Monday, July 11, 2011

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 69


The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

The Enlightened Defined - 54-72
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 69

Ya nisha sarva bhutanam tasyam jagartim samyami
Tasyam jagarti bhutani sa nisha pashyatah muneh II sloka 69
य निशा सर्व भूतानां तस्यां जगर्तिं संयमी ।
तस्यां जागर्ति भूतानि स निशा पश्यतः मुनेः ।। श्लोक ६९ 

That which is night to all beings, in that the disciplined man wakes; that in which all beings wake, is night to the Atman-cognising Muni

The faculty of seeing varies with beings in the physical plane. While man is ableto see distinctly in broad daylight, owls and tigers are not able to do so. Day is therefore virtually night for them; and what is night for man actually serves as day for them. For then they can discern well. Day and night as physical facts are one thing and as practical value quite another for beings differently constituted.

Men aer not wakeful to the same thing.A thief is well posted with particulars in his field, while the rest are all hidden to in darkness for him. To a gambler his game is bright as day, other concerns being shrouded as if in darkness. The learned see well into the literary world, unmindful of everything else. The same world opens up different vistas for different people in accordance with their dispositions.

To people who are sense bound things, earthly are all real  and they are immersed in them; they are wakeful to the mundane. To the Brahma jnani,  on the other hand, who has conquered the senses and who has awakened to divine consciousness, the spectacle is different. His intuition, concepts, percepts are all filled with Divinity. Whatever is, is Brahman to him. He cognises existence as Brahman and not as the mundane. According to the attainment beings are attuned to different planes of existence. The Enlightened One is in the finale of it.
With the realisation of God everything undergoes transformation to the jnani. It is God himself who has become the phenomenal universe and all beings in it. The son is perceived as the boy Krishna. Father and mother undergo metamorphosis as the Divinity. The wife is no more his mate; he sees the cosmic form in her. Recognising God in all, adoration to Him takes place through the worshipful service to all
Sri Ramakrishna Paramaamsa

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