Puranic stories and the two great epics -Ramayana and Mahabharat display numerous characters with both the Divine (Deva) and Evil (Asura) tendencies. Rama in Ramayana and Yudhistra in Mahabharat are good examples for Sthitapragnya. Ravana in Ramayana and dhuruyodhana in Mahabhrat exhibited selfishness. The villans in the puranic stories and in the epics are not necessarily heartless - but their heart opened up only to achieve their 'Desires.' Attachment is the evil that can pave the path to become devil. How do we know who is divine or devil in the real life? Though it may ntbe possible to recognize one's Guna immediately, but with the passage of time, one's true character gets revealed. The famous statement of Abraham Lincon provides the clue: " One can fool some people for some time, but not all the people all the time! " With my warmest regards, Ram Chandran advaitin , " Ramakrishna Upadrasta " <ramakrsn wrote: > > That my question was ill-framed was clear to me > once I sent it! There can of course be no spots on the jnAni, who is like > the Sun, helping and enlightening people wherever he/she goes, and > bringing nothing but endless joy to everyone around. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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