"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Clarifying Gita Slokas

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Q. Brahman is the one to whom all this is pervaded (yena sarvamidam thatham). But then how does Sri Krishna specify the vibhutis in Chapter 10 of Bhagavad Gita?
The specifications are in reply to a definite question by Arjuna who required to know the Lord's vibhutis for convenience of worship (upasana soukaryam). The fact is that God is all. There is nothing apart from Him.

Q. The individual is said to give up decayed bodies (jirnani sareerani) and to take up new ones (navani). Would the statement apply to infant deaths too?
You do not know, in the first place, what is jirnAni and what is navAni. Secondly, jIrna and navA are relative terms. What is old to a king may be new to a beggar. The truth is that the individuality signifies the state of embodiment till the time of liberation!

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