Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Thus Spake The Lord Arjuna is the Jivi, the individual. The Body is the Chariot and the Teacher in the Chariot is Krishna, the Lord. The Charioteer is the Lord, the Inspirer of the Intelligence, the Brahmam which prompts It in answer to man's prayer contained in the Gayathri Mantra "Dhiyoyonah prachodayath..." (Awaken my Discrimination, O Lord and guide me). The Kauravas represent the demonic nature; the Pandavas represent the Divine. They are Asat, these are Sat; one is evil, the other is good. And there has ever been a struggle between the two. In this conflict between opposing forces, Krishna (the Self, the Atma) is ever on the side of Dharma--the Reality which sustains, not the Delusion which undermines. If you seek to have the Lord on your side as your Guide, equip yourself with the Divine nature, (Daivi Sampath), the qualities of Dharma. For the Lord is where Dharma is. Of course, this does not mean that the Lord is not omnipresent...! Butter is omnipresent in the milk, though it can be made manifest in one location, in the milk, only by the process of curdling and churning. So too, the Lord can be made manifest in one location by the process of Dharma-sadhana. "Yatho dharmasthatho jayah": "Where there is Dharma, there victory is achieved". Arjuna was engrossed with the physical aspect and so it was necessary to bless him with the Knowledge of the Real, the Atmic aspect. The entire complex of Sadhana is directed to the clarification of the awareness of Atma, and the fixing of attention on That. The Teaching of Krishna is just this; in fact this is the sum and substance of the search for Truth. Source: Geetha Vahini, Chapter 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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