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in the form of a man or a woman, etc., but the material, the content within each is the same. The packing can be in any form; it can even be rotten but a businessman is not really concerned with the outer packing, he is only concerned with the material within. Similarly, you should do the darshan of that material (the Self, the Lord) within the packing (body).
Lord Krishna says, "The material that is within is precisely what I am; that verily is Krishna. Recognize Him and you will find what you are looking for. Otherwise, even if you sing the verses of the Gita for millions of lifetimes, you will not make any progresses." Whatever Lord Krishna is saying is conveyed in these two words: 'packing' and 'material', but these so called smart people try to find the meaning in the Gita and publish books in the process. They do not know how to extract the essence of His message and then they write volumes of commentaries and criticisms in trying to extract the essence. They do this out of their own intellectually driven agendas (swachhand) in order to gain recognition and fame. But the entire inner intent of Lord Krishna is within these two words.
When a young man is in college, his father writes him a strong letter, "You do not study and waste my money. All you do is watch movies and plays. "The son shows the letter to his friend and says, "See what my father is like? He is an animal. He is an angry man. He is an angry, greedy and a tight fisted man." The young man says that because he does not understand what his father is saying. He cannot understand his father's inner intent. The age difference between him and his father is only 25 years and yet he does not understand his father's intention, so who can understand Lord Krishna's intention after five thousand years? Who can expose Lord Krishna's intention? Only the one who is Lord Krishna himself can do so. Who can expose Lord Mahavir's intent? Only Lord Mahavir himself? And the time difference between Lord Mahavir and now is 2500 years!
In the old days a son understood his father even with an age difference of twenty-five years but today one does not have the inner ability to understand what the father is really trying to convey. So how is anyone going to understand what Lord Krishna was trying to convey? There is a lot being written about the Gita but the author himself does not understand even a hair's worth of the essence of the Gita. This is like the blind leading the blind. It is all useless. It is like that. Yet it is not wrong; it is correct but it is all comparable to a teacher of the first standard. Here with 'us' the talks you hear are comparable to the level of Ph.D. These commentaries on the Gita are like the teaching in the first year of school. One can only get complete information on all the scriptures from a Gnani Purush.
Magnificent darshan to Arjun Questioner : Lord Krishna had shown the universal vision (vishwadarshan) to Arjun? What is it?
Dadashri : That vishwadarshan is not the same as Atmagnan (knowledge of the Self). So many are bom, die and are born again. This is how everyone is caught up in the time cycle, therefore there is no one that kills or gives or spares life (creator, sustainer, destroyer). "Therefore Dear Arjun, the moha (the illusion) that attaches you to doer ship, that you are doing' the killing is wrong, so let it go." For this Lord Krishna showed him a violent and a very frightful scene; he showed Arjun a vast picture wherein everyone is dead. Upon beholding this, Arjun was shaken up, but as he understood everything, he became ready to fight. Then the Lord showed Arjun the tranquil state of the Self. In all this vast scene (virat swaroop) that the Lord had 'seen Himself, is what He had shown to Arjun and that is what 'we' call vyavasthit.
It is vyavasthit even when your pocket gets picked, you will not have any anxieties or desires when you understand this. Knowing and understanding vyavasthit will not create illusion
