The assimilation of atma vidya, involves a certain objectivity.
When you are objective, you see what is, how it is.
When you are not objective, you do not see what is.
To see what is, means to gain knowledge of the reality of what is.
Scientists are trying to come up with the reality of what is, while common people do not see the need to know what is.
We believe that in order for us to consider having lived a good life, we only need material comforts, and some sense of security, whereas, the truth is , one is looking for permanent security, peace, happiness, and a freedom from sense of limitation.
As a mortal human being, one is subject to limitation, and therefore, what one is after, seems to be never attainable.
Now how is this seeking of freedom, and permanency linked to "what is".
The bhagavad gita, looks at two ways to bring in "objectivity" and defines how "objectivity", which is the "seeing of what is" can indeed make oneself achieve freedom, and security, peace and happiness.
The gita, proclaims that the universe is not a soup of matter only, rather there is an intelligent order that is evident. Things do not happen randomly, even scientist will agree, that there is natural phenomenon, a sense of order.
Because there is order only we are able to live. There is a physical order of the environment, a biological order of the human beings and other living things. You take a doctor, a doctor is able to treat a infection, because the infection has a certain order to it. It has a certain cause effect relationship that is common to most humans, hence treatable. How our body works is a matter for study, for doing MBBS, MS and then even PHDs, because it follows a certain order.
So on the one hand there is matter, on the other hand, the matter is put together in a fashion, in a manner that is intelligent.
Veda goes on to talk about this order, in terms of actions and results. Every action leads to a result, and the results of actions have to be related in a cause effect order. This order is called as dharma. And the results of actions are said to be papa and punya.
The order of karma is talked about, it talks about three types of karma, sanchita karma ( the totality of all karmas from previous births), agami karma ( the karma that we are performing fresh), prarabdha karma ( the karma that is fructifying in and as our life now).
The one who is the wielder of the order of karma, is said to be dharma, and this dharma takes the status of being , a conscious being.
Since this universe is put together in an intelligent fashion , there is order, and this order can only reside in a conscious being. Order implies knowledge, knowledge implies a conscious being, implies a presence of consciousness.
This conscious being, who is the order behind the entire universe, the knower of how the universe is put together, the knower of karmaphala, is said to be ishvara, a conscious being.
In fact the material is also ishvara, ishvara is both the maker and material.
When you are objective, you see what is, how it is.
When you are not objective, you do not see what is.
To see what is, means to gain knowledge of the reality of what is.
Scientists are trying to come up with the reality of what is, while common people do not see the need to know what is.
We believe that in order for us to consider having lived a good life, we only need material comforts, and some sense of security, whereas, the truth is , one is looking for permanent security, peace, happiness, and a freedom from sense of limitation.
As a mortal human being, one is subject to limitation, and therefore, what one is after, seems to be never attainable.
Now how is this seeking of freedom, and permanency linked to "what is".
The bhagavad gita, looks at two ways to bring in "objectivity" and defines how "objectivity", which is the "seeing of what is" can indeed make oneself achieve freedom, and security, peace and happiness.
The gita, proclaims that the universe is not a soup of matter only, rather there is an intelligent order that is evident. Things do not happen randomly, even scientist will agree, that there is natural phenomenon, a sense of order.
Because there is order only we are able to live. There is a physical order of the environment, a biological order of the human beings and other living things. You take a doctor, a doctor is able to treat a infection, because the infection has a certain order to it. It has a certain cause effect relationship that is common to most humans, hence treatable. How our body works is a matter for study, for doing MBBS, MS and then even PHDs, because it follows a certain order.
So on the one hand there is matter, on the other hand, the matter is put together in a fashion, in a manner that is intelligent.
Veda goes on to talk about this order, in terms of actions and results. Every action leads to a result, and the results of actions have to be related in a cause effect order. This order is called as dharma. And the results of actions are said to be papa and punya.
The order of karma is talked about, it talks about three types of karma, sanchita karma ( the totality of all karmas from previous births), agami karma ( the karma that we are performing fresh), prarabdha karma ( the karma that is fructifying in and as our life now).
The one who is the wielder of the order of karma, is said to be dharma, and this dharma takes the status of being , a conscious being.
Since this universe is put together in an intelligent fashion , there is order, and this order can only reside in a conscious being. Order implies knowledge, knowledge implies a conscious being, implies a presence of consciousness.
This conscious being, who is the order behind the entire universe, the knower of how the universe is put together, the knower of karmaphala, is said to be ishvara, a conscious being.
In fact the material is also ishvara, ishvara is both the maker and material.
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