Look Within – Talks on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Venkatesananda.

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Krishna points out that it is not the world or the god that is the cause

of your troubles and sorrow, it is you.

 

" Gataasunagataamsumshcha naanushochanti panditaah "

 

`Thou have grieved for those that should not be grieved for, yet

thou speaks words of wisdom' Gitia 2 verse 11

 

And so Krishna warns us right in the beginning " you talk as if you

are a very wise man, but you are worried. You betray anxiety " .

 

Anxiety, worry and wisdom do not exist together. If I am wise, there

must be no anxiety in my heart.

 

If there is anxiety in my heart, then I am not a man of wisdom. Its

silly to say – " I am very wise, but I am not quite sure

…. " Or " I depend entirely on god – is there some more

tea there? " Humbug, hypocrisy!

 

There is no need for this hypocrisy because, you are only bluffing

yourself – what for?

 

When you are anxious, worried, jealous or suspicious, no one else is

worried, it doesn't involve anybody else at all.

 

It worries you; it eats your heart away. Why do this?

 

There is another thing which unfortunately I never understood.

 

If someone is more prosperous, or happier than I am, I am jealous.

 

If somebody insults me, I should not take more than 3 minutes to realise

that I am eating myself away, I am punishing myself – for what? For

nothing, for no reason.

 

When my husband or my wife or my children are sick, again I am worried.

 

By worrying myself I am not going to improve the situation, I am only

making things worse for myself, for everybody perhaps.

 

When I see that (it may almost sound like selfishness) by this anxiety,

jealousy, worry, fear, hate or anger, I am destroying myself – then

these emotions seems to be not only meaningless, but destructive.

 

Wisdom does not go with these, and when wisdom arises in me, all these

things fall away.

 

Gataasunagataasumshcha naanushochanti panditaah.

To be continued..