Gita 15.16 Purification means to change our emotional center

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thank you in this world there are two kinds of beings Bhagavad Gita 15.16 Bhagavad Gita 15.16 is those who are fallible Akshara is those who are infallible actually there are kind of beings that exist in total Bhagavad Gita 15.16 the fallible exist in this world Bhagavad Gita 15.16 Bhagavad Gita 15.16 that means situated above it’s like say a bird situated at a high level at a high altitude above its surrounding situation similarly Bhagavad Gita 15.16 Bhagavad Gita 15.16 the Akshara, the infallible living beings we could say they are the liberated souls Bhagavad Gita 15.16 who are situated at a higher level of reality there are two categories of being and both are at one level important in the sense that both are beings who exist and whose existence matters but suppose there are people who are caught in a forest fire or caught in a flood there is pandemonium all around there are others who are at a position high up and from there are watching so it’s not that those who are watching are heartless or uncaring it’s just that they are in that particular position where they won’t get so emotionally involved with whatever is going on in the vicinity below similarly dhirastatranamohiniyati Krishna has said right at the start of the Bhagavad Gita in 2.13 that the sober people are not bewildered by whatever they experience around them dhira means sober, the changes that happen in the world around them and even in the body those that affect them because they are not emotionally involved in it Krishna in this section of the Gita is giving a quick overview of existence and he states here that among the two kinds of beings that are there in the world some fallible, some infallible some conditions, some liberated what makes them in their particular what defines them as liberated or conditioned is not some sectarian bias it is based on their own situation their own understanding of who they are and what they are meant to do that is when we are emotionally caught in something then we are affected by whatever happens in that situation but if we are emotionally not caught then we are not affected similarly for us we as eternal spiritual beings if we identify with matter and are affected by the ups and downs of matter then we struggle and suffer if somebody is attached to cricket and if their favorite team wins or loses they are strongly affected by that but if somebody is not so enamored with cricket then whatever happens on the cricket field doesn’t affect them so conditioning and liberation it is primarily determined by the location of our emotional center where our emotions are invested centrally if we consider our emotions to be like our finances we may have our assets distributed at different places but at some places we may have invested the finances in a large quantity and that we could say is our financial center so if that is affected say that bank goes bankrupt or that company crashes then we are shaken if that bank does not if other banks where we are not invested are witnessing a crash then we won’t be so much affected so kutastha is to be situated above to be unaffected our emotions too are invested in various things in this world but they are especially invested in our particular attachments and our emotional center if it is in Krishna then we are liberated even if it is in some spiritual reality such as the impersonal Brahman even then we are not that entangled when it is invested in the material world then we are entangled and in the material world also where it is situated matters for some people it may be situated in books they just love to read good thought provoking books for some people it is situated in sex and other forms of gratification for some people it may be situated in addictions such as alcoholism or drugs and overall the end result is we may be entangled in goodness passion or ignorance depending on the nature of our attachment depending on the location of our emotional center we often differentiate people or categorize people based on various factors such as nationality profession, educational level income bracket complexion genealogy the Bhagavad Gita while giving an overview of the totality of existence doesn’t go into any of these categories it goes directly to that which is the most important criteria from a spiritual perspective the criteria of where our consciousness is invested to what we are emotionally attached Krishna says these are Purusha these are souls who are having conscious energy this chapter is called Purusha Uttama Yoga and this categorization of souls into conditioned and liberated will be a prelude to the real point of this chapter that the supreme being the Purushottama is beyond even the liberated that will be mentioned in the next two verses