On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John <jr_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > To All: > > Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears that some posters are > flauting their involvement with the gunas. We should be reminded of the > aforementioned quotation from the Gita. The old American adage further > states, "He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun".
You have it wrong about the quotation. Krishna is teaching Arjuna how to meditate. "He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun"? You've got to be kidding. The Gita takes place on a battlefield of cosmic proportions. Brother is slaughtering brother. Arjuna is wondering if he should fight. Krishna tells Arjuna that he should fight, because he who doesn't follow his own dharma and tries to follow another dharma instead might as well be dead. Arjuna goes back to fighting, perhaps awakened enough that he witnesses the three gunas flowing through him and actually performing the actions he previously identified with. I will flaunt my involvement with the three gunas all I want until the gunas carry my ashes about in the wind. Now I do witness the three gunas flowing through me. But it's not one of those dissociative state experiences we had on courses. It's a very natural, intimate thing. Often I just act, aware that the action is flowing through me, but enjoying the action. -- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
