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Bhagavad
Gita - January 11, 2008
Chapter
2, Verses: 22-25
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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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.
II.23 & 24: Weapons do not cut It, fire does not burn It, water
does not moisten It, and air does not dry It. It cannot be cut, It cannot
be burnt, cannot be moistened, and surely cannot be dried up. It is
eternal, omnipresent, stationary, unmoving and changeless.
II.
25:
It is said that This is unmanifest; this is incoceivable; This is unchangeable.
Therfore, having known This thus, you ought not to grieve.
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Summary
of this lecture:
Many deeper questions of philosophy appear puzzling because same words
are (& have to be) used to describe many different ideas. One such
word is 'soul', another is 'self'. They sometimes, depending on the
context, mean the One without a second, all-pervading, immortal, birth-less,
deathless Absolute; or sometimes mean the limited, embodied beings.
One Sun, reflected in many waters appears as many; and the reflections
also are called suns. Similar is the case with the words 'self' or 'soul'.
The question of rebirth is valid only in the context of embodied soul.
The One 'becoming' many is explained by the dualists, qualified non-dualists
and non-dualists in different ways; each of the explanations has its
appeal at certain level. But if this difference about the first 'cause'
is set aside, then all the three schools give similar explanation of
reincarnation. They all agree that the soul 'takes' the causal and the
subtle body, from an old or dysfunctional or useless or no-longer available
body to another 'new' one.
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