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Month of Awakening, 9.2.20, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
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यस्त्वात्मरतिरेव स्यादात्मतृप्तश्च मानवः।
आत्मन्येव च सन्तुष्टस्तस्य कार्यं न विद्यते।।3.17।।
But that man who rejoices only in the Self and is satisfied with the Self, and is contented only in the Self-for him there is no duty to perform.
न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्।
जोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान् युक्तः समाचरन्।।3.26।।
The wise man established in the self should not unsettle the mind of the ignorant one attached to action but should get them to perform all their duty while dually performing its own duty.
~ Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, Chapter 3, Verse 17 and 26.
~ How does liberated one acts?
~ How one should perform his duties?
~ What is religion, action and Dharma?
~ What is the difference between two types of Work?
~ How can we change bonded work to free work?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Month of Awakening, 9.2.20, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Context:
यस्त्वात्मरतिरेव स्यादात्मतृप्तश्च मानवः।
आत्मन्येव च सन्तुष्टस्तस्य कार्यं न विद्यते।।3.17।।
But that man who rejoices only in the Self and is satisfied with the Self, and is contented only in the Self-for him there is no duty to perform.
न बुद्धिभेदं जनयेदज्ञानां कर्मसङ्गिनाम्।
जोषयेत्सर्वकर्माणि विद्वान् युक्तः समाचरन्।।3.26।।
The wise man established in the self should not unsettle the mind of the ignorant one attached to action but should get them to perform all their duty while dually performing its own duty.
~ Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, Chapter 3, Verse 17 and 26.
~ How does liberated one acts?
~ How one should perform his duties?
~ What is religion, action and Dharma?
~ What is the difference between two types of Work?
~ How can we change bonded work to free work?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Chapter 3, verse 17 and then verse 26.
00:13The man who rejoices only in the self and is satisfied with the self and is contended
00:20only in the self, for him there is no duty to perform.
00:26Then the wise man established in the self should not unsettle the mind of the ignorant
00:33one attached to action but should get them to perform all their duties while duly performing
00:42his own duties.
00:46Even here the translation is not really accurate but we will go with it.
00:52So the questioner says in verse 17, Shri Krishna says that there is no duty to perform for
01:00the one who rejoices only in the self.
01:04Yet when we look at the greats like Mahavir Buddha or Kabir Saheb, they took huge steps
01:09to dispel the darkness of man's mind as if they were performing an undeclared duty and
01:16in verse 26, Shri Krishna again refers to the wise one and says that he should get others
01:21to perform all their duties, duly performing his own two.
01:26Is there any contradiction here and what makes a Buddha or Mahavir do what they do?
01:33You see, Shri Krishna is presenting the entirety, the totality of the matter of action here.
01:44On one hand, he says that in the highest state of liberation, there is no duty, no
01:53kartavya left, no duty at all left.
01:58That is point one that you have to understand.
02:02At the same time, he says, look at me, Parth, who can bind me in duty?
02:12I have no duty at all and yet I keep doing everything.
02:16He presents his own example.
02:20You have to look at everything together to get the complete picture.
02:26One hand he indeed says that the liberated one has really no foundation upon him to do
02:32anything.
02:34The liberated one has no foundation, he has no obligation to do anything because he is
02:40now liberated and then he says, look at me, Parth, I keep on doing stuff day in and day
02:53out and he devotes a couple of verses elaborating how much he does.
02:59He says, if I do not do things, this entire world will collapse.
03:06So I do more than anybody else.
03:11People work in their limited ways.
03:13Look at me, Arjun.
03:15I work in an unlimited way.
03:17My labor knows no limits.
03:22Nobody works harder than I do.
03:25Arjun is puzzled, but sir, didn't you just say that the liberated one has no duties left
03:33to perform?
03:35Why do you act then?
03:37Shri Krishna just smiles.
03:42If you could understand that much, why would you need the Gita?
03:49So the common folk has duties because he is not liberated.
04:02And the liberated one puts duties upon himself because he is liberated.
04:12What is this?
04:13That's the way this is.
04:20The one in shackles has to bear duties as punishment.
04:36You will have to live within your duties because you are not liberated.
04:41This is your punishment.
04:46And the liberated one loads himself with duties, not because he is full of passion
05:10towards the world, but because he has compassion.
05:22Shri Krishna tells Arjun, the gyani, the realized one should work or rather works in an outwardly
05:36way, in a worldly way, just as the ignorant one does.
05:42These are very beautiful verses.
05:48All the chapters of the Gita are wonderful, but chapter 3 probably stands the tallest.
05:58He says, the ignorant ones keep working, Arjun.
06:07In a similar way, the realized one should also keep working.
06:16And he quotes himself as the foremost example of the worker.
06:22He says, look at me, here are all the ignorant ones assembled in the field of Kurukshetra
06:30to fight.
06:31They are working.
06:32No, to fight is their work.
06:35And here is me as well.
06:37What am I doing in the middle of this idiotic crowd?
06:42All fools ready to cut each other to pieces.
06:48Totally stupid people they are, right on both sides.
06:51Do they know why they are fighting?
06:54Half of them would end before the end of the day.
07:02But look at them, how they flex their muscles, how they brandish their weapons.
07:06Somebody is blowing the conch.
07:09Somebody is puffing his chest.
07:12Somebody is threatening the other one.
07:17And before the sun sets, half of them will be gone and gone for nothing, idiots.
07:27And in the middle of this crowd, who is standing as a mere charioteer, not even a warrior,
07:38a charioteer, me, doesn't it occur to you, Arjun, what am I doing here?
07:46After all, I am a realized being, am I not?
07:48No, Arjun is not quite sure about it, till Krishna displays to him what is commonly known
07:57as the Virat Roop.
08:00But Krishna is asking, what am I doing here?
08:07They are fighting because they are ignorant.
08:11And here I am fighting because I am not ignorant.
08:19They are fighting because they are ignorant.
08:22And I too am fighting because I am not ignorant.
08:26That's the way the realized one has to live.
08:28Outwardly, it will appear as if he is doing all the things that all the ignorant ones
08:34are doing.
08:36He cannot shun action.
08:38He cannot run away.
08:39That's the message.
08:40You cannot run away.
08:41They are fighting, you too fight.
08:43But they are fighting from their darkness, you fight from your light.
08:47You cannot run away.
08:48Shunning action is not possible.
08:51You have to fight.
08:52The world is the battlefield.
08:53To be born is to be born as a warrior.
08:59To be born is to be born with weapons and armor.
09:06What to do?
09:18Now you know why Buddha Mahavira Kabir worked so hard all his life.
09:29Don't you wonder?
09:33What does he have left to achieve?
09:36I mean, he is working because he wants a new car.
09:45He is working because he wants a new wife.
09:48He is working because he wants a new job.
09:55What is it that impels the sage to work so hard?
10:03That's the secret.
10:06That's what made Krishna smile.
10:08Arjun, you will never really know why I work.
10:12Because I work without a why.
10:15You work for a reason.
10:16I work for no reason.
10:19And if you have to have a reason, the reason is compassion.
10:25You are a man of words.
10:26You need some word to satisfy your shallow inquiry.
10:30So I give you a word.
10:31The word is compassion.
10:35If you go to Kabir Sahab, he will say the word is sahajita.
10:40The realized one just works.
10:42He doesn't work for a cause really, though apparently he might declare a cause.
10:48He will say, you know, I'm working for such and such a reason, for such a cause, for such
10:52a mission, such things.
10:54But really, he is just working, just working.
10:59He cannot help it.
11:02It has to happen.
11:04You cannot go to him and question, but why are you doing it?
11:09But why are you doing it?
11:10Somebody went to Krishnamurthy.
11:15And Krishnamurthy was saying one doesn't need a teacher and such things.
11:21No guru is needed and one is sufficient unto himself and such things.
11:26And there was this person.
11:28So he questioned Krishnamurthy, he said, but aren't you two teaching?
11:33You two are a de facto guru and all the time you are railing against gurus.
11:38And Krishnamurthy was almost shocked, it is said, you know, how he replied, he said, but
11:45I don't do it intentionally.
11:50He said, but you two keep teaching and guiding us all the time, aren't you my guru?
11:55And Krishnamurthy says almost as if, you know, caught or accused or convicted, but I don't
12:05do it intentionally.
12:09That's how the realized one acts.
12:11He doesn't do it intentionally.
12:14He just acts.
12:16Somewhere, if I remember correctly, Krishnamurthy also said, when the flower blooms, the fragrance
12:27spreads.
12:30The flower doesn't really intend to make your day.
12:34It just happens.
12:35The flower can't help it.
12:38The flower didn't really plan to entertain your nostrils or your mind.
12:45It just happens.
12:46He can't help it.
12:48That's the state of the realized one.
12:49He can't help it.
12:52He's helpless.
12:53Oh, bad.
12:55But we thought he's quite empowered.
12:57We thought if you are realized, then you are all in control of yourself.
13:01Oh, no, not at all.
13:03Rather, what you call as realization is about losing all self-control.
13:09You just flow.
13:10Flow, not in the way the common man flows.
13:13The common man flows in the dirty stream of his passions and desires and tendencies.
13:23The flow of the realized one is an altogether different thing.
13:31It's a different stream.
13:35A few years back, I had differentiated between the two streams, calling one stream as accidental
13:40and the other as essential.
13:49Are you getting it?
14:01But you know, some smart fellow can actually go to Kurukshetra and accost Krishna.
14:09Sir, what are you doing here?
14:17After all, you are Krishna.
14:20Your place is in the jungle.
14:25And if not in the jungle, you should be found at some other quiet, secluded place, meditating.
