VITARK HIMSADAYAH KRUTA KARITA ANUMODITA LOBHA KRODHA MOHA
PURVAKA MRUDU MADHYA ADHIMATRA DUKHA ADNYAN ANANTA FALA ITI
PRITIPRAKSH BHAWANAM
THOUGHTS THAT PROMOTE COMMITTING VIOLENCE ETC, IS VITARKA, THESE COULD BE DIRECT,INDIRECT OR PERMITTED OR ENCOURAGED , ANGER GREED OR DELUSION CAN AGGRAVATE THIS (VIOLENCE), AND THE ACTION COULD BE MILD , MODERATE OR SEVERE.THESE VITARK CAUSE UNENDING PAIN AND INCREASE IGNORANCE , AND LAST (THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH CYCLES).SO THE ASPIRANT SHOULD DO PRATIKSHA BHAVAN OR POSITIVE THINKING.
This sutra looks complicated , but it is not once we understand the complicated language and the premise that we should know and accept. So we will have thoughts of violence . This could be through in thought or physical . This could be direct or indirect or permitted or encouraged. Let us take some example . When we someone , we have a positive or a negative thought or may be neutral i we have not known that person . So if we had negative experience of that person , we will have a negative thought . We may wish some harm to him , may be that he would fail in an examination or should not get promotion or success n the business etc. So this is a violence in thought. If we get a bad thought and not act upon it it is lees in severity than if we act upon the thought. So if we think he should not get promotion in the job , it is mild violence in thought. But now we act and tell his superior that he is bad or not trustworthy etc , we re doing more severe violence . Let us say we injure him so he can not go for the interview , then it is severe form of violence. So this is mild , moderate and severe , and DIRECT.
But now take same example . We do not do anything our self but ask some one to inform the superior to tell bad things or employ gundas to hurt him , this is indirect violence. One can take example of eating meat. Killing our self , having butcher kill and then being cooked by some one else would be direct and indirect form of violence. In the same example if some one is beating the person and we do not stop it , it is encouraged or permitted form of violence.I often see parents who do not eat meat , but promote or allow there kids or guests to eat the meat in their home . This is indirect or encouraged violence.
If one has greed or anger or has delusion , then he or she is more likely to do violence. If I am mad at someone and he shows up , I am more likely to be violent. If I have some kind of greed-say I myself or my relative is competing for the same position or job or contract , then I am more likely to be violent.Think about what BHIMA did in Mahabharata after killing Dushhashan.He drank the blood of his enemy!
This also hold true for every other YAMAi.e telling truth, not stealing or celibacy, not hoarding .So our action could be mild or moderate or severe . We may lie to get off work by telling a lie that we are sick which is mild form in case of murder. Same thing can be said about all other YAMAS. And anger , greed and delusions will make it worst.
So now we are told that we need to combat these thoughts by having positive thought . This is called PRATIKSHA BHAVAN . So we should think that myself or my relative is better and will get the contract or the job or promotion on his own qualifications without resolving to the violence . If one also has less attachments to mortal things in this world , we will not have as many bad thoughts as we would if continue to not follow the YAM AND NIYAMA . So if we are not involved in sense organ pleasures, we are less likely to get mad , greedy and act violent.
One can easily understand the degree or severity of our action in case of celibacy or hoarding or stealing . Then one can easily cultivate positive thoughts to combat them .This will start happening as one gets more success in meditation . So more strictly one follows these Yamas , more easy it is to do meditation and more one does the practice of meditation, easier it becomes to follow them .
PURVAKA MRUDU MADHYA ADHIMATRA DUKHA ADNYAN ANANTA FALA ITI
PRITIPRAKSH BHAWANAM
THOUGHTS THAT PROMOTE COMMITTING VIOLENCE ETC, IS VITARKA, THESE COULD BE DIRECT,INDIRECT OR PERMITTED OR ENCOURAGED , ANGER GREED OR DELUSION CAN AGGRAVATE THIS (VIOLENCE), AND THE ACTION COULD BE MILD , MODERATE OR SEVERE.THESE VITARK CAUSE UNENDING PAIN AND INCREASE IGNORANCE , AND LAST (THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH CYCLES).SO THE ASPIRANT SHOULD DO PRATIKSHA BHAVAN OR POSITIVE THINKING.
This sutra looks complicated , but it is not once we understand the complicated language and the premise that we should know and accept. So we will have thoughts of violence . This could be through in thought or physical . This could be direct or indirect or permitted or encouraged. Let us take some example . When we someone , we have a positive or a negative thought or may be neutral i we have not known that person . So if we had negative experience of that person , we will have a negative thought . We may wish some harm to him , may be that he would fail in an examination or should not get promotion or success n the business etc. So this is a violence in thought. If we get a bad thought and not act upon it it is lees in severity than if we act upon the thought. So if we think he should not get promotion in the job , it is mild violence in thought. But now we act and tell his superior that he is bad or not trustworthy etc , we re doing more severe violence . Let us say we injure him so he can not go for the interview , then it is severe form of violence. So this is mild , moderate and severe , and DIRECT.
But now take same example . We do not do anything our self but ask some one to inform the superior to tell bad things or employ gundas to hurt him , this is indirect violence. One can take example of eating meat. Killing our self , having butcher kill and then being cooked by some one else would be direct and indirect form of violence. In the same example if some one is beating the person and we do not stop it , it is encouraged or permitted form of violence.I often see parents who do not eat meat , but promote or allow there kids or guests to eat the meat in their home . This is indirect or encouraged violence.
If one has greed or anger or has delusion , then he or she is more likely to do violence. If I am mad at someone and he shows up , I am more likely to be violent. If I have some kind of greed-say I myself or my relative is competing for the same position or job or contract , then I am more likely to be violent.Think about what BHIMA did in Mahabharata after killing Dushhashan.He drank the blood of his enemy!
This also hold true for every other YAMAi.e telling truth, not stealing or celibacy, not hoarding .So our action could be mild or moderate or severe . We may lie to get off work by telling a lie that we are sick which is mild form in case of murder. Same thing can be said about all other YAMAS. And anger , greed and delusions will make it worst.
So now we are told that we need to combat these thoughts by having positive thought . This is called PRATIKSHA BHAVAN . So we should think that myself or my relative is better and will get the contract or the job or promotion on his own qualifications without resolving to the violence . If one also has less attachments to mortal things in this world , we will not have as many bad thoughts as we would if continue to not follow the YAM AND NIYAMA . So if we are not involved in sense organ pleasures, we are less likely to get mad , greedy and act violent.
One can easily understand the degree or severity of our action in case of celibacy or hoarding or stealing . Then one can easily cultivate positive thoughts to combat them .This will start happening as one gets more success in meditation . So more strictly one follows these Yamas , more easy it is to do meditation and more one does the practice of meditation, easier it becomes to follow them .
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