V16: The point which he wants Arjuna to understand is that if you have a proper understanding of the soul and body then you will not lament. When the lease runs out a person can't continue to stay at the same place. The rule is that you are kicked out and you have to go to another place. Same way soul occupies the body and the body has a limited time of existence. The body can't extend its existence and at that time the soul is kicked out to another body. There is no endurance for the body. The soul doesn't change but when the desire is kept within our heart, then we create the subtle body and we create the next body. within this life when we start desiring all kinds of nonsense, the Supersoul understands our desires and starts creating the subtle body. The body and the spirit are different. The body is inferior and the soul is superior. The reason we are in the situation is because we are always covered with the material modes of nature. We need to understand that we are not the Lord but we are just the parts and parcels, but we forget our position. This is exactly what Krsna is teaching Arjuna to how to get out of this bewilderment so they can understand the nature of the spirit soul. The reason the Lord teaches BG is because we can all study it and drive away all ignorance and be enlightened. How can we drive this only by the mercy of a Guru and following in his footsteps with faith and devotion.
V17: Characteristics of the soul - the symptoms of the consciousness of the soul. The very first time Krsna talks about the symptoms of the soul. The soul pervades the entire body and is not destructible. This is consciousness - nature or symptom of the soul. These individual souls can experience only the pains or pleasures of this soul, but only the super soul can understand the pains and pleasures of all the souls - Only Krsna. Size of the soul - last two verses are very important and please learn it. The soul gets out only when the body dies, but if there is a heart transplant the person is still the same person as it's the same soul - there might be exchange of some karma. Even animals and plants have soul and give the argument that they are also mating, eating, defending and reproducing. Similarly, give example of the sunshine (purport) we are all fragmental parts of the Supreme soul.
V18: Material body is perishable by nature - either perishable immediately, or hundreds of years. But the soul is indestructible. Only one good use and that use is that the body is for doing devotional service or spiritual activity. Any other thing is a waste of time. This body should be used only for devotional service. The body itself is unimportant. As soon as someone dies, the spirit soul goes away - the effulgence goes away and the body starts decomposing - we know something is gone from the body.
V19: The soul cannot be killed or kill nor can it kill another soul. We don't promote violence, even killing the animals, because the soul is coming for a particular reason to do his karma. When we kill, he still needs to come back into another animal body and because we have disturbed this process, we incur karma due to that. Our only way is by eating prasadam and going out on harinam sankirtam.
V20: Krsna doesn't say differently when he speaks to different people. Example when he speaks to Uddhava it's the same philosophy. The soul doesn't take birth nor it dies. We need to go back to the spiritual realms where everything is enjoyable. He is always existing as he's an expansion of the lord. Spiriti osul is eternally existing. wE find that even when our body is going old we still think that we are more mature in the way we talk. Inside the body are two kinds of souls - paramatma and the individual soul. Who can understand the glories of the soul - only one who has the mercy of the Lord only by pleasing the spiritual master. They feel they are servants of Krsna and are just serving our Spiritual master and Krsna then they are on the spiritual realm, otherwise we are acting on the bodily concept. This can happen only when we have the grace and mercy of the Lord. One who desires to seek Krsna then he comes back to Krsna.
V21/22- Surgeon and Judge example - the surgeon uses the same knife to help while a murderer using the knife to kill. Similarly, the judge hangs one a person but based on his karma that's ok because the judge is acting on religious principles to help him alleviate his karma. When someone dies it's like changing clothes of the soul. When the garment is old, they throw it away. The analogy is when the clothes are old and torn then we throw it away. When someone gets attached to the body or their home or their relationships or they die terribly then they become ghosts. We all have to take another body. Pious activities don't help with liberation, it actually makes us more attached with this kind of work. Based on our desires our subtle body is created. But based on our understanding of the BG, we should try to avoid these desires and only desire to serve Radha and Krsna. As we become more and more KC, our desires for material sense gratification goes away and we only want to serve Krsna and please him. Then we start thinking like a spirit soul. when we are working in that consciousness, then the subtle body (*template for the next material body) dies and we will get a spiritual body. We should conciously want to serve spiritual personalities and to serve for their pleasure and then conciousness shift that I must to I want to do for Krsna's pleasure. Example is the 2 birds. Everything is being witnessed by the Supersoul and he helps create the next body based on our desires and what we deserve. As we are parts and parcels of KRsna and because he has desires, we also have desires. Our desires are completely fulfilled if we serve Krsna and that knowledge isn't there with us. Whatever we enjoy is temporary and hence we are never satisfied. This material world bewilders us and everything is OK and as soon as we close the book we are again put into illusion. So if we are always stead fast in our spiritual devotion then we will always be in the right consciousness. Hence Krsna says now he shouldn't be worried about killing Bhisma and Dhrona - because they will be actually getting rid of their karmas as they were party of the Kauravas plan. Hence Arjuna should be happy and not sad.
V23-25: More qualities of the soul. The points are repeated to emphasize again and again with Arjuna.
