Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 6
Sukham va yadi va duhkham:—To feel happy and sad, on the analogy of his body does not mean, that if a person is injured, this enlightened soul, feels that injury in his body. If it were taken as such, the affliction of the enlightened soul, would be enormous, because the world is full of afflicted persons. It means, that as an ordinary and ignorant person attached to his body, makes efforts to relieve bodily pain promptly, an enlightened soul does the same, to others; and as an ignorant man is not proud of such actions performed for his body, an enlightened one is also not proud of performing these for others. He is naturally engrossed in the welfare of others. Moreover, an enlightened soul, can bear his bodily pain and remain indifferent to it, but he cannot bear the pain of others, and so always remains prepared to relieve their suffering. So he thinks that he has the power to bear the pain, as he knows that he himself is different from his body, while the ignorant people have no power to bear the pain, as they identify themselves with their bodies. Indra, the king of the gods, beheaded sage Dadhici—though the latter had caused no offence to the former. Dadhici was brought to life, by Asvinikumaras, the twin sons of the sun who are supposed to be the physicians of the gods. But, when Indra demanded bones of Dadhici, to make a thunderbolt, Dadhici offered him his bones, by abandoning his body. |