Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji
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CHAPTER 2
Curiosity About Action
To bring about this dissolution we have to undertake aradhana, worship and adoration, of the desired God. Krishn has named it action (karm) or the Way of Selfless Action (Nishkam Karm Yog). In the Geeta, he has from time to time urged Arjun to wage war, but in the entire poem there is not one verse that supports the idea that this war is a physical war or in any way related to the idea of actual bloodshed. Evidently this war is the war between the opposed impulses of righteousness and unrighteousness, the forces of piety and those of impiety, that is fought within man’s Soulthe seat of all thought and feeling. य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यश्चैनं मन्यते हतम्। [ “They are both ignorant, he who believes that the Self slays and he who thinks that he is slain, for he neither slays nor he is slain.’’[1].] He who regards the Self as the slayer and he who regards him as the slain are both unaware of his real nature, for he neither kills nor can he be killed. The same point is stressed again: |
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References and Context
- ↑ R. W. Emerson, the American transcendalist poet-philosopher, has rendered the idea in his poem entitled “Brahma” (1857) thus : If the red slayer thinks he slays. Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again