By this statement of Krsna the soul remains the same eternal particle without any change. Krsna says that the soul is insoluble, if it is solube how does the soul merge into the spiritual realm. Even the soul when he's wanting to merge, he cannot lose his identigy and remains as the spiritual soul and needs some desire for Krsna's companion. and such personalities come back to home. We should just please the Lord so we can go back to Goloka to have the highest relationships with Krsna. Sarva-gatha - the soul can stay anywhere, it's all pervading - in water, in oil, in air, in hot water etdc.
When we are in true spiritual conciousness - our spirit soul will itself manifest into its spiritual body. We are right now like flower buds and when we become pure, we bloom into full flowers as our contamination goes away and our spiritual identity is revealed.
V17: Characteristics of the soul - the symptoms of the consciousness of the soul. The very first time Krsna talks about the symptoms of the soul. The soul pervades the entire body and is not destructible. This is consciousness - nature or symptom of the soul. These individual souls can experience only the pains or pleasures of this soul, but only the super soul can understand the pains and pleasures of all the souls - Only Krsna. Size of the soul - last two verses are very important and please learn it. The soul gets out only when the body dies, but if there is a heart transplant the person is still the same person as it's the same soul - there might be exchange of some karma. Even animals and plants have soul and give the argument that they are also mating, eating, defending and reproducing. Similarly, give example of the sunshine (purport) we are all fragmental parts of the Supreme soul.
V18: Material body is perishable by nature - either perishable immediately, or hundreds of years. But the soul is indestructible. Only one good use and that use is that the body is for doing devotional service or spiritual activity. Any other thing is a waste of time. This body should be used only for devotional service. The body itself is unimportant. As soon as someone dies, the spirit soul goes away - the effulgence goes away and the body starts decomposing - we know something is gone from the body.
V19: The soul cannot be killed or kill nor can it kill another soul. We don't promote violence, even killing the animals, because the soul is coming for a particular reason to do his karma. When we kill, he still needs to come back into another animal body and because we have disturbed this process, we incur karma due to that. Our only way is by eating prasadam and going out on harinam sankirtam.
V20: Krsna doesn't say differently when he speaks to different people. Example when he speaks to Uddhava it's the same philosophy. The soul doesn't take birth nor it dies. We need to go back to the spiritual realms where everything is enjoyable. He is always existing as he's an expansion of the lord. Spiriti osul is eternally existing. wE find that even when our body is going old we still think that we are more mature in the way we talk. Inside the body are two kinds of souls - paramatma and the individual soul. Who can understand the glories of the soul - only one who has the mercy of the Lord only by pleasing the spiritual master. They feel they are servants of Krsna and are just serving our Spiritual master and Krsna then they are on the spiritual realm, otherwise we are acting on the bodily concept. This can happen only when we have the grace and mercy of the Lord. One who desires to seek Krsna then he comes back to Krsna.
V21/22- Surgeon and Judge example - the surgeon uses the same knife to help while a murderer using the knife to kill. Similarly, the judge hangs one a person but based on his karma that's ok because the judge is acting on religious principles to help him alleviate his karma. When someone dies it's like changing clothes of the soul. When the garment is old, they throw it away. The analogy is when the clothes are old and torn then we throw it away. When someone gets attached to the body or their home or their relationships or they die terribly then they become ghosts. We all have to take another body. Pious activities don't help with liberation, it actually makes us more attached with this kind of work. Based on our desires our subtle body is created. But based on our understanding of the BG, we should try to avoid these desires and only desire to serve Radha and Krsna. As we become more and more KC, our desires for material sense gratification goes away and we only want to serve Krsna and please him. Then we start thinking like a spirit soul. when we are working in that consciousness, then the subtle body (*template for the next material body) dies and we will get a spiritual body. We should conciously want to serve spiritual personalities and to serve for their pleasure and then conciousness shift that I must to I want to do for Krsna's pleasure. Example is the 2 birds. Everything is being witnessed by the Supersoul and he helps create the next body based on our desires and what we deserve. As we are parts and parcels of KRsna and because he has desires, we also have desires. Our desires are completely fulfilled if we serve Krsna and that knowledge isn't there with us. Whatever we enjoy is temporary and hence we are never satisfied. This material world bewilders us and everything is OK and as soon as we close the book we are again put into illusion. So if we are always stead fast in our spiritual devotion then we will always be in the right consciousness. Hence Krsna says now he shouldn't be worried about killing Bhisma and Dhrona - because they will be actually getting rid of their karmas as they were party of the Kauravas plan. Hence Arjuna should be happy and not sad.
V23-25: More qualities of the soul. The points are repeated to emphasize again and again with Arjuna.
By this statement of Krsna the soul remains the same eternal particle without any change. Krsna says that the soul is insoluble, if it is solube how does the soul merge into the spiritual realm. Even the soul when he's wanting to merge, he cannot lose his identigy and remains as the spiritual soul and needs some desire for Krsna's companion. and such personalities come back to home. We should just please the Lord so we can go back to Goloka to have the highest relationships with Krsna. Sarva-gatha - the soul can stay anywhere, it's all pervading - in water, in oil, in air, in hot water etdc.
When we are in true spiritual conciousness - our spirit soul will itself manifest into its spiritual body. We are right now like flower buds and when we become pure, we bloom into full flowers as our contamination goes away and our spiritual identity is revealed.
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