Chapter 5 Part 1
Sanyasa Yoga: The Bhagavad Gita
Karma yoga and Sanyasa were explained before. Both can help in self realization. Karma yoga is for those who have karma vasana. They have to finish off their karma vasana by doing karma as yajna. Then they will become able to gain knowledge. But those who are without vasana will be able to accept sanyasa or they can stay within their worldly life and practice jnana. It is up to them to decide. They can renounce from worldly karma and become free from all karma by athma vichara.
Raaga and Dwesha (likes and dislikes)
Remove raaga-dwesha and feel non-duality. Those who knows this, either through karma yoga or sanyasa, becomes free from all bonds of karma. Experience everywhere the one and only real object that is Brahma or soul and feel there is nothing different or dual. Duality or the feeling of difference is the reason for raaga and dwesha. If there is only one thing, then where is a possibility for raaga or dwesha? Feeling of non-dual experience and removing raaga and dwesha are very important factors in spiritual path.
Saamkhya yoga or Jnana yoga or Sanyasa certainly leads to realization mainly through thathwa vichara. Karma yoga also definitely leads to realization. These two are paths to the same goal of life that is soul realization. Those who stay in karma, do karma as karma yoga. Through this they get balanced mind. This help them to experience knowledge gradually. In this stage, when their mind become controlled, they can choose sanyasa if they wish. Here they engage in ways to experience the soul.
Who can choose Sanyasa?
Without mind purity (either due to absence of vasana or through karma yoga) it is very difficult to choose sanyasa. Before choosing sanyasa one should practice and attain a balanced mind. Then through jnana marga one can practice to experience soul. One who is experiencing soul should imagine that I am not doing anything even while all indriyas engage in vishayas or karmas.
Doer-ship and Experiencer-ship
We do karma by mind or budhi or tongue or body or senses. Thought process also is considered as karma. Because it happens due to prana spandana. What we talk also considered as karma. Whatever we do with hands, legs etc. definitely are karma. But do these karmas without the feeling that I am doing or I am experiencing. Instead, do all karmas and experience everything by imagining Brahma everywhere and in everything.
Who he realized the Soul
Through practicing yoga, one can achieve athmananda. He renounce results of all karma. By staying in the soul he attains eternal peace. He restrains and control senses and mind and rest in the soul. He leaves all the karma, done by mind or body or words, with mind. He does not keep the mentality of 'I am doing' or 'I am experiencing'. When he starts to feel that "I" am the soul, then he feels that karma is not affecting me in any means. I am not doing anything and I am not experiencing anything(no doer-ship and no experiencer-ship). I am free from everything and I am the soul. Karma, karmaphala and rebirths are merely the result of doer-ship and experiencer-ship of jivathma.
In the state of soul or athma or Paramathma, there is no karma or karmaphala. There is no sin or virtue. But when a jivathma, because of ignorance (not knowing athma thathwa), does karma with attachment to its result, then he is bound with karma phala. If he does evil karma he has to experience sin and if he does good karma, he has to experience virtue. These experiences are said as hell and heaven. In soul level there is no sin or no virtue.
Jivathma and Paramathma
Why jivathma gets attached to all karmas? Because jivathma forgets its true state as Paramathma. It thinks that I am the body not the soul. This is the ignorance or ajnana affected jivathma. What is the solution? Solution for ignorance is to get knowledge. What knowledge? Knowing that I am not the body and I am the soul. This is the truth. Know the truth and imagine it always. Finally experience the truth as truth.
Accept soul as own truth by budhi. See Brahma everywhere and in everything. Sarvam Brahma. Know and experience oneself that 'I am also Brahma'. Ayamaathma Brahma. Then find ananda always in the feeling of Brahma. Accept attaining or realization of Brahma as the goal of life. Clear off all the feeling of duality or the feeling of difference by thathwa bodha(by knowing the soul). Such a yogi becomes the state of no-birth and no-death, that is Brahma. He sees Brahma in everything and in everybody. For him, he sees only Brahma everywhere.
Those who leaves the differential feeling of duality feels that there is only one thing or one object and no different things. The creation of different things in universe happens because of the differential feeling of duality. When the feeling of duality is gone then there will not be the feeling of various things and there will not be even the universe.
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