Krishna's message in 'The Gita.

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Sankaram Siva Sankaram.

 

Dear all,

 

I thought i shall share what i happened to learn when

i read the Gita:

 

Arjuna tells Krishna when the Kauravas & Pandavas r

arrayed in the battlefield ready to fight that he

finds no use in fighting against his own kith & kin

for the mere pleasure of wealth, power, & kingdom.

Even if they (the kauravas) make a mistake as 2 fight

against the pandavas, their own brothers, Y shud v

(pandavas) lose our senses and retaliate by fighting

against them. There is no point in achieving a kingdom

that is blood-stained. " How can i fight against

Bheeshma, Drona & Kripacharya? " says Arjuna. They r

worthy of reverence as gurus. " Is it sane 2 fight

against them for our mere wants " says arjuna. Then

Krishna says, " From where did this unmanliness come to

yu, O arjuna? Take up yur arms and b prepared to

fight. " As these scenes r portrayed by Sanjaya (who

had been given the vision to see the war) to

Dhirtharashtra, the blind king says, " Why Krishna

seems to go against my sons? Y shud he provoke Arjuna

to fight? If arjuna has not got the mind to fight y is

Krishna instigating him into fight? Y Krishna is bent

on seeing destruction? "

 

It is not right 2 say that Krishna was bent on

bringing about destruction. Krishna had made all

attempts to prevent war by going over to Duryodhana to

seek kingdom for pandavas, their birth right as much

as Duryodhana had. He even went 2 the extent of

showing his Visvarupa. Y shud Krishna show his

viswarupa to Duryodhana? B'Cos he wanted to show him

that he was God. IT WAS NOT MERE OF HIS

GOD NATURE. But merely 2 warn Duryodhana that the path

he was taking was not right. He felt atleast after

seeing him as God he might get the buddhi not 2

antagonise the pandavas on whose side dharma was & on

whose side Krishna was standing. Even after this

Duryodhana failed to c reason. In utter audacity of

the power & authority that backed him, he told Krishna

that he shall not give land to the pandavas even as

much as that was under the point of a needle. Was it

Krishna who made Duryodhana not c reason? Did he not

try his utmost in wasting his magnificient viswarupa

darshan 2 even the evil-minded Duryodhana? He tried &

finally when all peace talks failed he told Yudhistra

to wage war befitting a kshatriya to fight against

adharma and establish righteousness. It was this duty

of Arjuna, born as he was a kshatriya, the duty to not

desist from fighting evil, that Krishna reminded

arjuna. Whatever b the might of the opponent a

kshatriya shud protect righteousness & establish

dharma by force if all peace missions failed. There is

nothing more worthy for a kshatriya than to lose his

life in a battle for a just cause against evil. If he

dies while fighting evil he will attain the heavens of

glory and he will remain ever-praised by all. If he

wins he shall enjoy sovereignity of ruling the earth.

Either ways the kshatriya has nothing to lose. So

Krishna reminds arjuna of his duty to rout adharma

from the earth. Moreover, Krishna gives additional

explanations. From the yoga point of view, the athma r

soul is indestructible. Nothing can make the soul

non-existent as the soul pervades all matter. The soul

is ever-existent. The death that we say is mere

separation of soul from body. The soul after being

separated from the body continues its journey into

another body. Just as a child grows into an youth and

then into a man, the soul enters another state. So yu

cannot kill the soul. When there is a transition from

youth to old age v dont cry b'cos v know it is just a

change. So also the atma throws away the present body

and enters into another body, a new dress for the

athma. The yogi who sees this truth doesnt cry for the

death of a soul as he understands the athma to have

entered another body upon leaving this body. It was

for bringing this science of the soul to the world

that Krishna himself preached arjuna. Moreover the

burden of the earth has to b removed. So in view of

all this Krishna told what the right thing was to do

for arjuna. He says do yur duty as a kshatriya without

the expectancy of the fruit of yur actions. It is the

expectancy of the fruit of actions that clouds us with

ignorance r ajnana. This desire to get the fruits for

ourselves binds us into body. Once v get rid of this

nescience v can break the shackles of karma and

liberate our soul from the body, i.e. the state of no

rebirth.

 

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I thank yu for having patiently gone thro this. I felt

it might b useful.

 

Sankaram Siva Sankaram.

 

Sriram Sampath Kumar,

AL, DLPD,

BITS, Pilani.

 

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