Your actions and thoughts dissolve in Consciousness
If Krishna tells Arjuna to fight, in common parlance, it means action. Arjuna is a warrior and hence is job - Swadharma is to fight. For the rest of us, it is what we do - moment to moment. It is just about 100 per cent action, performed in the peak of consciousness. When a painting is being done, a poster is being crafted, a statue is being sculpted - all that the creator knows is the one stroke that he is working on at that moment. And that action springs from the consciousness and is dedicated to consciousness. There is no sculptor, artiste or craftsperson there. The energy in the cosmos flows through the mind and the body and creates the piece of art, the sculpture, the poem, the music, the drama or sends the ball in the cricket field flying over the boundary for a sixer.
The Bhagavad Gita is just about 100 per cent action. And this verse in Chapter Three sums it up.
Mayi Sarvani Karmani Sanyasyadhyatma Chetasa
Nirashir Nirmamo Bhuthwa Yudhyaswa Vigathajwaraha.
Krishna - the Consciousness, commands to Arjuna - the confused mind. United with the one Consciousness, you give yourself fully and fight as all actions finally rest in Me (Consciousness). Fight without desire. Fight without thinking that you are fighting. Put all your energies into that fight. Now in this moment, be.
This attitude is not just for the battlefield, but in our day to day life. Being there, where one is, waking, looking into the mirror, smiling, eating, playing, talking, sleeping....as if one was doing it all in a battlefield when alertness and awareness needs to be at one's peak for mere survival.
- Swahilya Shambhavi.
If Krishna tells Arjuna to fight, in common parlance, it means action. Arjuna is a warrior and hence is job - Swadharma is to fight. For the rest of us, it is what we do - moment to moment. It is just about 100 per cent action, performed in the peak of consciousness. When a painting is being done, a poster is being crafted, a statue is being sculpted - all that the creator knows is the one stroke that he is working on at that moment. And that action springs from the consciousness and is dedicated to consciousness. There is no sculptor, artiste or craftsperson there. The energy in the cosmos flows through the mind and the body and creates the piece of art, the sculpture, the poem, the music, the drama or sends the ball in the cricket field flying over the boundary for a sixer.
The Bhagavad Gita is just about 100 per cent action. And this verse in Chapter Three sums it up.
Mayi Sarvani Karmani Sanyasyadhyatma Chetasa
Nirashir Nirmamo Bhuthwa Yudhyaswa Vigathajwaraha.
Krishna - the Consciousness, commands to Arjuna - the confused mind. United with the one Consciousness, you give yourself fully and fight as all actions finally rest in Me (Consciousness). Fight without desire. Fight without thinking that you are fighting. Put all your energies into that fight. Now in this moment, be.
This attitude is not just for the battlefield, but in our day to day life. Being there, where one is, waking, looking into the mirror, smiling, eating, playing, talking, sleeping....as if one was doing it all in a battlefield when alertness and awareness needs to be at one's peak for mere survival.
- Swahilya Shambhavi.
8 comments:
Good to see you back, swaha!
may i request you to have english translation for sanskrit words too. It would be an additional advantage for readers like me.
Thank you Merging Point: Actually, the paragraph subsequent to the verse is a running translation, though not literal. Literal will mean like Mayi Sarvani Karmani: In me all actions, Nirashir: Without desires, Nirmama: Without the I. May be from the next post, I will translate word by word.
Well done...
One little correction in the concluding line: '...alertness and awareness needs to be at one's peak...' gives an impression that one should try hard to achieve this. The truth is this happens automatically and effortlessly.... when a painting is being done, a statue is being sculpted....as written by you earlier in the passage.
Best wishes.
The Bhagavad Gita would be one of the books I woould want to have with me if I were stranded on an uninhabited island. I am enjoying your posts very much.
...Z
Perfect explanation. However, the reader may misunderstand the closing sentence. A reader who is not exposed to Vedanta may assume that one has to put in lots of effort to be alert and be aware all the time. The truth is, this alertness and awareness happens effortlessly with the correct understanding of Vedanta. Just as a creator is able to bring about the alertness/ awareness to the single stroke that he is working on at the moment while painting/ sculpting etc WITHOUT any conscious effort, every one can smile, eat, walk, talk etc all the time with complete alertness/awareness with perfect understanding of Vedanta.
This comment was from a friend which got missed somehow. So I am posting it. Thank you.
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Perfect explanation. However, the reader may misunderstand the closing sentence. A reader who is not exposed to Vedanta may assume that one has to put in lots of effort to be alert and be aware all the time. The truth is, this alertness and awareness happens effortlessly with the correct understanding of Vedanta. Just as a creator is able to bring about the alertness/ awareness to the single stroke that he is working on at the moment while painting/ sculpting etc WITHOUT any conscious effort, every one can smile, eat, walk, talk etc all the time with complete alertness/awareness with perfect understanding of Vedanta.
Vedanta is from Veda and Anta: Where the Vedas end, there Consciousness and Awareness is. Not that Consciousness and Awareness are not in the Vedas. But we are able to perceive and experience it only when all the thoughts merge in the consciousness.
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