इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ | तयोर्न वशमागच्छेत्तौ ह्यस्य परिपन्थिनौ || 34|| |
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Commentary
Knowledge of one’s own behavior will improve understanding and help to strengthen and tame the positive and negative characteristics respectively. Lord Krishna says that attachment and repulsion are two psychological enemies that cause alternate waves of happiness and suffering in the mind. The same person looks good to one and bad to another. The same object is attractive to one and repulsive to another. The same situation is agreeable to one and disagreeable to another. Where is the problem and what is the fact? Problem is due to the difference in likes and dislikes. The fact is we are not what we think we are, but an amalgamation of good and bad inclinations fused into a karmic body with bones, nerves, flesh, sweat and blood.
In a movie, you fall in love with the hero, cry with the heroine and hate the villain, but when you look at the projection booth, you realize the creator of the hero, heroine and villain is pure light. The light rays are creating the realistic relativities in the movie. From the booth of eternity, God is projecting universes within His body of light, sound, love and intelligence. He does not imply that one should be indifferent, without likes and dislikes. As long as we are in the theater of life, likes and dislikes cannot be avoided. We must like the heroic qualities and dislike the evil qualities. To the mother deer, the sight of a lion eating her dear little fawn is excruciatingly painful. The yogi, as a human, feels the pain of the mother deer, cries for her and becomes sad. However, in a few minutes, he recovers to his blissful state and observes the electromagnetic nature of the fawn including its past karma, changing from one form to another in its evolution. He feels it was a terrible movie to watch. Shifting his gaze within, he is glad to be out of the sense theater. To those who are buffeted by every situation by their likes and dislikes, this world may seem like a terrible place. To those who turn toward the light beam, the world will seem fair, operating as per the Laws of Karma.
You live in two different worlds at home and office without mixing the laws of pure love and professional duty. A father should pamper a child at home, not an employee at the office! The required rules and laws are different. The main difference is that the yogi is not affected emotionally and psychologically by likes and dislikes. He knows the reality and will just do what is necessary for the moment. When the devotee evolves to become a yogi, he also operates in two different worlds, behaving according to the laws that exist in the relativistic world of duality and the absolute world of reality.