Gita, how and what I understood it.(Part-1)
Importance and Sankhya Yoga
Janmashtami is coming,
and as we all know that it is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Krishna, who
is said to be the complete god, the incarnation of supreme lord with full
enlightenment and powers. The great message of life was once said by him, and
it is truly inspiring for all mankind. Actually, Gita was said during the time
when it is believed that there was no religion. All people were same and
believed in same kind of gods. That’s why Hinduism is called as the religion of
ages. It is religion that lives on earth for many centuries, maybe since the
rise of mankind. Anyway, I’m not discussing about those topics, because they
would take lots of discussion to prove things and I don’t think I’m able to do
so. Here I’m trying to explain Gita as I understood it. If you read Gita, you
might feel it favors Hindu religion with core. But that’s not true. It feels
because it was said in the era when there was no possibility of other religion.
Now we can see various religions, and they all are right in their own decent
ways. So we shouldn’t excuse over those points. Gita should be considered as
the way and inspiration to live life properly. As we know that it’s a part of
the great epic Mahabharata, that whole epic shows each stages of life, each
kind of person, and how to be neutral, or how to choose our side at each stage.
Gita explains how a person could choose what is right and what is wrong. It
explains how you can enlighten yourself.
Gita is an epic, and we
can’t modify it. But, in today’s generation, the youth has forgotten the
meaning of Gita completely. No one knows what it wants to convey. I have
studied the Mahabharata due to my eagerness through its core, and I want to
share my view about Gita in simplified manner, so that my readers could think
over it and might accept if they like it. Gita can’t be said properly by any
person. The god himself was the best speaker and Arjun was the great listener.
No one could explain it better than Krishna himself, and no one could gain it
better than Arjun. And today, like many persons, I would try to convey a
message to each person of any religion about life. I know reading Gita and
ancient texts seem quite uninteresting to today’s generation. That’s why I
would try to simplify it and interesting to read, so that people of each
religion could agree with it.
First the thing which I
want you to aware with is, Gita wasn’t said by Krishna. Gita was the words of
the supreme soul, the supreme lord himself, who communicated with Arjun’s soul
through the medium of Krishna. And it is believed that the supreme soul
communicates through the medium of an enlightened soul, which Krishna was. The
fully enlightened soul. This shows when you need inspiration or help from the
god, he communicates with you through a medium. You just have to recognize that
medium. That’s why in Gita each words came from Krishna’s mouth are said as
‘The Lord says’, not ‘Krishna says’. Krishna was medium, through which his
enlightened soul, which we can say the supreme soul communicated with Arjun’s
soul. Krishna was Arjun’s cousin, brother-in-law and the best friend, and he
found him the best medium of inspiration. That shows you may find inspiration
and the great knowledge from your friend, mentor or any person, but you must
have faith in that person.
We always follow our
role model, don’t we? And Gita says that we must have a role model, whose ways
we can follow. But do you think that any person’s ways are fully believable or
acceptable? Because we know that no person is sinless. All people do mistakes,
and if we follow those people completely, we will repeat those mistakes and
eventually, get results as well. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make role model.
It means we must accept only positive things from those role models, which are
important to us. The lord says that we should make a role model who is sinless
and whose words are always true. That means we must make the supreme soul as
our role model. Because the supreme soul is the best guide of life. Now who is
supreme soul? You all would have this question.
Supreme soul:
As I understand it, the
supreme soul means the fully enlightened soul, which has the knowledge of all
those things which can reveal your hidden knowledge of beings by removing the
darkness of anger, lust, love, impact and such things that binds us to this
mortal world. Krishna is said to be the enlightened soul, because he had that
knowledge to recognize truth, Dharma, who can guide to the right path. And his
soul can be said as the supreme soul.
Gita has 18 parts
(Adhyayas), and among all these, there are four parts which I think we all must
understand deeply. Among those all parts, I consider Sankhya Yoga, Karma Yoga,
Karma Sanyas Yoga and Bhakti Yoga as the best to understand. And then few others
are Gyan-Vigyan Yoga, Vibhuti Yoga and Gyan Yoga which would explain you the
existence of materials and each thing in the universe.
Sankhya Yoga:
Sankhya Yoga primarily
explains that a person must understand the difference between body and soul.
Body is what you see and which is made of five basic elements: Soil, which
makes our body. Fire, which gives temperature to our body. Water, which makes
blood in our body. Air, which is breathing of body, and the sky, which is space
of body. These five elements makes body. Soul can’t be created, and can’t be
destroyed. It just changes bodies, as we change our clothes. All souls are
parts of one supreme soul and the destination and the source of all souls. We
must understand that what we do, we feel is work of our body, not of our soul.
The body is just a medium, through which the Karma is done. The enlightenment
of this truth is called real knowledge, which is called Sankhya yoga. When we understand
that all we do and feel are not we (souls) do or feel, then we will have no
sorrow, no happiness, no anger, no lust, and no attraction towards anything. A
soul who sees sorrow and happiness as equal, who sees anger and love as equal
is said to be the balanced soul and on its way to enlightenment. Enlightenment
is the process in which a soul understand that it is basically only connected
with the supreme soul, and not with bodies.
The feelings of body
bind us with all the stuff. When we think about mortal stuff, which increases
our greed to achieve them and eventually, that creates expectations. When expectations
are felt unsecured, or are destroyed, that makes a person angry and anger
eventually, causes the destruction. So, that means as long as we think that we
are the body in which we live, we are bound in that bounds. So, we must
understand that we are soul, because it is our thinking, and we have to see
everyone as a soul. If everyone follows this principle and gets enlightenment,
there would be no hatred, no anger, no sorrow. This would create a world which we
all want. But first, we have to start the initiative.
As a new body takes
birth inside a woman’s womb, the mankind takes birth inside the womb of nature,
and the soul is seed in that body. We should do our without thinking that it’s
our work, but it’s our body’s work. Souls are not medium in your work.
This difference will ultimately kill all your affection and destroy all
bounds with mortal body, and you will see yourself as the unspoiled soul. This
is Sankhya Yoga.
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