Re: illusion & honour
Originally Posted by
dharma321
In Bhagavad Gita it says - "If you don't fight you will lose your honour and people will talk about it for _ages_".
-Why should one care about honour, when all is illusion perceived via sense organs?
- Caring for 'honour' implies having an 'ego' - so why is he being told to fight instead to 'meditate' and get rid of the 'ego' - which is the basis for all the illusion?
This has only answer in Karma yoga. Krsna also calls him coward and tells him not to yield to unmanliness because his duty is to fight in a war. Krsna wasn't asking Arjuna to fight from his ego but rather as a Kshatriya to do his rightful duty.A man who doesn't do his duty yields to unmanlinees as per BG.
Just without digressing much it's the same as Samurai code of Bushido. Honour is their life but they have no ego. I hope you got what I'm trying to say.
ॐ महेश्वराय नमः
|| Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya ||
Hara Hara Mahadeva Shambo Shankara
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