What is this body made of? Who controls it? How it changes? Whats goal of the soul? Part [BG.13.05]

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.13.05]

TEXT 4:

tat kshetram yac ca yadrik ca

yad-vikari yatas ca yat

sa ca yo yat-prabhavas ca

tat samasena me srinu

TRANSLATION:

Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are.

PURPORT:

The Lord is describing the field of activities and the knower of the field of activities in their constitutional positions. One has to know how this body is constituted, the materials of which this body is made, under whose control this body is working, how the changes are taking place, wherefrom the changes are coming, what the causes are, what the reasons are, what the ultimate goal of the individual soul is, and what the actual form of the individual soul is. One should also know the distinction between the individual living soul and the Supersoul, their different influences, their potentials, etc. One just has to understand this Bhagavad-gita directly from the description given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all this will be clarified. But one should be careful not to consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead in every body to be one with the individual soul, the jiva. This is something like equating the potent and the impotent.

Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Dinesh

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Bhagavad Gita - Song of God!

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Today is the most auspicious day when Lord Krishna spoke Bhagavad Gita 5000 years ago in the battlefield of Kurukshetra. This is the most favourite book in my life and also in the lives of many devotees. Especially Bhagavd Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada is the only one edition in the world which transformed the hearts of millions of readers and made them devotees of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna. Following are the images which are very famous for Bhagavad Gita!

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Supersoul Vs Conditioned Soul (Paramatma Vs Jivatma)

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This understanding is very essential for our progress in the path of self-realization as well as the realization of the Supreme. Because when we perform our actions, the mood with which we perform is monitored by the Supreme Lord seated within us. It's the bhava with which we perform. Whole heartedly, with love for Him, without any reservation. Again there are many today who say if we think of Him for a moment whole heartedly that is sufficient, I am not sympathising with those mundane people who claim themsleves to be of the same level as pure devotees.

Everything belongs to Him, we cannot offer Him or please Him by our endeavors. But when we act according to His desire(inclusive of the spiritual master's desire, which are the same in one sense), He can be pleased. The holy name chanted by a neophyte in Krishna Consciousness is thousands of times far better than that of an impersonalist or a Mayavadi.

The action, chanting the holyname is the same but with what understanding it's chanted is important. A neophyte ringing the bell in the temple of Krishna is extremely fortunate than a mayavadi who is engaged in his so-called service. When mayavadis sing, Krishna feels like pinching His hearts with Vajra. Krishna doesnt like to hear His names be chanted by mayavadis. A pure devotee can easily identify if Krishna is really present in the names chanted by a person.

Paramatma Vs Jivatma

S.No	Paramatma (Supersoul)	Jivatma(Conditioned Soul)
1	Param-atma refers to the Supreme Lord who expands Himself as the Supersoul and who enters into the hearts of all living entities as well as all the atoms. Thus param-atma is the localized aspect of the supreme, situated in everyone's heart as the transcendental witness.	Jiva-atma, or the individual soul, refers to the living entity which is embodied in a physical form, produced by material nature.
2	Conscious of all that pervades the entire cosmic manifestation	Conscious of only the minute part of the material elements into which the conditioned soul is trapped
3	The Supersoul acts as the neutral observer, witness, adviser, guide and friend of the individual soul	The Conditioned soul being envious of the Supreme Lord of His position enjoys or suffers the reactions of his good and bad actions entrapped in the 25 material elements
4	The Supreme Lord has unlimited energies that pervade the Cosmic manifestation	The Conditioned soul being infinitsimal part of the Lord also wants to become Isvara but his position is very minute and is always dependent on the energies of the Supreme Lord. Can never act on his own.
5	The Supreme Lord is the creator and controller	The living entities are the created and controlled. They are controlled by either the external or internal energy of the Lord
6	The Supreme Lord remains Supreme Lord at all times and never gets covered by illusory energy. If so there's no point in listening His words in the Bhagavad Gita and in that case the material nature or the illusory energy becomes greater than the Lord., which is baseless.	The living entities can never become equal to the Supreme Lord by any mystic yoga practice or any other means.
7	Outside the body of the conditioned soul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead remains as the time factor.	The conditioned souls are controlled by the Supreme Lord by the time factor. No one can escape from the clutches of Time which is Krishna. Time takes away everything. But can control even Krishna by pure devotional service. When the conditioned souls get back Home(Godhead), they surpass the time and live eternally without any problems.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder

