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OM VASUDEVASUDAM DEVAM KAMSACHANURAMARDANAM
DEVAKI PARAMANANDAM KRISHNAM VANDE JAGADGURUM
SARVOPANISHADOKAGO DOGDA GOPALANANDANAH
PARTHO VACHA SUDHIR BHOKTA DUGDAM GHEETAM RITAM MAHAT
MOOKAM KARUTI VACHALAM PANGUM LANGAYATE GIRIM
YAD KRIPATAMAHAM VANDE PARAMANANDA MADHAVAM
We are studying this most wonderful, practical and very interesting chapter
14th Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga in our last class.
One of the most important questions.
What happens to the people when a particular Guna
either Sattva or Rajas or Tamas is mostly dominant?
Remember, no man can have only one Guna.
All Guna's three will be there because it is really one manifesting as three.
But the dominant aspect will be different.
When a person is filled with Sattva Guna,
then what happens to that person?
We have discussed this one.
He will go to Urdhva Loka.
Now Urdhva Loka means higher worlds
and I have mentioned 14 higher worlds.
I have given several instances from the life of Sri Ramakrishna
how the higher worlds are really existing.
I am going to mention one more.
But at the same time we have no way of knowing
whether there is life after death or higher world or lower world
and what type of life we will be having.
This is all dependent upon totally from Shabda Pramana.
Only from the scripture and we must trust the words of great sages and saints.
So I have given several examples.
Next point we need to keep.
That's why I am re-emphasizing it.
I narrated the story of Dushyanta.
He was made the king of Indra Loka
but he was not able to overcome his lust.
Probably other things were also there
but suppressed for the time being.
So he had fallen down from that state
even after attaining to that state.
That's why Bhagavan Krishna categorically stated
Kshine Punye Martyalokam Vishanti
When a person attained to that higher state
he cannot remain there.
At the exhaustion of his Punya, credit card
he has to come down to earn more, top it up
if necessary, if he wants to go.
But why do people come down?
Why can't they stay there?
This is one of the side questions.
The answer is very simple.
They cannot come down.
They have to come down because
the goal of life, the evolutionary escalator
will not allow us to remain however high the position
including Brahma Loka.
The highest realistic happiness
we have to come down after experiencing something
but meanwhile our heart will be purified
means it will be endowed with beautiful divine thoughts
and endowed with faith and strong will
and strength to control body and mind
and that is what is represented by Brahma Loka.
I would like to tell here
there are some yogis who have no worldly desires
excepting a small desire
but they have done inhuman or superhuman austerity
then they attain to Brahma Loka.
In some scriptures maintain
that by experiencing that highest happiness
what little desire they have
will be completely destroyed.
Thereafter they only want one thing
I want to know myself, I want to be myself.
Such people they do not return.
That state is called Krama Mukti
or gradual liberation.
We have to have faith in the scriptures
that is where the information comes from.
Now as I said I am going to mention
many devotees of Sri Ramakrishna must be knowing
and if they have not known it
they are not really devotees of Sri Ramakrishna at all.
I have to tell you that.
What is it?
One day Sri Ramakrishna wanted to know about Narendranath.
His mind ascended through the path of Samadhi
from one lower world to another higher world.
At last it reached the world of indivisibility
Akhanda Rajya.
There he saw seven individuals
deeply merged in austerity.
A very interesting experience
because these people were completely free
or free then why do they choose
to retain their holy causal bodies
because in our scriptures also it is said
such people they are the people
who are kept by God for correcting us,
ruling us, bringing us back to God
and incarnations come from that realm.
This is the information that we get.
Now I would like to talk about
one important Upanishad.
So Urdhvaloka, higher world
means higher happiness.
There are seven we said
but there are many other Lokas are there.
Scriptures as I said
and scriptures are called Shabda Pramana.
They are the authority for us
to prove the existence of higher worlds
and another thing is
even in this world
there is so much of variation
right from the very bottom
people born in slum areas
in disrupted families, dysfunctional families
until the highest richest people
in the whole world.
