Class Summary for Nov 5, 2024 - Chapter-4 Slokas 19-21

After pranayama and meditation, recap from October 29th class was summarized.
Types of Karma, Dharma, Inaction in Action (Jeevatma is in a Sakshi bhaava while BMI is in Action), Action in Inaction (Jeevatma is in search of Brahman-Action, while BMI is in the Inaction mode).
Knowledge will enable us to dispel ignorance similar to the fact that light dispels darkness.
We don’t realize who we are is the cause of ignorance.  Perform action with the right attitude to attain Moksha.
 
Slokas 19, 20 and 21 were chanted
Summary
The enlightened sages call those people wise (panditah) who perform their action but not due to desires (raaga and dwesha) one whose actions (false identifications) can be burnt away by the fire of knowledge.
 

Wise people who have given up attachments to the fruits of their actions are always content/satisfied and are free from dependence of external things.  Even when they are engaged in action, they don’t do anything at all (no do-er ship).
 

With mind and intellect fully controlled and when free from expectations and sense of ownership, one does not incur sin even performing actions by one’s body

Saatvic action and Rajasic action was discussed

Saatvic action – Action performed for all, result is for all- detached, understanding that everyone is Brahman, whereas rajasic action is one performs actions for themselves or folks around them, show differentiation, they create paapa and punya.
 

One has to perform their action as appropriate as possible not being attached, it is like when arrow is shot you have no control.  Put the best possible action, not a fatalistic type of action or thought.  Have goals in life, that is not the issue but one needs to accept the results after preparation and should accept the duality in life.
 

When one constantly perform  Nidityasana  will understand more and more of the real self.  One needs to perform all their actions towards an higher ideal .
 

We reach a realized state when we recognize that Brahman is everything.
 

Intent of an action is very important – A king may have several children for selfish reasons.  A Mahatma in Srilanka  allowed lot of kids to use his name as their father in school documents since they lost their father during wars and without a father’s name  their documentation was incomplete.
Perform action for the sake of the action without any objective and it becomes part of your life.
 
Story:
A minister always tells his King that everything that happens is always for the good.  When the King was in a hunting expedition, he lost a finger from his hand.  The minster continued to say that everything is for good.  The king got upset and banished the minister.  The king goes for hunting again (without the minister),  some tribal group caught him and wanted to sacrifice him.  The head priest finds out that the king does not have one finger in his hand and says that he cannot be sacrificed that they need a person with all parts of their body intact.  After this episode the king frees the minister from the prison.  The king asks the minister how he can explain that him being prisoned away was good.  To this the minister responds that since he was imprisoned he couldn’t go with the king for hunting, if he did, he would have been sacrificed since he was fully intact  !!!!.
 
Ownership is related to attachment.  One would not get attached to a rental house since it not a permanent residence for them.  Similarly body is also like a rental house, not permanent and hence don’t be attached.
 

Perform all your actions.  We are not the owner of the action, Brahman is.
 
Class watched 2 videos of Gurudev related to attachment.
 

The class chanted slokas 22, 23 and 24.
 
Subjective Analysis – Involve the saakshi in ourselves all the time, not just during meditation