Mr. K. Siva Prasad
(The writer is a senior IAS officer in the Punjab Government. This column on
spirituality appears every Sunday).
The Gita is about
what we are. It is like being truthful apart from knowing the truth and that
happens when we are centered (space) in the present moment (time).
The
underlying dilemma of Arjuna is what would happen to his image, in the eyes of
world, if he kills his friends, relatives, elders and teachers for the sake of
kingdom. This appears very logical and this is the first barrier to be crossed,
if one has to live the Gita life.
The
real dilemma of Arjuna is about his future, whereas Krishna says that we have
the right to do karma but no right to the karmaphal. Why? Because karma happens
in the present and karmaphal is something that comes up in the future.
Like
Arjuna, our tendency is to strive for outcome- oriented actions. Some times,
modern life gives us an impression that future outcomes can be controlled. But
in reality, the future is a combination of so many possibilities over which we
do not have any control.
Once
again its our ahankaar, feeding on our past and projecting future on the
present, creates dilemmas.
Coming
to space, the entire universe, consisting of galaxies, stars and planets, is
characterized by rotation, which is primarily a stationary axis/hub and a
rotating structure. The hub never moves and without this hub no rotation of a
wheel is possible. Every storm has a calm centre — without it, no storm can
sustain momentum. The farther away from the centre, the greater would be
turbulence.
We,
too, have a calm centre which is nothing but our inner self and the turbulent
life, with its many attributes, revolves around it. Arjuna’s dilemma is about
one of such attributes — his image. Like him, we form images about ourselves by
looking into the eyes of others rather than looking into our innerself.
— The writer is a senior IAS officer in the Punjab
Government
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