Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
THE MANN
In shlok (verse) 7 of chapter 15 of Shrimad
Bhagavat Geeta, mann has been referred to as sixth sense in our human body. In
our lives ‘mann’ can be considered as power of imagination. But the mann cannot
be thought simple the power of imagination. It is above all our karmendriyan. It
travels faster than anything. Where we want to visualize any object or person
which or who is not before us, the mann creates several editions of such object
or person. In our practical lives, we have to decide our targets and have to
make plans. These actions need fancy power as well as cool thinking. Part of thinking
is associated with our mind. Acts, which do not involve application of mind,
cannot be categorized as planning or fixing of target.
Where mann is not controlled by the brain,
imagination becomes a mere fancy. It gives birth to expectations. When expectations
are not fulfilled, mann gives birth to all evils including ‘kaam’, ‘krodh’ and
‘lobh’. This is the sole cause of anger.
In anger a person loses himself to the extent that he may commit serious
offences. Whatever is found attractive by our eyes, the mann gets easily fascinated
with such persons or things. Thereafter, without going into practical aspect,
mann gives birth to expectations. These expectations may include possession and
enjoyment. Failure in expectations results in sorrows and sadness and sometimes
inspires a person for committing severe offences without considering the consequences.
One cannot do without mann. What is desired is that
mann should not be left alone. It should be under control of our brain.
Friday, August 10, 2012
GEETA FOR US
When mother conceives a child, child comes in contact with nature comprised of ‘sat’, ‘raj’ and ‘tam’. These relate to sato-gun, rajo-gun and tamo-gun. Every human being, at all moments in his life, cultivates any of these.
It is not true that a person who has once cultivated ‘tam’ cannot switch over to ‘sat’. There are several examples of persons who, in their earlier parts of lives, had been cultivating ‘tam’ but in later part of their lives they switched over to ‘sat’ and throughout their remaining lives, they cultivated ‘sat’. Shrimad Bhagvat Geeta teaches us how to dispel the dark and how to attain the light. Person who cultivates ‘sat’ is called divine and a person who cultivates ‘tam’ is called devilish.
On this auspicious day of Lord Krishna Janmaashtami, I will like to cite here few shloks (verses) from pious Geeta to point out difference in between person owning divine nature and a person owning devilish nature.
Shloks 1 to 3 of chapter 16 of the Geeta run as follows:
Abhaym satva-sanshudhirgyaanyogvyavashthitih.
Daanm damashch yagyashch swaadhyaaystap aarjavam. (1)
Ahimsa satyamkrodhastyagah shantirpaishunam.
Dayaa bhuteshvaloluptvam maardavam heerchaplam. (2)
Tejah kshamaa dhrutih shouchmadroho naatimaanitaa.
Bhawanti sampadam daivimbhijatasya Bharat. (3)
In these three verses, Lord Krishna address Arjun as Bharat and tells him that nirbhayata, aatmshuddhi, adhyaatmak gyaan ka anushilan, daan, aatm-sanyam, yagyaparaayanataa, vedaadhyan, tapashya, saralataa, ahimsa, satyata, krodhvihinata, tyaag, shaanti, chhidranveshan mein aruchi, samast jeevon par karunaa, lobhavihinata, bhadrataa, lajja, sankalp, tej, kshamaa, dhairya, pavitrataa, irshya aur samman ki abhilashaa se mukti divya gun hain, jo daivi prukriti se sampan devtulya purushon mein paye jaate hain.
In shlok 4 of chapter 16 of the Geeta, Lord describes a person cultivating devilish features. The shlok runs as under :
Dambho darpoabhimaanashch krodhah paarushyameva cha.
Agyaanm chaabhijaatasya Parth sampadmaasureem.
Meanings: dambh, darp, abhimaan, krodh, kathorataa tathaa agyaan aasuri swabhaav waalon ke gun hain.
It cannot be thought that a person can own all divine qualities at once. For cultivating and owning these qualities, one has to win over Idriya vishay, man and buddhi and theirafter, has to listen to the voice of soul. Gradually a person can own all these qualities.
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