People everywhere are degrading themselves from their status as children of eternity (amrita-putra) to that of children of futility (anrita-putra)! Holding nectar in their grasp, they are drinking the poison of sensual pleasure. Neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality of the universe, they are entangling themselves in the external trappings of this objective world of appearances. This immortal dharma (amrita-dharma) is described in the Upanishads, and since the Gita is the kernel of the Upanishads, the same is emphasized in the Gita too. The Gita teaches Arjuna to develop certain qualities that help the practice of the Atma Dharma(the righteousness that springs from the True Self). These are delineated in verses 13 to 20 of Chapter 12. The dharmic (righteous) way of life is like the very breath; it is the road to self-realization. Those who walk along it are dear to the Lord.
We are children of eternity (amrita-putra). If we talk about Swami's wisdom we should use his words, it takes care of that there are not too many misunderstandings. We can see where it leads about misunderstandings and if we ask a question what seemed a simple thing it was answered on the level of arguing and whatever that was to who are you to know?
Silence is still better than to argue about everything.
Why are we children of eternity? If we use Swami's words, he doesn't argue and it is no issue, we just have to get accustomed to it to use his words.
People everywhere are degrading themselves from their status as children of eternity (amrita-putra) to that of children of futility (anrita-putra)!
What do we think we are, a child of eternity or of futility, is there something to argue about?
It is not something we can argue about, either it is true or not true. If we are children of futility and we don't like it we can argue about it as much as we want, it will not change. If we have realized that we are children of eternity, we know too well than to argue about it.
People everywhere are degrading themselves from their status as children of eternity (amrita-putra) to that of children of futility (anrita-putra)!
Swami is telling us that people everywhere are degrading themselves from their statues as children of eternity to that of children of futility. That are Swami's words and the question is not our question, it is his question.
Automatically in reading it we have to ask ourselves are we children of eternity or of futility? If we know that the permanent being level doesn't change, it is non-changeable and if we think it over, it cannot transform into futility. It means the futility state is constantly changing, but the eternity state never. Therefore, they exist separate from each other.
If we think we are the mind, what is inner identification, if we think we are part of a family, we are in the mind, the truth or reality of 'I am that', the universal level, beyond family or if family it has to be the whole humanity, beyond differences and God is the father and mother, that is the message of oneness without a second one and if we think it over, it does make sense, doesn't it.
Something that doesn't change cannot get transformed, can't it? There is no use to argue about it, because arguing doesn't make it better and doesn't change, it just creates bad vibrations.
Holding nectar in their grasp, they are drinking the poison of sensual pleasure.
If we would know that we have the nectar in our grasp, would we drink the poison of sensual pleasures?
In his divine presence the nectar was at our grasp. The definition of illusion is looking for happiness at the wrong place and we go for it, expect something great and at the end we don't get what we were looking for, it is not the right level and it ends in deception, not in happiness, it is an illusion.
He talks about nectar, that is bliss, endless or never ending happiness, knowing that we are children of eternity, we should be always happy. If we are not always happy, we are for sure children of futility.
God we think, God we are, dust we think, dust we are. If we know the eternal, omnipresence reality of the lord we are God, but it is not enough to think God, we have to be it, as Swami said to our group in an interview, he has to be there always.
The higher self is such a non-changing level, always true and if we are the higher self, we are children of eternity and not children of futility, but it is beyond the body and the mind.
Neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality of the universe, they are entangling themselves in the external trappings of this objective world of appearances.
Neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality of the universe they are entangled in the objective world of appearances. How is the joy of contemplation neglected? Nobody is really contemplating the fundamental divine reality. It is not a feeling of love; it is contemplating the reality that we are degrading ourselves from the status of children of eternity to that of children of futility. Our focus is not on the divine reality, but somewhere else.
We have to understand it and how it happens and why and when and by what means we degrade ourselves to children of futility. If we keep silent do we look at it or neglect it? There is no use to argue about it, if we keep silent we are not in contemplation, we need words and even if written words, we need words for contemplation and there is no way we can get aware of the difference and how it happens in our own mind without thinking it over.
People everywhere are degrading themselves from their status as children of eternity (amrita-putra) to that of children of futility (anrita-putra)!
We don't need to argue about it, it is about truth and about truth we cannot argue. If we stay in silence we are neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality, because the mind is and the silence is silent, it is not contemplation.
There is nothing to argue about it, it is as it is and we have to accept truth, that is if we want to make the experience of pure love, we have to accept truth, but if we don't want the experience of pure love, it doesn't matter if we accept truth as it will not be true anyhow. If we accept truth, we also have to accept right action and do what we have to do and we have to understand peace and then we can make the experience of true love.
