Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 7
All the entities born of sattva, rajas and tamas, are born of God's nature and as God and His Nature, are one and the same. It means, that they are born of God and they dissolve in Him. But, the higher nature (embodied soul), has accepted its affinity with Nature (Matter). It has accepted it as its own, and for its own—this is sustaining the world by an embodied soul and so it is born and it decays. In order to, free man from this bondage of birth and death, Lord Krsna declares, that all entities born of sattva, rajas and tamas are born of Him. Similarly, He declares, in the tenth chapter, "These diverse feelings of creatures, emanate from Me alone" (10/5) and "I am the source of all creation and everything in the world, moves because of Me" (10/8). In the fifteenth chapter also He declares: "Memory, wisdom and ratiocinative faculty emanate from Me" (15/15). When everything emanates from God, it means that man actually has no affinity for the attributes (modes). Therefore, if one does not accept his affinity for them, they cannot lead him to bondage i.e., to the cycle of birth and death. |