The Pursuit for Eternal Peace

Teachings 3-5

¨He who really knows my divine birth and my action, escapes rebirth when he abandons the body-and he comes to me, Arjuna¨(pg. 52). I still find it very ironic in the way that rebirth is horrible. It may be that for man, life is short, but some such as Gilgamesh cant have everything he had. The goal in this teaching is not the pursuit for immortality, but for eternal peace. As the third teaching said ¨Goodmen eating the remnants of sacrifice are free of any guilt, but evil men who cook for themselves eat the food of sin¨. (pg. 44). The evil people suffer the rebirth, or at least in the rebirth, their lives must be as miserable as they treated in their other life. The Goodman will be rewarded in his second chance, but obviously they must still be good, or else they become the evil and miserable man.

¨Attraction and hatred are poised in the object of every sense experience; a man must not fall prey to these two brigands lurking on its path!¨(pg. 48) This cite form the book is seen everyday on our society. Our society is killing us. Hatred and jealousy devastates us all. We all want more and more, we are never happy with what we have. It is never enough. If you just had a fight, no one should be happy, special your rival. Our whims and desires make us hate and kill us between each other. It may not be the murder of a bod, but it could be the assassination of a spirit. We all want power and glory. We all want more.

Even so, Lord Krishna says ¨Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over all evil on the raft of knowledge¨(pg.56) how can knowledge be a better purifier? Maybe because it is so hard to get that many people are not able to reach it. Its more like a luxury.

¨The man of eternal renunciation is one who neither hates nor desires; beyond dualities , he is easily freed form bondage¨. (pg. 59) It can sound so easy, but renunciation is so hard. Not desiring anything is almost impossible. How are we supposed to feel if we do not desire? All of our minds are corrupted by our little conscious that has been growing through years, Mother Culture. This teachings even remind me of Ishmael. Lord Krishna was Ishmael and Arjuna the pupil. The great difference is the religion. This is more about beliefs and the after life. Ishmael is more about our corrupted society.