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Bhagavad
Gita - December 28, 2007
Chapter
2, Verses: 20-22
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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II.20:
Never is this One born, and never does It die; nor is it that having
come to exist, It will again cease to be. This One is birthless, eternal,
undecaying, ancient; It is not killed when the body is killed.
II.21:
O Paartha! He who knows this One as indestructible, eternal, birthless
and undecaying, how and whom does that person kill, or whom does he
cause to be killed.
II.22:
As
after rejecting unusable clothes a man takes up other new ones, likewise
after rejecting unusable bodies the embodied one unites with other new
ones.
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Summary
of this lecture:
There is the unflinching, unshakable conviction in all of us that 'I'
am the same one, in spite of the changes in the body. That I is felt
'in the body', and so called 'dehi'. It is separate from the body. Since
it was not born (only body was born), it never can die. It is ever present
(sanaatana). So it is the oldest and yet newest too.
As the old, torn clothing is discarded and the new one is taken, similarly
old, diseased, dysfunctional body is discarded and a new, useful one
is taken up.
Although The Self is One, All-pervading, Infinite, it ignorantly imagines
a dividing line separating 'I' and 'world'. This ignorance becomes the
first cause of bondage and is referred to as the causal body (kaarana-sariira).
Because it is imperfect (due to ignorance), it has the desire for perfection
(which is the origin of religion). It has an 'inside' and a corresponding
'outside'. Through this a subtle body (suukshma-sariira) comes
up. The subtle body has all the internal tools like mind, intellect,
memory, ego, sensory & motor organs. The physical gross body (sthuula
sariira) is the outermost instrument. It is very limited in scope,
very fragile and so needs to be changed often.
'How these three bodies connect to each other, who chooses the new body
and with what criteria' - these and many other related questions will
be discussed in the next class.
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