परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥
paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge-(Chapter 4- Stanza 8)
One of the most misunderstood stanza in the Bhagavad Geeta.
Its often lost in translation.
Reason?
Its becos of the tendency of the human mind to divide anything and everything into good and bad.
We can find many translations of this stanza mostly echoing the following:
"For the protection of the virtuous and the destruction of the evil doers and for the establishment of Dharma(righteousness)...I incarnate from Age to Age."
Yes...this is where we get lost in translation!
Right away we assume Sadhunam means Good people/Sadhus/ and Dushkrtam means all that is bad and evil doers?
But is it so?
Does God really incarnate just to save a few who claim to be good and destroy the rest whom we feel are bad?
Naah! Its the Man in the Mirror here!
Sadhunam is not just anyone..not just a Sadhu!
Sadhunam is everyone..yes..everyone.
The human has innate Divinity within which is often tainted by the layers of unawareness.
The unawareness is what is better translated as Dushkritam.
The word Dush has many meanings in Sanskrit.
Yes..Yes..I get it..it does mean Bad too but there are much more than just being BAD here.
It does also mean Tainted.
So the Dushkrtam is not just anyone whom we feel is BAD.
Dushkrtam is also everyone of us including me and you!
Everyone of us is the Sadhunam and also the Dushkrtam.
So what happens next?
The mind seeks re-alignment to get back to an equipoise state.
This is when we say Dharma has been established.
The word Dharma does not have an English equivalent translation and its often thought of as Righteousness which isnt all that accurate.
Dharma is the Mode of Existence.
It does not Judge.
Its the mode most conducive for well being of any animated entity.
That is what we need to establish.
To revert to Dharma that makes us most conducive.
Do we have to wait for the end of the Yuga for this?
Nope...Why Yuge Yuge(From Age to Age).
Why not Dine Dine(From Day to Day).
If too much heavy duty Geeta Preaching is hard to retain...worry not,
Just listen to Man in the Mirror by Micheal Jackson...change needs to start from us...we need to remove covering of "Dushkrtam" to reveal the "Sadhunam" in us!
Yes...this is where we get lost in translation!
Right away we assume Sadhunam means Good people/Sadhus/ and Dushkrtam means all that is bad and evil doers?
But is it so?
Does God really incarnate just to save a few who claim to be good and destroy the rest whom we feel are bad?
Naah! Its the Man in the Mirror here!
Sadhunam is not just anyone..not just a Sadhu!
Sadhunam is everyone..yes..everyone.
The human has innate Divinity within which is often tainted by the layers of unawareness.
The unawareness is what is better translated as Dushkritam.
The word Dush has many meanings in Sanskrit.
Yes..Yes..I get it..it does mean Bad too but there are much more than just being BAD here.
It does also mean Tainted.
So the Dushkrtam is not just anyone whom we feel is BAD.
Dushkrtam is also everyone of us including me and you!
Everyone of us is the Sadhunam and also the Dushkrtam.
So what happens next?
The mind seeks re-alignment to get back to an equipoise state.
This is when we say Dharma has been established.
The word Dharma does not have an English equivalent translation and its often thought of as Righteousness which isnt all that accurate.
Dharma is the Mode of Existence.
It does not Judge.
Its the mode most conducive for well being of any animated entity.
That is what we need to establish.
To revert to Dharma that makes us most conducive.
Do we have to wait for the end of the Yuga for this?
Nope...Why Yuge Yuge(From Age to Age).
Why not Dine Dine(From Day to Day).
If too much heavy duty Geeta Preaching is hard to retain...worry not,
Just listen to Man in the Mirror by Micheal Jackson...change needs to start from us...we need to remove covering of "Dushkrtam" to reveal the "Sadhunam" in us!
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change
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