PATH OF LIBERATION AND RENUNCIATION,
VERSE LIB 36
GIST
Oh the Greatest of the Bharata Clan! Listen now the three types of comforts:- The experience which in course of practice and review becomes comfortable, which frees itself from the pangs of the family and the mundanus.
BLOGGER'S VIEW
In verses 37, 38 and 39 the Satva (Tolerance while being strong), Rajas (Very active, but excitable) and Tamas (Ignorant and dormant, a stage of darkness) comforts have been discussed. These three verses are some of the best verses of Gita.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
The number of qualities is more than three i.e. infinite (Not only satva, rajas, tamas). Besides, a person may possess all the three qualities at the same time in different proportions. This proportion will vary from moment to moment. For example, visualise Krishna with discus in his hand leaping on the Grand shire Bhishma in Mahabharata war, because Arjuna was unable to fight Bhishma. In that moment Krishna shifted from Satva to Rajas. Thus the satva, rajas and tamas are emotional states. When compounded and mixed with awareness and self-realisation, the emotions move from one transcendental level to another transcendental level. If we treat tamas as the lowest in the ladder and satva as the highest, the movement will be upward.
OBSERVATION
Gita made a bold and creative attempt to classify emotional states of people. But the contours of Gita's classification are limited. Only super computers can classify and analyse the billions of emotional states of individuals, if data is fed to them by psychologists/psychiatrists/researchers, which science may do oneday.
AADHYAAYA 18,
MOOKSHA SANYAASA YOOGA
S`LOOKA: MSY 36
Sukham tv idaaniim trividham
s`run`u mee bharatarshabha
Abhyaasaad ramatee yatra
du:khaamtam ca nigachchhati.
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