Battlefield and Impersonal Law

We always think in terms of human relationship. It is well-known that we argue in this manner.

This is the subject of the first chapter of the Bhagavadgita, where the whole social structure is taken as the stand for the argument in connection with any action to be taken under a particular situation, and taking Arjuna as the symbol of mankind, the epic of the Mahabharata in its gospel of the Bhagavadgita tells us how we think as individuals.

We are faced with a warring situation and our activities in daily life are our efforts to face the battle.

The work that we do in our office, the labour that we put forth in a factory, or any other work that we do in any walk of life, is the effort we put forth to resolve a conflict and solve a situation.
 

: Bhagavadgita - Battlefield
 

That is how we should look at the Bhagavadgita. The first chapter is about relationship and we all have those relationship issues.
If we see it in that light we find our personal story in it. And it explains why Baba asked in the interview, what is your relationship?

It is a main focus, a main issue.

If we read the Bhagavadgita without that inner connection, we just read it, but we will not be able to get the hidden meaning in it.  

And I guess we have here the answer about job and job issues, it is the battlefield, our battlefield and that does makes sense, doesn't it? It is not just about job, it is about hidden answers.

We are in a certain situation. And it seems it is a war and we try to balance it, to see it between the outer influence and the inner sight and we look at it in the light of reason and with the justice of the universe and it is not just about making happy, it is much more, it is about the next step and about forgetting nothing to not mix with his will, to not interfere. I guess now I understand why you said that we should not interfere, whatsoever.

 

But we do not always do it properly, and so a factory worker need not be happy, and an office-goer need not be satisfied. Our activities need not bring us happiness: We stoop down to the state of utter hopelessness and wretchedness, because we have not found time to walk with the light of reason and the justice of the universe. We cannot see this law with our eyes, just as we cannot see a government for instance. Anything that is impersonal cannot be seen with the eyes.

 

It is definitely not about happiness, it is about inner balance and about the right thing, the the right message. We cannot see it, because it is on an impersonal Level. How do we know it? 
The way is self-inquiry. We don't see the law, so we question it and inquire.

 

We cannot see even money, we see a piece of paper called a note or a metal piece called coin, but money is something different. It is a value that is imbedded in the symbol called note or coin and that value cannot be seen with the eyes.

The higher law is an impersonal operation and, therefore, it is not an object of the senses. Inasmuch as we are depending on the senses for our achievement and judgement of things, we are unable to take advantage of the existence of impersonal powers, reason and insight.

 

The problem is between the impersonal operation level and the fact that we depend on the senses for our judgement of things, even if they are on an impersonal level, so how do understand that? 
The way is self-inquiry. We watch and observe and go through up and downs and stay in the observer.

  

Arjuna was in this condition. He was thinking in terms of his relationships with people, as a son of so-and-so, a nephew, etc., with ulterior motives behind.

Even as we gird up our loins to do something very vigorously everyday, Arjuna got ready to embark upon a war.

'We shall do this,' is our determination in the early morning of the day. So was the contemplation in the mind of Arjuna, and all people on his side. They decided that certain steps were to be taken, and the decision was complete.

There was a necessity to implement the decision. This implementation of the decision is the entering into the field of battle. This is also the entering of ourselves into the field of the practice of yoga, towards which the Bhagavadgita will take us.

 

Our senses are objective and the same our thoughts, they are all objects. Subjectivity is only in the observer.
There is an impersonal operation, but we get it in our senses. That is the only way we can experience it. The question is, when is it impersonal law and when can we perceive it?
The holy scriptures give the answer, it is said that it is just the mirror of the impersonal law. Therefore, we have to look a the sense impressions and instead of getting identified with it, we look at it as a reflection in the mirror.
And looking in the mirror we see things topsy-turvy, it is upside down, therefore, to understand it right we have to use self-inquiry, after we went through all possibilities, we find what is essential and what is left and what is the law for everybody - we get to the universal level and find - truth. 
There is only one truth when it is the universal level and that truth has to be realized or understood. Quite sure it that it is not just present, truth is hidden, it is not on the surface and in our thoughts, it is behind the puzzle of our being and all the impressions together.
It is a question of finding it.