PHRASES IN THE GITA - 99

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PHRASES IN THE GITA - 99

सदसच्चाहम्  ।  (अध्याय ९ - श्लोक १९)
ஸதஸச்சாஹம்  ...  (அத்யாயம் 9 - ஶ்லோகம் 19)
Sadasachchaaham  ...  (Chapter 9 - Shloka 19)

Meaning :  Real and Virtual ,Truth and Untruth , Existence and destruction ...  Both are Me .

Vedas contain elaboration by humans (the Rshis) on Him , the Paramaatman , while the Gita contains hints by Himself about Himself .  He answers to all possible questions that could possibly arise in human minds (Arjuna's mind) .

Wife cooks and feeds .  She prepares tasty food .  One of the days the food is in a different taste with less or more salt or chilly or is over or under cooked .  Should that call for arguments and fight ?  Tasty food and food of a different taste were both prepared by the one and same wife .

A rose plant gives daily beautiful roses with pleasant smell .  We pluck the flowers , offer at  the feet of God and experience bliss .  One of the days , a thorn pricks the hand plucking the flower .  Is anger justified ?  The plant gave pleasurable experience through its flowers .  It is the same plant which gives unpleasant and painful experience through its thorns .

Felicitation , Reception , Appreciation , Honour received while occupying a prominent position are pleasant to the mind .  Age , difference of opinion , change in political field , misconduct , mistakes may cause loss of the position or the same position offers abuses , insults and other unpleasant experiences .  The same position was the cause of both the contradicting experiences .

Listen to the words of Classius Clay , the Boxing champion .  "If you cry in practice sessions , you can laugh on contest rings .  Otherwise , you'll have to cry in the ring" .  The one and the same wrestling is the source of your crying and laughing .

The problem is not in wife or rose plant or position or wrestling .  The problem is with the person concerned .  He wants food to his liking .  He wants flower and the pleasantness that comes with it .  He wants appreciation , praise , honour and every other elating experience .  He hates unpleasantness everywhere .  He hates the bitter ones .  He refuses to see and accept that source for both is One and the Same .  He is surprised and shocked when forced to know this .

Creation is His .  He is the Creation .  Everything in Creation is Him and only Him .He is the Breeze .  He is the storm as well .  He is the drizzle .  He is the hailstorm as well .  He is the 'pleasant' and 'beautiful' morning sky .  He is the hot , scorching mid noon sky too .  He is the Spring .  Seemingly lifeless Autumn is also Him .  He is the green and lively pastures .  He is the dreaded desert too .  He is the playful waves in the sea .  The same He is killing cyclone and Tsunami .  He is the luring flower in a plant .  He also is the pricking thorn in the same plant .  He is the Life .  He is the death too .  It is His Creation and everything in it is Him .

The problem is not elsewhere .  The problem is in us .  We desire one and reject the other .  We assign marks to His creation and classify those as Favourable - Unfavourable , Sweet - Bitter ,  Comfortable - Painful , Pleasant - Unpleasant , Likeable - Horrible etc . etc .How could the One who created first types also create second types too" ? we wonder .  We refuse to accept that the opposites , contrasts could not have been created by One and the Same .  Christianity and Islam have designated two powers as the cause of these .  According to these faiths , God is the cause of the first type and Devil or Shaitaan (Satan) of the second type .

Shri Krishna says here , "No .  .  I am Sat and I am Asat too .  Divine is Me and the inert material too is Me .  Real is Me and the unreal or virual is also Me .  Both are My Creation .  Both are Myself" .