SRIMAD MAHABHAGAVATHAM :1.5 - Swami Krishnananda
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26/01/2020.
Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -5 :
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-8.
Slokam-3.
"aksharam brahma paramam svabhavodhyatmam ucyate
bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam";
Slokam-4.
"adhibhutam ksharo bhavah purushas-cadhidaivatam
adhiyajnoham evatra dehe dehabhytam vara."
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1.
Bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam :
Action, in the real sense of the term, is the force that ejects this cosmos right from the topmost level of creation – the atomic bindu of creation, prior to the bursting of this total potentiality into the two halves of positive and negative forces. Everything, all action – any impulse whatsoever, down to the movement of an ant – is controlled by this great event that took place at the beginning of creation. The origin of action is the Action of the Cosmos.
This concept of Total Action is again portrayed in the Purusha Sukta of the Veda, which compares the whole creation to a cosmic sacrifice performed by God Himself, as it were. The self-alienation of the Supreme Being, Mahapurusha, into this visible cosmos is a surrender of His own true nature of universality into the externality of creation, in which act He has sacrificed Himself, as it were.
#The greatest yajna is the Purusha Yajna, which is not to be translated as human sacrifice, as Western scholars sometimes translate this great hymn of the Rigveda.
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2.
#So, the origin of action – everybody’s action, up to the action of the atom – is impelled by this great Action of the Purusha –
"bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam."
Really speaking, there are not many actions taking place in the world in terms of various individualities.
One Action is taking place, as the rumbling of thousands of waves in the ocean is actually the one action of the ocean itself. Many actions are not taking place in the ocean; it is one impulse of the root and the heart of the bowels of the ocean that rises up as the waves.
#One action is taking place in the ocean; One Action is taking place in this cosmos also.
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"Adhibhutam ksharo bhavah." :
The perishable nature of all things is called adhibhuta prapancha, the externalised projected form of physical nature. The very fact of being external is a tendency to evolution and destruction. Everything in this world evolves from the lower level to the higher level.
What is called evolution is nothing but the destruction of the earlier process for the birth of a new process.
This takes place in one’s own body in the form of growth and decay, and it also happens in the world outside in a cosmic evolutionary process.
No one can live without dying in their earlier condition, and we could not have grown into the adults that we are if the earlier babyhood had not been transcended by the decomposition of those constituents of baby individuality into the adulthood in which we are placed now –
"bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam."
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To be continued ...
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26/01/2020.
Discourse 1: King Parikshit’s Question to Suka Maharishi -5 :
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-8.
Slokam-3.
"aksharam brahma paramam svabhavodhyatmam ucyate
bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam";
Slokam-4.
"adhibhutam ksharo bhavah purushas-cadhidaivatam
adhiyajnoham evatra dehe dehabhytam vara."
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1.
Bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam :
Action, in the real sense of the term, is the force that ejects this cosmos right from the topmost level of creation – the atomic bindu of creation, prior to the bursting of this total potentiality into the two halves of positive and negative forces. Everything, all action – any impulse whatsoever, down to the movement of an ant – is controlled by this great event that took place at the beginning of creation. The origin of action is the Action of the Cosmos.
This concept of Total Action is again portrayed in the Purusha Sukta of the Veda, which compares the whole creation to a cosmic sacrifice performed by God Himself, as it were. The self-alienation of the Supreme Being, Mahapurusha, into this visible cosmos is a surrender of His own true nature of universality into the externality of creation, in which act He has sacrificed Himself, as it were.
#The greatest yajna is the Purusha Yajna, which is not to be translated as human sacrifice, as Western scholars sometimes translate this great hymn of the Rigveda.
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2.
#So, the origin of action – everybody’s action, up to the action of the atom – is impelled by this great Action of the Purusha –
"bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam."
Really speaking, there are not many actions taking place in the world in terms of various individualities.
One Action is taking place, as the rumbling of thousands of waves in the ocean is actually the one action of the ocean itself. Many actions are not taking place in the ocean; it is one impulse of the root and the heart of the bowels of the ocean that rises up as the waves.
#One action is taking place in the ocean; One Action is taking place in this cosmos also.
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3.
"Adhibhutam ksharo bhavah." :
The perishable nature of all things is called adhibhuta prapancha, the externalised projected form of physical nature. The very fact of being external is a tendency to evolution and destruction. Everything in this world evolves from the lower level to the higher level.
What is called evolution is nothing but the destruction of the earlier process for the birth of a new process.
This takes place in one’s own body in the form of growth and decay, and it also happens in the world outside in a cosmic evolutionary process.
No one can live without dying in their earlier condition, and we could not have grown into the adults that we are if the earlier babyhood had not been transcended by the decomposition of those constituents of baby individuality into the adulthood in which we are placed now –
"bhutabhavodbhavakaro visargah karmasamjnitam."
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To be continued ...
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