Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
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Chapter 15
Here the term 'Milani', stands for the root in the form of ego, attachment and desire, rather than for God. A man, identifies the self with the body, is attached to body etc., and has desire for family, prosperity, name and fame etc. He wants his memorial, even after giving up this mortal body. Other species, also possess these desires to some or more extent, but they bind a being only in human life.[1] When a person performs actions, inspired by desires, impressions of these actions, accumulate in his mind and induce him to the cycle of birth and death. A man, has to reap the fruit of actions performed, during this life, here, as well as hereafter (Gita 18/12). So a man, cannot be free from the bondage of actions, so long as he has identity with body and he is attached to the world and cherishs desires. A striver, has to cut off identity, attachment and desire, and has to depend on God, Who is the creator and base of the universe. The same, has been described in fourth verse of this chapter, by the expression "I seek refuge in the Primal Person.' As a man, is bound in this human life, so can he be free in this life in the same way, as a knot can be untied, at a point at which it is tied.
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- ↑ These three (1) The desire to have a vision of God (God-realization) or devotion to God (2) The desire for Self-realization and (3) The desire to render selfless-service to others, are not desires because the self and God are - ever attained, and are one's own. As taking money from ones own pocket is net theft, so is the desire for Self-realization or God-realization na a desire. Similarly, the desire to use the worldly objects in rendering service to the world, is renunciation rather than, desire. The desire for attaining what is one's own and imperishable, is a necessity (hunger), while the desire to give those objects, which are others' and perishable to them, is renunciation. As desire for food, is a necessity for the body, rather than a desire, so is desire of God to satisfy the hunger of the self not a desire. There is a desire for the insentient (Matter), while there is necessity (hunger) for the sentient. A desire is never satisfied, it is rather enhanced and so it is to be renounced, while necessity satisfied (fulfilled) by anyone of the three paths—of action, of knowledge and of devotion. A man become, a slave to the world, by regarding worldly persons and objects, as his. If he has the aim of using them in rendering service to others, by regarding them as theirs, he will be liberated from slavery (dependence)—This is path of action. The soul is a fragment of God, but It being attached to the perishable objects, has deviated from Him. If a person renounces his attachment to perishable persons and objects, he will realize the self—this is known as path of knowledge. By having inclination for the world, he has a disinclination for God. If he accepts the fact that he is only God's and only God is his, devotion to God will be aroused in him—This is path of devotion. It means, that a man being attached to the perishable world, has become a slave to the world, has deviated from the self and has a disinclination for God. If he does not accept the world as his (which is not really his), he will cease to be a slave to the world, will realize the self and will attain God-realization, or devotion to Him.