7.12.2009
CHAPTER FIVE
Ashtavakar says:
Na te sangoasti kenapi kim shudhasyaktumichhasi I
Sanghat vilyam kuvannevamev layam vraj II (1)
You are not related to any thing around you since you are pure consciousness.
Then what is that you want to leave?
Thing thus about your apparent embodiment, you are ever free.
When Arjun identified Bhisham, Dronaacharya etc as his nears and dears Lord Krishna tendered His Divine message about the Eternal Self Soul for the entire humanity telling that the pure consciousness is eternal and the change in body or its death has no impact on it. Lord Krishna says
In verse 13 of chapter 2 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Dehinoasmin yathadehe komaram youvanam jarah I
Tatha dehantarprapatirdhirastatra na muhayati II (2.13)
Just as birth, boyhood, youth and old age are attributed to the soul through its body, even so it attains another body in the process, and wise man is not deluded about all this.
Above verse is eye opener for those who want and wish self realization.
One can start seeing through the scene presented in this verse. This shows the stages through which a self soul has to pass while identifying with embodiment.
A self soul first obtains a womb. His embodiment starts in womb of mother through a father. After birth, the embodiment has to pass through helpless childhood, boyhood, youth, and old age. After cessation of life period of body, the embodied soul obtains another body as a natural course of cycle of life and death.
Seeing this automatic karmic transformation, the wise man laments not.
This is what Ashtravakar is telling King Janank. It is a reality that pure self soul has no correlation with mind, body, intellect and senses. It is mere identification of Self Soul with mind that it starts acting as doer. Withdrawing from this identification of doer ship, the self soul is free. This is a continuous mental exercise. As self soul has been doing exercise to identify itself with mind since immemorial period of time, now it can undo this identification within a second. King Janank became aware of this in small period of riding horse.
Udeiti bhavto vishvam baridheriv budbudah I
Itti gyatavekamatanamevmev layam vraj II (2)
As drops rise from ocean, this entire perceptible creation rises from you. Obtain this wisdom and become steady, calm and peaceful.
Embodied self soul is so attached to the mind body set that it is unable to see itself. It is consciousness which enables every part of body to be active and alert.
How to contemplate mere awareness?
Lord Krishna has enlightened Arjun about as to how the embodied self soul indulges in committing sin even though it does not wish to do so. It is all desire which turns into anger but awareness is beyond mind and intellect.
Lord Krishna explains in chapter three of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta
Mansastu para budhiiryo budheh partastu sah Ii
Evam budhe param bodhwa sanstabhyatmnamatmna I
Jahi shatru mahbaho kamrupam durasadam II (3.41- 43)
The senses are stronger than body, mind is greater than senses, and intellect is stronger than mind but still stronger of all these are pure awareness.
Thus, Arjun! Knowing which higher than intellect and subduing mind with reason, kill this enemy in form of desire which is hard to overcome
Ashtravakar is clear in his concept that Super Self is Super Consciousness incarnate.
Partakshayamapiavastutvadvishvam nastiamle tavayi I
Rajjusarp ev vyaktamevmev layam vraj II (3)
The material nature of Lord Krishna is one and eternal too is one. These two are colourful reflection of Lord Krishna. Formations which we see are not separate from the Lord.
Material nature has been divided in five basic elements which is raw material to form an embodiment. Self soul is the owner of this house. Its friend is Lord seated in all beings. Self soul when looks at itself it finds itself like Lord. Bubbles rise in the water but they are different from water. Self soul having different bodies is same as Lord. It has to leave ego to be same again.
Samdukhsukh purnn ashanirashayayoh samahI
Samjeevatmrityuh sannnev layam vraj II (4)
It is the mind which collects feelings. It is store of conscious and unconscious feelings.
Identification of self soul / consciousness with mind creates ego.
Self soul though appearing to be a enjoyer, actually does not do any act.
Lord Krishna says in chapter 13 of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta:
Jyotisham api tafd jyoti tamsa param uchyate
Gyanaam gyan gamayam hridi sarva vishthitam (13.17)
That Supreme Brahman /Self /Omnipresent is light of all lights and entirely beyond Maya That Godhead is the knowledge itself, only one to know, and worth knowing and attaining through real wisdom, He is particularly seated in the heart of all.
Such a soul imbibing a body cannot be happy nor distressed.
Self is same in all beings. So in all beings he can neither be affected by their joy as well sorrow. This equation proves the self soul be beyond any duality.
It is within and beyond all.
Bahirantashch bhutanam acharamcharamevcha I
Suhkshamtvad tad vigeyam durasthamchaanteke ch tat II (15)
It exists without and within all beings and constitutes animate and inanimate creation as well. By reason of its subtlety, it is incomprehensible; It is very near to one just at hand but it stands far too.
Bing all and everything, every form, self is within all and outside all, very near still far away, he is the same in an ant and mountain, he is in the world and outside it. It is incomprehensible by those who are led by their ‘ego’. Realized one feel his presence all over and not the one affected by illusion inscrutable power of self
Being so near why self cannot be seen?
We have become accustomed of seeing with these present eyes, so we want to see the self with this set of eyes which is not possible. As the things which are seen with these eyes, are unable to see or illuminate their seer, so is the case here as the self is the illuminator of all. We can’t see him with the help our eyes.
Avibhaktam ch bhuteshu vibhakatam ch sithitam
Bhutbhartriye ch tajgeyam grashinu parbhvishnu ch (13.16)
Being undivided in all creatures He appears to be divided. And the Self which is the only worth knowing, is the sustainer of being,[ as Vishnu], [Destroyer as Rudra ]and the [Creator as Brahma.]
Seeing the Lord Krishna in everything is the real and permanent wisdom. This phenomena is to be grasped to the core of heart.
Self effulgent Self is the source of all lights but affected by none of them. It can’t be affected by transient duality.
With death or birth of a body self soul does not go and come.
(Here ends Fifth chapter)
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