Chapter VI, Verse 10

 The Bhagwad Geeta, however little you may understand it, is a great text. Literally, reading it is like wandering into a treasure trove. Anything you see, touch, find there is priceless. 

Refer to it any number of times, you are sure to garner genuine gems. How may you mine it so? Do not some extreme reading misinterpret it? Is it possible to misunderstand it, misread it consciously? Apparently, yes, it seems!!! Hence this small little attempt to understand Chapter VI, Verse 10, given the now notorious nonsense regarding it. 

Chapter VI is entitled "Atm-sayam-yog." In other words, it explicates the modes n means of self control, self regulation, self restraint. Sant Dnyaneshwar compares it to a thirsty person getting the divine nectar, the elixir, the ambrosia itself as testified by 'owi' number 3, and 'owi' number 14 would corroborate It further.

The Lord, Bhagwan Shri Krishna, is defining the "yogi" in this chapter. In each verse till verse number ten, we get to know the distinctive qualities of a yogi such as somebody who has a truly equitable vision, someone with an equanimous personality. 

In Verse 10, he advises the devotee as a yogic practitioner, as someone who is trying to understand self, to prefer solitude, to contain body n soul, to transcend desires, to rise above attachment. Sant Dnyaneshwar explains this verse most lyrically as it authentically captures the very 'i'dentity of a yogi beyond empty ego.

Honestly, in all fairness, most secularly it can be asserted that no way, by no strech of imagination is it possible to justify the awful Ansari attitude regarding it. The least one could say about the controversy is that the Ansari argument is not merely unjustifiable. Essentially it is mischievous.

Why thus create communal hatred? The anger regarding such misconstruing is understandable, and yet unnecessary are awful rewards to be awarded to someone who would cut the erring tongue!

Pratima@ Why the multi-pronged manipulation to create unrest consciously? Who indeed is the puppet master? Is it the Deep State or some vested interests nearer home? 

Quote of the day:                                           "Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world," explicates Will Hurd.

Word of the day: manipulative                                Manipulative means skillful at unfairly influencing somebody.