Swami's Wonderful Interpretation of the Bhagawad Gita

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" Many Pandiths and scholars have explained the Geetha in many ways to you all these days; if you ask Me, I will say that the Geetha is like a balance, scales, needle and all.

 

The scale on the left is Shloka 7, of the second chapter, speaking of "Kaarpanya dosha." The fulcrum is the 22nd Shloka of the Ninth Chapter, beginning with Ananyaaschinthayanthomaam;" and the scale on the right is the Shloka in the eighteenth chapter, speaking of "Sarva-dharmaan parithyajya." See how apt the fulcrum Shloka is; it speaks of single- minded attention, steady, like the needle of a well-adjusted balance!

 

Really, the Geetha begins with two scales and a fulcrum, the two armies, of Righteousness and Unrighteousness, with Krishna the Teacher in the middle! We have the two scales of Loukika and A- loukika (worldly and other-worldly), clamouring for attention and respect. Jnaana (spiritual knowledge) alone can remove the Ajnaana (ignorance) of Arjuna, that is the Sankalpa (will) of the Lord.

 

- From Swami's Discourse in Prasanthi Nilayam on 24th October'1963.

 

Om Sai Ram

 

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