Bhagavat Gita - 21

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Bhagavat Gita - 21

 

The way of the illumined ones (Chapter 5 verses 8-29)

 

A truth knower with such detachment feels: " I do nothing in all the movements

of the body, even in the very winking of the eyes. " Having abandoned all

actions mentally, he rests in the nine-gated citadel of the body, undisturbed

by the hurry and bustle of the activities of its members. In all his bodily

and mental activities, his detachment is so complete that he feels that it

is Nature, of which the body-mind is a part, that works and reaps the fruits,

not he, the Spirit, who is only the unconcerned witness if all these

movements of Nature. Remaining in that Spirit-consciousness, he is unperturbed

by all experiences of life, pleasant or unpleasant. And in his dealings

with all fellow beings - high and low, holy and unholy, men and animals - he

has a sense of equality, knowing, as he does, that they are all the unaffected

Spirit, and not the bodies to which alone the distinction of purity and

impurity applies. Even in the embodied state, he is able to contain the pull

of passions and the senses. Knowing that contactual joys only bring

suffering in the end, he turns for satisfaction inward to the Bliss of

the Supreme Spirit, of whom he is a part. He becomes an adept in the practice

of samadhi, and at any time he can withdraw himself from the surface of

the body and be merged in the Bliss of the Spirit within.

 

Knowing Me, as the friend of all, and at the same time the maker and the master

of everything - to whom all worship and austerities have to be offered -

man attains Supreme Peace.

 

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Based on " Srimad Bhagavat Gita - The Scripture of Mankind "

a translation by Rev Swami Tapasyanandaji, published by

Sri Ramakrishna Math - Chennai. http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/

 

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