So it is reasonable to assume
that there is not one higher world
but many higher worlds will be there.
So here from Taittiriya
second chapter called Brahmananda Valli
there is a beautiful discussion
if there is a young man
and he has everything in this world
his mind is under control,
he is a high-souled man,
he is pure, his body is perfectly healthy
and whatever he desires
that will be obtained by him.
Such a person's happiness
he owns the entire world
such a person is called
one unit of human happiness
and then there are higher worlds.
So I will narrate it later on.
There it is said
hundred times more for this
that means hundred units of human happiness
but hundred doesn't mean exactly
mathematically hundred
it could be a million times more.
Let me first recite this one.
Shrotriyasya Jaaka Mahatasya Teye Sitam Manushyagandharvanam Anandaha
Sayekho Devagandharvanam Anandaha
Sayekha Pitrunam Chiralokalokanam Anandaha
Sayekha Ajanajanam Devanam Anandaha
Sayekha Karmadevanam Devanam Anandaha
Sayekho Devanam Anandaha
Sayekha Indrasyanandaha
Sayekho Brihaspate Ranandaha
Sayekha Prajapate Ranandaha
Teye Sitam Prajapate Ranandaha
Sayekho Brahmananandaha
Shrotriyasya Jaaka Mahatasya
At least ten enumerations of these are there.
First is a human being
and higher than that is
Manushyagandharvanam
then Devagandharvanam
then Pitrus
then Chiralokalokanam
Ajanajanam
Karmadevanam
then Devanam
then Indrasyanandaha
then Brihaspate Ranandaha
Prajapate Ranandaha
Brahmananandaha
means Brahma Loka Anandaha
I don't want to go into the Sanskrit explanation
but the highest as many times we have mentioned
is that highest Loka happiness
is obtained uninterrupted happiness in Brahma Loka.
This is one more solid fact
that we have to believe in the scriptures.
There is no other way.
Now we will proceed to the 15th.
Before that, let us remember
a Sattva Guna Sampanna
a person whose thoughts are full of Sattva Guna.
He is thinking of divine thoughts
thinking of the welfare of others
thinking of the good of others.
He loves everybody.
His mind is always tranquil.
Such a person at that state of the mind
when his mind is full of Sattva Guna
if the body happens to fall off
he will attain to higher world.
Here Bhagavad Gita itself gives us one small hint.
Suppose a Yogi
he has not been able to complete his spiritual practice
then what happens?
He can take birth in this human world itself
in two forms.
First of all
Shuchi Naam Shri Mataam Gehe
Yoga Bhrastha Avijayate
He will be taking birth in a family
which is full of divine people.
Mother is spiritual.
Father is spiritual.
Family is spiritual.
Servants are spiritual.
Neighbors are spiritual.
Everybody is full of spiritual light
and their life is dedicated only to God.
It is very rare to have this kind of birth.
But there are a few people
and Shri Ram Krishna quotes
the example of Balarama Basu
where even the servants
they are exuding spiritual peace and joy.
Very rare.
So what happens?
He has not been able to complete
and there is only one reason that could be
and that is some Samskara
or habit, desire is inhibiting him.
Such a person being born here
fulfills his desire as an offering to God
Prasada of God
and once that is over
then he will progress further.
There is no further obstruction
and then he will attain liberation.
The second scenario is
Athava
There are some better people
in whom they desire.
Very very small desire.
He may be born
in the family of a great spiritual family
Yogi's family
who are totally dedicated
only to spiritual life.
Earlier the rich people
Shuchi Naam Shri Mata
but pure people
that means they are able to enjoy everything
as a Prasada of God.
In this life
they may be very poor.
The family is poor.
The neighbors are poor
but everybody in the family
is a confirmed Yogi.
So with this
if we can develop Sattva Guna
then even from a utility point of view
our happiness will be incalculable
and that's what Swami Vivekananda once
declared categorically in USA
that a child asks
if I pray to God
will I get some cake
so ginger bread.
