SOME THOUGHTS ON BHAGAWAD GITA-2

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Friends, The Bhagawad Gita or the song of the Lord, brings the Vedik truths from the caves of Himalaya into the active fields of political life in Mahabharata and into the tensions of an imminent war between cousins. On the eve of the war,Arjuna was under the stress of delusion and

got shattered in his mental balance and seemed to have lost his capacity to act with right discrimination. Lord Krishna took in hand the despondent mind of Arjuna for treatment with Vedik Truths. The Lord declared the new message of the Gita, which,as you all know is nothing but a reinterpretation of the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads , with proper emphasis upon vital concepts which had got distorted. If

the Upanishads are the text book of the philosophical principles discussing man(jiva), world(prapancha) and God(Iswara), the Bhagawad Gita, is a handbook of instructions as to how every human being can live the subtle philosophical principles of

Vedanta in the day-to-day world and be a true citizen of the nation. The Gita is not addressed to to the physical entity in Arjuna but to the mental and intellectual constitution of that heroic prince. Gita is not just a message of action but a message of living. And Gita is not a book for casual reading or appreciation. One of the several assertions of the Lord in the Gita is that

Niskamya karma (desireless activity) without egoism would purify man`s inner nature and help him to evolve more and more to the status of a God-man. If we try to digest properly the implications of the Gita`s advice in the light of the Vedik lore, it becomes amply clear how actions performed without ego-centric desires purge the mind of its

vasanas (deep-seated impressions) and make it increasingly subtle and pure in its sadhana for attaining the Infinite.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian