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Yes, it does. The truth that mankind has been searching since beginning is that he is God. All the human bodies are embodied by God, who created the universe and also pervades it. And this is exactly what Lord Krishna revealed to Arjun at the beginning of His discourse of Gita. When Arjun refused to fight the battle thinking that he would incur sin by killing his elders and kith and kin, Lord Krishna told him two things. First, all the human beings are eternal and indestructible, who were always existent and will never cease to exist, and who do not ever die but only change the bodies. Second, He said that all the bodies are embodied by the indestructible that pervades all, that is, by God.
Though all the bodies are embodied by God, who is eternal and indestructible, his ego deludes him and in each body he looks at himself as ‘I’, not God, and at other beings as different men and women, not God. Since, we could not understand the true sense of the very first words of Lord Krishna, we misunderstood the entire scripture. We could not know that the very objective of His teachings was to enable human beings to become free from ego and gain self-realization that they are God, not ‘I’ or men/women. We could not know that the being who attains self-realization while living would become free from constant changing of the bodies and dwell in the same body forever or that he would be completely freed from sorrows, diseases, old age and death and attain immortality.
As indicated earlier, we are eternal and indestructible beings who neither die nor ever cease to be but only keep changing the bodies. The being who realizes that he is God, not ‘I’ and so are other beings, will stop changing the bodies but shall live in the same body forever.
Not only the Gita but all Holy Scriptures such as Bible, Guru Granth Sahib, Ramayan etc. say that man can be freed from death or he can have eternal life or everlasting life. But as in the case of Gita, we could not get to the true sense of the words of God written in those scriptures and hence to this day we remain subject to constant death and birth.
Though Gita is a voluminous scripture, the entire knowledge it contains circles around few fundamental truths.
The first two truths that it states, as already mentioned earlier, are that all human beings are eternal living beings and that they are fragments of God or they are God.
Next thing that Gita says is that the beings are not the doers of actions taking place from their bodies. It says that all actions are performed by the attributes of Nature but the beings who are deluded by the ego think that they are the doers. It reveals that there are three attributes of Nature namely Sattva, Rajas and Tamas or purity, passion and delusion. Though beings are not the doers of actions but since they think that they are the doers, they become attached with the attributes of Nature, that is, with purity, passion and delusion, which perform the action. This attachment with the attributes is said to be the cause of their constant birth in different bodies.
Next thing the Gita says is that the Supreme God who created all and pervades all is Gyan. Verse 7:19 says that at last after many births the Gyani reaches God realizing that all is Vasudev or Supreme Reality. The all-pervading God or Gyan is a Bhava of oneness and sameness to all that all is Supreme Reality and all beings are God. This Gyan or Bhava or God is the ultimate goal of all beings. The beings who reach this Bhava on leaving the bodies are liberated from births. The beings who attain this Bhava while living are completely freed from sorrow, old-age, death, birth and attain immortality.
Next thing that Lord Krishna says is that man cannot reach or attain God, the Supreme Bhava, by doing any deed or performing any action. He says specifically that man cannot reach or attain God by the Vedas or by the performance of any sacrifices, charities and austerities. However, He says that man can not just reach and attain God but he can also see, know and truly enter the Supreme God or Gyan by exclusive devotion to the path of Yog declared by Him.
Lord Krishna has declared two kinds of devotion in the Gita by which man can reach or attain God and called them Yog. One is Gyan Yog or Buddhi-Yog and the other is Karma Yog. Whereas Buddhi-yog consists of renouncing fruits of action to God, Karma-yog consists of mentally renouncing the actions to God. At the beginning of His discourse He declared that the beings have right to the action but never to the fruits. Though not the doers of actions, the beings may or may not renounce the actions to God but since they do not have right to the fruits, they have to renounce the fruits to God. The beings who do not renounce the fruits to God incur sin and remain subject to death and birth. However, they do not have to renounce the fruits physically but they have to do it by intellect.
They have to engage in actions with firmness of intellect that the fruits of actions are of God and all is happening for God. They have to renounce all fruits to God by thinking that God is experiencing the joys and sorrows. The beings do not have to bring any change in their actions or life style but continue to engage in all usual actions and enjoy all sense objects. All they have to do is to constantly think that God is enjoying the sense objects and experiencing the joys and sorrows. This will free them from desire and ego and unite them to God in their heart and make them non-perishable beings. The renouncement of fruits of action to God steadies the intellect of the being due to which he does not perish.
Gita has revealed both, the cause of the death of the being and the way to overcome death Verses 2:62-63 of the Gita reveal that when the being engages in actions with mind on the objects, it gives rise to attachment to the objects. The attachment gives rise to desire, desire to anger, anger to delusion, delusion to confusion of memory and confusion of memory to loss of intellect. When the intellect is lost the being perishes. It may thus be seen that the ultimate cause of death of the beings is loss of intellect but the primal cause that gives rise to loss of intellect is performance of actions with mind on the objects or fruits of action. The Buddhi-yog or performance of actions by renouncing the fruits to God is the way to overcome death since it steadies the intellect of the being whereby he does not perish and leave the body but attains eternal life.
Though the beings who practice Buddhi-yog and renounce all fruits of actions to God are freed from desire and ego and become non-perishable beings but those who also renounce all actions to God mentally while performing actions by Karma-Yog attain an even higher state on being established in Yog. They cross over the three attributes of purity, passion and delusion and attain the Supreme Bhava of God that is sameness towards all beings realizing that all beings are God. On attaining the Supreme Bhava they are completely freed from sorrow, old age, death and birth and attain immortality, as revealed in Verses 14:19-20 of the Gita. They become Supreme imperishable beings.
As in the case of Buddhi-yog the person practising Karma Yog does not have to bring any change in his life style and actions. All he has to do is to simply say in his heart, while performing every action that God is performing the action or God you are performing the action. This simple renouncement of all actions to God while performing the actions is the greatest secret science revealed in the Gita which can free the being from ego, give him self-realization that he and all beings are God and free him from sorrows, diseases, old age and death.
The difference between the non-perishable beings and the Supreme Beings is that whereas the non-perishable beings are destroyed at the approach of the night of Brahm, which is of thousand Yugas, and are born again at the beginning of day, which is also of thousand Yugas, the Supreme Beings are neither destroyed in dissolution nor born in creation as revealed in Verses 14:1-2 of the Gita.
Though this secret of science of Yog was imparted by Lord Krishna to Arjun about 5000 years ago and is lying written in the Gita, it could not be understood by mankind. The understanding of Yog came to a person by itself few years ago when a light appeared before him, while he was sitting at his home. He had no earlier knowledge of the things written in the scriptures. However after this understanding, he read all the holy scriptures such as Gita, Ramayan, Guru Granth Sahib, Bible, Quran etc and found that all the scriptures contain the same knowledge of God that was revealed to him.
The knowledge of God came into the world at different times through different prophets in different words. The understanding of the words of God has come into the world now since the time has come for the advent of a new age in which the human beings will be freed from sorrow, old age and death. In the new age, the world will become one and all human beings will live in perfect oneness and harmony having realized that all are same that is all are God.
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