चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागशः
ChaaturVarnyam Mayaa Srishtam Gun’Karm’Vibaagashah
4-Varn System “I have evolved” based on Gun’Karm
ShrimadBhagavadGita, Adhyaay 4 Shlok 13
Pronounce U in GUN as in PUT, not as in SUN
Pronounce N in GUN with a Hard Tone and Fullness at the end
Understand GUN गुण as TRAIT
Understand KARM कर्म as DEED
Remember KARM and KARM’YOG have different connotations
Bhagavaan Shri Krishn spoke of birth-based classification
Bhagavaan Shri Krishn spoke of birth-based classification depending on division of Gun' and Karm'.
Whatever explanation I offer here is first hand information, not borrowed from elsewhere. The experience is mine, the Journey has been mine, the understanding is mine.
But then, in essence there is nothing mine. It all belongs to Him - Shri Naaraayan. None of the learnings are mine, none of the knowledge is mine.
To call it mine would be foolish. But then, for your consumption I have to call it mine, or else you would not understand what I am conveying.
Anyhow, I know what I know. I give it to you if you want it. I won’t spend time in convincing you.
My approach is very simple: take it or leave it. For, I don’t “have to” win you on my side.
First let us look at these Unexplained Questions
Take your own case
Probably you think that the person in you is made of predominantly two factors -
• Genes that your parents passed on to you
• Environment in which you grew up
Did you ask yourself a few simple questions?
• Why is it that you were born only of those parents who gave you those genes?
• Why were you not born of another set of parents who could have given you totally different
hereditary factors?
• Why were you born in that environment, which helped shape you in a particular character?
Why were you not born in another set of environment that could have shaped you entirely into
another kind of character?
Look at it from another angle
You and your brother both are born of same parents and also raised in the same environment
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• Why then you both are different, and at times so very different that it almost looks like
the opposites?
Ask yourself a couple more simple questions
• “Who decides” these settings, as to “which parents” through whom you should be born, or
into “which environment” you should be born, or “when” you should be born?
• “Who regulates” these things, by making them happen, the way they do happen?
• Would you want to call them “coincidences” just because your logical faculties cannot explain
them? Can your logic reach there where your knowledge hasn’t reached yet?
Child that arrives on this Earth
Child that arrives on this planet Mother Earth
It cannot choose its “mother” and “father”
It cannot choose its “surroundings” at the time of birth
It cannot choose “environment” that it would live-in during its early childhood
The family in which it takes birth
Depending on its ‘traits and deeds’ in its “prior incarnations”, it takes birth through Braahman
parents or Kshatriya parents or Vaishya parents or Shoodr parents
This does “not” happen by accident or by coincidence, as the present day rationalists would
want us to believe
There is a “meticulous system” in place that monitors the whole process
Origin of the soul
Soul emerges from the Supreme Soul
At its origin, it has no character of its own
Physical birth
It descends on this earth encased in a body
Its own identity
Its ego अहंभाव gives it a distinct identity
Its thoughts and actions (deeds) are guided by this ego
Numerous births
It acquires various traits, in varying degree, in course of its long journey of numerous
and successive births
It builds a reservoir of its Gun (traits) and Karm (deeds) through that process
Physical death
Soul sheds its body at the time of departure from this earth
It does not take with it in physical form the traits it acquired and deeds it performed, during
its stay on the earth
Successive birth
In its successive birth, it collects back those traits from the environment of this earth
During the process of birth and growing up, it regains those traits from its parents and environment
Acquisition of Traits
Some traits it acquires back during the process of its birth - that include the genes it
acquires from its earthly parents
Other traits it acquires back in the process of its growing up - that include the environment
it receives in form of friends, teachers, surroundings, and etc
Preset environment to grow up
Each new birth gives the new born a place in the society - with that it gets a preset environment
to grow up
This place and environment is the result of its deeds through prior incarnations - these are
not by its choice
Predetermined - not by Choice
It cannot choose its parents
It cannot choose its time of birth
It cannot choose its surroundings at the time of birth
It cannot choose its environment during its early childhood
Complex mechanism automatically takes care of every detail at this particular stage
Process of birth itself takes care of positioning the soul in a certain situation
(a) situation comprising of its genetic combination and childhood surroundings
(b) situation depending on its acquired traits and accumulated deeds until its prior incarnation
Prior Karm, not Free Will at this particular stage
All this is governed by soul’s prior (accumulated) Karm
At this particular stage Free Will has no role to play
Free Will gets its due chance but at later stage
The turn for free will does come, but later
And that too, at different times in life of different individuals
One individual gets the opportunity to exercise free will early in life, whereas another gets
much later in life, and neither of them can choose that particular moment in their respective
lives
The Journey of a Soul
The journey of a soul is a very long process.
