Summarized by Shailesh Vyas
Started with meditation, anulom vilom.
Recap & Initial Q&A
- We did a recap from the previous class.
Swamiji’s Video and discussions
- Chapter 7 - Verse 1 & 2 - Hearing v/s Listening
- Link to Video
- Hearing is the function of the ears. Hearing is when you are not involved. Hearing with total involvement is listening.
- E.g. Mental involvement during Gossip v/s Gita talks.
- Chapter 7 - Verse 3 - Why are realized men so rare?
- Link to Video -
- Why are realized men so rare? Why are there not many Buddha or Sankracharya?
- Rarely do humans put an effort required for realization.
- Many of us have human bodies, but we are either tree men or animal men (slave to our instincts), but very few are man-man. Such satvic people are ready for the next stage of evolution.
- Even if someone puts in the effort, it's the effort of many lives.
- e.g. How much food we have eaten in our lives and only some of it stays as energy. What happened to the rest of it? Mountains of food we have eaten.
- Very few try, and one rare person will come to know my true nature.
- Because it is rare, doesn’t mean it is a false philosophy.
- Chapter 7 - Verse 4 - Know your equipment - The lower nature
- Link to Video -
- e.g. Electrical energy -> Light energy
- When one sees the light from the bulb, we rarely realize, its enlivened by the electrical energy.
- Same with the body of matter is powered by life.
- Our body is also just a bundle of matter .. functioning due to the life energy.
- Five named elements are fundamental for our existence.
- When you die it goes back to main fundamentals.
- Eight factors - Five elements + Mind + Intellect + Ego
- Ego is a pseudo self.
- Identifying with the remaining seven is ego.
- Association with BMI. For e.g. someone calls another person fat .. who is fat? You or your body.
- Ego can be diminished by identifying with Atman.
- e.g. Clay v/s Pot - Clay is considered higher. It can take the form of pot or something else. Clay is an absolute form.
- Consciousness is not produced by the brain. It's a separate entity.
- e.g. Movie GoodBye where someone says - Learning Musical notes first is science v/s playing Music first is faith.
- Chapter 7 - Verse 5 - The higher nature
- Link to Video -
- These eight aspects of me (five elements + Mind + Intellect + Ego) constitute my lower nature and I am something higher.
- Touch of higher nature enlivens the remaining eight.
- Lower nature consists of eight things and there is something higher. That touch of life enlivens everything.
- e.g. Electricity and light
- Our body is composed of minerals bundled in skin .. still we are able to think and function due to something higher.
- Consciousness is powering everything including BMI.
- In some way by even attaching to lower, we are still attaching to consciousness.
- We need to let go of our attachment to lower nature.
- e.g. Pole vault. At some point the athlete has to let go of the vault to jump the rope.
- Consciousness and existence.
- Consciousness exists outside of the boundary of BMI. Same is true with existence.
- Association with higher ideas
- Individuality disappears when your country is playing a game. We all become Indian. Same with Surabhi events in temples. People forget their personal misery for that period.
- Is there a downside of not associating with the body?
- Shouldn’t you take care of your body?
- It's important to take care of your equipment.
- e.g. Pole vault - Goal is to jump above the rope, but it's important to take care of the pole.
- Chapter 7 - Verse 5 - Know your equipment - Jugu Jugu Jugu
- Link to Video -
- Jagat - World of Plurality
- Einstein world of flux operates with the constraints of time and space.
- My lower nature, enlivened by nature is this presentation that you are seeing.
- Me as a vital member of the community.
- One can say … There are no inventions, there are all discoveries.
- e.g. Nobel prize for auto phasing and Ekadashi vrat.
- Now scientists have discovered that one should fast for 24 times a year and coincidently our scripture has recommended Ekadashi fast which comes 24 times a year.
- Chapter 7 - Verse 5 - Search for the higher
- Link to Video -
- Realize … I, my higher nature, playing with my lower nature is me, a miserable creature.
- Someone's sorrow and misery are limited to their association to the lower nature.
- The Lord is saying you have freedom to associate with higher nature. If you will associate with lower nature you will have worldly pleasure and misery.
- At this moment we only know our lower nature and are searching for my higher nature.
Ended class
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