He says that is very
low type of thinking.
For a child
it is absolutely natural
but for a grown-up person
I will go to higher world
I will get many women
and I will enjoy everything.
This is nothing but pure
blasphemy of God
because in the presence of God
if a person can't get so much of happiness
depending upon
many other things other than God
then it's a very poor idea
about spirituality
but this can compare to
our Hindu's idea
concept of Svarga Loka.
That's all I can say about it.
Now
when the mind is endowed with Rajo Guna
what happens?
This is what is
dealt with in the
15th shloka.
In this 15th verse
the conditions
two conditions
when the mind is dominated
by pure Rajas
and or
dominated by
Tamas
if the people happen to die
when the mind is thinking of
that particular
thoughts
which are appropriate to that particular
Guna
what happens to them?
If the
embodied soul
meets with death
when Rajas prevails
such a soul
is born among those
who are attached to action
and if
such a soul meets with death
when Tamas
prevails
is born in the wombs of creatures
devoid of
reason
those who are attached to action
that is to say
men.
So those
whose mind is full of
activity
greediness
grabbing everything
accumulating everything
not giving much to anybody
what happens?
They will be born
on earth.
Where are they born?
Not in a spiritual family
much less in a yogi's family
but those who are similar to
what samskaras they had.
There are families
they are also
greedy
exceedingly greedy
they are restless
they cannot stay for a single second without
twirling their moustache
twirling their thumbs
or eating a piece of grass
or
just eating their own
fingernails.
If that is the case
then they will be born in that
in that family
because that is the most
appropriate family.
Funny thing is
even in this world
suppose you go
and attend a big meeting
and observe yourself
where will you be gravitating slowly
only
towards those people
with whom
you feel
very
free.
There are people
highly intellectuals
are very rich class
yes they may greet you
you may greet them
they may say welcome
but then you don't feel
at ease.
So there are some people
who are third class
making raucous noise
listening to
unlistenable rock music etc.
and you cannot tolerate such things
but there are some people
and how do you know?
Because you feel at ease
when you are in their company
and they talk
and you also talk
what's common
to both of you.
So this is how
a soul gravitates
towards those families
where
their own
the seeds
of future activities
can be born fruit.
This is what is
meant.
So
Deha Vruta
means
the soul
who
is in this
body
Jeevatma
individual soul
Rajasi
when the mind is full of Rajas
Pralayam Gatwa
Here Pralaya I mentioned
is not that
the whole world
is flooded with water
like Noah's
ark's time.
No, no.
It means
individual
death
the fall of the
body.
After the body
after the fall of the body
Karma Sankhya Sujayate
will be born
in the families of
exactly those people
who
are
continuously
running after many activities
and here we notice also
always these activities
need not be meaningful.
They are like a restless monkey.
So
they do
activities
not because
they want to do something
that tendency
of restlessness
makes them do
some activities.
Yes,
there are also
infinite variations among
Satvika people
infinite
almost infinite variations
among the
Vajogunis
as well as Tamogunis.
This is the fate of
they will be born
on this planet Earth
among
human beings
and continue
their efforts
to slowly overcome
the lower Rajas to
higher Rajas
from higher Rajas to
lower Sattva
lower Sattva to
higher Sattva
and then finally get out.
What about those people
whose mind is endowed with nothing but
pure Tamas, darkness,
indolence, laziness,
misunderstanding everything.
Poor fellows
I'm inclined to
give you a small example.
One day
there was a character called
Hajra
at Dakshineshwar.
So one day this Hajra
he had
tried to
argue with Sri Ramakrishna saying
all your spiritual experiences
are delusions of your brain.
Do you think that
really there is such a God or Goddess
and all those things.
Now many times
Sri Ramakrishna used to be
in the
condition of a small child.
Whatever anybody says
a small child
has no discrimination
and he doesn't distrust
other people.
So he believed
maybe I have been deceived by my mother
God.
So he ran to the temple
and then it was revealed to him.
Mother said
why do you listen to him?
