Gita reflection Ch 7 verses 29 & 30

19th June 2024

• Every living being has one common fear and that is death.  And those who believe in rebirth have an additional fear about where and how will be the next life? Overcoming this fear is possible only when one realizes the 'body has birth and death, and not the soul which is the Self, that is eternal by nature.'

•  Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda observed: "The dreamer has no reality other than the waker; the dreamer is pure imagination and the waker alone is real. Similarly, the body has no reality other than the pure Self."

• He who resorts to the Lord to realize this understands the universal nature of the Self and all relative actions in the universe. 

• Based on the above, Lord Krishna opens up a new topic regarding the nature of the five elements, gods, and ritual sacrifices. He who knows the Lord connected to all these, even at the end of life will become liberated and become free from the fear of birth and death