Srimad Bhagavadgeeta : Ch-16. Slo-21.

Monday, September 22, 2014.

Srimad Bhagavadgeeta :


Chapter-16.( Daivaasura-sambhad-vibhaaga-yogam ).



Slokam-21. ( How to   progress in Adhyatmika-marggam (Spirituality ) ---Lord Krishna makes clear the --way/trick/method to achieve goal/reach the destination, in this slokam.


Trividham   narakasyedam   dvaaram   nasanamatmanah,


Kamah   krodhasthaa   lobhah   tasmaadetatt  trayam   tyajet.



Kamah   krodhah   tatha   lobhah   idham   =   In this way- kamam, krodham,  lobham;

Narakasya   trividham   dvaaram    =    ( are the )three doors to Narakam ( Hell ). 

Atmanah   naasanam   =    ( cause/ reason)  for destruction.

Tasmaad  etatt   tryam  =  Therefore these three ( kamam+krodham+lobham ),

Tyajet   =  ( should be ) discarded / pushed out /neglected.




Lord Krishna has now ended descriptions of the basic details of the nature and characteristics of the demoniac. Now He strongly advises by any means to avoid the triple threat of lust, greed and anger which is the underlying root cause of all demoniac vices and evils. As soon as lust, greed and anger are abandoned all other vices and evils dissolve and dissapate. Birth in hellish existences has three doors in the form of the door of lust, the door of greed and the door of anger. As soon as anyone enters into any one of these three doors they become void of discrimination and their mind becomes apprehended and controlled by the senses. This causes complete chaos and utter ruin to any human being, blocking access to their higher nature and totally obscuring the consciousness of the atma or immortal soul which leads to moksa or liberation from material existence. The three doorways of lust, greed and anger causes one to perform such sinful and abominable activities that damnation is the only result and leads a human being directly to hell to suffer immensely for their sinful inequities. Hence one should be extremely vigilant to avoid these three doors and keep them far away at a safe distance. 



Lord Krishna confirms that the demoniac nature is in itself a hellish condition of life perpetuating more and more degraded hellish existences. The three portals to hellish existence are lust, greed and anger which completely destroy and ruin all opportunities for advancing in spiritual consciousness. Lust, greed and anger are the foundations for all the other vices and sinfulness described previously which run rampant among the demoniac. The word dvaram means portal and gate inferring the cause. The words nasanam atmanah means destructive or even suicidal denoting how utterly negative lust, greed and anger are in evolving the consciousness to commune with the immortal soul. Therefore Lord Krishna emphasizes that lust, greed and anger must be permanently abandoned, fully relinquished and completely neutralised since these three voracious vices comprise the cause that leads a jiva or embodied being directly to dreaded naraka or the hellish planets. 



Lord Krishna concisely enunciates that lust, greed and anger are the three gates leading straight to hell. All the demoniac vices and characteristics iterated previously are the symptoms of lust, greed and anger which are the root cause and basis of all the others. These three are very destructive and degenerative for a human being completely obscuring discrimination and the consciousness of the atma or immortal soul and hence to be shunned and avoided by all means, for their influence propels one directly into lower, debased life forms and reincarnations in hellish existences. So lust, greed and anger must be renounced, abandoned and rejected if one wants to avoid residing in hell. 



Lord Sri Krishna says that "There are three routes to Narakam ( Hell )". It is already made clear that Svargam and Narakam ( Heaven and Hell ) are the srushties ( creation / imagination ) of the mind. Here three causes /reasons for the falling into  the destruction of human beings, namely the Narakam ( Hell ) is pointed /shown to us!



KAMAM + KRODHAM + LOBHAM : - From the polluted environment of the extreme attachment to Kamam ( desires ), leading the human beings to 'Nishkamam ( detached from desires ) and Nisvarthata ( unselfish mode ) is the main important uddesh ( aim ) of this Chapter and Slokam.


Krodham is inevittable where there is Kamam. When like / attachment is generated towards an object, thereafter continuous flood of thoughts start to flow with high pressure towards to that thing : this fountain is known as 'Kamam'.When an opposition occurs to that burst 'Krodham'( anger ) shoots up. When ever one's interest is not fulfilled mind is exited, later sorrow, frustration, anger are added to make human beings more tense, aggressive, violent, taking to uncontrollable state of mind.
The emotional mind that time is called as 'Krodham'. When kamam one by one is fulfilled, the emotional mind which totally spoils the strength of the mind is called as 'Lobham' ( Greed ). Lobham over power the individual whose desires are fulfilled, the greed towards the things increases, and this action never ends. Once the fall into greed happens, that person never satisfied in his life. 


One who have no Atma-samyamanam ( self-control ), if the desires are not get satisfied, krodham arrives; If satisfied, then the want for more further, further influence him, becomes greedy and never gets satisfied. Thus kamam+krodham+lobham, a chain of action takes place, under this attack of incidents, cause sorrow, frustration, aggression and ends in violence.



Hence Lord insists to discard these three Dhoshams ( bad elements ).