GOD-‘G’eneration-‘O’bservation-‘D’estruction
We learnt about our mind to a very small extent. Our Rishies were continuously using their mind, intellect, wisdom for saadhana for learning ourselves and everything outside ourselves. Finally they came to the conclusion that as is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.
It is said that in every 4 seconds or so one star is borne and almost during the same interval of time one star is approaching to death. This is like the birth and death of the animals and plants. Every planet and celestial bodies does its dharma of rotation and revolutions every minute. “We are all rotating in the samsaara chakra†says our Rishies. Lord Krishna specifically said, who is not involved in this rotation of the nature’s rhythmic phenomenon, is like keeping away from the nature’s rule. These knowledge could be derived by continuous saadhana .
According to Indian concept, the nature is controlled by paramaathma chaitanya, the omnipotent omnipresent divine power which can also be said as parabrahma chaitanya. How the paramaathma chaitanya does its work.
The explanation is simple. Just like a manager gets things done through his employees by giving different responsibilities to each and everyone of his colleagues, the omnipotent omnipresent manager gets the things done through its employees ( each and everyone of us). Now suppose the manager is the father and the employees are his children. Then, how we will explain the manager- employee
relationship. The employees are part and parcel of the manager, or the product of the manager itself. In a similar way, the divine power, paramaathma chaitanya, spares a small part of it ( infinitesimally small) which can be called as Jeevaathma chaitanya. This Jeevaatma chaitanya is given a body and wisdom/intelligence ( like the body of animals, plants, microorganisms). The body is so shaped as to undertake the mission bestowed upon it by the paramaatma chaitanya, for getting its work done. Here the body is the manifestation and manipulation of the jeevaathma chaitanya ( which in turn is connected with paramaathma chaitanya as has already been explained).
Now the body is ready , the mind, intellect, wisdom, thinking, analyzing, estimating, evaluating, extrapolating, intrapolating, justifying, constructing, destructing, surviving….powers are also given to the mind and body. This is the way through which the nature gets its job done as ‘G’eneration,‘O’bservation and ‘D’estruction ( srushti- sthithi-samhaaram). All the three powers are within us( within each and every cell in the body) because we are all built through ( or for) the three purposes.
Each and every animal, plant, micro organism, has got specific responsibility ( responsibilities) bestowed upon it by the nature for undertaking its mission, as the manager gives the responsibilities ( to clerks, peons, accountants, engineers, etc) for undertaking his mission. Nature has given a small responsibility to human beings also. Not that all the responsibilities are given to human beings. We think the nature has given all the responsibility of the nature to human beings. Wrong !
It is also wrong to say that human being is a highly developed animal. Different animals have different type of super qualities and qualifications, some of which are far higher than that exist in human beings. A kite can see a small seed from a distance of three kilometers, a cat can see even in blinding darkness, a dog can hear minutest sound, a cheetach can run at 160 kilometers per hr and just from one tree to another without slipping its legs, a humming bird can fly from African continent to India without stopping anywhere in three days over the Arabian sea. Like this every animals, plant and micro organisms are given very specific dharma and accordingly its body. None of the capacities given to these animals/ plants can be seen in human beings. They are superior in these aspects and many other ways than human beings.
The limitations and problems with human beings are so much, perhaps beyond the level of our imagination which we will read in the next
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