Chapter 17 verse 4
“Those in the mode of goodness worship the celestial gods; those in the mode of passion worship the yakṣhas and rākṣhasas; those in the mode of ignorance worship ghosts and spirits.”
Bhagwan
Sri Krishna has declared earlier in Bhagavat Gita that all prayers directed at
different beings all go to him eventually. Why not pray to the Supreme Being
directly? However we tend to pray to different entities expecting and hoping
for material and immediate benefits. The pious among us pray to the devas with
a pure mind but might still be expecting something to happen in return. The
passionate among us pray for material wealth and well being and thus behave
like yakṣhas
and rākṣhasas
in our faith and finally the most blatant transactional relationship of faith
which can be interpreted as plain trade or barter is done by the tamasic among
us. These are not 3 distinct people but all these traits reside in each of us
and is brought forth at different times. The spiritual journey is about
managing these instincts, getting beyond them and focuses on the good.
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