YOGA FOR SPIRIT ~~ Bhagavad Gita Commentary by Nithyananda ((( 1 ))) One thing we should understand about intellectual clarity is that unless we have complete intellectual clarity, our belief will be a pseudo belief. Please be very clear, anyone can shake our faith. Our faith does not have a strong base. Our faith is almost like a building without a foundation. If we build without a foundation, what will happen to the building? It will collapse. The same will happen to us, if we don’t have the base of sastras. A person asked the great master Vivekananda, ‘Master, what is the importance of Veda and why should we study the scriptures?’ Vivekananda said, ‘If you study the scriptures, all your faith and sincerity will become so strong that nobody will be able to shake you.’ Otherwise, any fool can tell us that what we are doing is superstitious and we can start thinking, ‘Am I really doing superstitious things? Am I really following the right things? What am I doing?’ We will start having doubts about ourselves. We won’t believe our faith. Every human being should understand that we don’t believe our belief. We may think we believe in something; we may think we have faith, but our faith or belief is not deep enough. It does not take us anywhere unless we have the foundation of intellectual conviction. Unless we have the deep foundation of sastra, we will not be able to believe in anything. Please be very clear, even our emotions are not so deep. We think we have love, we think we believe. I see all types of people who say what they think they believe. One man said, ‘Oh! Master, I love the whole world.’ Again and again, I tell people that to love the world is easy, but to love your wife is very difficult! That is why we are stuck. To love the whole world is very easy. We can always say Vasudeva Kutumbaha – the world is my family. We say, ‘Master, I feel that the whole world is like my family.’ The problem is that we are not in tune with our own family. We think we love, but we don’t really love. Our emotions are not deep; our faith is not deep. This is because we don’t have the intellectual conviction. If we do not have the intellectual conviction and have only faith, our faith can be shaken by anybody. Just one person is enough to break our faith. We can be totally shaken. Sastra, the intellectual understanding, gives a base so that all our convictions, all our faith, all our belief can enter into our being and start working. ~~ extracted from Bhagavad Gita Commentary by Nithyananda, Chapter 1
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:28:07 +0000
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