Not deriving any benefit

Not deriving any benefit: Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that very few try to know Him. And among those who strive to know Him, few understand Him. “I am the means and the end,” says Krishna. “There is nothing higher than Me. There...


NOT DERIVING ANY BENEFIT*
Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that very few try to know Him. And among those who strive to know Him, few understand Him. “I am the means and the end,” says Krishna. “There is nothing higher than Me. There is none superior to Me.”
The Lord clarifies to Arjuna, that all animate and inanimate things are like gems strung on a thread, the thread here being the Lord Himself. Just as one string holds all the beads together, so does the Lord uphold the entire universe. Once beads have been strung together, the string is no longer visible.
But that does not mean that the string is not there, or that it is inferior to the beads, explained Valayapet Ramachariar in a discourse.
However, while the string is present only inside the beads, the Lord is present in all of us and outside us too. To clarify things to Arjuna further, the Lord says in the next verses, that He is the One who imparts to water its special quality; He is the light that the Sun and Moon emit; He is the sacred Pranava; He is the burning nature of fire; He is the One who sustains all living things: He is the intelligence of the intelligent; He is the strength of the mighty. All entities constitute His body.
And now the Lord says, “But I am not in them.” This may seem contradictory, but is not. What is meant is that the Lord derives no benefit from these entities that are His body.


The atma derives some pleasures because of the body, like the pleasure of eating, for example. But the Lord gets no benefits from what constitutes His body. Creating and dissolving the world are just a sport to Him."

*Source: The Hindu daily.
We are passing through a phase in history of India which we can call 'The curning phase' as far as faith and values are concerned. Just as I oppose consistently the enforcement of ownership right by GOI on public sector resources, instead of regulating management for the benefit of the real owners (THE PEOPLE), I find several undesirable interpretations when it comes to scriptures. The Indian philosophy need not be considered 'INDIAN' just because it had its roots in India (The BHARATH VARSHA was a much larger geographical area in ancient times, thatis incidental). 

M G Warrier

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