A few days in the past, we celebrated Gita Jayanti. It was on this Mokshada Ekadashi day, greater than 5,000 years in the past, that Sri Krishna Bhagavan himself taught Arjuna the sacred Bhagavad Gita. Before that, there was no such e book. The whole textual content is nothing however a dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna.
Unlike different sacred books in Hinduism, that are usually dialogues that happen throughout peaceable occasions in ashrams, forests alongside the Himalayas, or on riverbanks, this distinctive dialogue occurred on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. It befell amidst the chaos of struggle, neighing horses, trumpeting elephants, and the sounds of bugles and drums.
Despite this racket, each Krishna and Arjuna discovered inside leisure to have this profound dialogue, with the sword of struggle hanging over their heads. This might have occurred solely as a result of each the coed and the instructor have been nice warriors, and subsequently at peace, no matter the scenario.
People usually mistakenly view the Gita as a e book of proper and incorrect or ethics. They even fail to respect Arjuna, claiming he was confused in regards to the struggle. These are pseudo-interpretations of the Gita.
A profitable politician, whom everybody thought-about a saint, as soon as stated that every time he confronted an issue, he regarded into the Gita and located an answer. However, the Gita is just not about providing options to day-to-day points or issues.
Arjuna was not confused in regards to the struggle. His questions have been about elementary, existential points: What is the fact between oneself and the world? What is the last word goal of life, not simply quick priorities, however one thing a lot deeper? When confronted with the potential destruction of the whole lot he holds expensive, he sought to know the last word goal of human life.
It is these profound questions that the Gita addresses. It is a extremely technical textual content that can not be merely learn and understood. It can solely be learn and, most of the time, misunderstood. The finest option to perceive the Gita is to discover a conventional instructor who’s each conventional and modern, and study from her or him, simply as Arjuna discovered from Krishna.
The author is the founding father of Aarsha Vidya Foundation. You can write to him at aarshavidyaf@gmail.com
