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Month of Awakening, 29.02.2020, Greater Noida, India
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श्री भगवानुवाच
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते।
नहि कल्याणकृत्कश्िचद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति।।6.40।।
The Blessed Lord said O Partha, there is certainly no ruin for him here or hereafter. For, no one engaged in good meets with a deplorable end, My son!
प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः।
शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोऽभिजायते।।6.41।।
Attaining the worlds of the righteous, and residing there for eternal years, the man fallen from Yoga is born in the house of the pious and the prosperous.
अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्।
एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्।।6.42।।
Or he is born in a family of wise Yogins. But such a birth in this world is rarer to get.
तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्।
यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन।।6.43।।
There he becomes endowed with that wisdom acquired in the previous body. and he strives more than before for perfection, O scion of the Kuru dynasty.
पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः।
जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते।।6.44।।
For, by that very past practice, he is carried forward even in spite of himself! Even a seeker of Yoga transcends the result of the performance of Vedic rituals!
~ Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, Chapter 6 Verse 40-41-42-43-44.
~ What is concept of Yogbhrasht in Gita ?
~ What is real meaning of Sanyam?
~ What happens to those who deviate from his spiritual path?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Month of Awakening, 29.02.2020, Greater Noida, India
Context:
श्री भगवानुवाच
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते।
नहि कल्याणकृत्कश्िचद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति।।6.40।।
The Blessed Lord said O Partha, there is certainly no ruin for him here or hereafter. For, no one engaged in good meets with a deplorable end, My son!
प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वतीः समाः।
शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोऽभिजायते।।6.41।।
Attaining the worlds of the righteous, and residing there for eternal years, the man fallen from Yoga is born in the house of the pious and the prosperous.
अथवा योगिनामेव कुले भवति धीमताम्।
एतद्धि दुर्लभतरं लोके जन्म यदीदृशम्।।6.42।।
Or he is born in a family of wise Yogins. But such a birth in this world is rarer to get.
तत्र तं बुद्धिसंयोगं लभते पौर्वदेहिकम्।
यतते च ततो भूयः संसिद्धौ कुरुनन्दन।।6.43।।
There he becomes endowed with that wisdom acquired in the previous body. and he strives more than before for perfection, O scion of the Kuru dynasty.
पूर्वाभ्यासेन तेनैव ह्रियते ह्यवशोऽपि सः।
जिज्ञासुरपि योगस्य शब्दब्रह्मातिवर्तते।।6.44।।
For, by that very past practice, he is carried forward even in spite of himself! Even a seeker of Yoga transcends the result of the performance of Vedic rituals!
~ Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, Chapter 6 Verse 40-41-42-43-44.
~ What is concept of Yogbhrasht in Gita ?
~ What is real meaning of Sanyam?
~ What happens to those who deviate from his spiritual path?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 The questioner has quoted five verses, five consecutive verses.
00:20 Book 40 to 44 of chapter 6 of Srimad Bhagavad Gita.
00:30 "No ruin for him here or hereafter, for no one engaged in good meets with a deplorable end, my son. Attaining the worlds of the righteous and residing there for eternal years, the man fallen from Yoga is born in the house of the pious and the prosperous, or he is born in the family of wise yogis.
00:59 Such a birth as is of this kind is surely more difficult to get in the world.
01:07 There he becomes endowed with wisdom acquired in the previous body and he strives more than
01:13 before for perfection.
01:15 O Skayana of the Kuru dynasty, for by that very past practice he is carried forward even
01:23 in spite of himself.
01:25 Description of seeker of Yoga transcends the result of the performance of Vedic rituals."
01:36 In this sequence, the two verses prior to the first verse here, two should have been
01:45 quoted.
01:46 I'll give you the complete context.
01:53 Arjun is asking, "Please tell me, O Krishna, what happens to those who have devotion towards
02:07 the truth but are not unflappable?"
02:15 In Arjun's words, they have Shraddha but no Sanyam.
02:20 So they are devoted but their devotion is not stable.
02:27 Their devotion keeps fluctuating.
02:31 Sometimes they are devoted and sometimes they are not devoted and Shri Krishna is saying,
02:38 you know, you require a lot of Abhyas, practice and practice means investment of time, a continuous
02:50 period in which you are regularly without fail offering your devotion to your improvement,
03:00 that is practice.
03:03 Arjun is asking from his own point of view, he's saying all these things told by Shri
03:13 Krishna look fabulous but what if one wavers in between, he's thinking of himself, you
03:22 know, yes, he's saying what if there is devotion but devotion comes and goes and there are
03:35 intermittent periods of destruction.
03:41 So Shri Krishna says such a fellow is called Yogabhrast.
03:44 Arjun would probably be buckling up to hear from Krishna that a Yogabhrast is bound to
03:57 be barbecued in hell but Krishna says no.
