| In all existing scriptures that I have gone through I found | | | | movements forces itself with the shock of a visible |
| Bhagvata Gita a living scripture, it is chinmaya because | | | | revelation on the mind of its representative man and |
| it is lord's words. It gives light to every one who takes | | | | raises the whole question of the meaning of God in the |
| refuge in lord's teachings. It was Gita because of which | | | | world and the goal and drift and sense of human life |
| mahatma Gandhi could do great things, it was Gita | | | | and conduct". |
| because of which great beings performed miracle. | | | | Gita is the only available scripture to humanity which |
| This is most read book in the world, this is the only | | | | advocates action in the place of asceticism, karma |
| scripture on which great beings loved to speak. Every | | | | yoga in the place of sankhya yoga. She does not |
| scholar found his intended meaning in this great | | | | condemn Gyana and Bhakti yoga rather says that to |
| scripture this is because Bhagavata Gita is not only a | | | | this Karma yoga is better because from it materialism |
| dharma grantha it is about life. It is believed that lord | | | | and spiritualism both can be obtained if practiced |
| himself delivered it to Arjuna amidst the battle of | | | | perfectly. "In the practice of Karma yoga there is no |
| kurikshetra. The battle which was fought between | | | | destruction of result nor is there any loss of merit |
| pandvas and kauravas was a dharma yuddha that is | | | | Even a little of this righteousness saves one from |
| when the question of wrong and right became | | | | great fear." This yoga of action is superior to any other |
| undeterminable. It was the battle where merits that | | | | form of yoga because God himself practices it. Why |
| were never existed before was determined for the | | | | one should not follow the great supreme soul the |
| people perhaps this is the reason it was called | | | | Purushottama who always engaged in action. In Gita |
| dharmakshetra that was kurukshetra. | | | | lord himself says, " in all the three worlds, O Partha, |
| This battle field where virtue has to be established by | | | | there is no duty whatsoever for me( to fulfill); there is |
| the great intelligence of lord Krishna the hero Arjuna's | | | | nothing unachieved that has to be achieved. Still I am |
| mind was entrapped by great Moha (a word which is | | | | engaged in work." Sanyasa dharma is only for few |
| still untranslatable). Being unable to understand what is | | | | especially for those who can renounce worldly desires |
| to be done and what is not to be done he posed the | | | | easily. Sanyasa can not be general religion because |
| highest question a man of disposition could have been | | | | humans can not renounce desire easily. As long as |
| posed this that what is this dharma in killing human | | | | body is in existence there is desire and action |
| beings those who are beloveds, and one's own family | | | | therefore one can not transcend actions done by |
| members? What a pity that we have resolved to | | | | nature hence Gita lays emphasis on karma through |
| commit a great sin by being eager to kill our own kith | | | | yoga. Karma yoga principle was found in some major |
| and kin out of greed for the pleasure of a kingdom!. | | | | Upanishads but not as a discipline. Ishavasyopnishad |
| Having asked he took refuge in the feet of lord. He | | | | has a verse which profoundly proclaims karma yoga, it |
| requested, 'with my nature overpowered by the | | | | goes thus-' kurvanneveh karmani jijivishechatam |
| defect due to un-enlightenment. With a mind | | | | samah evam ....'. |
| bewildered about duty, I ask you: tell me that which is | | | | But it is Gita where we find it to be taught as a |
| the absolute and everlasting highest goal. I am your | | | | systematic yoga that has a profound metaphysics; |
| disciple; instruct me who have taken refuge in you'. | | | | sometimes it seems as though It goes beyond |
| With this whole hearted refuge to the teacher-friend | | | | Vedanta philosophy. Probably Gita is higher stage of |
| Krishna the discourse on truth of life started. Arjuna | | | | Vedanta philosophy here knowledge, action and |
| being a friend of Krishna had great faith in his wisdom | | | | devotion is synthesized. What Krishna says 'yoga' is |
| since Krishna had guided him at many junctures of his | | | | the synthesis of all the three systems of yoga. From |
| life. Whole Gita was taught to him for the removal of | | | | the chapter second to eighteenth he synthesizes |
| his Moha (DISPOSITIONS). | | | | these three systems. Knowledge is to be attained |
| Every thing he said was ultimate but people could not | | | | through whatsoever means whether it is yoga of |
| understand it. In Gita, Krishna divided paths in two: | | | | action or yoga of knowledge therefore he taught |
| sankhya and yoga. Bhakti came in between the two it | | | | greatness of knowledge first. From the both paths |
| was not spoken of as a separate path. Pandits and | | | | knowledge has to be realized there is no difference in |
| Sadhus extracted only metaphysical aspect from Gita | | | | both regarding end. Gita says, 'the fools, not the |
| not the real teaching which he imparted to humanity | | | | learned ones, speak of Sankhya and Yoga as |
| through Arjuna. This is one of the great reasons of the | | | | different. Any one who has resorted to even one of |
| decline of Indian society. What benefit humanity will get | | | | them gets the result of both'. 'Yogi' of Gita is such a |
| from sheer metaphysical teachings? Gita's greatness | | | | man who knows this perfectly that KNOWLEDGE is |
| is this that this is only available scripture to men kind | | | | ultimate resort and the end of all action. |
| which provides humanity actual living truths. It is | | | | Only a yogi can be knower as the teacher of Gita is; |
| because Gita was taught when humanity faced | | | | who knows perfectly the mysteries of existence. |
| practical crisis in application of ethics and spirituality. | | | | After knowing this that Lord Purushottama is the basis |
| Arjuna's crisis was ethical as well as spiritual. Sri | | | | of everything, the indestructible and the immutable, the |
| Aurobindo in his essays on Gita have shed some light | | | | eternal, the Dharma, and the absolute bliss Yogi does |
| on this aspect According to him, "there are three things | | | | perform action for him only. 'He is all this' says |
| in Gita which are spiritually significant, almost symbolic, | | | | Upanishad so see he expanse everywhere and |
| typical of the profoundest relations and problems of | | | | perform your duty for the welfare of the world. In Gita |
| the spiritual life and of human existence at its roots; | | | | two beautiful verses render the essence of karma |
| they are the divine personality of the teacher, his | | | | yoga thus: 'you perform the obligatory duties, for action |
| characteristics relations with his disciple and the | | | | is superior in inaction. And, for you who are (will be) |
| occasion of his teachings. | | | | without duty, even the maintenance of your body will |
| The teacher is god himself descended into humanity; | | | | not be properly possible.' 'This man becomes bound by |
| the disciple is the first, as we might say in modern | | | | action other than that action which is meant for the |
| language, the representative man of his age, closest | | | | supreme lord. Without being attached, O son of Kunti, |
| friend and chosen instrument of the Avatara, his | | | | you perform action for him.' According to Gita to be |
| protagonist in an immense work and struggle the | | | | Karma yogi most important things is required in a man: |
| secret purpose of which is unknown to the actors in it, | | | | complete surrender in God since ones man surrenders |
| known only to the incarnate Godhood who guides it all | | | | in the feet of lord he by default renounces attachment |
| from behind the veil of his unfathomable mind of | | | | in action, fruit of action and unattachment in inaction. |
| knowledge; the occasion is the violent crisis of that | | | | This is because if this existence is God himself what is |
| work and struggle at the moment when the anguish | | | | the reason to perform action for oneself. |
| and moral difficulty and blind violence of its apparent | | | | |