14:39Or perfecting your yoga.
14:43After all, you are the supreme yogi, aren't you?
14:52How does it behove a yogi to be really having the harness in his hand?
15:09Hmm?
15:12Hmm?
15:35Is there a contradiction here?
15:36What makes a Buddha or Mahavir do what they do?
15:39No, no contradiction here.
15:42And do not ask for a reason.
15:49If you are really honest, then you should know that there does not exist a reason.
15:56But as we said, if you are interested in satisfying your flimsy curiosity,
16:03then you could say the reason is the upliftment of the world.
16:08Hmm?
16:15As they say in common usage, that the sage takes birth to redeem the world.
16:26Hmm?
16:27But that's the language of the world.
16:30Hmm?
16:32In the sage's own language, such an expression does not exist.
16:39He will not say that he has come to really serve the world or redeem the world
16:45or do some favor to the world.
16:50He just does what he does.
16:54This justness is the pinnacle of all spiritual advancement.
17:06Hmm?
17:09Sahajyata.
17:12Hmm?
17:14Even Krishna does not really disclose to Arjuna
17:19why he runs the entire world or maintains the prakritic order.
17:27He does not disclose.
17:28He just says, I do that.
17:32I do that.
17:35And Arjuna is probably not...
17:38You know, insouciant enough to insist on an answer.
17:47So he lets it go at that.
17:54Acharyaji, just now you said that the liberated doesn't do intentionally.
18:03He just does it.
18:06Whereas the non-liberated does anything.
18:09There is a reason behind.
18:12There can be two reasons there.
18:15You see, if you are someone who is in bondage,
18:20then your actions could be in two directions.
18:25Hmm?
18:26The direction of the irreligious action
18:31is towards the thickening of bondages.
18:37If you are in bondages,
18:39then there is an irreligious action possible.
18:45That irreligious or non-spiritual action
18:48is the one that will lead to
18:52a thickening or deepening of your bondages.
18:57Then there is the religious action.
19:01That is the action called as kartavya.
19:07What is kartavya or dharma?
19:11Hmm?
19:12That which leads to
19:15yes, freedom from your bondages.
19:18Hmm?
19:19So these two courses of action
19:22are possible to the one who is not yet liberated.
19:26He can act this way or he can act that way.
19:29Then there is a liberated one.
19:32Right?
19:33And the liberated one really
19:35does not need to act for himself
19:38because he has no bondages left.
19:42So he does not need to further liberate himself.
19:45He is already liberated.
19:47Yet he keeps on working
19:49and that's what the wonder is.
19:53If the one in shackles acts
19:58then it can be explained
20:00he is acting for the sake of his
20:04freedom, liberation.
20:08He is in shackles.
20:10You can see the chains, the fetters.
20:14So he is working
20:16and it is obvious why he is working.
20:18He is a sincere fellow.
20:20He is a sensible fellow.
20:22He wants freedom.
20:24This is the religious man.
20:26This is the religious man.
20:28Who is the irreligious man?
20:31Who is wearing chains
20:34and is working in a way that will load him with
20:38more bondages.
20:40This is the irreligious fellow.
20:43Now you come to the liberated one.
20:45The liberated one needs no religion at all.
20:47He has gone beyond religion.
20:50In his case, religion has already served its purpose.
20:55Are you getting it?
20:56He needs no religion.
20:58Does Krishna follow a religion? No.
21:00Krishna is religion itself.
21:02He does not follow any religion.
21:04There is no dharma, no kartavya for Krishna.
21:08And yet he is found working
21:10so very diligently
21:12so very uninterruptedly.
21:15Why?
21:18That's what you need to find out.
21:21In trying to find that out
21:26the finder will get lost.
21:30That's the great thing about
21:33such an endeavor to find.
21:39No finding will really happen.
21:41But the one who set out to find
21:47will get exhausted and
21:53So Achyutji,
21:55if that liberated one
21:57will stop doing
21:59because it is not compulsion
22:01to act
22:03then will it leave
22:05no difference between liberated and non-liberated?
22:07How will he stop doing?
22:09Who will force him to stop doing?
22:19He does what he does.
22:21He is a law unto himself
22:23who can stop him from
22:25doing what he must.
22:27It's his free will
22:29and only he really has
22:31free will.
22:33You cannot stop him.
22:35You can at most physically kill him.
22:37Go ahead and do that.
22:39But still you cannot
22:41really stop him.
22:43He will express himself
22:45in some other way.
22:47The spirit will remain.
22:49One instance of the spirit
22:51one particular body
22:53can be killed
22:55but the spirit really cannot be stopped.
22:57Liberation is not
22:59something that happens to a man.
23:03It is more abstract.
23:05It is nothing personal.
23:07Therefore I keep saying
23:09that the way we usually talk about enlightenment
23:11it's all bogus.
23:13Enlightenment is a myth.