Bhagawad Gita - Ch.2 - Verses 47 to 53 Commentary

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Namaste

 

I express my sincere appreciation to Shri Ramchandran & the Moderators for

bringing out different commentaries particularly on verses from 47 to 53 of

Chapter II, considered the heart of Gita by many I know. The sloka beginning

with " Karmanye ..." was made famous, atleast in Tamilnadu by Sivaji Ganesan

in Film Karna, much before I read Gita.

 

Gita is considered an important religious text by most of the Hindu elite

although it is difficult to read and comprehend without Guidance, atleast it

was so in my case. When I read it first as a school student in the sixties-

a Tamil Translation by Vinobha Bhabe- I was in fact intrigued why it was

blown up so much. There was no quick fix in it.

 

Perhaps the best age to read verses 47 to 53 is when one is in that age

group (47-53) as I am now. The meaning is more clear now although the

context and style is still a bit of mystery to me as to why such an

imporatnt message was delivered in a battle field when presumably when

everyone was itching for a fight and hardly in a state of find to receive

spiritual advice. Is Lord krishna indirectly saying that " When advice is

most needed it is least heeded" as the proverb goes?

 

While one cannot dispute the fundamental logic of all these divine advice,

it is still a bit of a problem to apply it in day to day modern life where

the demands of the situation are different from the scenario thousands of

years ago. Hinduism is creative religion and we may be blessed with Gita

version II in a new Avtar of Vishnu. But till that time, we must follow the

current edition and interpret it with the help of Acharyas who have laboured

to produce commentaries for our better comprehension. In particualr I take

this occassion to express my sincere personal Thanks and appreciation to

Chinmayananda for I feel he did indeed a very good job of making Gita more

relavant in modern day context. His work & example is so inspiring that I

hope one day I too can do some similar work.

 

Hari OM.

P.B.V.Rajan

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