Guest guest Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 12. yo abhiDhyaayan uthpathishNoon hanyaath anaachaareNa aprathibuDhyamaanaH sa vai mrthyum mrthyuriva hanthibhoothvaa hyevam vidhvaan yo abhihantheeha kaamaan One who discards the thoughts about sense objects which rise in the mind again and again and refrains from dwelling on them with indifference , he becomes the death for death itself. The word uthpathishNoon means those sense longings which rise in the mind again and again, uthpathana meaning that falling and rising again. abhiDhyaayan is explained as considering them (as something fleeting, impure and cause of suffering.) Thinking thus a wise man, vidvan, destroys the thoughts of sense gratification by ignoring them. That is, by not following them, anaachaarena, and not thinking about them again, aprathibuDhyaamaanaH. He is like a death , mrthyuH iva bhoothvaa to death itself, and destroys death, mrthyum hanthi. That is he becomes immortal conquering birth and death, because he kills the desires here in this world, abhihanthi iha kaamaan. 13. kaamaanuchaaree purushaH kaamaan anuvinaSyathi Kaamaan vyudhasya Dhunuthe yathkinchith purusho rajah The one who follows his desires , kaamaanuchaaree, is destroyed along with them anuvinaSyathi.. One who discards, vyudhasya, his desires, he destroys his karma, rajah. The word rajah here means the sin or blemish which adhere the man like dust particles , here the dust particles are the result of past karma. Even if rajas is translated as the rajoguna the meaning is the same as the Lord says in Gita , kaama esha kroDha esha rajogunasamudhbhavaH, mahaaSano mahaapaapma, (BG 3.37) `Desire and anger are born out of rajoguna and the great sinner and all-devourer.' Kaamaan anuvinaSyathi- he is destroyed along with the desires. The desires are fleeting and if one is satisfied another rises in its place and hence it is called mahaaSanah, devours all like the fire. Thus the desires last as long as one lives and finally destroys him by destroying his reason, as said in the Gita, Dhyaatho vishayaan pumsaH----budDhinaaSaath vinaSyathi (ch2.62, 63) 14.dheho aprakaaSo bhoothaanaam narako ayam pradhrSyathe grDhyantha eva Dhaavanthi gaChanthaH Svabhram unmukhaaH This body of all beings is like darkness as it is not understood. aprakaasa means not manifest but the body is seen. So it really means that the body is the product of ignorance and hence not understood to be something insentient , made up of the three elements. Since it is taken to be real it becomes the cause of all hell on earth. Also it is the cause of entering hell after death as the karma done with the body with a mind riddled with desires leads to hell. But the ignorant, thinking the body to be real and permanent, run forward towards sense gratification, possessed by desires, and fall into hell like the blind who rush forward towards a deep well. 15.amanyamaanah kshathriya kvachidh anyam naaDheeyathe tharnam iva asya vyaaghraH kroDhaath lobhaath mohabhayaantharaathmaa sa vai mrthyuH svacChareere ya eshaH - Oh King, to the one who does not know any thing else except the sense gratification, he does not acquire the knowledge of the Self and this body is like a tiger stuffed with straw for him. His mind and intellect clouded with delusion due to desire and anger he causes his own death, One who follows the path dictated by his desires, is not interested in aathmavidhya, self-knowledge. He may be well learned in Vedas and sastras and even in Vedanta but all are to him only book-learning and the body is of no use to him like a tiger stuffed with straw. The meaning is, the body is all powerful like a tiger to secure release from bondage and the cycle of birth and death but if it is wasted in sense pursuits it is as good as a tiger stuffed with straw, hence powerless. The desires lead one to anger and other traits as outlined in the Gita chapter 2, slokas 62, 63, Dhyaayatho vishayaan--- and the mind is overpowered by delusion and fear and that itself is called death. He kills himself as declared in the Gita, aathmaiva ripuH aathmanaH (ch.6.5) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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