427. G I T A - 18 - 73

25]     Ch. 18                  Slokam  73

Nasto mohaha smrutir labdah twatprasaanmayaa chutah

Stitosmi gata sandehaha karishe vachanam tava

Nasto mohaha smruti labdah twatprasaadat mayaa achutah Stitosmi gata sandehaha karishe vachanam tava

I lost Blind belief that all belong to him To his consciousness/Gnanam Gained By your grace By me O! Krishna I became Relieved of all the doubts I will do Order By you

        Krishna and Arjuna lived together for more than 30 years. But he never said that He knew Gita.

        Arjuna always treated Krishna as his brother-in-law. He never imagined that He was the ocean of knowledge.

        When Arjuna said,

“Na  kaankshe  vijayam  krishnaa, na  charajyam  sukhaanichaa

Kim  no  rajyena  govinda,  kim  bhoghai hi  jeevitena  vaah ”

        He started telling Arjuna saying not to worry about those whom we should never remember. They were unfit to be recollected. They were unfit to be worry about.

        He started telling how a human being is immersed in the four Yogas that trapped us and taking us from birth to death, birth to death and so on.

        Arjuna listened to Krishna. He never interfered. In between he asked some questions. Arjuna asked Krishna is as good as on our behalf of.

        After Gnana Yoga, he realised the essence of the human life. All his doubts were shuttered. There is no moham towards his relatives, friends, kith and kin, and so on.  He became enlightened.

        During the entire discussion Krishna never provoked Arjuna telling him to kill the kauravas. After good knowledge, he became ready for him self. He who threw away dhanas and arrows telling that he did not want to kill anybody, took up arms for himself and declared war on the Kauravas.

        This indicates that Krishna is a great motivator. His samvaadam with Arjuna cleared all his doubts. Without any second thought he plunged into the war.

This case takes place in anybody’s case.

Once we realise the essence of the worldly things, we develop confidence.

Once my sincerity was treated as stupidity.

People mocked at me telling that I would not survive in this world.

What I observed is that there are such people who are in microscopic minority who can guide us.

Mainly there were three people.

I thanked two people, and I have been waiting to say thanks to the third one.

“sharaab pilaake giraana to sabko aatha

Magar mazaa isme hai, girte logomko thamle sathee”

[Urdu]

If we cannot come across such people, we lose the game.

If we can come across such people, we win the game.

Arjuna was gifted, because he got such advice in Krishna’s sayings.

Criticising the ignorant is very easy, but guide the ignorant is very different.

My parents used to criticise me a lot.

But what did they achieve? Nothing.

They criticise but they themselves do not know what to do.

They cannot guide us.

For me to learn many things of this world, I had taken at least 15 years.

Most of the people go on in this life using “time and error” method.

Take the case of Jessie Owen.

He was an American who came to Berlin Olympics in 1939.

In trials he made foul in long jump twice.

It is not that he was not efficient.

That was observed by Luz Long, a German.

He approached Owens and advised him to draw a separate line for himself.

This simple idea bagged Owen a gold medal.

That is why we should not under estimate others talent.

Even after knowing the truth, if it is not said, it is a sin.

There may be small set backs.

We should show sympathy and enable him to get the problem solved.

Akbar  was the Emperor of Mughal dynasty.

He was illiterate.

But he had the talent of getting things done by others who were competent enough.

He was successful.

He proved himself he was the best king who ever ruled India.

For example if we get a disease, we pay fee to a concerned doctor and get it treated.

It is talent.

But to get our disease cured, we don’t study MBBS.

It is stupidity.

The Emperor of Japan married his steno, a middle class girl.

He got the experts to guide her.

They trained her in 2 years what she might have taken a generation[s].

Dheerubai Ambani learnt a lot.

Whatever he leant he taught his two children in days.

He also gave him a property worth 1,65,000 crores turnover business.

That is the duty of a dutiful and responsible father.

This help make their family to come up sky high in the second generation only.

        A middle class man can neither learn for himself from the world nor teach his children.

        He became a sadist.