Whatever you experience
is absolutely right.
Now the point that comes here is
how do we know
that we are not getting deluded
that we are deluding ourselves
by thinking of a particular
aspect of God
and then imagining
intensely imagining
I am having their darshana.
Suddenly one day
it becomes a concrete vision
appearing before us.
How do we know?
Then
Divine Mother said
if all your visions
are delusions
how come
that some of your visions
they prove to be true
in day-to-day actual facts?
There were many such visions of Sri Ramakrishna
when he used to predict
tomorrow
such and such a person will come.
Every direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
and devotees also
had proved to the hilt
that Sri Ramakrishna could tell
foretell
what's going to happen.
This is one kind of vision
we need not identify it with spiritual vision.
That future foretelling
which you used to come
absolutely true
how do they happen
if it is delusion?
Because delusions will never become
concrete experiences
excepting the individual who thinks
he has a head.
In reality
nobody will know
but if it comes true
it is a matter of experience
for everybody else.
So then
Sri Ramakrishna was telling
I became very angry
this fellow had confused my mind
then he thought
what can the poor fellow do?
After all the divine mother
hasn't enlightened his mind.
She had not given him the right understanding.
This is a most important fact.
If some people are behaving like a Rajoguni
some people like a
Tamoguni
we have to understand
that
it is all divine mother's will.
This is a different subject.
We are here talking about not
about divine will
but human effort
how we can
uplift ourselves
by ourselves
as we say
we can jump out of ourselves.
We can lift ourselves
by our
shoestrings
as they say in English language
self-effort.
There are some people
who are full of tamasic thoughts
and as I mentioned earlier
no one will be left behind.
Everybody will be progressing.
So what happens?
Tamasic
when the mind is completely filled with
Tamoguna
and
misunderstands everything
misuses everything
indolence
accidents
misunderstanding
and procrastinating
postponing everything
all these things
when they are prevalent in the mind
if that body happens to fall off
then what happens?
He will be born
in families
appropriate
to the flowering
as we say
or fruiting
of his own
long accumulated sanskaras
and what are these moda means?
Idiotic
that is to say
those who have absolutely
no understanding
like stock and stones as we say
in animals
among trees
among birds
and things like that
but sometimes
I have problem with this because
nowadays science is discovering
so many animals
have far superior intelligence
not only that
they have far superior wisdom
than even human beings
of course
on the highest
wisdom
the power of discrimination
is not yet possible there
but
they either in the family of
what is called lowest
maybe worms
maybe ants
maybe mosquitoes
maybe snakes
as we said
found out the story of Nausha
because
Kama
belongs to the
what is called
lower Rajoguna
Arthamoguna
that's why it is cursed to be like a
python
a person
whose mind is full of
tamas
he will be born
in lower
what is called
births
and then
we have to understand
that they are the most
appropriate things for that
in every situation in life
we need some instruments
if we want to accomplish something
so an appropriate instrument
for example
you need a small spoon
for taking small quantities of something
you don't take a bucket
but a bucket is necessary
for quenching fire
or doing something
much bigger than that
so for every action
there is an appropriate instrument
now these people
they have already developed the samskaras
and those samskaras have to fructify
and they have to experience
grief
suffering
and then they will be
that suffering itself
will knock on their heads
and slowly
they will bring back
a little bit of wisdom into their minds
and in course of time
they will also join
those who are endowed with
Rajoguna
lower Rajoguna
then higher Rajoguna
etc.
that is how
the evolutionary progress
takes place
this is how we have to understand
now
only one note I want to
insert here
that there are some
animals are there
and
they are
cursed
every animal
need not be in the evolutionary scale
trying to come up
there are
some higher people
people who are born in
human beings
or even gods and goddesses
and because of some curse
and curses come
only when they have misused their power
and misbehaved
there is a karma phala
is inevitable
even for Brahma
how do you know?
