Summarized by Sridhar.V :
We did a recap from our last class where in verses 23 to 26 from Chapter 7 were discussed.
Summary of discussion from previous class and stories/ examples were
- Hope for the infinite and don’t settle for finite things.
- Lord will provide you with the seed but its up to the individual to seed it, raise it and have the faith in his effort
- Free will or Purushartha is available to all of us, and hence its up to us to decide and choose our actions in this
- We cannot continue to do wrong things in life citing helplessness as the reason (our Prarabdha or vasana’s).
We watched 5 videos of Gurudev for verses 23,24,25 and 26.
Excerpts from the videos and shloka’s:
Verse No 23- Running after balloons in life:
· Fleeting desires for finite objects, even when fulfilled through the impermanent activities ,would surely prove to
be ephemeral.
· Finite actions undertaken in finite fields, employing finite instruments cannot but produce,as a result- whether joy or
sorrow- only a finite result.
· The above statement is in contrast to a pure philosophical truth, where in the Lord says” those who devote
themselves to ME, come to ME. Seekers of happiness in the world of sense objects can gain insignificant success
in the fields of sense enjoyments however if the same effort is applied by them in the right way of constructive
living, they too can come to discover their real identity with the eternal SELF.
· Due to deluded ego, it comes to identify itself with its finite envelopments and reveals in a world of its endless
number of objects in this jagat.
Verse No 24: - Nothing is permanent
· Unintelligent people run after finite things in life, only to weep in despair after the same is lost or gone, but they
are not permanent.
· People who lack discriminatory abilities to perceive the subtle truth that shines in through the vast disturbances
of the endless plurality, fail to realize the immutable and the peerless SELF. In their extreme preoccupation with
the everchanging glory of the prakriti.
Verse No 25 : Understanding Real Nature
· We behave as though we are but the egocentric entities and that are not we are unable to come to terms with the
absolute reality.
· For eg: a boy who was raised in an orphanage by a rich man on purpose, suddenly decides to take him away from
the orphanage and raise him with proper education and life. However, it takes time for the boy to forget his initial
beginnings at the orphanage and his past. Similarly, human beings after having lived in the prison of Body, Mind
and Intellect for a long time, fail to comprehend the idea that in essence we are the Infinite, the Immortal.
· The above questions are unavoidable in the bosom of an intelligent seeker, when he in his aspirations come face
to face with the staggering revelations contained in Vedanta.
Verse No 26: Nature of all knowledge:Omniscient
· The Self, as the pure Consciousness, is the illuminating principle that brings the entire field of the mind and the
intellect under the beam of our clear awareness.
· Just like how the Sun illumines every part of the world, the feeling is that the Sun is considered the only Seer or the
eye of the world, in as much as without the sun all organs of vision will be blind.
· Similarly, the SELF can be considered as the SEER or KNOWER of everything in everyone at all times and in all
places. This omniscience of the Supreme is vividly hinted by the above example of Sun.
· Unfortunately an egocentric limited mortal viewing the universe through the pinhole of his congested and constricted
mind,intellect and body fails to see the harmonious rhythm in the macrocosm. He who can open up his own self
from the bondages of ignorance and rise to attune himself with the macrocosm can certainly come to experience
the eternal SELF.
Subjective Analysis was also briefly discussed from previous class for verses 23-26.
In the next class, all of us would be summarizing the last 3 verses to wrap up Chapter 7.
Links to videos viewed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEMY-PPaVkE&list=PLm6DKuwwu5zqslPPdj-sepdn-nTcFLImC&index=177&ab_channel=ChinmayaChannel 26-1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZzpfo1qbTg&list=PLm6DKuwwu5zqslPPdj-sepdn-nTcFLImC&index=178&ab_channel=ChinmayaChannel 26-2
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