Srimad Bhagavatam - 3.28.16-17

TRANSLATION

His loins are encircled by a girdle, He stands on the lotus of His devotee's heart. He is most charming to look at, and His serene aspect gladdens the eyes and souls of the devotees who behold Him. The Lordis eternally very beautiful, and He is worshipable by all the inhabitants of every planet. He is ever youthful and always eager to bestow His blessing upon His devotees.PURPORTThe word darśanīyatamam, which is used in this verse, means that the Lord is so beautiful that the devotee-yogī does not wish to see anything else. His desire to see beautiful objects is completely satisfied by the sight of the Lord. In the material world we want to see beauty, but the desire is never satisfied. Because of material contamination, all the propensities we feel in the material world are ever unsatisfied. But when our desires to see, hear, touch, etc., are dovetailed for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,they are on the level of the topmost perfection.Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His eternal form is so beautiful and pleasing to the heart of the devotee, He does not attract the impersonalists, who want to meditate on His impersonal aspect. Such impersonal meditation is simply fruitless labor.

The actual yogīs, with half-closed eyes, fix on the form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not upon anything void or impersonal.The word sarva-loka-namaskṛtam means that He is worshipable by everyone on every planet. There are innumerable planets in the material world and innumerable planets in the spiritual world as well. On each planet there are innumerable inhabitants who worship the Lord, for the Lord is worshipable by all but the impersonalists.

The Supreme Lord is very beautiful. The word śaśvat is significant. It is not that He appears beautiful to the devotees but is ultimately impersonal. Śaśvat means "ever existing." That beauty is not temporary. It is ever existing — He is always youthful. In the Brahma-saḿhitā (5.33) it is also stated: advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaḿ purāṇa-puruṣaḿ nava-yauvanaḿ ca. The original person is one without a second, yet He never appears old; He always appears as ever fresh as a blooming youth.The Lord's facial expression always indicates that He is ready to show favor and benediction to the devotees; for the nondevotees, however, He is silent. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā, although He acts equally toeveryone because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and because all living entities are His sons, He is especially inclined to those engaged in devotional service. The same fact is confirmed here: He isalways anxious to show favor to the devotees. Just as the devotees are always eager to render service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord is also very eager to bestow benediction upon the pure devotees

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We are prisoners of our own desire!

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We are prisoners of our own desire!
Desire is the constant companion of the living entity. It's never
possible to become desireless. To become desireless itself is a
desire. Every action we perform has a desire behind which is to reap
the results. Desire to enjoy separately from the will of the Lord is
the sin that separates us from God and takes us far from Godly
qualities.
We are constantly monitored by the agents of higher authorities who
are designated to carry out the work as per the order of the Supreme
Lord.

Actions that are inline with the revealed scriptures yield good
results and gradually takes one to higher levels of consciousness

Actions that are against the laws of nature bring misery to the actor
and also to those involved in the action,

Therefore first thing we have to understand is we are accountable for
our every single action. Just like there are state laws governed by
the authorities,there are laws of nature which work behind our eyes.
These laws of nature are code of conduct for human beings provided in
the scriptures-word of God.

When Arjuna asks Krishna that what is the position of an unsuccessful
transcendentalist. Is he not going to loose both material and
Spiritual result and get lost like a riven cloud with no position in
any sphere? Krishna says,"One who does good My friend is never
overcome by evil. Such a person will enjoy heavenly happiness in the
higher planets and after that takes birth in a family of
transcendentalists or aristocrats. Certainly such a soul is very
rare."

It depends on the gravity of our devotion when we performed Devotional
Service to Krishna.

Our desires should be dovetailed in such a way that the results are
favourable to our devotion to Krishna or the actions of our desires
should be pleasing to Krishna.

When our desires are not pure we think we are the enjoyers of all that
we survey. And it's because everything belongs to Krishna,when we use
it for our enjoyment without acknowledging Him,we are thieves and
then we become prisoners bound by our own desires. When we consider
everything for us it's material desire but when it's for Krishna it's
Spiritual desire.

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Dinesh
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