There is no escape from action…….!!!!!

Bhagavad Gita sings:

Man neither attains to the final state of actionlessness
by
desisting from work,
nor does he achieve Godlike perfection
by
just renunciation of work.
There is no escape from action.

A man cannot achieve the state of actionlessness by not commencing work, nor can he attain to the state of divine perfection by merely giving up an
undertaken task.

Usually, at this point, seekers on the way to God begin to look for shortcuts and escapes. We have to be on our guard against the common misconception that we become “selfless doers” just because
we do not undertake any work.

One does not achieve the state of actionlessness by just not beginning work. The point where both good and evil deeds cease completely, where alone there is true “actionlessness,”can be reached only through action.

No person can ever even for a fraction of a second live without action because the three properties of matter born from nature compel him to act. As long as nature and its properties are, no man can be
without action.

All actions cease to be and dissolve into the most exalted knowledge: the knowledge obtained from meditation on the sublime truths which teach man to be aware of his own Self and how he may be
reunited with the Supreme Spirit.

The fire of this knowledge annihilates all action.Action ceases to be when yog has gone beyond the three properties of the material world, and when a clear outcome of the meditative process comes forth in the form of a direct perception of as well as dissolution of the Self in God.

But before this completion of the ordained task, action does not end and
we are not rid of it.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

 As expounded by most revered Gurudev. 

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“Knowledge” and “Ignorance” as preached in Bhagavad Gita..!!!

Sings Bhagavad Gita:

Absence of pride and arrogant conduct,
disinclination to do injury to anyone,
forgiveness,
integrity of thought and speech,
devoted service to the enlightened master,
outward as well as inner purity,
moral firmness,
restraint of the body along with the mind and senses,
detachment from son, wife, home and the like,
freedom from infatuation,
bearing with both the pleasant and the unpleasant with equanimity,
unswerving devotion to God with a single-minded concern for yog,
fondness of living in sequestered places,
distaste for human society,
constantly resting in the awareness that is called adhyatm
and perception of the Supreme Spirit who is the end of realization
of truth
are all knowledge
and
whatever is contrary to them is ignorance.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

 As expounded by most revered Gurudev. 

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Degradation of the Self is hell; and lust, anger and greed are the three chief gateways to it…!!!

Bhagavad Gita sings:

People’s disposition is of two kinds, the pious and the impious.
A person is godly if there is an abundance of the divine impulses in him, but is devilish if he/she teems with vices.
Wherever they are born and whatever names they are known by, people cannot but belong to one of these two classes.

Persons with unrighteous predilections have no inkling of how to undertake action that is worth doing, nor of how to abstain from that which is unworthy. Since they have not undertaken action, there is in them neither truth nor purity, nor the right conduct.

According to them the world has neither any shelter nor God, and is just mechanically generated by carnal intercourse. So, indulgence is their ultimate goal, for there is nothing beyond it for them. Such a delusion was common in all ages. In fact, it has always existed.

The human psyche is subject to the rise and ebb of divine and devilish instincts. Degradation of the Self is hell; and lust, anger and greed are the three chief gateways to it. These are the three bases of demoniacal tendencies. Only a renunciation of these three marks the commencement of the action,that action which is named as ordained action and which liberates us from dire terror of death and birth cycles.

Lust, anger, and greed appear even more tempting to those who are the more intensely absorbed in worldly affairs or even in decorous fulfillment of social obligations. Truly, therefore, only by eschewing these three does one gain admittance to the ordained action.

So the injunction is, to undertake only the unique action,the ordained action if some one really wants complete liberation from all sorts of pains and shackle of birth and death cycle.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]


As expounded by most revered Gurudev. 

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“Seek refuge with all your heart, O Bharat, in that God by whose grace you will attain to repose and the everlasting, ultimate bliss”…..!!!

