A Secret Key To Understand Metaphysical Concepts Behind Bhagavad Gita Verses!!!

A Secret Key To Understand Metaphysical Concepts Behind Bhagavad Gita Verses!!!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:54 AM

Within this human body, in its mind and heart-the innermost seats of thought and feeling-there have always dwelt the two distinct, primordial tendencies-the divine and the devilish. Pandu,the image of virtue,and Kunti,the type of dutiful conduct,are parts of the treasure of divinity.Before the awakening of righteousness in a man’s heart, with his deficient understanding he regards whatever he does as an obligation.But, in truth,he is incapable of doing what is worthwhile because there cannot be an awareness of proper duty without the advent of moral virtue and goodness.Karn, who spends all his life fighting the Pandav,is the only acquisition of Kunti before she is wedded to Pandu.And the most formidable enemy of her other sons-the Pandav-is this Karn.Karn is thus the type of action that is hostile to the essentially divine character of the Self. He stands for traditions and usages which bind and hinder men from getting rid of false,misguided rites and ceremonies.



With the awakening of virtue,however,there is the gradual emergence of Yudhisthir,the embodiment of dharm;Arjun, the image of affectionate devotion;Bheem, the type of profound sentiment;Nakul, the symbol of regulated life;Sahdev,the adherer to truth; Satyaki, the repository of goodness;the King of Kashi,an emblem of the sanctity that abides within man; and Kuntibhoj, the symbol of world-conquest through earnest undertaking of duty.The total number of the Pandav army is seven akshauhini. "Aksh" is another word for vision.That which is made up of love and awareness of truth is the treasure of divinity.In fact,the seven akshauhini, which is given as the total strength of the Pandav army, is no physical reckoning; the number verily represents the seven steps - the seven stages of yog - that the seeker has to traverse in order to reach the most sublime God,his supreme goal.



Opposed to the Pandav army,embodiments of pious impulses that are beyond counting,is the army of Kurukshetr-of the Kaurav-with a strength of eleven akshauhini.Eleven is the number of the ten sense organs and the one mind.That which is constituted of the mind along with the ten senses is the devilish hoard, a part of which is Dhritrashtr, who persists in ignorance inspite of his awareness of truth.Gandhari,his consort, is the type of sense-bound disposition. Along with them there are also Duryodhan, the symbol of excessive infatuation; the evil-minded Dushashan;Karn, the perpetrator of alien deeds; the deluded Bheeshm; Dronacharya of dual conduct; Ashwatthama,the imageof attachment; the skeptical Vikarn; Kripacharya, the type ofcompassionate conduct in a state of incomplete worship; and Vidur,who stands for the Self that dwells in ignorance but whose eyes are always aimed at the Pandav. Vidur is the nature-bound Self that yet strives to make his way towards virtue and spiritual enlightenment, because he is after all an immaculate part of the Supreme Spirit.Thus the number of unrighteous impulses, too, is infinite.



The above named characters are among one of the few characters of the great epic Mahabharat,whose name has been almost used in verses of Bhagavad Gita.This is a metaphysical synopsis and in any case does not contradict the battle of Mahabharat already taken place.



As we have thus seen, the sphere-the battlefield-is only one,the physical body, but the impulses that wage constant war against each other on it are two. While one of them tempts man to regard nature as real and thus effects his degradation to birth in lower forms, the other convinces him of the reality and all-pervading domination of the Supreme Being and so provides access to him.



When the seeker takes refuge in a sage who has perceived the essence,there is a gradual but steady ascent of virtuous impulses on the one hand while,on the other,there is a decline and then the final destruction of evil impulses. When there remains no malady and the mind is perfectly restrained, even the restrained mind atlast ceases to be and there is no longer any need of even the treasure of divinity. Arjun has the vision that following after the Kaurav army,even the Pandav warriors are hurling themselves into the fiery mouth of the Omnipresent and getting annihilated.Even pious impulses are thus dissolved with final attainment and the ultimate consequence then issues forth.If the accomplished sage undertakes any enterprise after this final dissolution, it is only for the guidance and edification of his less fortunate fellowmen and disciples.



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As expounded by most revered Gurudeo,My spiritual mentor. posted on fb by Mrityunjaya jee