Spidey teaches Gita
Want to understand Importance of keeping good company - go and see Spiderman 3 - Its Aunt May's affection, religiosity, his pure innocent love for MJ and his faith in divinity which makes Spidey get free from the Green thing.
Are we all overcome by the green thing similar to Spidey?
Yes says Sri Krishna in the Gita. The Green thing in our life is association with mode of passion (Rajo guna). We develop lust in contact with mode of passion and lust is the all devouring enemy in this world.
Chapter 3, Verse 36. Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
Chapter 3, Verse 37. The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.
Chapter 3, Verse 38. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust.
Chapter 3, Verse 39. Thus, a man's pure consciousness is covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
Chapter 3, Verse 40. The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
Chapter 3, Verse 41. Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.
Chapter 3, Verse 42. The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
Chapter 3, Verse 43. Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus--by spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
How does Spidey overcome the Green thing? Are there parallels for us to overcome Rajo Guna? What are the techniques Sri Krishna taught Arjuna?To get the answer await the next issue of Inner Voice.
- INNER VOICE (inspired by the Grace of saints)
Are we all overcome by the green thing similar to Spidey?
Yes says Sri Krishna in the Gita. The Green thing in our life is association with mode of passion (Rajo guna). We develop lust in contact with mode of passion and lust is the all devouring enemy in this world.
Chapter 3, Verse 36. Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
Chapter 3, Verse 37. The Blessed Lord said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material modes of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring, sinful enemy of this world.
Chapter 3, Verse 38. As fire is covered by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, or as the embryo is covered by the womb, similarly, the living entity is covered by different degrees of this lust.
Chapter 3, Verse 39. Thus, a man's pure consciousness is covered by his eternal enemy in the form of lust, which is never satisfied and which burns like fire.
Chapter 3, Verse 40. The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this lust, which veils the real knowledge of the living entity and bewilders him.
Chapter 3, Verse 41. Therefore, O Arjuna, best of the Bharatas, in the very beginning curb this great symbol of sin [lust] by regulating the senses, and slay this destroyer of knowledge and self-realization.
Chapter 3, Verse 42. The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
Chapter 3, Verse 43. Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus--by spiritual strength--conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
How does Spidey overcome the Green thing? Are there parallels for us to overcome Rajo Guna? What are the techniques Sri Krishna taught Arjuna?To get the answer await the next issue of Inner Voice.
- INNER VOICE (inspired by the Grace of saints)
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