Chapter 13: Kshetra- Kshetragnya Vibhaga Yoga. summary and Slides

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Recap... Chapter 12 BHAKTI YOGA

Contributed By Dr Ahalya

BHAKTI YOGA

Not an exclusive or separate Sadhana

It is the range of all three sadhanas

1st stage of Bhakti Yoga is Karma Yoga

2nd stage is Upāsana Yoga

The last stage is Jnāna Yoga

1st...Sakamapradhana karma yoga

•Anyone can start

•Kamya karma

•Yoga-kshema pradhana

•Accept whatever happens as the consequence of God’s will

•Ishwara Prasada Buddhi

1st..IshwaraPrasadaBuddhi

·Purifies the mind

·Reacting mind will calm down

·We begin to learn that dependence on the world is risky

·Gradually we will be drawn towards spirituality

2nd............Nishkama karma

•Krishna recommends selfless action for a person who is too extroverted because such a person will not succeed in meditation

•Selfless action is निष्काम कर्म the highest and purest form of action

•It is nothing but पञ्च महा यज्ञ (pancha maha yajna).

2nd.....IshwararpanaBhava

•Selfless action leads to purification of mind.

•Purified mind will prepare oneself eligible for meditation on God with a particular form (इष्ट देवता उपासना).

•This leads to liberation not directly, but by making one qualified for higher stages of Spiritual Evolution

3rd...Eka roopa Upasana

•Abhyasa Yoga

•Yoga kshema is on the Lord

•Any form of Nava Vidha Bhakti

•Thyagaraja

•Meerabai

4th....VishwaRoopaUpasana

Understanding the Viswaroopa (ashta murthi) nature of God with conviction

Study of scriptures

Devotion based on understanding

Handling the world – handling the cause

The Journey so far..

1) Sadhaka Is a karma yogi

2) Is in the process of gaining JNANA YOGYATHA (eligibility for jnana yoga)

3) Lives in the VYAVAHARIKA PRAPANCHA à Ishvara Jeeva Jagath ( The triangular format)

4) Graduates from sakama to nishkama to vishvaroopa upasana

5th....NirgunaIshwara Upasana

1)Has evolved from a sadaka to a siddha

2) Has reached the destination

3) Has evolved from bhaktha to Bhagavan

4)Perceives the PARAMARTHIKA existence

5)Akshara Brahma Upasaka

TE. PRAPNUVANTHI MAM EVA

The binary format

Qualifications of a NIRGUNA Upasaka

1) Master of his sense organs, mind and intellect

Sanniyam indrya grama

2) He has equipoise Samatvam

Sarvatra samabuddhayah

3) He maintains a dharmic lifestyle Daivi sampath

Sarvabootha hite ratah

Para Bhakta

•Those devotees who keep Me as the primary goal

AND

•Who faithfully pursue this immortal teaching are very dear to Me

Qualities of a Para Bhakta

yasmānnōdvijatē lōkō lōkānnōdvijatē ca yaḥ | harṣāmarṣabhayōdvēgairmuktō yaḥ sa ca mē priyaḥ || 12.15 samaḥ śatrau ca mitrē ca tathā mānāpamānayōḥ | śītōṣṇasukhaduḥkhēṣu samaḥ saṅgavivarjitaḥ || 12.18 ||

Chapter 13 KSHETRA KSHETRAJNA VIBHAGA YOGA

Prathama Shatkam Chapters 1 - 6

Tvam – Karma Yoga - Effort

Madhyama Shatkam. Chapters 7 - 12

Tat - Upasana Yoga - Grace

Antima Shatkam. Chapters 13 - 18

Asi - Jnana Yoga - Values

Six Topics WORTH kNOWING jñeyaṁ

1. Jiva

2. Jagat

3. Ishwara

4. Bandha

5. Moksha

6. Sadhana

Fundamental Laws of Vedanta

I am different from whatever I experience, Atma Anatma Viveka

All attributes I experience belong to the experienced objects and not to me the experiencer the subject. I as Atma am Nirguna.

I am different from whatever I experience

Atma anatma viveka

Kshetra kshetragnya viveka

Drik drishya viveka

Purusha prakriti viveka

I am different from whatever I experience

1. I am not my body

2. I am not my mind

3. I am the witness of my body and mind

4. I function through this body and mind

5. It is an instrument

6. Whatever happens to my body/mind, will not affect me

I as Atma, am Nirguna. No attributes, infinite

•Time, Nithya

•Space, all pervading

•Objects, not limited to this body, I am all

Guru Shastra Upadesha

Why do we suffer samsara?

