Monday, March 10, 2008
Bhagwad Gita
The Bhagwad Gita is an acknowledged source of knowledge. In Chapter 4, Section 4, Shlok no.33 I came across an interesting one. Besides other things it says "..................for all actions without exception culminate in knowledge........". The more I think about it, I marvel at its universal simplicity. Any thoughts on this? I will try to dig out more from the Gita.
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This statement i feel as always is based on perception that is god like as after all it comes from the Bhagwad Gita which is the teachings of god.
However i cannot call only something knowledge if i go according to this statement. Take any scientific discovery for example - the founding of X rays. The physicist(s) were experimenting to find some characteristics of i think cathode rays when accidently X rays were discovered. In this case, the fact that before X rays didn't exist we can assume that there were exceptions in what the physicists knew and with the discovery only were they able to gain the additional knowledge of only what they were. Basically they could have still not know how excatly they behaved (the exception in knowledge) but they still knew what X rays were. I definately say that this knowledge even though exceptions were made.
Prajay, the essence of the statement is that even if conciously or unconciously do any action, it leads to knowledge for self and others.Looking at it in a very elementary form and you would get it.
All action culminates in knowledge
Allright. But what of events that occur regardless of human action(s)? Say, an earthquake or cyclone. we humans didnt have any thing to do with them, did we? yet they occured, and being events and being able to experience them, we know something about them and they can be considered a fragment of knowledge. How then, doest he Gita explain this? OBviously im assuming that the term 'action' is related to humans and humans alone...
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