(Gita-28) The Most Misunderstood Verse of the Bhagavad Gita
Obsession with the future is a compulsion with the ego. The only way to be free of the future is to be free of yourself. Be free of yourself and flow like the wind. But will the right things happen to me then? Can you assure me? Is there a guarantee? So desireless, motiveless action and faith, they always go together. Somebody who's asking for guarantees, somebody who is craving for assurances, he is unfit to even touch the Bhagavad Gita. This is only for the courageous ones.
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Acharya Prashant: Let's begin from the two centers. What we have today is probably the most quoted verse of the Bhagavad Gita and also the most misunderstood one. Let's start from the two centers that we have. The center of clarity, the center of confusion. The center of truth. The center of assumption.
From the center of assumption it is believed, for belief is the life of the believer. That the believer exists and the proof of his existence is his doer-ship. How do you go about proving that somebody exists? If that somebody is seen as acting willfully, if he is seen to be doing things out of volition, then you would say it stands proved that the thing or the entity or the person indeed does exist. Right? So that's also the argument of an advanced in the favor of a metaphysical master. You say we cannot see him but because we can experience his deeds therefore he exists. Right? We can feel that he is blessing us and we can also see that the planets go around the sun. We can also see that there is a particular order in the universe and that must be somebody's doing, otherwise where would such an immaculate order come from. Therefore doing proves existing, action proves existence. Please understand this.
