Saturday, May 15, 2010

Arjuna's Lamentation

Arjuna's questions in Bhagawad Gita can be categorized into confusions regarding:
-- Duty Vs Inaction
-- Sin and Merit
-- Right and Wrong
-- Morality Vs Legality

What is Udasina? In Kannada it means Indifference, but infact the actual meaning is uth-asina: sitting at a higher level! A bird's view, where we can disconnect from the object and view it from a third party's view. udasinam ityukte avalokanam iti bhavati (being neutral), evam asaktam ityutke "uninterested" nasti, asaktam ityukte "dettachment" (unattached) bhavati ...

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