Bhagwad Geeta

Bhagwad Geeta

PLEASE LIKE Cow & Hinduism / Gau Mata ki Jai

PLEASE LIKE Cow & Hinduism / Gau Mata ki J

|| Faith and fate of men who perform austere penance - 1 ||
Arjuna said : Those , endowed with faith , who worship gods and others , disregarding the injunctions of the scriptures , where do they stand , Krishna ----in Sattva , Rajas or Tamas ? { 17 / 1 } . O Gracious Master , just as a child copies letters after seeing them in a lesson or a blind person goes behind one with good sight walking ahead , so they regard as authoritative , the conduct of persons proficient in all scriptures and follow their path in full faith . They perform the worship in great faith , of gods such as Lord Shiva , give liberal gifts of lands and perform sacrifices such as offering daily oblation to the fire { agnihotra } . Tell me , O Supreme Person , the fate of such persons , whether it is Sattvika , Rajasika or Tamasika. Then spoke Lord Krishna , the Lord of Vaikuntha, who is like pollen in the lotus in the form of the Vedas , in whose shade this universe subsists , who is Kala { Time } , endowed with great dignity and majesty and with power through which all virtues receive acclaim , who is one without a second , mysterious and blissful . The blessed Lord said :
That untutored innate faith of men is of three kinds ---Sattvika , Rajasika and Tamasika . Hear of it from Me { 17 / 2 } . Even if faith by itself is pure , it does not remain so , when it becomes a part of a being . For beings are , by nature , constituted by the three Gunas { triad of the nature } under the sway of beginning-less Maya { cosmic delusion } . When two of them become feeble and the third becomes strong , then the mental tendencies of a person follow the dominant Gun . The mind follows the tendencies , actions follow the mind , and then beings take birth , according to their past actions . The seed disintegrates and grows into a tree , and then the tree becomes stored in a seed after destruction . In this way even after a lapse of numerous epochs , the species of the tree does not become extinct . So even if beings undergo innumerable births , there is no change of the Gunas in their constitution . So whatever faith falls to the lot of beings , is formed according to these three Gunas . When the Sattva becomes dominant , it gives rise to knowledge , with the other two Gunas opposing it . The sattvika faith leads to liberation , but how could Rajas and Tamas remain quite ? When the Rajas quality becomes dominant overcoming Sattva , then this faith makes one clear the rubbish of actions . When the Tamas quality becomes inflamed , it transforms this faith in such a way , that it involves beings in undesirable sensuous enjoyments .
The faith of all men conforms to their mental disposition , Arjuna . Faith constitutes a man ; whatever the nature of his faith , verily he is that { 17 / 3 } . So O wise Arjuna , there is no faith in the assemblage of beings , which is independent of the Sattva , Rajas and Tamas , qualities . For this reason , faith too is three-fold , as it is constituted by the three Gunas in different proportions . When the Tamas quality becomes dominant , one gets born and dies again and again and his faith also takes the Tamas form . As there is nothing to choose between lamp-black and ink , so Tamasika faith is not different from the being . Likewise in the case of a Rajas-dominated person , the faith is of the Rajas quality and in the case of a Sattva-dominated person the faith is of Sattva quality . In this way , the whole world is cast in the mold of faith . The three kinds of faith are known by their different signs .
|| OM TAT SAT ||

 — with Abhishek Gupta, Uttam Ghosh, Narendra Dayma and Manju Zutshi.