atheist experience, page-9

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1st you need to understand what Buddhism introduced, most specifically, the instruction on giving up desire, giving up liking & disliking, sense control, mental purity, impermanence & particularly non-attachment in the face of sense impressions, etc

before Buddhism, there existed the 3 vedas, which were not anything profound

in the BG, Krishna lectures heavily on non-attachment

but then Krishna seems to make the error of a novice

Krishna asserts Arjuna can do his 'duty' and participate in a war, with non-attachment

this is not correct because one will only participate in a war due to attachment

if the mind is non-attached, it will not participate in war

the BG is a great corruption of 'goodness', where it teaches heavily about 'purity', 'equinimity' & 'non-attachment' but, ultimately, recommends going to war

the Zen Buddhist priests in Japan did the same during WW2, which is wrong, i.e., illogical

one cannot kill without attachment

the corruption of goodness & truth is very subtle

for example, when Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in spirit, for they will see God"

well, "God" is merely a mental concept and the pure in spirit are well purified of mental concepts so, in reality, the pure in spirit do not see 'God'. instead, they see peace & purity

regards



Bg 2.14 — O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed

Bg 2.15 — O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation.

Bg 2.20 — For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

Bg 2.44 — In the minds of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, and who are bewildered by such things, the resolute determination for devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place.

Bg 2.45 — The Vedas [pre-Buddhism] deal mainly with the subject of the three modes of material nature. O Arjuna, become transcendental to these three modes. Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety,, and be established in the self.

Bg 2.47 — You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

Bg 2.48 — Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.

Bg 2.50 — A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad reactions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, which is the art of all work.

Bg 2.51 — By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead].

Bg 2.52 — When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard.

Bg 2.55 — The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense grati?cation, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus puri?ed, ?nds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.

Bg 2.56 — One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.

Bg 2.57 — In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is ?rmly ?xed in perfect knowledge.

Bg 2.58 — One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is ?rmly ?xed in perfect consciousness.

Bg 2.62 — While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

Bg 2.63 — From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.

Bg 2.64 — But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord.

Bg 2.71 — A person who has given up all desires for sense grati?cation, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego – he alone can attain real peace.

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