विनाशकाले विपरीत बुद्धिः।
( The reversal of Intelligence leading to destruction)
On some days, I spend a lot of time on the professional social network (Linked-in) and on twitter. I follow a lot of people in these channels and in turn I have also many followers. Both of these Social network sites are exceptional while it comes to connect, interact, and build your intelligence- by reading the various posts and blogs.
One of the recent blogs that I read was about a famous You Tuber and as to how he is on the brink of destruction. The title of that blog was - विनाशकाले विपरीत बुद्धिः। (The reversal of Intelligence).
The immediate question that came to my mind was from where this Sanskrit verse originated from and in what context? So, I started googling on this. Though I did not get the exact source from where it originated or who coined this idiom – But the closest that I could gather was that it is the simplest description of one of the Verse of the Bhagwad Gita. Chapter -2 – Verse 63. It reads as below:
क्रोधाद्भवति संमोहः संमोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रमः।
स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति।।
In simple Sanskrit, it reads as
क्रोधात् भवति संमोहः
संमोहात् स्मृतिविभ्रमः
स्मृतिभ्रंशात् बुद्धिनाशः
बुद्धिनाशात् प्रणश्यति
If I do an absolute translation to English of this, it means -
From anger comes delusion,
from delusion, loss of memory,
from loss of memory, the destruction of discrimination,
from the destruction of discrimination, (he) perishes.
Chapter 2 of Bhagwad Gita is called as Sankhya Yog and is about the immortality of the soul. In this chapter, there are 5 verses which specifically speaks as to how a man/woman destroys himself/herself from the divinity he or she has already achieved.
Why a man falls from divinity and all the success?
Why somebody does self-destruction?
The reason for self-destruction from all the success a man got is the origination of a simple thought of some material or immaterial object of desire or beauty. This thought grows into attachment if not controlled. When the attachment grows, it gives birth to desire. You desire it and strive to achieve it. Be it a good object or bad object. There can only be two results for the desires that you have. Either you full fill your desire or do not/could not full fill it. The failure to full fill desires leads to anger. When you full fill your desires its leads to Arrogance. In a fit of anger, a person can forget all relationships including his debt to his revered Guru and parents and disrespects them too. Both Anger and Arrogance creates delusion or fascination in the mind. This delusion that is created in the mind causes Loss of Memory.
When stupidity/delusion prevails in the mind, the memory gets destroyed, that is, the memory of the decision that was taken from the scriptures and good thoughts that 'I have to do such work, to use such means, to liberate myself' gets destroyed. You forget what you have achieved. You forget the treacherous path that you travelled to be where you are. You forget the relations- your father, mother, brother, sister, relations, and friends. You are a man without intelligence now. A man without intelligence in nothing but an Animal.
Loss of intelligence leads you to do things that you would never do in sound state. You would not behave and act rationally. You would create your own graves by the actions of your own.
Merely a random thought of objects causes attachment, attachment causes desire, desire causes anger, anger causes delusion/fascination, fascination causes loss of memory, loss of memory causes loss of intelligence and loss of intelligence causes degradation.
Some refer to this to Ladder of Destruction.
