Krishnas Speech at the Battleground chapter thirteen third instalment by Ramesh Mukhopadhyaya
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<P>KRISHNA'S SPEECH CHAPTER-XIII (3RD INSTALLMENT) </P>
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<P>mousumi Post replyMay 8 </P>
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<P>The control of the extrovert nature in us stands in good stead. Think </P>
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<P>of a child who is lost in a fair. He is full of tears. He cries </P>
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<P>lustily for his father. A sympathetic passer- by stops and asks the </P>
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<P>child to stop his cries. Can he hear the father shouting his name? We </P>
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<P>have lost our father, the higher self, in the fair held out by Nature. </P>
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<P>We do not seek the things here. We seek pleasure. Joy was the spring </P>
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<P>from which we were born. We seek joy which is our father. Let us then </P>
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<P>stop crying for the paltry things laid out by Nature and for our </P>
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<P>father too. Our father is in our heart. We shall be able to hear him. </P>
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<P>Unless one develops an apathy for the objects of Nature, one cannot </P>
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<P>realize one’s aim. A child must resist the temptation of the cricket </P>
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<P>field. Or else he cannot do his studies. There was a young princess </P>
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<P>who set out with her girl-friends to know the world. On the road, </P>
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<P>first they met some men who were very jolly. They invited the ladies </P>
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<P>to go along with them to join a musical party. Those who loved music </P>
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<P>among the women stayed back with the men. The rest of the party moved </P>
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<P>forward. At another point they met some men, who offered them </P>
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<P>delicious food. Some ladies were fond of good food. They stayed with </P>
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<P>these men. These men were not men, but ogres. They ate up the ladies. </P>
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<P>But the princess was unmoved by any enticement. She ultimately walked </P>
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<P>along past the world to find herself as Krishna, the Supreme Being. </P>
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<P>One must avoid pride. There was a great saint in Bengal. His name was </P>
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<P>Ram Thakur. He was a man of many miracles. But no one could recognize </P>
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<P>his god-hood. He worked with a Bengali household as a cook for long. </P>
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<P>In ancient times the kings set out in disguise to inspect the state of </P>
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<P>affairs in the Kingdom. Suppose he visits a ration office for a ration- </P>
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<P>card. In India one needs ration-cards for purchasing things at fair- </P>
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<P>price shops. Now the ration-officer straight away drives him away </P>
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<P>seeing him in rags. Will the king in the robes of a poor peasant take </P>
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<P>to heart the ration officer’s antics? No. We are also kings in our </P>
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<P>higher self; we have come here in disguise to experience the world for </P>
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<P>an hour or two. Why should we feel that our honour is injured? We are </P>
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<P>always honourable men, whether one acknowledges it or not. </P>
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<P>We should always contemplate on the misfortunes of the world. As long </P>
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<P>as one is capable of earning, one is honoured in the family. Give </P>
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<P>money and costly presents to them, they will be praise for you. But </P>
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<P>when you are a broke, everybody will laugh at you for your </P>
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<P>prodigality. When you retire from your office, you find yourself </P>
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<P>alienated from the family. When visitors come, the old man is not </P>
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<P>allowed to meet them. Because he does not know how to behave. The one </P>
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<P>man is pent up in a lonely cell where one day he finds himself to be </P>
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<P>turned into a cockroach. His daughter opens the door of the cell twice </P>
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<P>a day from without to give the cockroach some food in a pan. That is </P>
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<P>the way of the world. When a woman dies, her husband fears to touch </P>
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<P>her body. As long as she was alive, her husband played with it. Yonder </P>
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<P>goes an old man with his staff. He can hardly walk. He is sans teeth, </P>
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<P>sans hair. His body suffers from necrosis. Still his hopes are not </P>
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<P>dead. Is it not a rude irony to life that even when they see the old </P>
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<P>man, the children sport in the playground, the lovers whisper between </P>
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<P>themselves and the middle aged man rushes to the share- market to make </P>
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<P>more money? When a person sees into such folly, he at once renounces </P>
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<P>the world. Sankar, a great Indian philosopher and saint, left home at </P>
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<P>the age of eight. </P>
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<P>No wonder should be cherished at heart for one’s wife or husband and </P>
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<P>children and near ones. Does Krishna thereby repudiate family life? </P>
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<P>No, the duties of the family life have to be performed in a </P>
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<P>disinterested manner. Jesus says, that no one has left house or </P>
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<P>Jesus’ sake and for the sake of the good news who will not get a </P>
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<P>hundred folk( Mark 10,29,30). But what do we do in real life? A man </P>
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<P>went to a king’s garden to steal some flowers. The man was caught red </P>
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<P>handed and sent to stake. Even at the dying moment he remembered that </P>
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<P>he could not give his wife the flowers that she longed for. Human life </P>
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<P>is in pity. </P>
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<P>One should look upon good fortune and misfortune with equanimity. </P>
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<P>One should be fond of solitude; a lonely man is the strongest. We </P>
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<P>often talk to our fellow-passengers in the bus. This sociable nature </P>
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<P>is prompted by our loneliness. Because we want to fly from ourselves. </P>
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<P>What a pity. Let us prepare our minds in such a manner that we could </P>
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<P>talk to ourselves at least. We should be absolutely lonely. We should </P>
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<P>not think of god or higher self even. God will be there. </P>
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<P>If one talks to oneself only, it is better to talk of God. Devotion to </P>
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<P>god protects the mind from other wasteful thoughts.. There should be </P>
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<P>no enquiry as such. Enquiry, if any, should be concerning god and the </P>
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<P>higher self. There should be no society to mingle with. Society, if </P>
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<P>any, should discuss about the self and god. </P>
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<P>These qualities are not alien to man. Rather every man is born with </P>
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<P>such qualities. Our education, our custom has taught us otherwise. We </P>
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<P>have to be ourselves doffing the clothes with which custom has decked </P>
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<P>us. Physical nature is antithesis to custom. So a life in nature is </P>
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<P>more congenial for one to become one’s own self. Curiously enough the </P>
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<P>leaders of men in every sphere of life have inculcated some or many of </P>
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<P>these qualities. What if Einstein fights with Neil Bohr as to whether </P>
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<P>god plays dice with the world or not? Both are great men. If someone </P>
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<P>cultivates these qualities, he surely becomes successful in worldly </P>
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<P>pursuits also; no matter whether he is a salesman or an insurance </P>
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<P>agent. But that does not rescue him from the calamities of life and </P>
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<P>Nature. The seas did not obey king Canute. And the god-king Rama or </P>
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<P>God the Son Jesus, who wore all the qualities in perfect harmony had </P>
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<P>to undergo trials and tribulations of life. </P>
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