because in Brahma Loka
Brahma himself was cursed by Shiva
and it is a Puranic story
don't take it too deeply
because Brahma was running after
his own daughter
of course
because
Brahma was the creator
and
he had to create first
a woman
and she was the only available woman
and therefore
Shiva cursed
how dare
how
foolish
that you are running after
your own daughter
we are not talking about that
so there are some
higher
families
people
born in
higher
conditions
situations
but
misused
misapplied
as a result
they will be born
to experience karma phala
and again
as soon as that is over
they will go back to their previous condition
they will be given
another chance
this is what
we have to
understand
now
we will
move on to the
16th one
more or less
Bhagavan Krishna
had covered
how many gunas are there
what are their characteristics
how do
we know
a person has
which guna
and what is the
effect of that guna
in this life
and
how it binds
and what is the effect of this guna
after death
these five points
we have covered
now for the next
few shlokas
the Lord is simply
summarizing
what
he had already
elaborated
in the
previous shlokas
so 16th shloka we proceed
karmanah sukratasya hoho
sattvikam nirmalam phalam
rajasastu phalam dukkham
ajnanam tamasaha phalam
the fruit
of a good action
is said to be good
and clean
the fruit of rajas
is pain
and the fruit of tamas
is
ignorance
if a person
does good deeds
now here a question comes
if we are already endowed with a particular guna
how are we going to do good deeds
here comes
a beautiful idea
all of us have got
free will
how do we know
because
if
any one of us have done something wrong
after some time
regret comes into
our mind
regret comes into our mind
what a foolish fellow I was
why did I do that
this regret comes
and why did I not do the other thing
that shows
if there was to be no freedom
then such a question
doesn't arise at all
for example
so in the
18th century there were so many slaves
no slave will regret
why did I not go to a higher school
acquire higher education
and get a higher job
and I would have lived like many others
a much more happy life
of course this statement is
loaded with poison
there are so many people
they are the
CEOs
directors
of many
very popular
and very rich companies
but that doesn't prove
that these people really
they are good people
or even enjoying people
that doesn't prove at all
there are so many people who misbehave
out of greed
just I think yesterday or today I was reading
I don't know exactly
a huge amount
crores of rupees are deposited
in the
Swiss banks
now how can these people do that
unless they have that money
where from they are getting that money
from
each one's country
whether it's Africa or UK or India or
any country
these people
they think that after death they are going to
become ghosts
and enjoy that kind
whatever they have
not understanding
once the body
the prana departs
the body becomes useless
others may enjoy them
now
what is my point here
we have to understand
we have freedom of will
and that is when Sri Ramakrishna said
gave a beautiful reply for that
do we have
really some small freedom of will
Sri Ramakrishna gave a beautiful story
a farmer
had a cow
he tied it to a tree
with a length of rope
in a field
where there was food
and if the cow
uses that
limited freedom
nicely
then
slowly the farmer
will lengthen the rope
to give it more freedom
and if the cow utilizes it
properly
then
he might even
release it
there is no question of might
he will definitely do that
this is referring
the Divine Mother has tied us
to this body and mind
that is the tree
and she has given
put us in a field called Kurukshetra
this is field
for cultivating
through activity
Punya or Papa, Dharma or Adharma
and if we do not have
freedom of will
the question of the law of Karma
will be
dull
and wide
because
a madcap will not be punished
even if he kills
a tiger is not taken to the court
and then judged
why it killed so many people
and then
given punishment
or death punishment
children will not be done
madcaps will not be done
accidentally some killing happens
they will
caution them
give them some
punishment
but
a deliberately schemed murder
alone
deserves
that because why
the person
in other cases
the
freedom of will was not exercised
in this case
in the last case
a man had deliberately used his freedom
to scheme
and then to put it into
practice
this is what is being said here
that if we can
follow the scriptures
even common sense will do
Karmanaha
Sukrutasya
Satvikam
Nirmalam Phalam
when a person goes on
doing
good activities
and
sharing
caring
helping other people
etc.
and it is
very
practical also
because when
others are in trouble
let me
help them
if
I am helpless
the others will definitely come
this is the law of Karma
so
the fruit of
good actions
is said to be good
not only good
they are clean
clean means what?
