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Gita Chapter -2
Sankhya Yoga (Analysis by dissecting)
Continued.......
Arjuna curiously asked
what is the Ego that you are talking about and how is it possible to
transcend the Ego to know the imperishable, un-manifested, unthinkable and
unchangeable "Brahman", through which we can overcome suffering in
life?.
Krishna replied that to
transcend Ego one has to stop listening, acting and dancing to Ego's tunes.
Here in the battle field Arjuna was reluctant to fight just because he was
emotional and not using his intellect.
Ego is emotional and
holds on to the mind and not to the intellect.
Dur-yodhan who symbolize the Ego holds on to his father, Dritha-rastra
(mind) and makes him dance to his tunes. The Ego is always emotional because
it can easily control the mind.
Arjuna's Ego is like most of our Ego too, being emotional because of its
strong identification to the mind. The mind is ignorant about reality and
never listens to the rational intellect (Vidhura in Mahabharatha).
Krishna asks Arjuna to fight the war to set free from his identification
(Ego) to the emotional mind. Our emotional mind forsakes duty. Our mind is
lazy to do right actions at the right time. The Ego mind gets its power and
shadows the Unconditional-Consciousness our true nature.
To be duty bound is the best way to weaken the power of Ego. This is why
Krishna says" O Arjuna! do your duty. It is the duty of a warrior (Kshatriya)
to fight. There is nothing higher for a warrior than a righteous war.
Develop a balanced mind. Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss,
victory and defeat the same, engage thou in battle.
What is balanced
Mind?.
To keep the emotional mind and intellectual mind is balanced mind. Most of
the time the emotional mind dominates the intellectual mind. This leads to
problems. Using the intellectual mind, we have to understand that all
pleasures and pains, gain and loss, victory and defeat are part of life and
are based on nature's law. But the emotional mind does not like this law of
nature. The Ego through the emotional mind does not accept pain, defeat and
loses. So accepting pain, defeat and loss is to weaken the Ego and not
to give up doing actions. This is how generally we mis-understand
acceptance.
Acceptance is to weaken the Ego and its strong hold over the emotional mind.
Acceptance strengthens the intellectual mind and so brings a balanced mind.
Krishna says a person with such a
balanced mind is known as Sthithaprajna".
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