Gita 16.05 Acknowledging where a car’s wheels are pointing is not accusing the car driver

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thank you Bhagavad Gita 16.5 daivi sampad vimokshaya nibandhaya surimata maa shucha sampadam daivi abhijato si pandava daivi sampad vimokshaya Krishna is describing the two kinds of natures in this world and he says that he has described the characteristics of daivi sampad in verses 1 to 3 and mentioned in the summary the asuri sampad, the demoniac in text 4 and now he is stating the consequences wherein he is saying daivi sampad vimokshaya nibandhaya asurimata that those who work according to the divine nature they are elevated vimokshaya in fact they move towards not just elevation but also liberation nibandhaya those who are asuri they get more and more bound asurimata maa shucha sampadam daivim do not fear oh Arjuna because you possess daivi sampada your nature is godly abhijato si pandava you are born this way so all of us have our particular natures and in many ways we are products of our nature we can’t change the nature that we live with what we can do is change how we act and krishna uses this word that we are born in particular ways when he says papa yonah certain births signify a sinful past so again rather than seeing this as a judgment we can see this as a condemnation we can see this simply as an observation that we see diversity in people’s starting points in this world and rather than attributing that diversity to arbitrary chance which does seem irrational if we consider that we are born with especially if we accept a theistic world view then such arbitrariness seems unreasonable so it’s best that we work for purging ourselves of the connotation that the differentiation of people by birth is to be condemned it’s just that acknowledgement of different situation not it’s not a justification for the perpetuation of that situation life from this lifetime’s perspective is not fair at least not always fair and the imagining equality as a fact of birth can have counterproductive consequences now the American Declaration of Independence states that all people are born equal now that is if we consider what it means except the spirit that all people are equal in their spiritual potential in their spiritual essence and all people need to be given equal facility for their growth but equal facility doesn’t necessarily have to mean identical facility a student who is in the second standard needs to be given as much facility for rising to third standard as a student in the tenth level, tenth standard needs to be given to go to eleventh or as a university student needs to be given to rise to the next level but that does not necessarily mean at the facility provided for the second standard student has to be identical to what is provided to say a university second year student so equal facility has to be, the facility has to be equal not just from the objective perspective but also from the subjective perspective considering the level of the person so giving high tech equipments for doing complicated experiments it may be essential for a graduate or a post graduate student but giving such high tech equipments may be counterproductive for a small student for a second year, third year student for second standard student so the Varanashram system acknowledges the principle that everybody should be facilitated in their growth and in that sense society should not condemn anyone at the same time the idea that going in that direction we can seek to go more in the direction of purification and elevation that this is the level I am at and from this level how can I move forwards but just as a vehicle if when we park a vehicle if the wheels are turned in a particular way then as soon as the clutch or the brake is removed the vehicle is going to move by default in that direction so now saying that the wheels are turned in a particular way does not necessarily mean that the vehicle has to go in that way, it just means that greater effort will be required to make the vehicle go in the other direction so when it is said the godly and the demonic nature are conducive for particular things, elevation or bondage that means the wheels of the bodily car that the soul has got in this particular incarnation in this particular embodiment, embodied state those are turned in particular ways that does not necessarily mean that the car has to go in that way but if no precaution is taken, if no change is done the car will go in that direction similarly the ungodly mind will gravitate towards ungodly activities and will thus lead to bondage unless its wheels are turned, unless conscientious effort is made to reorient that and that reorientation is what is being talked about in the Bhagavad Gita