Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 758

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 16 The Yog of Telling The Devine From the Demoniacal अहिंसा सत्यमक्रोधस्त्याग: शान्तिरपैशुनम्। दया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं हीरचापलम् ॥2॥ [ “Nonviolence, truthfulness, abstinence of anger, renunciation, tranquillity, absence of malice, compassion for all beings, disinterestedness, tenderness, modesty, abstinence from futile effort,...” ] True nonviolence is salvaging of the Soul, for degrading the Soul is violence. As Krishn has avowed, he will be the destroyer of all mankind and generator of varnsankar if he does not carry out his task conscientiously. Since the character (varn) of the Self is that of God, his straying about amidst nature is varnasankar: this is injury to the Soul and his deliverance is nonviolence in the true sense. Truthfulness is not speaking what is apparently real or pleasing. Is it truth when we say that these clothes belong to us? There can be, in fact, no more blatant a lie than this. If we are not masters of our own persons that are mutable, or changeable, how can the clothing that but covers them belong to us?