The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
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Author: AnonymousIntroduction: Simon Brodbeck
Translator: Juan Mascaro
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2003-02-25
ISBN: 0140449183
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Another Pointer Towards Ultmate Reality
Summary: 3 Stars
i have not read this book for about six months and so am going from memory. it is a jewel in the sense that it points towards mystical experience... the primary experience aimed for in hinduism would seem to be bliss.
each element has corresponding experiences. bliss is beautiful and highly stable, as is gold. however at heart bliss is cold, or numb. it has its role, it plays its function.
water is matched with balance and peace... the water of life. water soothes and levels, like air it is empty. empty of taste, flavour or colour, it is clear.
air is matched with freedom and as is water is a state of clarity and empty.
water is penetrated by gold, air is penetrated by fire. fire is the highest of the spiritual elements representing the emotion of love... warmth and burning.
one should not focus too much on the emptiness of air and water to the exclusion of the passions of love and beauty of gold.
each of the elements has a gender... the penetrated and the penetrators, and yet each element depends on the others for its presence. the obviously penetrating sometimes penetrated by that which is penetrated.
though the receivers are penetrated on an obvious level, on a subtle level the receivers penetrate the penetrators.
every element is interconnected and interdependent and yet discrete, unique in its own way. in some states an obviously male element may become
or be female. take earth for example. earth is penetrated... a womb for the seed, though plain and 'common', earth is most important and the female side of the gold/earth element. fire produces light, which penetrates darkness. the seed again into the womb. darkness is humble and receding. light penetrating and joyful.
it is not certain what the fith element is... some say it is the common 'i', others that it is pure awareness, but i tend to see air as being awareness, clear like the sky... the i however is an elusive subject.
in a sense the i, is like a cloud that penetrates the clarity of skys awareness. it can come and go, can be created and destroyed. though i have heard it said that the 'i' is indestructible, i know this not to be true.
anyway, enough musing... bliss is not everything.
as an aside, i think that 'consciousness' is a big word in hinduism, and so it should be. i have been looking at consicousness today, it should not be confused with perception, which requires judgement and thought. so consciousness...
in simplest terms is understood as 'this', i present here four formulations for the reader to consider, formulations of consciousness:
1. time + function + being.
2. life + truth + goodness.
3. truth + speed + understanding. (understanding/perception).
my favourite and simplest expression of consciousness is found in 4.
4. this + truth + life.
the only item that is not totally necessary for consciousness is time, but in temporal reality time is an important factor. we as humans however will one day go beyond the time dimension as it is. i think it is clear that unlike perception, consciousness is wholly a good thing, pure; whilst perception may be tainted by unhealthy judgement or emotion. consciousness is at the very root of our life/being. consciousness is in part direct truth and cannot exist without life/being. (my favourite definition of truth is 'this + that + love', my favourite definition of life is 'movement + function + attraction'). though i say that life is 'movement + function + attraction' this is on an obvious level, infact everything even the letters on this page are alive, even death is a form of life. you will notice however that the letters on this page are attracted towards each other, serve a function and encourage movement of the mind. therefore the letters are in symbiotic relationship with the mind of the reader!
i was just talking about consciousness with a doctor last week and we both felt that is is amazingly mundane, taken for granted. the plainest thing and yet most remarkable.
anyway, have a nice day.
love, snow-flake. xxx
Summary of The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul. Its three central themes-love, light, and life-arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in God.Translated by Juan Mascar?
Introduction by Simon Brodbeck
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