Categories: All - duty - concentration - knowledge

by Arpit Banjara 2 years ago

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2) The Right Understanding

The text discusses the nature of life and the importance of developing a right understanding. Life is portrayed as a constant struggle between right consciousness and guilt consciousness, filled with challenges of varying magnitudes.

2) The Right Understanding

The Right Understanding

4-33. Knowledge-sacrifice is superior to wealth-sacrifice. All karma in its entirety, culminates in knowledge.

4-37. As the blazing fire reduces fuel to ashes, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all karma to ashes.

4-38. Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge. He that is perfected in yoga realizes it in his own heart in due time.

4-39. The man of sraddha, the devoted, the master of his senses obtains Knowledge. Having obtained knowledge he goes promptly to the Peace Supreme.

5-04 Knowledge and performance of action are same. Theory and practice are interrelated and interdependent. Right understanding leads to right doing; right doing brings in right knowing. 5-05 Know and do, or do and know, are interchangeable.

5- 8+9. All activities pertaining to bodily existence take place in the non-Self. The Self is actionless. The knower of the Self is therefore free from agency.

5-11. The yogi, abandoning attachment, performs work with the body, the mind, the intellect and the senses only, for self-purification.

18-29 Understanding is the faculty of distinguishing between the good and the bad, between the right action and the wrong.

18-49 He whose intellect is unattached everywhere, who has subdued his self, from whom desire has disappeared, he by renunciation attains the supreme state of freedom from action.

18-50 Learn from Me in brief, 0 Kaunteya, how reaching such perfection, he attains to Brahman, that supreme consummation of knowledge.

18-65 When right understanding develops, the mind submits itself to be directed Godward.

4-19 They are all burnt away in the fire of the knowledge that God alone is the real author of all that takes place in the universe. He is called the wise by the sages because of his being endowed with this supreme knowledge.

4.18 Mistaking the non-Self for Self is egoism. The characteristics of action and inaction are:­ He who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, he is wise among men, he is a yogi and accomplisher of everything.

3-18. For him there is in the world no object to acquire by doing an action; nor is there any loss by not doing an action; nor has he to depend on anybody for any thing. One of the signs of the enlightened man is that he is enjoying boundless bliss within himself. The surface of the ocean seems boisterous; but bottom it is all calmness. The Brahma-jnani therefore has nothing to seek from man or God.

2-65. In tranquility (gain in purity, 2-66 Meditate, 2-71 Free from all desire), all his sorrow is destroyed. For the intellect of the tranquil-minded is soon anchored in equilibrium.

2-47. Seek to perform your duty; but lay not claim to its fruits. Be you not the producer of the fruits of Karma; neither shall you lean towards inaction.

2-41 Firmness स्थिरता in mind comes to the one who learns concentration. The unknown become known through concentration and attention.

2-16. The unreal has no existence(Body) ; the real never ceases to be (Atman). Behold the body and the pleasure and pain associated with it as unreal. Our bodies were not existent in the distant past, they will not be in the distant future. Though they are now, their existence is equivalent to non-existence (abhavam).

2-15 Be free from the pairs of opposites, Ever balanced, Unconcerned with getting and keeping and centered in the self.

1-12 Dharma (Right Conscious) alone was going to triumph in the end.

1-10 Paryaptam = limited, compact, well disciplined, training, team spirit, trim and equal to any eventuality. That nation thrives best, which is compact, well-knit, trained and tuned to an ideal.

1-01 Life is Battlefield between Right conscious and guilt conscious. Life always bristle with problems of varying magnitude.