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(Gita-20) The Secret Beyond Birth and Death in Gita || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagvad Gita (2023)
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Nature
Ego
Truth
Death
Vedanta
Shri Krishna
Liberation
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Acharya Prashant explains that Shri Krishna uses the concept of the 'embodied one' to teach Arjun that life and death are merely parts of a continuous cycle governed by the principles of Nature, rather than the actions of individual beings. He clarifies that the 'embodied one' is not a person or a thing, but a principle. Just as childhood, youth, and old age are stages of life, death is simply another stage that leads back to childhood. He emphasizes that there is no actual doer behind actions; instead, everything in Nature operates according to laws like biology, chemistry, and physics. The ego is a fictitious construct that mistakenly attributes doership to itself, creating a false sense of individuality and separation from the rest of existence. The speaker further elaborates that the distinction between the seer and the seen, or mind and matter, is an illusion created by the ego to ensure its own survival. In reality, both are part of the same dimension of Nature. He describes the liberated state as one where the ego is dissolved, and the individual realizes they are a process within the vast stream of Nature, which is immortal and timeless. This realization removes the fear of death and the burden of self-defense. A liberated person lives in a state of 'justness' or spontaneous celebration, free from personal purposes and desires. Acharya Prashant concludes that true spirituality involves seeing through the fiction of the ego and recognizing that only the Truth exists, while all else is a phenomenal process.