04:05 Even a Yogabhrast is far better than the normal mortal.
04:15 It's just that the Yogabhrast guy will take a far longer route to come to me.
04:29 Krishna says the faith that he has posed in me will not go waste.
04:40 The devotion that he offered to me will bear its fruit but it seems that the concerned
04:49 person himself is not very interested in tasting the fruit immediately.
04:58 So the fruit will remain in abeyance.
05:03 You do not want the fruit right now.
05:09 So your investment will mature later on as per your wishes.
05:16 So he will take a long winding route.
05:19 What kind of long winding route?
05:20 He says this fellow will be reborn but will be reborn at a conducive place.
05:28 He will be reborn in a family of pious people who are spiritually inclined and he will be
05:38 some kind of a prodigious kid because all that he has learnt in his previous birth will
05:50 sort of stay with him.
05:54 So therefore he will be able to understand the scriptures without much effort and then
06:06 now in the current birth, if he has a little more sense and makes better decisions compared
06:15 to his previous births, then he will attain liberation because he has already put in a
06:21 lot of effort that is there in store.
06:26 He can capitalize on it whenever he wants to.
06:37 The blessed one said, "O Parth, there is certainly no ruin for him."
06:42 Who is this him?
06:44 He has been referred to in the previous verses.
06:47 Him is the fellow who has Shraddha but not Sanyam, who has devotion but not stillness,
06:57 firmness.
06:59 He is not unflinching.
07:02 He is not deeply rooted.
07:05 Sometimes he is in, sometimes he is out, that kind of a fellow.
07:11 So Krishna is saying, "Arjun, there is certainly no ruin for this person here or hereafter
07:16 for no one engaged in good meets with a deplorable end.
07:23 Attaining the worlds of the righteous and residing there for eternal years, the man
07:28 fallen from Yog, Yogabhrast, is born in the house of the pious and the prosperous or he
07:36 is born in the family of wise Yogis, such a birth as is of this kind is surely more
07:42 difficult to get.
07:45 There in that house he becomes endowed with that wisdom acquired in the previous body
07:51 and he strives more than before for perfection.
07:55 O Arjun, for by that past practice he is carried forward even in spite of himself.
08:04 Even a seeker of Yoga transcends the result of the performance of Vedic rituals."
08:10 So that's the thing.
08:12 Now the question, "Shri Krishna explains to Arjun that how nothing bad can happen to
08:19 the one, no, no, that's not the case.
08:21 Anyway, Shri Krishna explains to Arjun that nothing bad can happen to the one who moves
08:27 towards the supreme self, even if he deflects from the righteous path.
08:33 While doing so he speaks of reincarnations and carrying forward of virtues from one birth
08:38 to another.
08:39 Please help me understand what is really meant by that.
08:41 Time, time, nothing else and it's not that Shri Krishna is saying that nothing bad can
08:47 happen to him.
08:48 What worse than to delay the inevitable?
08:55 You are delaying your destiny.
08:58 Is that not bad?
09:00 Actually that is not bad if you compare it with those who are not even looking at their
09:10 destiny.
09:11 Compared to them it is wonderful.
09:16 But if you look at it from the point of view of attainment versus potential, then it is
09:26 a bad situation.
09:29 You had the possibility to attain something utterly quickly and you have brought time
09:37 in between.
09:39 You have unnecessarily postponed it.
09:42 Very bad.
09:45 Then the question arises, then why does Krishna say that anybody who invests faith in me does
09:53 never meet a deplorable end and is never ruined.
09:59 You must understand the person Krishna is speaking to.
10:03 Arjuna is already nervous.
10:09 Do you understand the question?
10:12 All this comes towards the fag end of chapter 6.
10:20 Krishna has already told Arjuna that there is no way but to engage in selfless action.
10:35 It is very difficult for Arjuna to understand let alone follow.
10:42 Arjuna is saying I am kind of getting you but I clearly see that I will not be able
10:49 to stand firm in what you are saying.
10:55 Because his understanding is not complete.
10:57 When your understanding is not complete, then how can you be unflappable?
11:03 You will keep vacillating.
11:09 So the reply has been customized to not to discourage Arjuna.
11:16 Now Arjuna is asking, sir, your words are beautiful but please tell me what happens
11:25 to those who follow your words only partially.
11:28 That's the question in effect.
11:30 Practically that's what Arjuna is asking and suppose if Krishna says Arjuna, they will
11:36 burn in the fires of hell, those who follow me only partially, then Arjuna knows very
11:42 well now what lies in store for him.
11:46 He was anyway so nervous and the moment Krishna tells him that if you follow me only partially,
11:52 then you will burn in hell or a sad end and total ruin awaits you, then Arjuna will be
11:59 thoroughly discouraged.
