Monday, February 15, 2010

Gita Chapter 16 - Characters

-Krishna discusses the divine and demoniacal natures and ways for the supreme destination and to give up ego, lust, anger and greed with the guide of scriptures.

1. Fearlessness, charity, self-control, spiritualism sacrifice, and austerity are needed for happy living.

2. Nonviolence, compassion, truthfulness, modesty tranquility, and determination make a good man.

3. Vigor, honor, forgiveness, fortitude, external purity and freedom from envy add glory to men.

4. Avoid the demoniac nature of arrogance, anger, conceit, heartlessness, ignorance, and pride.

5. The transcendental characters are helpful to liberation, comparing to bondage from demoniac one.

6. Performance of acts to one's whims and fancies, deviating from principles is discouraging one.

7. Only noble people knows what is right, good conduct and truthfulness and to differentiate from bad one.

8. Arguments on the creations of God as unreal just show that there is no perfect knowledge with them.

9. Nuclear weapon, destroying the world is not for peace and prosperity and it shows less intelligence.

10. Wine, women and wealth are not forwarding, but gliding toward hell, and bring false honor to men.

11. Sense gratifications such as lust, desire, anger and securing money illegally cause anxiety throughout

12. Men with more accumulation of wealth or power makes them as an arrogant and causes to meet dangers.

13. Egoistic thoughts of various kinds and selfish thoughts make some men in a demoniac predominance.

14. All worldly benefits are possible only if one is not in any pride of feelings of free from punishments.

15. Too much of material enjoyment and properties, is like a fish caught in net, and so better not to aim.

16. More attachments to the enjoyments of sensuous pleasures are due to confused mind in many thoughts.

17. Rituals done for impudent of wealth and false prestige, without any rules and regulations are waste.

18. Ego, pride, lust, anger are the reasons for envious of the scriptures, and on atheism theories.

19. Bad people, who act according to their whims are from the wombs of demons and are lowest of mankind.

20. Killing demons is also to be taken only as a mercy of God and God has no hatred for anyone.

21. People should give up the three destructive characters of lust, greed, and anger throughout life.

22. With the acts conducive to self-realization, one can attain the platform of spiritual realization.

23. If one does not follow rules and regulations and acts whimsically, he will never be perfect in life.

24. Man will be elevated if he performs duty in right and perfect senses, without mistakes and cheating.

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

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