Re: Krsna - Involved in action?
Originally Posted by
yajvan
Hari Om
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Several of us were having a robust conversation over in the canteen file folder on the discussion of several verses of the Bhagavad Gita.
I thought to bring this over here for other HDF members to consider and request their insights on this matter.
That is, comparing what Keśava instucts in Chapt 3 verse 22 & 24 compared to Chapt 4 verse 14.
Krsna says on one hand, there is no action I need to do, yet I am engaged in action ( this is verse 22).The He continues in verse 24 saying if He did not engage in action these worlds would parish.
[size=3]Now advance to chapt 4.14, and Krsna says, Actions do not involve me, nor do I have any longing for the fruit of action. This again is cooberated in verse Chapt 5.14
What of this? Krsna engaged in action and the worlds depend on this, then "actions do not involve me".
What is the teaching here and do you have any thoughts on this matter?
...truely there is in this world nothing so purifiying as knowledge ( Chapt 4.38)
pranams
Namaste Yajvan,
Yes. Krishna -- adiyajna, does all the work and we think that "i" have done it -- and thus accrue karma of guilt/duty/hate.
Yes. Krishna -- adiyajna, does all the work and He does nothing, since He knows that He is nothing but the Self -- Na Lipayate.
Yes. Krishna -- adiyajna, does all the work yet He does nothing, since He saw the beast and He surrendered the beast to the Deity of the beast.
Om Namah Shivaya
Last edited by atanu; 14 December 2007 at 01:01 AM.
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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