Turning out a new leaf.

In Between - The Role of Destiny (daivam) :

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The Chapters 3 to 6 of Ashtavakra Gita are a bit difficult to comprehend and understand correctly with no least doubt about the sense and the meaning.

A few days ago through some divine hint, I chanced upon to glance over my old books. There were several like : 

Crumbs From His Table

Day by Day with Bhagawan

Mahayoga of Sri Ramana Maharshi,

And,

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

In one of the Books as referred to as above, a devotee asks Sri Ramana :

"Are only the incidences of importance like career, marriage, death and such other chief events chalked out in one's life, or those also  which are just of trivial importance, like the  glass that is there on the table with some or little water in it?"

To this Sri Ramana said:

"Everything is destined to happen the way it has been chalked out."

"Not a leaf stirs without God's Command."

The words said above also bear the same truth.

This is exactly what could be treated as the daiva; as is pointed out in Shrimadbhagvad-gita chapter 18, verse 13,14,19 :

पञ्चेमानि महाबाहो कारणानि निबोध मे।।

साङ्ख्ये कृतान्ते प्रोक्तानि सिद्धये सर्वकर्मणाम्।।१३।।

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम्।।

विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्।।१४।।

ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ता च त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः।।

प्रोच्यते गुणसङ्ख्याने यथावच्छ्रुणु तान्यपि।।१९।।

Along with let us associate the one of chapter 6, verse 34 :

सदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवान अपि।।

प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति।।३४।।

(श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता - अध्याय ६)

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Then we can perhaps see and understand how a jnaani stays undisturbed aloof and unperturbed though may outwardly seem so to others.

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अष्टावक्र गीता

अध्याय ३

श्लोक ५

सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि।।

मुनेर्जानत आश्चर्यं ममत्वमनुवर्तते।।५।।

अर्थ : यह आश्चर्य ही है कि समस्त भूतमात्र में आत्मा (अपने) को ही और आत्मा (अपने) में समस्त भूतमात्र को देखता हुआ मुनि भी अपनी प्रकृति से प्रेरित होकर तदनुसार ही बर्ताव किया करता है।

(और इसलिए लौकिक और सांसारिक नैतिक मूल्यों का पालन करने का बन्धन उस पर लागू नहीं होता।)

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ಅಷ್ಟಾವಕ್ರ ಗೀತಾ

ಅಧ್ಯಾಯ ೩

ಶ್ಲೋಕ ೫

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Ashtavakra Gita

Chapter 3

Stanza 5

It is strange that the sense of ownership should continue even in the sage who has realised the Self in all and all in the Self.

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