It passes through innumerable births until it qualifies itself for submerging into the Supreme
soul.
Character building process
Through this long and arduous journey the soul’s ego acquires1 many Gun गुण
1 Think of it like character building through environmental influences
Traits influence Deeds
During each of these births सत्वगुण Satv’Gun, रजोगुण RajoGun and तमोगुण TamoGun arising from the प्रकृति Prakriti2 induces the man to do many कर्म Karm.
2 Prakriti has been described as the material cause of the universe
Shaping of soul’s ego
Those Karm then make him the bearer of the results of such Karm. In this manner, takes shape the soul’s Ego अहंभाव.
But environment of earth is needed
However Satv’Gun/RajoGun/TamoGun can manifest themselves only in the environment of this world through a body.
Physical birth and choice of parents
When the time is ripe, the soul is then directed to such parents who, through their genes, and through the environment in which they live, would be able to give that body its required character.
Parents of parents
For parents to have acquired appropriate genes and environment, it would be necessary that their parents too had appropriate genes and environment.
Backward Integration of Genes
The same would apply to their parents, and then their parents, backward ...
So, there has to be systematic process through which appropriate genes are passed from one generation
to another.
Sophisticated system
And, for that one needs a comprehensive system in place: a regulated environment, and methodology functioning with high degree of precision.
Do not undermine the Capability of the Creator of this Universe
Any doubt?
Would you doubt that the Creator of this Universe lacks the ability to design and monitor such a profound system?
Look at your thumb
Think of Him when He created each human being with a distinct fingerprint.
Look into your eyes in a mirror
Think of Him when He created each human being with a distinct pupil in the eye.
Modern science knows so little
We do not even know how many more such distinctive characters He has built in the human system.
Yes, He can...
Would you ever doubt that such Creator cannot possibly monitor3
the channeling of birth for each and every human being, that is, which parents they should be
born of, in which environment each individual must be born into, and what time and place each
individual should take its first breath on this earth?
Yes, He can monitor each and every such phenomenon howsoever complex it may sound.
3a Here I am not getting into the issue of Nir’Gun character of Ishwar but I would like you to know that there is no inherent contradiction in the two aspects. I would want to elaborate on those things in another work ~ this is simply not the right place.
3b I would want to add only this much here that monitoring does not entail that He must personally supervise each and every function though He is capable of doing that as well ~ it is sufficient for Him to establish a system which monitors the whole phenomenon howsoever complex it may be.
3c In short, what you need to understand is that this Creation works like a clockwork and is governed by a highly sophisticated mathematical module that is even beyond human comprehension through study of books. You need to connect yourself to Higher Order and it is He who may decide to give you (or not) the necessary understanding, and also, only to that extent that He feels you are ready to grasp
3d Every aspect of this Creation is interrelated and interdependent connected through an invisible chain of mathematical modules.
Without a beginning and without an end
It is He who has created this Universe, which has no known beginning and end to the mankind.
Modern science does not even know enough of our own Solar system, leave aside how many more
Solar systems and how many more Galaxies exist in this whole Universe.
Just because our own human ability is so very limited
We should not doubt the ability of the Creator of this Universe, just because our own human
ability is so very limited.
He does have the capability of monitoring an extraordinarily complex system of human birth,
which is even beyond imagination of man and woman raised under modern education system with
Christian roots.