Re: Daily Study of Bhagavad Gita As It Is - one verse and purport per day

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Dear Swami Gaurangapada, Damodara Svarupa dasa, and assembled devotees,

please accept my simple obiesances.

Here is is some relevant reading from todays Bhagavad Gita verse and purport. In relation to the above two posts I have made. We can see that our blissfull spiritual life is relative to the Super-Subective Plane - Krsna consciousness. This is the aspiration, to serve that higher reality.

What humbles me in mind and heart is, firstly realizing my shortcoming and offences, and that by Sri Sri Nitaai-Gauranga and Sri Guru's mercy we can slowly begin service. And secondly, the great teachings of our Guru Parampara that God is a person - Personality being the highest reality. A reality alive with diversity and spiritual senses.

Last week I was downtown speaking to a very intelligent young man, he is the son of a very famous Australian musician. What I appreciate about the young man is his wondeful ability to realize within himself that all others he talks to are conscious and feeling. There is real dilalogue talking with him. This sensitivity he has gives him a deep spiritual quality. He is influenced by Ken Wilber and buddhist thought, and presently an athiest.

Gradually over the months we have met and talked deeply. Last week I introduced the concept of Personality, and questioned for what reason should that great gift be negated in philosophy and search for truth.  I presented the idea that there could be a spiritual realm full of qualities, and that it would not be wise to deny that possibility without some thorough investigation. With humble attitude and least desire to convert this man to some belief system, and speaking truths in line with Guru Parampara's teachings of the glory of Sri Gauranga, I received the warmest heartfelt compliment from my young atheist friend.

He said, 'to be honest Nava, what you have shared in faith over the months has to be one of the most beautiful Theistic conceptions I have ever heard of, in this world'.

I agreed with him. What inspires me deeply in faith is Personality, and the relation of that to love and service. Our tradition does infact hold the most beautiful theistic conception and; pure theism is the highest truth, the most beautiful, and most attractive - Sri Krsna, Reality the Beautiful. Our own innate bliss is found in that reality, and the fountain of service to that plane is unending, for Krsna's beauty always conquers the gopies.

y.s. Nava

Bg13.22

TEXT 22

TRANSLATION

The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species.

PURPORT

This verse is very important for an understanding of how the living entities transmigrate from one body to another. It is explained in the Second Chapter that the living entity is transmigrating from one body to another just as one changes dress. This change of dress is due to his attachment to material existence. As long as he is captivated by this false manifestation, he has to continue transmigrating from one body to another. Due to his desire to lord it over material nature, he is put into such undesirable circumstances. Under the influence of material desire, the entity is born sometimes as a demigod, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a beast, as a bird, as a worm, as an aquatic, as a saintly man, as a bug. This is going on. And in all cases the living entity thinks himself to be the master of his circumstances, yet he is under the influence of material nature.

How he is put into such different bodies is explained here. It is due to association with the different modes of nature. One has to rise, therefore, above the three material modes and become situated in the transcendental position. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Unless one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his material consciousness will oblige him to transfer from one body to another because he has material desires since time immemorial. But he has to change that conception. That change can be effected only by hearing from authoritative sources. The best example is here: Arjuna is hearing the science of God from Kṛṣṇa. The living entity, if he submits to this hearing process, will lose his long-cherished desire to dominate material nature, and gradually and proportionately, as he reduces his long desire to dominate, he comes to enjoy spiritual happiness. In a Vedic mantra it is said that as he becomes learned in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he proportionately relishes his eternal blissful life.

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