The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2 Verse - 16

The Real is and Unreal is not

Nasato Vidyate Bhavaha Nabhavo Vidyate Sataha

Ubhayorapi Drishtonthaha Twanayos Tathwa Darshibhihi

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The wise people know the difference between the real and the unreal. Everything that one can see, touch, smell, hear, taste and think about is unreal. Unreal means it is of a changing nature and not permanent. The unreal knows no existence. The real - consciousness, awareness has never been non-existent.

The seers of the truth have seen the end of these two, real and unreal.

Now what is the relevance of knowing the real and the unreal. What the mind sees, that it becomes. If it is constantly watching people, emotions, temporary situations, the mind also gets scattered with the changes in all that it sees, as Arjuna's mind was lost in the fleeting moments of the war. On the other hand, if the mind is trained to see the real, permanent existence of consciousness, it is fully available in the present moment and not subject to the vagaries of changing events and situations. Such a mind is fully available for any task to be done in the present moment as it sees the totality and becomes the total in the present. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

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Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 2: Verse 15

The warrior spirit

Yam hi navyathayanthye te Purusham Purusharshabha

Sama duhkha sukham dheeram somritathvaya kalpathe

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If Arjuna is having doubts about fighting the present war, Sri Krishna has gone on to teach him about the quality of the warrior fit to receive the supreme spirit. The enlightened human being is not agitated by pain and pleasure.

Addressing Arjuna as a leader of men, Sri Krishna reminds him that he too has the potentiality within him. Such a person alone is a fit vessel for immortality.

Where is the need for immortality in a warrior. By getting deluded by the past, Arjuna fails to see the need of the present moment. And being in the present moment is possible only if Arjuna is not swayed by the pain of fighting friends and relatives and the pleasure of escaping from the war.

Being indifferent to pleasure and pain makes the mind steady and rooted in the present moment which contains the essence of immortality. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

(Picture: A temple on Eldams Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Temples and places of worship are abound in India mainly as centres to help the busy mind to re-route itself to the Consciousness.)

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