Wu Chi State of Krishna

Wu Chi State by Krishna

 

matra sparsas tu kaunteya

sitosna sukha dhuka dah

agampayino nityas

tam titiksasva bharata!

 

translated from Gita in Sanskrit says

 

O son of Kunti!w just as nonpermanent happiness and pain appear and,disappear like winter and summer seasons , know they are causs due to sensuous perception only and try to tolerate them.

 

In the following verse in gita after this, only such a person is eligible for liberation, the one who is not disturbed by the cycles of pain and happiness.

 

The Yin and Yang krishna states are facts of life, he does not say there can be complete happiness or complete sorrow in one's lifetime and they are bound to come in cycles analogous with summer and winter cycles to prove the point of natures play and everyone is subjected tus to experience it in life. He stresses the word of non permanence in addition to repeating them as cycles to prove it is indeed inevitable and the reason is because of sensuous perception of the reality. Feelings are nothing but the state of mind at that instant for a particular subject. As human mind grows, evolves and continuously changes,how the input from the senses are perceived is dependent on the state of the mind and the until the dynamics of life is clearly understood, no amount of preparation  or safe zone building can save one from hurt or suffering, nor can one avoid happiness which is eqully dynamic and spontaneous. Avoiding happiness and sorrow thus is inevitable , what however can be done knowing the nature of the mind to be the very source of this creation, having thus created , any amount of agitation , regret or holding and possession of the moment be happiness or distress is going to last long only till the next wave hits, so dont resist or attach for either of them will cause sufferingbut tolerate. Tolerate here could mean see it the same, dont resist thru the mind , knowing mind created it, for if you do, what results is coflict and disturbance out of the resistance. However why we continue to do is because happiness and distress we have invested in the idea of it being outside us and caused completely externally of us.

 

BUt then the obvious questions rushes up in the mind to ask, if you were to point out an holocaust victim in one of the nazi camps, how could someone see that physical psychological distress and their precvious happiest moments to be same?  Tolerate it and practice the art of Titiksha to see both as cycles and as same and in the next verse of gita predictably anwers the question

 

avinasi tu tad viddhi

yena sarvam idam tatam

vinasam avyayasyasya

na kascit kartum arhati

 

Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one will be able to destroy or slain the impersihable soul. he sys in the following verses in many ways as birth and death cycles , manifst and unmanifest cycles, and descibes soul as insoluble, unbreakable, undamageable, unchangeable, immovable, all pervading, eternal and invisible. This is the philosophy of Sankhya concludes Krishna.