An error in ATMA ANATMA VIVEKA is the cause of our suffering

Aim of Vedantic Study

•We have to train our minds to claim the ATMA as the REAL “ I ”

•The Body/ Mind is the incidental VYVAHARIKA “ I ”

•I assign it roles to play, for after all “ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE I”

•Claiming the ATMA is the aim of Vedanta

arjuna uvāca |

prakṛtiṁ puruṣaṁ caiva kṣetraṁ kṣetrajñameva ca |

etadvēditumicchāmi jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ ca keśava || 13.1 ||

Arjuna asked: - Oh Lord! I desire to know he following- prakrti, purusa,

kṣetraṁ, kṣētrajña, jñānam, and jñeyam.

CHAPTER 13 – SHLOKA 13.2 & 13.3

Contributed By Dr. Diwakar

śrī-bhagavān uvācha idaṁ śharīraṁ kaunteya kṣhetram ity abhidhīyate etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ kṣhetrajña iti tadvidaḥ

Lord Krishna said – Oh Arjuna! This body is known as kṣetraṁ. (There is a conscious principle) which knows this (body). Wise men declare that (knower principle) to be ksetrajñā

kṣhetrajñaṁ chāpi māṁ viddhi sarvakṣhetreṣhu bhārata kṣhetrakṣhetrajñayor jñānaṁ yat taj jñānaṁ mataṁ mama

And know me as the kṣhētrajña in all the kṣhētras, O Bharata. The knowledge of kṣhētra and kṣhētrajña is deemed by Me as true Knowledge.

JNANAM CHAPTER 1 3– SHLOKA 13.8

Contributed Dr. Ravishankar

JNEYAM CHAPTER 13 – SHLOKA 13.14 to 13.18

Contributed By Dr Sunder

JNEYAM = SUPREME BRAHMAN

jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣyāmi

yaj jñātvāmṛtam aśnute anādimat paraṁ brahma

na sat tan nāsad ucyate 13.12

The ultimate TRUTH to be known It is worth knowing

Brahman is Existence Principle – SAT

Brahman is Consciousness Principle – CHIT

PURUSHA & PRAKRUTI

CHAPTER 13 - SHLOKA 13.22 and 13.23

Contributed By Radha Muralidharan

Purusha

•Consciousness

•Pure bliss

•Nirguna

•Agartala

•Abhokta

•I AM

Prakruti

•Maya

•Illusion

•Material energy

•Body,mind,senses,intellect,etc

•Avidya Lakshnam

•Modified into karya & karana

•L.S verse

•I AM + that/this,etc

•Jeeva

Cause of Birth

•Anandi Mayaya suptaha

•Punarapi jananam

•Content

Shift from Purusha to prakruti

•Upadrasta

•Anumataa

•Bharatha

•Bhoktha

•Eshwaran

•Paramaatma

•Degree of involvement

Grace / Jnana

•Sun & moon

•Deep sleep

•Aparoksha Anubhooti

SAADHANA AND PHALAM

CHAPTER 13 - SHLOKA 13.25 and 13.31

Contributed By Dr Vishwas

dhyānenātmani paśhyanti kechid ātmānam ātmanā anye sānkhyena yogena karma-yogena chāpare 13.25

Some (seekers) see the Self in the mind with the mind through meditation.

Some others (see) through Jñānayōga. Some others (see) through Karma yōga.

Sadhana

•Karma Yoga >Jnana Yoga> Moksha

yadā bhūta-pṛithag-bhāvam eka-stham anupaśhyati tata eva cha vistāraṁ brahma sampadyate tadā 11.31

When one sees the diversity of beings o be based on the one (Self) and

(their) origination o be from that (Self) alone then, one becomes Brahman.

Phalam

1. Equality in all beings, saves from desire / hatred (samatva)

2. Oneness with consciousness, eternal existence (amrutatva)

3. Freedom from notion of doership (akartatva)

4. Assimilate with brahman (brahmatva prapti)

Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam

Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate

Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya

Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||

Om ShaantihShaantihShaantih ||