Replying to LO29087 --
Hi Dan
I just loved reading your pieceon forgiveness .How true yet we seldom
use it !
I'm from India and the Indian culture propagates forgiveness and
meditation as a guide to mental and spiritual health in countless
epics and mythological stories .
You may have heard of The Bhagavad-gita which is universally renowned
as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom. Spoken by Lord Krishna, one
of the Supreme Gods ( We have countless of them and you may not truely
be able to fathom how and why people worship them and it will take up
too much of time to explain this ) to his favourite disciple Arjuna,
the Gita's seven hundred concise verses provide a definitive guide to
the science of self realization , of consciousnessand self awareness .
From time immemorial , this epic has been used by many to reach a
heightened sense of awareness . You can find countless examples of
forgiveness for good in it . To quote one of them ,
sanjaya uvaca
tam tatha krpayavistam
asru-purnakuleksanam
visidantam idam vakyam
uvaca madhusudanah
SYNONYMS
sanjayah uvaca--Sanjaya said; tam--unto Arjuna; tatha--thus;
krpaya--by compassion; avistam--overwhelmed; asru-purna--full of
tears; akula--depressed; iksanam--eyes; visidantam--lamenting;
idam--this; vakyam--words; uvaca--said; madhu-sudanah--the killer of
Madhu.
TRANSLATION
Sanjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his
eyes brimming with tears, Madhusudana, Krsna, spoke the following
words.
PURPORT
Material compassion, lamentation and tears are all signs of ignorance
of the real self. Compassion for the eternal soul is self-realization.
The word "Madhusudana" is significant in this verse. Lord Krsna killed
the demon Madhu, and now Arjuna wanted Krsna to kill the demon of
misunderstanding that had overtaken him in the discharge of his duty.
No one knows where compassion should be applied. Compassion for the
dress of a drowning man is senseless. A man fallen in the ocean of
nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress--the
gross material body. One who does not know this and laments for the
outward dress is called a sudra, or one who laments unnecessarily.
Arjuna was a ksatriya, and this conduct was not expected from him.
Lord Krsna, however, can dissipate the lamentation of the ignorant
man, and for this purpose the Bhagavad-gita was sung by Him. This
chapter in! ! ! ! structs us in self-realization by an analytical
study of the material body and the spirit soul, as explained by the
supreme authority, Lord Sri Krsna. This realization is made possible
by working with the fruitive being situated in the fixed conception of
the real self.
Interested in learning more ?
Do check out www.asitis.com
It has the English Translation of the complete works written in a very
user friendly style ....
Bye and Happy hunting
Regds
Suneeta
--"suneeta mishra" <suneeta_mishra@hotmail.com>
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