slowly
they will purify
our heart
and then
make them
move forward
in this scale
in the ladder
spiritual ladder
that is
but the fruit of rajas
means what?
the activities
full of rajas
full of love is
inevitably
they end in
pain
in grief
in suffering
etc.
and
if the activities are full of tamas
then it
deepens the darkness
if the more ignorance
the more the person
loses
his real concept of what is called happiness
and he will be
even worse than
animals
so
the fruit of a good action
is said to be good and clean
the fruit of rajas is pain
and the fruit of tamas
is ignorance
I remember
Shri Ramakrishna was taken on a pilgrimage
to Kashi
by Madhur Babu
and then they had to go
via a very sacred place called
Vaidyanath
near Devaghar
is one of the most famous Shiva temples
and on
when
the train landed there
Shri Ramakrishna saw
thousands of
lakhs of people
lakhs means
one hundred thousand is called a lakh
in India
so lakhs of people
they were
like skeletons
they cannot get even
barely one
handful of food per day
bones are showing
Shri Ramakrishna felt so
deeply moved
he asked Madhur Babu
do something about them
if there were
one or two he would have definitely done
seeing hundreds and hundreds of them
said Baba I don't have that much of money
Shri Ramakrishna simply said
in that case
you continue your journey
I don't want to earn anything by going to these places of pilgrimage
I will share their grief with me
he went and sat down
in a way I have to
make a little fun
this is called spiritual blackmailing
because he knew
Madhur Babu cannot go without him
Madhur Babu believed
his own chosen deity
was moving with him in the form of Shri Ramakrishna
not only that
Madhur Babu also believed
that Shri Ramakrishna was protecting him
in every possible way
if Shri Ramakrishna is not there
very soon he will be landing himself in trouble
so
willy-nilly
I am sure not very happily
he got hundreds of saris
cloths etc. from Calcutta
and then
one day he gave
a so-called very
hearty meal
and some oil for their heads
to put on and to take bath
at least Shri Ramakrishna was satisfied
now
I have something to add here
why did not Shri Ramakrishna say
why don't you start helping them
Shri Ramakrishna many times in the gospel of Shri Ramakrishna
he had declared
it is not possible
for any human being
to
help the other person
not even one person cannot be helped completely
the whole wealth of the world
is not sufficient
to
fill the needs of even one single individual
not to speak of more than one
not only that
this the law of karma
will be upset
if everybody tries to
help
even if somebody tries to help
if the law of karma doesn't cooperate
that means if that did not deserve it
we won't be able to get it
somehow we will be
losing it
that's very very
true
anyway
Shri Ramakrishna's thesis
whatever best you can do
you do that
with the idea
Shiva Jnana Jiva Shiva
I am only serving the
Divine Lord
we have a freedom
what is that freedom?
that you discriminate
and then listen to the wise people
listen to the scriptures
and do
good things
good actions
and what are the good actions?
I'll just give you
small quotation
Satyam Vadha
speak truth
Dharmam Chara
always behave righteously
Swadhyayan Maa Pramadaha
do not be negligent about
study of the scriptures
because
it is they
who shows
what is a human being
what is the goal of human life
and how to
achieve it
so
never neglect
then
you revere your mother as
God
father as God
teacher as God
thereafterwards
slowly expand
everybody else
Atithi means
not only a guest
but anybody whom
you happen to encounter
he is a guest
so at least speak nicely
if you cannot help him
and many of us are
in a
much better condition
not only we can speak sweetly
but we can really
help
many people's
service is only
verbal
they only
execute
verbally
how devoted they are
how much japa they have done
and how many
bucketfuls of tears are coming from their
eyes
but
they are accumulating millions and millions
without thinking
that if we do not do good karma
this same opportunity will not be repeated
in future births
I would say such people
are nothing but
pure
agnanis
that's all I can say
anyway
let me repeat it
Karmana
Sukrutasya
Aho
Satvikam
Nirmalam
Phalam
Rajasastu
Phalam
Dukham
Agnanam
Tamasav Phalam
the fruit of
every good action is said to be
good and clean
that's what is called
Sattva guna
a fruit of rajas
that which
that action
whose fruit
increases rajas guna
is pain
restlessness etc.
