- Instruct
Instruct is to put up a structure, in-side.
It is no use pouring your instructions into unwilling ears.
You have to get within them, win their confidence and love, and put up a structure there, of the ideal that you hold dear to yourself.
That is instruction.
- Time
We speed along to save time - but speed overtakes us and we do not have any time at all!
Leisure and contemplation are most expensive.
Competition is the rule.
Charity has to be wrested from man.
Gita cries halt to this downward trend and makes man take note of himself and treat his neighbour's welfare as his own.
- Levels
(1) Common Man:
He needs to be chastised and frightened - the animal is predominant in him. Hell - punishment - police - these hold him back from adharma - unrighteousness.
God is the Ruler - God is Justice.
(2) Religious Man:
He needs encouragement. Heaven is pointed out to him. Do the right - you will go to heaven.
God is Perfection, Goodness.
(3) Spiritual Man:
He needs nothing to make him love God and Goodness. It is natural to him, inevitable. He aims at realising God - he will be liberated.
God is the Witness - Consciousness. God is all.
- Rich Man
(1) is reluctant to give a penny to a poor man.
(2) does all that he can to cheat the income tax dept.
(3) half-heartedly pays the doctor's bills.
(4) helplessly leaves everything here when he dies and goes!
- Burden on earth
Man - when he lives, is a burden on earth, heavy and troublesome - building houses, running and eating etc.
When he dies, he is no longer a burden; but he is absorbed by the earth to which he contributes some minerals.
If he, while alive, leads a good life - in his loving service lifts the burden of sorrows of others - it is worth it.
Else, he is a dead-weight - hence, the popular expression 'burden on earth'.
The good people are like the aeroplanes which, though heavy itself, are capable of taking itself and more weight off the earth.