Bhagavad Gita has an Important Message for how to view the Current World
There are many approaches to fixing the issues we see today, the list of them is nearly endless. The most profound way, is to See what is there in the first place, by Inquiring within
Bhagavad Gita offers very profound Insight on both our Inner World and Outer World; to be upfront, this is NOT a Religion nor a Religious Text
First, I must point out that I am NOT trying to sell anyone on my own Spiritual Path or what others might call “Beliefs,” I have no beliefs. The main purpose for this are the principles mentioned in the video below, my sense is there are many attributes here that are potential solutions for what we are seeing in the world at large. It’s my offering to you.
Though there are some who have fashioned a Religious belief system from the principles of the Gita, it is not intended for that; rather it is a vehicle of illumination and not of instruction, intended for Individual Seekers of Truth, who have already a general familiarity with their own personal Spiritual Path. The uniqueness of what is presented here is that of the original setting, where the Gita is presented to a great warrior on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. कुरुक्षेत्र.
From my point of view; what we are seeing today, in the current Global Corruptocracy is a war against Free People everywhere. There are very clear parallels with the story of the Mahabharata including the fraud and deceit that eventually lead up to this Great War. Today, the battle lines have been drawn between those who stand up for Life and those who choose to stand for Hierarchical Power and their own personal gain. In my opinion, the Bhagavad Gita has the most answers for those of us who are willing to stand and fight for Life and Life’s Purpose; though that is of course undefined, for an Individual, great meaning can be found.
For a good copy of the Mahabharata here’s a link:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/59771339/Mahabharata-by-Kamala-am
From Wikipedia:
In the great war, also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata (Sanskrit: महाभारत ), arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.
The work is on the inside
As I stated above, today’s world is really not so much different than in India 5,300 years ago. Before the first battle of the World, we must first face ourselves; removing the blinders and wool curtains that have been fastened to our eyes, reclaiming our Perfect Freedom to know the inner personality.
Repossessing that which has been stolen from us, to “Know thy Self” is to first take back our Identity. To establish a Perfect Balance within ourselves; is to know Perfect Peace, regardless of the doings of others or physical war on the outside.
“Know thy Self” is an important Delphic Maxim.
Background:
The Bhagavad Gita is quite similar to the Isha Upanishad, the concepts are very much contemporary to each other, they came from nearly the same time period. There will be a separate post on the Isha Upanishad.
I found an excellent video presentation of the Bhagavad Gita on YouTube and is Central to this post:
Participating in Action:
When it comes to action, the Gita says: "Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit—be detached and work—have no desire for reward and work." This is the unmistakable teaching of the Gita. He who gives up action falls. He who gives up only the reward rises. In the fight, we must view ourselves as being in the exact right place at the exact right time; in the dharma of the moment, the true warrior takes his action without any passion attached to it. In the message of the Gita there are quite a few parallels to the Isha Upanishad; just laid out differently.
By this we “Seek Nothing in Excess.” an important Delphic Maxim.
Sample summary of the Gita provided by India.com: [My input in brackets]
“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.” [Beautiful Balance]
“Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.” [Three forces that mankind back: Fear — Anger — Hatred]
“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.” [Equal Mindedness, Perfect Peace comes from Balance]
“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar – this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one’s own mind.” [Equal Mindedness]
“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come” [Work for the Sake of the Work, Not for the Fruits of the Work]
“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.” [Requires no Interpretation from me]
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” [Integrity and true Honor]
“He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the “I” and “mine,” self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me —that is the man I love best.” [Lord Krishna specifies I love he who seeks Truth in Equal Mindedness, One who does so, sacrifices ‘Agenda’ for Self Knowledge]
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.” [Equal mindedness, Work for the Sake of the Work itself.]
“The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.” [Equal mindedness]
The important stuff:
WORKS AND KNOWLEDGE from Sri Aurobindo’s analysis of Isha Upanishad:
The opposition between works and knowledge exists as long as works and knowledge are only of the egoistic mental character. Mental knowledge is not true knowledge; true knowledge is that which is based on the true sight, the sight of the Seer, of Surya, of the Kavi. Mental thought is not knowledge, it is a golden lid placed over the face of the Truth, the Sight, the divine Ideation, the Truth-Consciousness. When that is removed, sight replaces mental thought, the all-embracing truth-ideation, Mahas, Veda, Drishti, replaces the fragmentary mental activity.
True Buddhi (Vijnana) emerges from the dissipated action of the Buddhi which is all that is possible on the basis of the sense-mind, the Manas. Vijnana leads us to pure knowledge (Jnana), pure consciousness (Chit). There we realize our entire identity with the Lord in all at the very roots of our being.
Duality vs Oneness
Everything is One. It's sometimes quite difficult to bring this type of realization to conflicts like we are actually observing today. So, what is the actual nature of this conflict? The "Force" that the Over Class represent don't want Man to achieve this realization, their goal is to Halt Spiritual Evolution, or at least slow it down.
My sense is that the Parasitic Over Class are very similar to the Kuruvas in the story of the Mahabharata; they were the avaricious enemies of the Pandava brothers, who had suffered greatly because of their Kuru cousins. The key thing about the Kurus is their moves to divide the Pandavas from the rest of the world around them. To live life severed from Oneness, is to diminish Experience. That’s what duality does.
Dividing is incumbent to duality and is also part of the mental process. The mind itself rarely ever notices that things are one, rather it naturally tends to notice everything in parts. This is also why it is easy to fool Humans into believing God is somehow separate from Man. We are always experiencing this world as separate parts, yet along the way, we get glimpses of the true Oneness. Life and Death are also this way. You would think that Death is somehow opposite from Life, right? The sense that the body is no longer harboring the vitality of a living soul means something final to that Human Persona; but it is NOT final to that Being, nor the Infinite Being from wince it originates.
