Saturday, August 15, 2009

Duty bound...

Verse 1.10.4 (Mohan Pr):
* The answer to Saunaka rishi's question is given here in this verse.
* Maharaj Yudhistira, ruled according to the scriptures and because he satisfied everyone by satisfying Krishna, the clouds showered all the water that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities of man in profusion. Due to its fatty milk bag and cheerful attitude, the cow used to moisten the grazing ground with milk.
* SP in BG gives one example: Month of may, still the lady cooks in India, similarly, in the cold months, the man takes bath early in the morning. Similarly, the sannyasi keeps travelling all the time teaching God consciousness
- we have to perform our duty, whatever be the situation
- Similarly, MY was being duty bound and because of that everyone is satisfied.
* Just food grains and milk is enough to keep the body and soul together. There is no need for so much stress and anxiety as it is in today's education system.
* SP says: Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.
* So how do we give up sense gratification.
- from NOI (SP tells that it is for neophyte devotees) : vaco vegam.... tolerate the 6 urges
- SP talks about the first class intelligent person who learns about these just by hearing it.
- unless we control the 6 urges, we cannot be happy.

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