Chapter XIII - Yoga of the body ( Kshetra) and the jeevathma ( individual soul , Kshetrajna )
Our Lord SriKrishna , in this chapter, clearly draws a border, on the difference between a body(field,Kshetra) and the knower of the field ( Kshetrajna). Our body is a mere physical case to enshrine our brilliant dazzling mini micro atomic soul. The purpose of our body ends with offering protection to the soul, just like our clothes protect our self respect.
The duty of our soul, begins immediately ,after getting a cover, our soul has to constantly , as an ever ongoing process , eternally serve our Lord SriKrishna by meticulously including our Lord in all our activities , no matter how miniscule .
Our soul has to perform all the duties as per its karmic injunctions but with detachment (Nishkaama karma).
We have to keep on fulfilling all our worldly duties non stop , but without any attachment. It may sound quite difficult for the beginner's but over the passage of time , this sovereign science and secret imparted by our Lord SriKrishna is the simplest for in this path our Lord SriKrishna carries all our burden.
Our only duty is merrily singing our lord's immense glories, offering him prasadam( food ), vastram ( holy attire ) , theertham ( water ) , purest incense sticks and sandal paste , pretty scented flowers etc. Loving voluntary eternal service to our Lord SriGovinda is all that we need to do.
All this does not take more than few moments but the gift for this loving service can never be measured for our Lord will shower in bountiful his choicest mercy , grace and benediction. Failing to understand this simplest of simple principle , caught between the material ,we keep madly running from person to person to rescue us. How can they save us when they themselves are painfully stuck in the never ending samsaric ocean.
Why plead the mere mortals for our livelihood when our most beloved Lord SriKrishna is waiting anxiously to treat us as the royal most prince , princess , queen or King?.Why accept something inferior from some worthless mortal who will seek so many unpleasant favours from us thereby ruling and ruining us?
Whilst worshipping our Lord SriKrishna, we have to at all times, offer our most respectful salutations to our most beloved cosmic mother our dearest Sri Mahalakshmi Amma (Sri Radha Amma )
We should always bow our head to both our cosmic master SriKrishna and our cosmic mother Sri Mahalakshmi Amma as one greatest cosmic force , both are Parmaatman and inseparable. Our cosmic mother permanently resides in the divine most lotus heart of our Lord SriKrishna and our place too is well in advance decided , the most holiest of holy lotus feet of our Lord SriKrishna, very safely and comfortably we can live with the greatest joy and peace.
Our cosmic mother is daya devi ( ocean of compassion), without her divine most intervention, we cannot even dream of earning the mercy of our Lord SriKrishna, for our Lord acts fully under the gentle control of our cosmic mother. We can reach our Lord only if our mother approves.
The five elements, our indriyams and the karmeindriyams ( our senses ), ego, intellect, mind etc are body oriented . Similarly kindness,detachment, silence, meditation , yoga, empathy , truth etc are the traits of our soul.
Our body is the actual temple,our soul ( antaryaami ) is our Lord SriKrishna in micro atomic size. Our Lord SriKrishna residing in each of our hearts captures all our thoughts, actions and at all times tries to save us from committing gravest sins , provided we surrender and listen to his voice. If we fail to obey the commands of our antaryaami, the effects are disastrous,once again stuck in the speeding cruelest wheels of life and death.
I , me and myself has to be shunned from the roots , over attachment to wife, children and family to be totally avoided, yes one has to, lovingly perform ones duties towards all our near and dear ones but as a command from our Lord SriKrishna, as for and on behalf of our Lord.
Each of the soul is threaded on to our Lord SriKrishna and is his sole possession and creation. By doing our duties diligently , we are discharging them as a smallest speckle and a medium of our master at the divine most lotus feet of our Lord. Nothing belongs to us here and hereafter, we are mere pilgrims with an extremely limited shelf life. In this very limited time we need to ,at jet set speed chalk a simplest path towards our Lord SriKrishna.
In case, we miss this opportunity, we are lost ever for the human birth is the most difficult one to obtain , if with this form we are unable to reach our Lord SriKrishna, we have lost the most golden chance and as usual once again, the grinding cruel cycle of repeated births , deaths and permanent sorrow .
We have to be extremely mindful of our actions. Continuously reciting the holiest of holy mahamantra " Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare " is the only elixir that can save us in this most dreaded Kali yug ( darkest age of evil and sins ).
The people who cannot differentiate between the body ( hardware ) and the soul ( software ) is a permanently lost soul , never to be ever redeemed.
Thus our Lord SriKrishna wants us to fully comprehend the birthless, non decaying eternal soul and the most perishable body for us to conduct our self in such a way that we have to give up all material contamination and build a bridge with our Lord SriKrishna as the sole controller to his most beautiful abode SriParmapadam, a land of no return filled with joy, truth and goodness. Now or never.
Om Tat Sat
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
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