The Gate of Liberation Part 2 _002_of_002
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In Bhagavad-gita Kṛṣṇa is advising Arjuna. Arjuna accepts His advice and addresses Kṛṣṇa as Acyuta, the Infallible One. Kṛṣṇa is acyuta, infallible, because He never falls down . Cyuta means those who are fallen in the material world. They are cyuta, fallible, because they have failed to avoid the trap of material existence.
We are fallen in the material world; therefore we have accepted this material body. And because we have accepted the material body, we are afflicted by so many undesirable material qualities: iccha-dvesa-samutthena dvandva-mohena bharata sarva-bhutani sammoham sarge yanti parantapa O scion of Bharata, O conqueror of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen from desire and hate. [Bhagavad-gita 7.27]
Iccha means desire. And dvesa means envy, hate. Iccha-dvesa-samutthena. When we become envious of Kṛṣṇa and we want to enjoy this material world, then we come to this material creation. But because we are constitutionally not enjoyers but servitors, we cannot satisfy our desires. Therefore we become envious, spiteful and hateful, and because of this the material world is a ish place of suffering and death.
So all of us in this material world, having material bodies, from Brahma down to the ant, are required to enjoy or suffer the resultant action of karma. yas tv indragopam athavendram aho sva-karma- bandhanurupa-phala-bhajanam atanoti karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami He impartially ordains for each living entity the due enjoyment of the fruits of their activities, for all those who walk in the path of work, in accordance with the chain of their previously performed works, no less in the case of the tiny indragopa insect than in that of Indra, king of the devas. I therefore adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who burns to the roots all the karma of those who are imbued with devotion for Him. [Brahma-samhita, 5.54]
There is an insect called in indra-gopa Sanskrit. It is a microbe so small that you cannot see it with the naked eye. This microbe is called indra, and there is another Indra, the King of Heaven. So the Brahma-samhita says, yas tu indra-gopa. Beginning from this indra-gopa, up to the King of Heaven, everyone is subjected to enjoy or suffer the resultant action of his karma.
By the resultant action of karma, material cause and effect, one jiva soul has become the King of Heaven, and by karma, another jiva soul has become a microscopic indra-gopa. This is material existence. There are 8,400,000 species or types of material bodies, and we are wandering through the different planets in many different forms. This is the material world, samsara.
And in the material world, whatever form we may have, we have got attachment and identification with this body. Therefore we are under the impression that I am this body. That is the material conception of life or the material ontology.
So in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna was apparently overwhelmed by material consciousness. In the battlefield, he identified himself as the body. He thought that he belonged to the Kuru dynasty, and all his family and relatives were there to fight, on one side his brothers, and on the other side his cousins, nephews, grandfather and guru.
He become very much disturbed that I have to kill the other side, my cousins and my nephews, my grandfather. No, no. Kṛṣṇa, I cannot. No. This is impossible. I shall not fight.
So he refused to fight, and this set the stage for Kṛṣṇa to speak Bhagavad-gita. Arjuna played the part of a conditioned soul under the impression that he is the body. That is animal life, material consciousness.
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