In order to drive home an argument, it is the style in Krishna’s discourses that He always brings the contrasting factors together so that each may come to shine all the more against the background supplied by the other. Here is a pair of stanzas in which, if the former explains the low men deluded to pursue their baser nature (Rakshasas and Asuras), the latter paints the picture of the great-souls (Mahatmas), possessed of all the divine qualities.
Deluded by false desires and wearied with false activities to fulfil those wrong desires, some become confused in intellect and totally confounded in their reasoning. Such people lose all divine perspective and become monstrous in their activities, expressing nothing but their demoniac sensuous nature at all times. Such men are called here as Rakshasas and Asuras, belonging to the tradition of Ravana.
The actions undertaken in the present leave their impressions on the mind, and order the future desires and thoughts in the individual. Out of vain actions, only negative Vasanas can arise, and they can only thicken the dull-witted stupidities of the intellect. When an individual has lived in this ditch of falsehood and impurity, he cannot become any nobler than a monster, in the eyes of the “wise”.
As a contrast to this Rakshasa-culture, we are shown how men-of-Wisdom feel and act. This dissection of man’s bosom reveals to the seekers of self-development, the right attitude they must adopt and the correct perspective with which they must look at the things of the world.
THE GREAT-SOULS POSSESSED OF THE DIVINE NATURE of the Self, and desiring this Infinite, seek the Immortal by realising the Self, “THROUGH SINGLE-POINTED SELF-APPLICATION.” They “know Me to be the Origin of all beings”; and those who know the mud to be the origin of all mud-pots, cannot fail to see the mud in all pots. So too, the true children of the Hindu culture, who understand the Divine Principle as the “Source-of-all-beings,” cannot but respect every other member of the society as they would respect themselves. There is no greater and more effective socialism ever preached in the world. If the present generation is not able to understand the appreciate this spiritual socialism, which is the only panacea for the ills of the world, the reason for it has been already given in the preceding stanza — it is because of the predominance of the Asuric forces in it.
THE GREAT-SOULS “WORSHIP ME WITH THE SINGLE-POINTED MIND.”… HOW?
