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Chapter 15
Everyone knows that a person, acts according to his assumption of particular caste, creed and order of life. But this assumption, that he is a Brahmana or an ascetic, is a temporary phase of life, in order to perform his duty, like an actor in a play. But a man (soul), is a fragment of God—thid is a permanent reality. He regards, the mind, senses, intellect, body, riches and property as his own, by an error, but they never regard him, as theirs while God, the creator of the entire universe declares, that the soul is His fragment.
What a blunder, we commit when we regard the objects, such as the body etc., as ours! Can we change them, as we desire? Can we possess them as long as we desire? Can we maintain them, and carry them with us?
My mind, intellect, senses and body, are different today, from what they were in childhood, while I am the same, without undergoing any change. He, who perceives changes, himself remains changeless. Worldly objects and persons, are not my lasting companions. I am an onlooker of the changing scene.
When a striver holds '1 am God's', it means that he is absorbed in God. A striver, commits an error, that he instead of getting the self absorbed in God, tries, to engage his mind and intellect, in Him. So, he fords it difficult to control his mind, and it takes a lot of time. So long as, a striver having forgotten the fact 'I am God's assumes 'I am a Brahmana or an ascetic', and tries to engage his mind and intellect in God, he will not be so much successful, as he can be when he accepts the fact that 'I am God's.' Therefore, when the Lord in the fourth verse of this chapter, exhorts Arjuna to seek refuge in Him, He means to say, mat the self should be, engaged in Him. Gosvaml Tulasidasa also declares, "If a person by becoming God's, follows spiritual practice, such as name chanting etc., his spoiled life of innumerable births, can be improved, today and even now" (Dohavall 22).
It means that if a striver, himself gets absorbed in Him, his mind and intellect get easily absorbed in Him. As Meghanada, while declaring that he is the son of Ravana in a play, and also performing his part scrupulously, from within does not believe that he is Meghanada, so should a striver, while performing his duties on the stage of this world, think that he is God's, not of the world.
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