and the fruit of
tamo guna
that means those actions
like indolence
carelessness
wrong understanding etc.
is
only deepens the
darkness
or
ignorance
now
how do we know further
we already discussed
17th shloka says
Sattvat Sanjayate Jnanam
Rajaso Lobha Evacha
Pramada Mohau Tamaso
Bhavata Agnanam Evacha
from
the guna called Sattva
springs knowledge
knowledge means remember
any knowledge is not knowledge
only that knowledge
which is absolutely right
which cannot be contradicted
and which has not been obtained before
so
Avijnatham
Abadhitam
Anadhigatham
Abadhitam
this is a beautiful definition
if you already knew
that's not a new knowledge
and if this present knowledge
is contradicted
by some other knowledge
definitely it is a false knowledge
if there is sattva guna
the very nature of sattva guna is
it gives us a deep insight
and our knowledge will be
right knowledge
and the
effect of right knowledge is
right desire
and the effect of right desire is right action
and the effect of right action is
right result
which is called
happiness
purity of mind
concentration of the mind
wonderful memory
and love
for God
for the world
increase
at the same time
but
if
an action
that is full of rajas
restlessness
greediness
grabbiness
accumulation etc.
then if that is the one
what happens
lobha
rajasaha lobha
lobha means greed will increase
and other things also
earlier
we have discussed those things
what is it
restlessness
and
terrible propensity to start
run after
many activities without completing one
he does something
and leaves it there
starts another one
leaves it there
starts another one
etc.
that steady steadfastness
is lacking
in this raja guna
and then
when there is activities
which
increase promote the mohuna
pramada
and moha
pramada means
negligence
pramada means
accidents will happen
we do things wrongly
and
then it leads to accidents etc.
moha
we misunderstand everything
and then
it increases our
ajnana
ajnana means
instead of thinking I am divine
I am a human being
I am the body and mind
not only that
this is the only life
there is no future life
all these
understandings
come from
these particular gunas
which we have to
elaborately discussed in our
future this thing
and again he is talking about in the 18th
those
who are established in sattva
go upward
just now
today itself we discussed
they go to
higher worlds
either higher worlds
or
higher status
in this very world
those who are moved by rajas
remain in the middle
if
raja guna people die
then
they remain in the middle
middle means what
this
planet earth
which is
inhabited by human beings
is called the middle
so they will be born among men
and the nature of these men is raja guna
and raja guna means
they are more
greed
they want to accumulate
and their insatiable
desires will be there
and many times they will be
cruel also
just to
get their desires fulfilled
whatever comes on the way
and that is considered with great anger
and if they have power
and
too much of wickedness
they will even
destroy the people
families together
we hear these stories everyday
in the newspapers
and those who are steeped in tamas
being weighted down by the
tendencies of the lowest guna
go downward
as
we discussed today itself
a few minutes earlier
those
whose mind is
full of tamo guna
and their thoughts will be
appropriate for that tamo guna
then they will go down
because
if they want to sleep
it's wonderful to be
to sleep
like an animal
so it is said
in architect areas
there are some
worms
or even frogs
for
just they will be alive only
for a few days
and they breed
and then
hibernation
and then they will not come to life
in hibernation what do they do?