Bhagavad Gita sings:

īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṁ hṛddeśe’rjuna tiṣṭhati
bhrāmayansarvabhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā

tameva śaraṇaṁ gaccha sarvabhāvena bhārata
tatprasādātparāṁ śāntiṁ sthānaṁ prāpsyasi śāśvatam

“Propelling all living things that bestride a body-which is but a contrivance-by his maya,
O Arjun,
God abides in the hearts of all beings.
Seek refuge with all your heart,
O Bharat,
in
that God by whose grace you will attain to repose and the everlasting, ultimate bliss.”

As expounded by most revered Gurudev 

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“I myself protect the yog of men who abide in me with steady and undeviating faith”……!!!

Bhagavad Gita sings:

अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते।
तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥

ananyāścintayanto mām ye janāh paryupāsate
tesām nityābhiyuktānām yogaksemam vahāmyaham

“I myself protect the yog of men who abide in me with steady and undeviating faith and who worship me selflessly, constantly remembering me as God.”

Sri Krishn himself bears the burden of the ardent worshipper’s progress along the path of yog. He takes upon himself the responsibility for the protection of his yog.

As expounded by most revered Gurudev 

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God is also the bestower of enjoyment of worldly pleasures….!!!

 Bhagavad Gita sings:

स तया श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्याराधनमीहते
लभते च ततः कामान्मयैवः विहितान्हितान्

sa tayā śraddhayā yuktastasyārādhanamīhate
labhate ca tatah kāmānmayaivah vihitānhitān

“Possessing this strengthened faith, the worshipper devotes himself to his chosen deity with devotion and, through this undoubtedly achieves the enjoyment of desired pleasures which are also appointed by my laws.”
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Possessed of faith that is propped up by God, the desire – ridden worshipper devotes himself with renewed vigour to the adoration of some unworthy gods, but surprisingly he too is rewarded with the desired satisfaction. But this satisfaction is also a gift from God. So God is also the bestower of enjoyment of worldly pleasures. Mean pleasure rather than divine bliss is the reward for those who worship other gods for satisfaction of their desires. But in a way they are rewarded. So there seems apparently nothing wrong with this form of worship. However, this is what Sri Krishn has to say on the question in next verse.

Sri Krishna adds:

अन्तवत्तु फलं तेषां तद्भवत्यल्पमेधसाम्।
देवान्देवयजो यान्ति मद्भक्ता यान्ति मामपि

antavattu phalam tesām tadbhavatyalpamedhasām
devāndevayajo yānti madbhaktā yānti māmapi

“But the rewards of these deluded men are finite because they only attain to the gods they worship, whereas the man who worships me howsoever he does it -realizes me.’’

The prizes won by these ignorant men are destructible. They are impermanent because they are worldly pleasures which have a beginning and an end.

The pleasures that are with us today slip away from us tomorrow. Men who worship other gods acquire powers that are themselves perishable. The whole world, from the level of divinities to that of the lowest creatures, is mutable and subject to death. On the contrary, the man who worships God attains to him and so to the ineffable peace that descends on the Soul after he is united with God.

Yogeshwar Krishn had exhorted Arjun to foster gods, that is pious impulses, through the observance of yagya. Good fortune accrues from an increase and strengthening of these riches. And ultimately, with gradual progress, there is the attaintment of perception and supreme peace. In this context ‘‘gods’’ represent forces of piety by which the divinity of God is secured. These godly impulses that have to be fostered are the means for salvation and their twenty-four attributes are enumerated in Chapter 16 of Bhagavad Gita.

The righteousness which garners the sanctity of God within the worshipper’s heart is named “god.” It was at the outset something internal, but with the passage of time people began to visualize these qualities in palpable forms.

Sri Krishn has attempted to refute the misconception about gods and goddesses. Naming “other gods”, he has emphatically said that they do not exist.Whenever faith declines or grows feeble, it is he who supports it and makes it firm, and it is also he who provides rewards for this faith. But these rewards are finite and perishable.

Fruits are destroyed, gods are destroyed, and worshippers of these gods are also destroyed. So only the ignorant who are lacking in discrimination worship other gods.

[Revered Swami Adgadanandji Paramhans]

As expounded by most revered Gurudev.

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