Pingala a brahmin lived in the city of Purukutsa along with his wife Aruna. But they led a life of adultery among actors and gamblers. Aruna one night went to the extent of murdering Pingala. in their next birth they were born as an Eagle and an ordinary bird. The eagle remembered the previous birth and pounced on the bird who was Aruna in the previous birth and killed it at the same time a hunter aimed an arrow on the eagle and it too dropped down the two birds fell on the head of a mahatma by the will of the Divine. Yama is said to have made them stand before him and told them though they had sinned in their previous birth they haveing fallen on the Mahatma who was a Rajayogi and who was known to repeated the fifth chapter of the Gita every day. they were all three liberated. The Raja Yogi went to Brahma loka and the two birds went to better and nobler births. Any connection with not only the recitation of the Gita but also being in the presence of such a person one is blessed.
The Yoga of Renunciation of Action. (Karma Sanyasa Yoga)
Arjuna asks Krishna O! Krishna at times you speak highly of renunciation of actions and then you praise Yoga also. So tell me conclusively that which is the better of the two. Krishna answers that renunciation of actions and karma yoga both lead to spiritual elevation, but of these two karma yoga is superior to renunciation of actions. The ignorant and not the wise speak of Sankhya (Knowledge) and yoga (karma yoga) as two distinctly separate paths. but he who is well established in one of these obtains the fruits of both. The final destination arrived at by the Sankhyas is the same as that attained by karma yogis he who perceives that they are essentially one is the real seer. a self disciplined seer of truth should never think that he is the doer of any of the activities of the senses like seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, walking, sleeping, breathing, talking, receiving. He should feel convinced that the senses move along the sense objects according to the laws of their being. God does not create neither agency or action for the world, or union with the fruits of actions but it is nature that induces all these.
Those, who'es mind and intellect are completely merged in God, who are thoroughly absorbed in Him and are exclusively devoted to Him attain the highest wisdom. Their sins are wiped out by wisdom and they go to whence there is no return. The sages look equally upon a Brahmin endowed with learning, with humility, a cow, an elephant and even a dog and even an outcast.
One attains endless bliss, if he is without attachment to external contacts and experiences, and enjoys happiness, in his own soul or atma. All sense enjoyments are verily sources of sorrow and suffering as they have a beginning and an end. So a Jnani will not take delight in them. The man who can withstand here in this world, the impulses of desire and anger before giving up the world is a yogi, and he enjoys the supreme bliss. those yogis who have controlled, who are free from desire and anger and who have conquered their mind and have realised the self,enjoy eternal peace. That sage who keeps away all external contacts with sense objects, fixes his vision between the eye- brows balances the outgoing and incoming breath, who controls mind, intellect and senses rivets the attention on salvation putting away desire, fear and anger is verily liberated forever.
The Yoga of Renunciation of Action. (Karma Sanyasa Yoga)
Arjuna asks Krishna O! Krishna at times you speak highly of renunciation of actions and then you praise Yoga also. So tell me conclusively that which is the better of the two. Krishna answers that renunciation of actions and karma yoga both lead to spiritual elevation, but of these two karma yoga is superior to renunciation of actions. The ignorant and not the wise speak of Sankhya (Knowledge) and yoga (karma yoga) as two distinctly separate paths. but he who is well established in one of these obtains the fruits of both. The final destination arrived at by the Sankhyas is the same as that attained by karma yogis he who perceives that they are essentially one is the real seer. a self disciplined seer of truth should never think that he is the doer of any of the activities of the senses like seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, walking, sleeping, breathing, talking, receiving. He should feel convinced that the senses move along the sense objects according to the laws of their being. God does not create neither agency or action for the world, or union with the fruits of actions but it is nature that induces all these.
Those, who'es mind and intellect are completely merged in God, who are thoroughly absorbed in Him and are exclusively devoted to Him attain the highest wisdom. Their sins are wiped out by wisdom and they go to whence there is no return. The sages look equally upon a Brahmin endowed with learning, with humility, a cow, an elephant and even a dog and even an outcast.
One attains endless bliss, if he is without attachment to external contacts and experiences, and enjoys happiness, in his own soul or atma. All sense enjoyments are verily sources of sorrow and suffering as they have a beginning and an end. So a Jnani will not take delight in them. The man who can withstand here in this world, the impulses of desire and anger before giving up the world is a yogi, and he enjoys the supreme bliss. those yogis who have controlled, who are free from desire and anger and who have conquered their mind and have realised the self,enjoy eternal peace. That sage who keeps away all external contacts with sense objects, fixes his vision between the eye- brows balances the outgoing and incoming breath, who controls mind, intellect and senses rivets the attention on salvation putting away desire, fear and anger is verily liberated forever.
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