GITA 6
: DHYANA YOGA
14] Ch. 6 Slokam 5.
Uddha re’ daatmaanaatmaanam / aatmaa namavasaada yeth
Aatmaiva hi aathmanao / bandhu raathmaiva ripunaatmanam
After birth, people at a certain stage
join school, then college, then university and so on. These things won’t come
to us simply like that.
We have to fight, do work hard and then
only gain to the level of our wish.
Things like money, encouragement,
necessity, genes, etc. can influence us
to attain our goal.
This is called uddharana
means upliftment.
Parents may give us money, teachers may
educate us, but it is we who have to decide to come up in life.
Childhood
is ignorance, youth is blunder and old age is repentance.
If it happens because of our aimlessness the
life flows aimlessly in the stream of jeevitam.
If
we have not enriched ourselves to the needs of society our manas
itself asks “what have you done all through this life”?
Answering
the world is easier than answering the manas.
Manas
is an
entrepreneur. It is not so easy to pacify it. So manas becomes ours enemy to ourselves if it cannot answer it.
15] Ch. 6 Slokam
34.
Chanchalam hi manah Krishna / pramaadhi balavaddrudam
Krishna was telling about manas. So Arjuna said that manas is
very fickle minded. It is like a mad dog. It cannot stay at a place. Then how
to control it. It does many functions at a time.
If we are aimless, it takes us to
wherever it wants. Because it is chanchalam.
Actually it is not the problem of Arjuna
alone. It is the problem of billions of people who reside on the Earth.
Mostly people are controlled by manas. Where does it throw it us away we do not know. Before
it can throw it us away, we should know its nature.
God has given all these facilities.
Everyone has a manas . But
why only a few can elevate to great heights? The reasons may be
1.
Genetic
2.
Presence
of guru
3.
Failures
in life
4.
Adviser
5.
Friends
circle and many more. or
We don’t
know.
He said it
was pramaadhi balavaddrudam.
Pramaadhi = dangerous
balavaddrudam = very strong.
It is very
dangerous because it encourages us to do anything.
It could
make Hitler to throw the world into II world war.
It could
make Dyer to kill hundreds of people in Jalianwalabag.
It can make
Cleopatra to enjoy with thousands of warriors is Egypt.
It could
make Eisenhower to drop Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What it
cannot do?
The other
side the same manas made
Mother
Teresa to help the poor;
Arthur
Cotton to had barrage built across Godavari and supplied water to thousands of
acres of lands;
Mary Curie
to donate the amount that she received from Nobel Prize to soldiers’ families
who died in war;
Rontgen to
donate the copy right of X-rays free to the people;
We don’t know.
Ramana
Maharshi
says that “kim swaroopa miti?....”
Oh manas who are your?
You have
been taking us from one birth to another birth.
Actually
there is no exact location to this manas in our body.
Then how
can it carry us from birth to birth again birth to death and so on?
Manas is such a one that it keeps
us in bondage.
If the
pujari says us to say “mama” that means we
enter into bondage.
It can do
many things.
That is why
it is both benevolent and malevolent.
16] Ch. 6 Slokam 35.
Asamsayam mahaabaaho / mano durnigraham chalam
Abhyasena tu kaunteya / vyraagyena cha gruhyate
Asamsayam = there is no doubt in this
mano = manas [ “manas” does not mean “heart” that is what generally people know]
dur nigraham = very difficult to control or suppress
Abhyasena tu kaunteya
= only by
practice O! Arujuna
vyraagyena = only by non-attachment
That means manas is so fickle minded one, that, we cannot control it. We should never try to
control it. We should explain problems relating to what works we have been
doing. The more you try to control it or suppress it, the more it bounces. It
is just like children who, the more you try to suppress them, the more they
demand, nag, cry, etc. We should be friendly and explain them. Then only they
listen.
Manas is also like the children . manas is the creator
as well as destroyer. It is an entrepreneur. We should never cause it to get
irritation. The irritated manas only can cause
terrorism, destruction, suicide, genocide, what not and what not.
Actually for all the problems of the
world, manas
is the main culprit. If we can understand its movements well and behave
accordingly, it is the most obedient one. Otherwise it is worse than a demon.
Why it is said vyraagyena
?
Because only a viragi can
remain non-attached to karma phalam. If we are not after the worldly desires,
the manas can remain cool. We can get peace of
mind. That peace of mind can encourage us to do other things of the world.
If we are after a thing and it won’t be
materialized then wait and give a chance to god. If it belongs to us, it won’t
go anywhere. If it doesnot belong to us even if we cause any influence it won’t
belong to us.
As
Ramana Maharshi said,
“dakkedi dakkaka maanadu,
dakkanidi eppudoo dakkadu ”
Why
should man be after this world, these
things, these people, this accumulation of wealth and so on. Nothing will come
with us, even then man runs after the things.
“Try but don’t be mad after that”
But
this manas is
adamant to that.
An
untrained manas is
very arrogant.
It
gets many questions and make ours life miserable.
I
am the PM, then why doesn’t it follow me?
Why
so and so beautiful girl won’t marry me? I am very rich. I give her a lot of
wealth.
Why
I loved so and so girl then how can she marry others? I will kill her.
And
so on.
Actually
who are we?
Before
our arrival into this world, things happened as they liked.
After
our departure also things may happen as they like.
But
who the hell are we to dictate the terms, saying that it should be like that,
like this, etc.
For
this understanding only we have to train ourselves.
We
should accept that whatever rights we have, the others too have.
That
was what Krishna told Arjuna to do Abhyaasam.
Krishna
observed that the Panvas suffered a lot because of Kauravas.
12
years they suffered because of not enough to eat.
12
years aranyvasam and one year Agnatavasam.
Even
they went begging for food in Ekachakra puram;
Five
gents adjusted with one woman???
Today
we get a doubt
1.
Whether
they were warriors?
2.
Why
not even one was not opposing self depression of themselves?
3.
Though
the god was with them they could well utilise him for their upliftment.
After undergoing all these tortures
still they were sensitive, not ready to kill those who came to kill them;
That was why when Arjuna said he
was ready to die instead of killing his
own relatives Krishna did not encourage him saying kill them.
Instead of that he was motivating him from cowardice to courageous nature.
He realised that simply giving
“war-cries” won’t encourage Arjuna because his manas was in full of moha, a type of hypnotization.
It shows that Arjuna was a grownup kid.
Mentally very weak. He was irresponsible because the whole army on his behalf
was waiting for his orders but there were none. His silence bewildered them.
Through out Mahabharatha, the Pandavas
did something and when a great problem came they prayed for His help. But they
never took his advice whether to do such and such thing? What step they should
follow next?
When they realised that the gamble was a
fraud, they should have revolted then and there. Dharma Raja going to gamble
was another thing. Thirdly he had no right to bet his brothers’ wealth for his
gambling. Fourthly he asked to save enemies from problems.
Was
it their
Goodness?
Ignorance?
Inefficiency?
Madness?
Craziness?
??????
Whenever Kauravas said a small thing
immediately on that issue Pandavas used to investigate. First silly thing of
the Pandavas.
Most foolish fellows, the kauravas,
enjoyed all through the life. Even Karna being in the company of the Kauravas,
as a king of Anga Rajya enjoyed for many years. Second silly thing of the
Pandavas.
If look carefully at the Pandavas, we
understand one thing. They wanted to be or remain forever as “Rama is a good
boy”. Third silly thing of the Pandavas.
They did not realise that goodness is
inefficiency.
It indicates that even if god is with us
and we don’t know what to do, then that privilege is mere waste.
It was like an eunuch marrying Rambha.