it's a kind of
clay like
existence
stone like existence
so if that is what people want
that is
not knowing
anything good or bad
is the highest state of
enjoyment
such people
naturally they deserve it
they worked for it
and they get the result of their work
and they go downward
this is what is being said
in this
18th verse
sattva sthaha
those who are full of sattva
they are
steadfastly
seated in sattva
endowed with sattva
udham gacchanti
they tend to
higher
degrees of consciousness
higher states of happiness
whether in the higher worlds
or in this world itself
rajasah
those who are endowed with rajoguna
mathyatisthanti
they will be
stuck
here as human beings
and they will be given
another opportunity
to move forward
jaganya gunavrttisthaha
jaganya is a beautiful word
jagana means
these thighs
below the navel
so people
who are thinking of lust
and anger and greed and all those things
these people
they are thinking of sex
only they are interested in
filling their stomach
what in
tantric language
they call it
the kundalini is moving
in between
these three
chakras
what is it
eating
evacuating
producing
etc.
that is
the nature of
animals
so
jaganya gunavrttisthaha
whose minds
never rise
beyond this body consciousness
and this is the nature of
body consciousness
eat, drink etc.
how do we know
that's a beautiful
Sanskrit verse says
ahara nidra
bhaya maithunancha
samanam etat
pashubhih
naradham
ahara
eating food
nidra
sleeping
bhaya
fearing
enemies
fearing
that we lose something
fearing we may not get something
maithuna
complete sex
sexual
life
this is common
to all the human beings
bodies
and then animals
there is absolutely
no difference at all
these people
they are called tamasas
adhagachanti means
they go down
but
Vedanta never tells
you go down and down
and you will never come up
however down you go
you are a child of God
you are endowed with divinity
another opportunity will be given
every new life
every reincarnation
is a new opportunity for people
to come up
so
this is what he said
satvasthah
urdhvam gachchanti
rajasah madhyatishthanti
jaganya gunavrttisthah
tamasah
adhah gachchanti
they go down
it is only a repetition of
what we have seen
through different births
whether it is
the births below human nature
or as human beings
or in higher worlds
like devas etc.
the spirit
the jivatma
individual divine soul
each soul is potentially divine
experiences
pleasure
pain
and delusion
on account of its attachment
to these three gunas
as described earlier
liberation
is the ultimate goal
it not
is not only possible
it is inevitable
every seed
under proper circumstances
favorable circumstances
atmosphere
they
have to manifest
their own nature
and according to Vedanta
all of us are
children of God
potentially
divine
so there is no question of
long time at all
it is possible
only through right knowledge
liberation
mukti
moksha
or self-knowledge
identity with
Paramatma
is possible
only through right knowledge
what is the right knowledge?
there is no difference
between me
and
Bhagawan
Bhagawan only
is manifesting in this form
for his own purpose
we don't know what it is
for some time
so
this is
what Bhagawan
Krishna is now telling
after a long
cycle
of being born
being dead
the soul is evolving
and then a time will come
he becomes what is called
an inquiring person
this is the third stage
in the Bhagavad Gita
we
get
all human beings
all are children of God
all are
struggling
to evolve towards
their own true nature
that's why God calls them
my devotees
so
I changed the order a little bit
first the person is
he became extremely
aware
conscious
I am in danger
turns towards God
when everything else fails
but
he has reached
a very grand state of
progress
even by this
why?
because he is turning only
towards God
and then
God will come
he will rescue him
and then
the man will become
fearless
now
all the hidden desires
come to the fore
pouring out
and then he becomes
Artharthi
he becomes
what is called
a desirer
of many desires
but
he will not
earlier
he was doing
whatever he thinks
is appropriate
to get his desires fulfilled
now
he doesn't do
he turns only towards God
and then he prays
oh Lord
I am praying to you
even
in our Puranas
we get Rakshasas
praying to Brahma
or
Shiva
or
Vishnu also sometimes
because they are very clever fellows
they know Vishnu is very clever
he will not give
or he will trick them in some way
this is how
devotees have created that
thought about
an idea about Vishnu
a very tricky fellow
Krishna is a very tricky fellow
Narada is a very tricky fellow
etc. etc.
very interesting
the
interpretation of our Puranas
so
this person
he prays to God
earnestly
sincerely
and believes
that if he does this prayer
according to certain rules
regulations
his desires will be fulfilled
and God
does fulfill his desires
and then
he
satiates himself
and then a time will come

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