This immortal dharma (amrita-dharma) is described in the Upanishads, and since the Gita is the kernel of the Upanishads, the same is emphasized in the Gita too. The Gita teaches Arjuna to develop certain qualities that help the practice of the Atma Dharma(the righteousness that springs from the True Self). These are delineated in verses 13 to 20 of Chapter 12. The dharmic (righteous) way of life is like the very breath; it is the road to self-realization. Those who walk along it are dear to the Lord.
What is the immortal Dharma? We should look at the divine words and think it over again. Everywhere are people degrading themselves, our real status is divine and we make something futile out of it.
We have the nectar in our grasp, but we drink the poison of sensual pleasures, it is poison, because it is killing us.
If we don't know that we are eternal beings, we automatically drink the poison of sensual pleasures, because we think we are children of futility.
What are these people doing? They are neglecting the joy of contemplation.
What are we doing in a study circle, we contemplate the words of the lord and we see it in our own life and if we have no people participating, we are neglecting the joy of contemplation and here even details. He tells us how and in what books we can contemplate the fundamental divine reality of the universe and he calls it the immortal Dharma.
Are we in the immortal or in the mortal Dharma, is our activity directed towards contemplation of the fundamental divine reality or is our activity focused on the parts and the mind reality? What is our duty, divine and immortal in being children of eternity or is our duty only part of the whole and not divine and that of children of futility?
People everywhere are degrading themselves from their status as children of eternity (amrita-putra) to that of children of futility (anrita-putra)! Holding nectar in their grasp, they are drinking the poison of sensual pleasure. Neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality of the universe, they are entangling themselves in the external trappings of this objective world of appearances.
Dharma is right action, immortal divine action as described in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, the kernel of the Upanishads. We learn something listening to it, we learn that we have the teaching of the Gita in the Upanishads and that it is the same, no difference, it means it is enough if we study the Gita.
This immortal dharma (amrita-dharma) is described in the Upanishads, and since the Gita is the kernel of the Upanishads, the same is emphasized in the Gita too.
Do you know the Gita, did you read it or try to read it and I did, but Swami explains it and that makes it easier to understand.
So we do know why he is talking about it or do we nonsensically not even have an idea about it, but we think we are entitled to tell that it is all easy and we just need to do nothing at all and relax and stay in silence and it is all done and by that we just hide behind the appearances, that nobody can tell us that we don't live truth, because we actually don't want to know?
What is truth as we have to accept truth? There is no reason to argue about it, either we avoid truth and don't want to know or we accept truth, but avoiding it will not lead to 'pure love' and it cannot be sharing human values.
The Gita teaches Arjuna to develop certain qualities that help the practice of the Atma Dharma(the righteousness that springs from the True Self). These are delineated in verses 13 to 20 of Chapter 12. The dharmic (righteous) way of life is like the very breath; it is the road to self-realization. Those who walk along it are dear to the Lord.
And Swami tells us here even what verses we have to look at from 13 to 20 of Chapter 12.
We can google it, also the Bhagavad Gita. We can google everything and we will find the verses 13 to 20 of the Gita in Chapter 12 and we can think it over.
If that is what he is telling us about neglecting the joy of contemplation of the fundamental divine reality, as it is in the Gita, it is in his words as well, we cannot go on in silence, we have to contemplate and use words and think it over as we do it with Swami's words and that is the joy of contemplation.
It has nothing to do with 'love Swami' and feel love, it has something to do with accepting truth and if we accept truth we have to accept right action and we have to understand peace and only if we have those three things, truth, right action and peace, we are able to make the experience of 'pure love'.
And in such a way he is telling us that it is a divine Dharma, our duty if we are children of the eternal and if we are children of futility we don't care about a divine duty even if we also talk about duty. There is no room for argumentation as it is about truth only, we have to accept truth, it is no use to argue about it.
The dharmic (righteous) way of life is like the very breath; it is the road to self-realization. Those who walk along it are dear to the Lord.
It is the road to self-realization, there is no way to get to our own self and realize it if we are children of futility and on a not permanent level, but futile and temporary and there is a beginning and an end and we should know the difference to eternity, if there is change, there is no eternity …, changing and non-changing values are not the same.
If it is about self-realization we are children of eternity. If we are not children of eternity it is all illusion and dream anyhow. If it is not appreciated and the contemplation is neglected and even misunderstood and instead of seeing it as that what it is, we see not only no value, but we argue about it and find faults, it means we are anyhow children of futility, no child of eternity would react in such a manner and if we don't care, we are children of futility and it is all a dream world only, it is about what we would like to be, but nothing is real and eternal and not what we really are and we have to accept truth that we are children of futility.
Those who walk along it are dear to the Lord.
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