Guest guest Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Hari OmThe Bhagawad Gita asserts in unequivocal terms the truth behind the reincarnation theory in more than one verse. Says the Lord: "Just as the Soul dwelling in the body goes through childhood,youth and old age ,so also it moves on to another another body;the wise are do not grieve over it."(chapter2,verse 13). Youth should be considered as the birth when childhood has met with its death. So too, old age is born when youthfulness is dead. None of us grieve over these changes. On the other hand we, in fact,feel happier on account of the wealth of experiences we have come to gain as the status of the body rises from the innocent childhood to its mature old age. Taking recourse to this subjective experience of everyone in the world as a standard of comparison, the Lord tries to bring home to Arjuna that the wise men do not worry when they leave one body for purpose of taking another one. If we can view death in the light of this understanding, it can no more be a threat to wise men. At the moment of death, there is no extinction of the individual, but the embodied ego of the dead body leaves its previous structure and ,depending upon the mental impressions (vasanas) that it had developed during its embodiment, gets itself identified with a physical equipment where it can express itself completely and seek its perfect fulfilment. The Gita brings out in clear terms the difference between the Real and the unreal. According to Lord Krishna,"The unreal has no being; there is no non-being of the Real;the truth about both has been seen by the knowers of the Truth". This declaration means that if unreal be that which is dying and, therefore,finite, then to any average intelligent man, life is only full of finite things and, naturally he will fail to understand what exactly is that which is the Imperishable, the Immutable. Real is that which envelopes everything that exists and which is the very stuff and substance of all the worlds of perceptions which we experience. " None can cause the destruction of that-- the Imperishable", says the Lord. Such is the emphatic declaration in the Gita. And what is that imperishable thing? We will see this in a future submission. G.Balasubramanian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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