Bhagwat Session 21

Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapurana Synopsis of the Twenty-First Session Bhagavata Tritiya Skanda (Book Three) Chapter 31 to 33  ———————————— Ponder and Uncondition Scenario 1: A student comes into the exam and there are multiple sets of question paper which have been given, to avoid cheating. Now, the child finds nothing he knows in the sheet allotted to him. He requests the examiner for another sheet, and yet another sheet.  Finally, the examiner says don’t worry go and sit down, with the sheet you have in your hand. He comes and marks a ‘B grade’ on the paper. Another student objects and the examiner justifies his action by saying, he has certainly studied, that is why he is looking for set of question he knows the answers to.  Now, Are we all not like that, we all are just looking for that set of Information that agrees with our current knowledge. If it does, we accept and if it does not we reject. Moreover, we are not receptive of what is being said, we are filtering it to fit our mind set, and many a times we have a selective reception. No matter what is being said, we will understand it based on our own sensibilities.  If we sat with an open mind unconditioned mind, how different would our journey be. Scenario 2: A man for the first time comes to India and visits a village, and sees Cow Dung on the Wall. He asks his friend what is this, the friend said this is Cow Dung. Do you know what we use it for? The man says, Please tell me first how did the cow get on the wall? Now, The cow does not get on the wall, some one picks the cow dung, flattens it and puts it on the wall.  All that we read is an experience of another. Many a times it is quoted from others experiences and other books. We choose and pick and accept it as our own. We become so rigidity, to an extend that it makes us a fanatic.  Not only this, the saddest bit is; It robs us of the ability to have an individual experience.  The lord is nothing but absolute consciousness, thought one he appears in diverse forms, the seers, the object seen, the means of sight and so on.  Just as one and the same substance possessed of several attributes (such as colour, taste and so on) is perceived in different ways thought the sense. Even so Lord though one is realised thought different paths. ——————————— Story/Kapil Muni teaching continued We have delved deep into the concept of Appearance(creation) and also have been trying to understand Kapila Muni’s Shankya philosophy, along with mother Devhuti.  Kapila Muni goes on to say that we take re-brith based on what we are attached to. If we are attached to a woman we will be born as one, if a woman is attached to a man she will be born as man. This combined with our deeds determine the next birth we take. Examples:  We know about Bharat and his immense attachment to the deer. He was so concerned about the deer, died with the deer in his mind. In his next birth he was born as a deer.  If we practice today, we will be able to turn our mind inward towards God, and detach from the people and things that surround us, at time of death.  Kapila muni goes on to say that we depart from the Dark Path and the Bright Path, depending on the deeds and attachments.  Destiny of the soul departing from the Dark Path - If an individual is only focused towards his body and things related to it. If he is not able to let go of the ‘I’ and ‘Mine’, and all his life is focused only on the three objects of Human Pursuit - Religious merits, wealth and sensual enjoyments. His soul departs through the Dark Path. To the lower realms of the manes and when he exhausts his merits is reborn in the Mritu Loka.

Destiny of the soul departing from the Bright Path: - If an individual is beyond ‘I’...