On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John wrote:
> To All:
>
> Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears that some posters are
> flauting their involvement with the gunas. We should be reminded of the
> aforementioned quotation from the Gita. The old American adage further
> states, "He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun".
You have it wrong about the quotation. Krishna is teaching Arjuna how
to meditate. "He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun"? You've got
to be kidding. The Gita takes place on a battlefield of cosmic
proportions. Brother is slaughtering brother. Arjuna is wondering if
he should fight. Krishna tells Arjuna that he should fight, because
he who doesn't follow his own dharma and tries to follow another
dharma instead might as well be dead. Arjuna goes back to fighting,
perhaps awakened enough that he witnesses the three gunas flowing
through him and actually performing the actions he previously
identified with.
I will flaunt my involvement with the three gunas all I want until the
gunas carry my ashes about in the wind. Now I do witness the three
gunas flowing through me. But it's not one of those dissociative
state experiences we had on courses. It's a very natural, intimate
thing. Often I just act, aware that the action is flowing through me,
but enjoying the action.
--
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to
be when you kill them.
