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Bhagavad
Gita - April 10, 2009
Chapter
4, Verses: 6-8
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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IV.6:
Though I'm birthless, undecaying by nature, and the Lord of beings,
(still) by subjugating My Prakriti, I take birth by means of My own
Maya.
IV.7:
O scion of the Bharata dynasty, whenever there is a decline of virtue
and increase of vice, then do I manifest Myself.
IV.8:
For the protection of the pious, the destruction of the evil-doers,
and establishing virtue, I manifest Myself in every age.
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Summary
of this lecture:
Vedanta proclaims immortality of the soul; our physical body is subject
to birth and death, not the soul. Lord has been telling this to Arjuna
right from the 2nd chapter. Ignorant people identify themselves with
a particular body and thus do not know that they have had many bodies,
many births and deaths of them. The Lord is conscious of the soul as
separate from the body ad thus remembers all the various births assumed
by Him.
The 6th verse explains the special nature of the 'birth' of the Lord.
Although Lord is 'unborn, unchangeable and the Lord of the whole creation'
He assumes a body by His own inscrutable Maya-Power. And he does it
for a purpose, which is described by the next 2 verses. Whenever virtue
declines and vice prevails and values in the society get perverted thus
making it impossible for the righteous to follow the right path, then
to destroy the evil tendencies and re-establish, re-enforce the Dharma,
Lord incarnates as a human being. HE appears and acts as a human being
but there is the constant awareness of the divinity. Like acting in
a drama - the Lord, while remaining the Lord, assumes the role of a
man.
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