The Gist of Gita

                                                                             || Shri Hari ||

The Gist of Gita

       
(Gita ka Taatparya)

 

 

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Let us say that some gentleman is cooking for himself, and suddenly an ascetics comes and asks for some food,  and that gentleman gives him food with great love, then that food is very pure.  However,  if that gentleman has already put food on his place,  then that food does not remain very pure, because the sentiments are - “I am about
to eat”.   Now if that ascetic arrives, then there is a slight hesitation in giving him the food, and even the ascetic is hesitant in taking it.  Then too the ascetic can take a little bit.  However if the gentleman already sat down to eat, and he is ready to place a morsel in his mouth, then that food is not as pure as before.  Now if that morsel is already placed in the mouth then it becomes impure and can be regarded as waste.  Now if the gentleman takes that morsel and chews it,  then (for us to take from that food) is extremely impure.   If for some reason he throws up, then that food is dangerously impure.  If one does not vomit,  and after digesting when the that food turns into waste matter, it is very impure and dirty.  But on the next day if the man goes to the forest and releases that waste which mixes with the soil,  and over time with rain, heat and air, it automatically blends with the soil and becomes soil itself, then this becomes so pure that one does not even see a trace of filth that was released !     That soil can even clean other things (scrubbing some utensils etc).  This is the glories of renunciation and sacrifice ! 

In this manner,  by cooking food for ourselves and eating it, the pure thing also becomes extremely impure and by renouncing it, even a grossly impure thing (urine-feces) also becomes pure.   Therefore the things that we selfishly regards as for me and for us,  those things we make impure.  The reason being that the things of the world are for everyone,  everyone has part ownership in it.    Gita says -  

"Bhunjate te tvadham paapaa ye pachantyaatmakaaranaat"  (Gita 3/13). 

He who prepares a meal only for himself and eats it, is a sinner that devours sins.  

Whatever we have with us, it is for everyone,  not just for us -  by having such a generous disposition, one can get much peace.   On cooking food,  if some hungry person arrives,  an ascetic comes,  a dog comes etc,  then according to our capacity,  we must also give them.   If they ask for all the food, then you can tell them that “brother, how can I give it all, I too need to eat some,  you take your share!”   We can certainly feed others,  but we can never satisfy their desires - 

यत् पृथिव्यां व्रीहियवं हिरण्यं पशवः स्त्रियः ।

न दुह्यन्ति मनःप्रीतिं    पुंसः कामहतस्य ते ॥

                                               (श्रीमद्भा॰ ९/१९/१३)

"Yat prithvyaam vreehiyavam hiranyam pashavah striyah;  ne duhiyanti manahpreetim punsah kaamahatasya te." (Srimad Bhagavat 9:19:13)

"As much grains, gold, beings and women, all in all combined will be unable to satisfy that man who is stricken and attacked by desire and longing for enjoyment and pleasures."

   (to be continued)

From book in Hindi "Jit Dekhu Tit Tu"  by Swami Ramsukhdasji. 

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