An Important message mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita:
We have never been "Born" and we have NEVER "Died." Life is a movement of Consciousness, it is not exclusively physical the way we experience it. The Body is only an outward functionary of Being; it is transitory.
In Questioning Action:
When it came to the final war against the Kurus, the great warrior; Arjuna throws down his weapons and tells Krishna that he refuses to fight. To kill his cousins would make him unable to bear his own life, nothing would be worth doing that; not even for winning back his kingdom. Krishna, the Divine Charioteer then shows Arjuna a vision in which his cousins are already laying there dead; that the "action" that must be taken on this battlefield of Kurukshetra does not "belong" to him, the participant in the action does not have a choice. Fruits of that action are not the purpose of the fight.
On the potential of removal of our ‘current’ Oppressors, the Parasitic Over Class:
It's important to see that action does not connect to anyone, the nature of action in Life is a movement within the Oneness, the movement of the physical man is not consequential individually, as man does not possess action he merely participates in it.
If the Over Class get slaughtered, they are then fulfilling their Dharma, their purpose of existence is being completed. Upon Death, such low frequency beings such as they, would be absorbed back to the Oneness, we are all a part of; all the Human traits of ego, will die with the body.
THE JUSTIFICATION OF WORKS from Sri Aurobindo’s analysis of Isha Upanishad:
This freedom does not depend upon inaction, nor is this possession limited to the enjoyment of the inactive Soul that only witnesses without taking part in the movement.
On the contrary, the doing of works in this material world and a full acceptance of the term of physical life are part of its completeness.
For the active Brahman fulfills Itself in the world by works and man also is in the body for self-fulfillment by action. He cannot do otherwise, for even his inertia acts and produces effects in the cosmic movement. Being in this body or any kind of body, it is idle to think of refraining from action or escaping the physical life. The idea that this in itself can be a means of liberation, is part of the Ignorance which supposes the soul to be a separate entity in the Brahman. [Self]
Action is [often] shunned because it is thought to be inconsistent with freedom. The man when he acts, is "supposed" to be necessarily entangled in the desire behind the action, in subjection to the formal energy that drives the action and in the results of the action. These things are true in appearance, not in reality.
Desire is only a mode of the emotional mind which by ignorance seeks its delight in the object of desire and not in the Brahman [Self] who expresses Himself in the object. By destroying that ignorance one can do action without entanglement in desire.
The Energy that drives is itself subject to the Lord, who expresses Himself in it with perfect freedom. By getting behind Nature to the Lord of Nature, merging the individual in the Cosmic Will, one can act with the divine freedom. Our actions are given up to the Lord and our personal responsibility ceases in His liberty.
The chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature and not the soul which, by knowing itself, ceases even to appear to be bound by the results of its works.
Therefore the way of freedom is not inaction, but to cease from identifying oneself with the movement and recover instead our true identity in the Self of things who is their Lord.
The outward Fight:
At some point, the Over Class, Black Nobility, Parasitic Elites, Potentates, Khazarians and all other types will in fact cease to exist. Violence which is not necessary will not cause these self proclaimed “Masters” and “Rulers” to change, while they remain here. Whatever action that becomes necessary should be participated in without any passion attached to it.
Right now, the best way to effect our fight against them is to remove every tool they use to manipulate and extract Obedience:
We can Claim our Individualized Sovereignty by rejecting assigned Status
We can Refuse our presumed appointments by Vitiating the Fraud of Pledges
We can Repossess our Identity from them by invalidating their Registries
We can Sever our Political ties from them by Nullifying their Legal System
We can Create our own Economics by realizing people are themselves Treasure
We can Embrace True Learning by Rejecting Education programed on Narratives
We can Reject Industrial Medicine by seeking Nature’s Medicine
All of the above and more come from “Knowing thy Self.” 1st Delphic Maxim
On Religion vs Spiritual Paths
What we inevitably find in difference between the Spiritual and the Religious is essentially Decentralized personal experience vs Centralized social dismemberment from Self Freedom.
In this, we learn to “Make No Pledges,” an important Delphic Maxim
Religion imprisons God inside of Definition, causing a need for Moral justifications, this prescribes “Liberty” which is only a Mental Leash.
Spirituality liberates God within, freeing your experience into Meaningful True Freedom, a natural property of inner Self.
When we “Re — Member” ourselves, we can find who we are by inquiring within.
Additional Reading
An excellent book on the Gita is Essays on the Gita, available from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, this is a link to the whole library of downloadable books: https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/sriaurobindo/writings.php
This is a direct link for downloading just the Essays on the Gita by itself:
https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/sriaurobindo/downloadpdf.php?id=34
Same book material in alternate format:
https://auro-ebooks.com/bhagavad-gita/#
There is another very good one that has commentary by Sri Aurobindo, my favorite:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30939584973
Everything is One coming from Oneness.
We are all One coming from Oneness.
I will leave this from Sri Aurobindo:
Earth is the Chosen Place, the battlefield of the mightiest Warriors;
in which the Arch Mason shapes his Works.
The Bhagavad Gita showed me the ancient roots of Romany Gypsy philosophy and felt like coming home when I first understood it. Some of my understanding was expressed recently here:
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/to-save-our-immortal-soul
Oh I'm looking forward to reading this! I'm saving it for when I'm fresh in the morning. The Bhagavad Gita has been around long enough, one more night of ignorance can't hurt ;-)