        He feels that whatever he learnt in years, should not be imparted to the next generation.

        So the secret is cremated along with him.

        In such case the next off-spring  will never come up in life.

        This wastes a lot of time, money, and sometimes they may not reach their destination.

       

   That is why though the god has given 12 billion neurons; all will not become scientists, players, technicians, artists, etc.

   There is something like genetic effect which decides this speciality.

   Some remain as they were, as they are, and as they will be in their entire life.

   One becomes Albert Einstein, another becomes autowala.

  

      In such cases even if Krishna himself comes and guides such poor people they will never come up in life.

      Many times Duryodhana was hinted by the senior most people that Krishna was Vasudeva, and the god himself but he turned a deaf year.

      So motivation, guidance, inspiration, … are required to those who have such genes in them to understand.

      Whenever the Kauravas were defeated by others and every time they were saved by the Pandavas, they could never realise the strength and vigour of the Pandavas and the main person behind them.

Once Ramana Maharshi was saving a scorpion from a tank of water.

Whenever it came out, it used to bite him.

People who observed that asked Maharshi, why he was doing it like that.

Maharshi said, “its nature is to bite others, and his nature is to save it. It won’t give up its nature and so I won’t give up my nature.”

If we see cricket players they practise under the same coach.

Then why all can’t become like Tendulars??

A mosquito can never understand the strength of a lion.

Kauravas who were like mosquitoes could never understand the strength of Krishna.

Arjuna realised the strength of Krishna, humbly said that his presence would be enough.

Whatever Arjuna could not learn in his life time, Krishna clarified everything in seconds.

That was why he could confidently say,

“Nasto mohaha smrutir labdah twatprasaanmayaa chutah

Stitosmi gata sandehaha karishe vachanam tava”

We may get a doubt.

If Krishna could have told that in the beginning, there could not have taken Kurukshetra war.

Generally we try our level best, before taking  somebody’s advice.

When all his efforts became futile, Arjuna surrendered himself asking what to do?

That time only Krishna started his celestial song in a laughing manner.

“Tamu wacha hrushi kesa, prahasanniva bharatha”

He felt that Arjuna had surrendered totally to him.

He started telling wisdom of generations and generations in few minutes and made Arjuna ready for war.

Generally people, who do not know how to guide others, can only exploit them.

It is the rule of the jungle.

In jungle whoever is strong will be victorious.

Such one only can guide others or exploit others.

If we are wise, we try to escape from this deception.

Arjuna was sincere to whatever Krishna said.

He had no other thought to whatever was said to him.

In real today’s life people are not sincere to themselves.

They want that this should be sincere, trustworthy etc. but they won’t do the same.

We should either follow to whatever that we don’t know, guide others to whatever they know.

Then only life becomes very thrill.

If we get one sincere student, one sincere mechanic, one sincere doctor, one sincere friend, … life becomes very thrilling.

Not knowing all these things, people try to exploit not only outsiders but also our own people.

Is it cleverness or stupidity.

If we deceive others  people say he is intelligent.

If we deceive ourselves then what  should we call them???

My parents deceived me, exploited me, even misguided me.

My wife deceived me, and whatever promise she gave she could not keep it up.

My friends deceived and exploited me.

Then for whose sake should we live in this world??

That is why I happened to learn so many things in my life.

Why should I earn?

Did they gain anything? – no.

Then what is this craziness for?

Very rarely people do such a way.

Their laugh is cunning, their friendliness is cunning, …

Really Arjuna was great.

He had most trusted brothers.

By his bhagyam he had Krishna was with him.

These common people study or listen to scriptures.

But they won’t anything to their heart.

Life is different, puja is different.

In their life they can never say, “Nasto mohaha smrutir labdah”

For these common people “moha” is very important.

Even if we say the truth, they are not ready to accept it.

It happened in my life.

Whatever I said they simply discard saying that the whole world is going in the same way.

Can we achieve anything being separate?

You don’t have enough to eat, then why do you have so many children?

What justice did my father do to me?

They have no answer.