Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 9


The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Karma Yoga is Karma Sanyasa 1-9 
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 6 - Dhyana Yoga - Sloka 9

Suhrud mitraar udasina madhya stha dveshya bandhushu I
Sadhushu api cha papeshu sama buddhih vishishyate II sloka 9
सुहृद मित्रार उदासीन मध्य स्थ द्वेष्य बन्धुषु
साधुषु अपि च पापेषु सम बुद्धिः विशिष्यते ।। श्लोक ९
He stands supreme who has equal regard for friends, companions, enemies, neutrals, arbiters, the hateful, the relatives, saints and sinners.
 It is but natural for an ordinary man to react differently with people in varying levels of attainment and relationship. They are not normal human beings if they did not behave appropriate to the worth of the persons they contact. But the yogi's angle of vision is different. To him the whole world is a stage. Beings in it are all different manifestations of the same Divinity. As the actors of the different characters in a drama are all viewed alike by the stage manager, the yogi has nothing but a benign attitude even to those hostile to him. His supremely benevolent attitude is the greatest gift made by him to the conflict ridden humanity.
When seen from the plains the grass on the lawn and the deodar tree on the border of the lawn present strikingly contrasting pictures. But if they are  seen from the peak of the  mountain they would all blend into one even before. Similarly the earth bound man views one as a sovereign and another as a sweeper, one as a father and another as son, and so on. But after intuiting God, these differences vanish. There is no more of the good and the bad, the high and the low. God perception alone prevails everywhere.
Sri  Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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