The Bhagavad Gita: A Selection by Ramesh Balsekar

Author:Ramesh Balsekar [Balsekar, Ramesh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Zen Publications
Published: 2013-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter VII / 3

It is perhaps only one in thousands of beings who strives for freedom. And amongst those who strive for freedom – and think they have succeeded – hardly one knows the total Truth of My Being.

WITHOUT a certain innate God-given intuitive insight, it is so easy to misunderstand many verses in the Bhagavad Gita.

It is thus possible to misinterpret this verse as Lord Krishna shifting the entire responsibility for not realizing the Self upon the individual seeker himself and attributing the failure to the seeker’s lack of self-application. But it must be realized that whatever anyone seeks must be seen as the seeking happening through an individual human organism as its God-given destiny. Then it will be seen that there is truly no individual seeker who could be proud of being a spiritual seeker. If someone seeks money and power, it is because God wants him to do so. If a man seeks spirituality, again, it is because there is God’s Grace.

This verse is to be seen as Lord Krishna stating the fact of the matter: how rare it is for someone to seek freedom and perfection, and how much rarer it is for someone to ultimately know the total Truth.

On the other hand, the Lord has already (IV/10) assured the seeker that “freed from lust, fear and anger, filled with Myself, fi nding refuge in Me, burnt and purifi ed in the blaze of wisdom, many have entered into My Being.”

The point is that it is not every seeker who can aspire for total perfection. It is a matter of Divine Will: all he can do is to accept this Divine Will and not let his desire for freedom itself become an obstruction. What this means is that the seeker must surrender to God’s Will in regard to the entire process of awakening. That he is a seeker is itself because of God’s Grace: surrender to this Grace, and leave everything to that Will.

A similar encouragement is voiced by Ramana Maharshi when he tells the seeker: “Your head is already in the tiger’s mouth, there is no escape.” Why be impatient?!

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