Gita Satsang: Sage Vyasa Embodies in Gita the Religion of Work and Renunciation

January 7, 2000

The Lord's sermon for the humanity delivered from the battlefield prescribes

a way of life, a vision of man's future and a plan to enable him to travel on

a safe path. Though the Almighty has described the four vistas available,

his principal message is that he should perform his actions in accordance

with the Law of Virtue and keeping God in his mind. He will guide such a

devotee as there will be no selfishness in him when God occupies his

heart.

The Lord has created this universe and has given a moral order. Man has also

been endowed with senses, the powers of thinking and reasoning and other

faculties so that he can be happy. This scripture expounds the Vedic

religion of "work" and "renunciation" that maintains order in the world. With

the sole intention of helping His creatures, He taught mankind, through

Arjuna, who was deeply plunged in grief, the essence of the Vedas. It was

this religion that Sage Vyasa has embodied in his verses in the Gita,

describing the Reality -- Lord Krishna acts when performed in a spirit of

complete devotion to Him.

In a lecture, Swami Dayanand Saraswati said a devotee should have absolute

trust in the Lord. A child, aware of its helplessness, depends on its parents

but after it grows, it realises their limitations. Its trust is then placed

on the Lord who will show it the path of happiness. Man's vision ahead

results in a change of his attitude. As a couple was ready to get married,

the bride unfolded the secret to him that her parents lost her in a festival

and that she was brought up by the present (foster) parents. At the same

time, the bridegroom recalled his losing a sister when young and felt that

she should be the girl before him. His entire attitude changed. God says that

the man of right knowledge dwells in Him and sees that whatever pleases him

pleases all. The vision before one is that all which is here is one Reality,

not separate from him.

Source: An Article from the Religious Section of The Hindu taken with

permission: "Copyrights 2000 The Hindu & Tribeca Internet Initiatives Inc."

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