This book is to be treasured by all lovers of Sreemad Bhagavad Gita. It is a series of discourses on the eighteen chapters of the Gita. It inspires us to live in loving unity and in constant communion with the Divine. This book offers a practical guide to extricate oneself from the pangs of everyday living into the glories of Life Divine. It gives the correct spiritual solution to every problem by the application of the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita.
In the final words of Sanjaya in the Gita: "I am convinced that prosperity, victory, glory and righteousness shall reign whenever Krishna-The Master Yogi and Arjuna -the wielder of the bow, stand united."
May the Divine Charioteer guide all of us through the battlefield of Kurukshetra to the Dharamkshetra of immortal bliss!
PART-1 In India we begin everything with a prayer. Whether we are taking a bath or naming a child, whether we are taking our food or going to bed, building a house or looking at the new moon, everything is an act of worship, because everything is imbued with the divine Spirit. Nothing is mundane or common and no act can be relegated to the purely material. In fact, there can be no division between sacred and secular, because everything is sacred. Everything is divine. Everything is permeated and saturated with the divine Spirit. The Upanishads say Isaavasyamidam sarvam. Everything here is nothing but Iswara, the Supreme Lord.
We start our study of the Sreemad Bhagavad Gita with a prayer to the book itself-the Bhagavad-Gita, which is in the nature of a dialogue between Narayana, the Supreme Soul, and Arjuna, the embodied self, whom he wished to enlighten.
The script was transcribed by no less a personage than Vyasa, an ancient sage, noted for his wisdom. The dialogue occurs in the middle portion of the mighty epic of the Mahabharata and showers on us the nectar of the immortal Advaita philosophy, which dispels the sorrows of mortal existence.
Next our obeisance is to Lord Krishna, who was God incarnate, the son of Vasudeva, destroyer of evil forces and the preceptor of the whole universe. Therefore, he, Lord Krishna, is the universal Guru. It is because of his grace that we can study this sacred scripture and it is because he is the very stuff of our consciousness that we can understand what is being read. He alone is the narrator and the listener. He permeates and enfolds our entire being. So we begin every chapter with a prayer to him, the Supreme Consciousness, who enacted the role of Arjuna's charioteer.
In the following pages we will be studying this book, the Sreemad Bhagavad Gita. Many of us may have heard of it, but before discovering its specific message, it may be good to have some idea of its unique place in the history of religious scriptures.
The world has seen many scriptures both sacred and profane, both profound and shallow, which men at different times have clung to, as if they and they alone contained the entire truth of life. Time has been the touchstone on which most of them have been tried and found wanting, thus sinking into oblivion. The Bhagavad Gita, however, has stood the test of time and today more than any other scripture that the world has produced, it has a message for suffering humanity. It brings not just a ray of hope but a burst of blinding sunshine into the dejected mind of humanity, which stands upon the brink of a catastrophic war, which it thinks is not of its own making. None of us can claim to be totally innocent, since anything that happens in the world has its roots in the negativity created by all of us. But we are not prepared to accept this and find ourselves projected willy-nilly into a battlefront for which we are totally unprepared. The readymade answers given by science and technology have failed us. Our youthful dreams of a Utopian society based on love and peace have crumbled to dust. Humanity is aghast to find that the meek scientific robot of its own creation has turned into a veritable monster-a Frankenstein who is ready to gobble up its own maker.
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