12:03 So Krishna advises him according to his situation, he says, you know, don't worry, even if you
12:08 follow me only partially, yet there are great benefits.
12:12 What Krishna is saying him, dude, follow me at least partially.
12:17 He is not encouraging him to follow only partially.
12:22 Krishna is saying follow me at least partially because Krishna can practically see that Arjuna
12:29 will not be able to follow him totally and absolutely.
12:34 So in a very practical way, Shri Krishna is going for the next best option.
12:38 He's saying you cannot follow me absolutely, follow me at least partially.
12:42 So to encourage Arjuna, he is saying, you know Arjuna, even if you follow me only partially,
12:47 yet great things will happen to you.
12:51 Maybe in this birth you won't be liberated, but in the next birth you will be born in
12:55 a pious and prosperous families or maybe you will be born in a family of yogis and you
13:02 will be born with supreme talents because you will remember all that you have read and
13:08 known in your previous birth.
13:10 So you will quickly attain liberation in one of your coming births.
13:14 So now Arjuna is feeling alright, fine.
13:16 So that means if I listen to Krishna, at least some gain will be there, that much is guaranteed,
13:24 that kind of thing.
13:25 Now Krishna would not have said the same thing to a more earnest seeker.
13:32 Had a more earnest seeker asked the same question, Shri Krishna would have said, why are you
13:37 unnecessarily delaying the inevitable?
13:40 Why are you waiting for 200 years to get liberated when liberation is possible right now?
13:48 Then why are you saying that you will have Shraddha but not Sanyam?
13:53 If you say that you have Shraddha, then honesty demands that you have Sanyam also.
13:59 Sanyam means remaining stable in your Shraddha.
14:04 Sanyam means being honest about your Shraddha, that is devotion.
14:11 What kind of devotion is it that cannot absorb you completely?
14:18 Lack of Sanyam means you are not fully absorbed, you are half in and half out.
14:30 So the yoga brushed person is better off than the one who has no love, no feeling for yoga,
14:48 but that does not mean that the yoga brushed root is a good root at all.
14:57 It's just that even if you are yoga brushed, you do get some benefits.
15:02 Now we come to the concern regarding rebirth.
15:09 The questioner seems to be asking, what is this thing about being born in a better family
15:14 in the next birth and carrying the, that has to be understood merely as the introduction
15:22 of time.
15:25 Being born again at a better place merely means that your worldly conditions will anyway
15:34 be better off if you have some spiritual inclination right now.
15:42 If your spiritual investment was total, then you would have been liberated from the world.
15:48 Please understand, had your Shraddha been absolute, that would have resulted in absolute
15:53 liberation from the world.
15:56 But your devotion, your Shraddha is not absolute, it is partial.
16:02 So it will not give you liberation from the world, but still it will give you better situations
16:07 in the world.
16:08 Are you getting it?
16:10 Total devotion in the truth will liberate you from the world.
16:15 Partial devotion in the truth will lead to an improvement in your situation in the world.
16:21 That is what Shri Krishna is referring to as being reborn in a better family.
16:26 It merely means your situation in the world will improve and that obviously will.
16:32 If you are wise, then even your worldly situation is going to improve and when your worldly
16:38 situation will improve, that will incentivize you all the more to dive deeper into wisdom
16:47 because you do have some devotion, you do have some wisdom even if partial.
16:53 So when you start seeing the result of that devotion coming to you, then you feel energized,
17:01 incentivized to be devoted even more.
17:05 And when you are devoted even more, you come to a point when there is complete liberation
17:10 from the world.
17:12 That's the practical essence of Shri Krishna's words on the Yoga Bhrashtra.
17:18 Getting it?
17:21 If Krishna Sahib is saying that at least follow me partially, so it is under the assumption
17:38 that it may start with the partial and may convert to the total.
17:46 But in the beginning when we were talking about that it's a choice.
17:53 Man is born with a choice that whether he wants to go all the way or not.
18:01 Then isn't this a very big gamble that you are pushing somebody for even for the partial
18:11 when it is, when it cannot be said that it will go for the total.
18:18 As in this half-fed knowledge wouldn't be more harmful.
18:24 That's the best case possible because that's how this person is choosing for himself.
18:31 Nothing better if this fellow could have chosen absolute liberation, but he is very unwilling
18:43 to go for perfection.
18:47 He is in some kind of a trial mode.
18:54 Then Shri Krishna is saying fine, if that is your decision at least try out the stuff.
19:04 Obviously had your devotion, your investment been deeper, had you made bigger commitments,
19:19 then you would have received greater benefits, but I cannot force you to commit yourself
19:30 in a deeper way.
19:33 I can only encourage you.
19:35 This is his way of encouraging Arjun.
19:38 Thank you.
19:41 [Music]