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Becoming Arjuna

 

The cosmic song that decided to manifest in front of Arjuna, is playing all around.

As the energy can neither be created nor destroyed—says Krishna when he talks about the singularity, the atma -tattva or param chaitanya. And for a more rational mind, if this is to be taken as a hypothesis, we can say that while reading the text of Geeta, and if one is really deserving to receive the knowledge as it was given to Arjuna, one must understand that Arjuna was no ordinary human being. A warrior of great valor, a genuine, brave, and sensitive personality—someone who attained his capability of becoming ‘dwij’ the 'twice born'. The battlefield, the war, and the turmoil to be taken as breaking of the shell as a bird who symbolizes the twice-born—first in the form of an egg and second when the egg breaks and the bird is born.  Here I mean to say that the one who has attained the maturity of the egg just before it is broken, the quality to be twice-born, the song of the cosmos that is written in Geeta (Gyaneshwari) will start manifesting in their life as the interplay of same energies that were playing in front of Arjuna. And soon one might find oneself facing a battlefield—their own battlefield of a kind that manifests all the adharma and evil going on inside of them and also their own drive towards attaining their divinity-their enlightenment.


p.s. for reference of those unfamiliar with the term 'twice- born' --it means once we are born physically when we come in this world through our mother's womb and twice when we attain our spiritual enlightenment.


-seeker

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