Bhagwat Gita, Essence Of

BhHAGWAT GITA ,ESSENCE OF

With so many commentries on Bhagwat Gita  ,each expert giving a new meaning to  the verses in Gita it is very difficult to understand true meaning and its application to our life, i have tried to give overview in short to comprehend the truth in short express it to you.

My experiance is that any person  who has read Gita many a times, will agree that he finds  something new every time he reads it. and he can only asaimulate it if he draws his own conclusions after reading a few comments from experts on the subject..

In my considered view Gita  narrates the contradictions and constant struggle between two parts of our mind i.e 1.Pure mind and evil mind which is always there in our mind on each subject we deal or think about, Which is just like Great war called Mahabharat.How to practice and solve this problem is dealt with in Bhagwat Gita in shape of  ad ialogue between Sri Krishna an incarnation of GOD and  Arjun,andwho represents one of us.

In short it is said by Lord Krishna that one should think about the subject with detachment  and then take a decision. He has described and elaborated them into three methods Called  1.Jnan Yoga 2. Karma Yoga 3. Bhakti yoga. which mean Knowledge and intellect , Devotion and love and then work and worship According to Sri Krishna this should be done with     your Vivek ( power of discrimination, Vairagya ( Power of renunciation  ans Sadhna (continuous practice and with detachment ). and in the end Pure mind will prevail over the evil mind and success will be yours..

Itt has been surmoned By Lord Krishna that this Universe is like tree  whose roots are facing upwards  a nd trunk, branches and leave ands are going down and spreading everywhere On this tree God and Living beings are sitting GOD is SEER and Jivaatma (soul) is reaping the fruits of past lives i.e Sanchit Karm ( accumulated fruits), Prarabdh Karm ( self  Chosen fruits to eat in this life ) and Krimarh karm ( Fruites generated in this life, for which Jiva atma (soul) is independent ) The Jivaatma (soul) is  experiances  pleasure or suffering according to these fruits of past actions in this life i.e he gradually surrounded by three qualities of Maya (illusion.).and bounded by these three i.e Satviv (pureor truthful) ,Rajas (Kingly) and Tamas( evil) qualities of ilusion. and due to this he tries to search worldly pleasures in this life which is full of sex,anger,ego and anger whichare said to be gate way to hell butgets only pain and suffering..

The Geeta preaches advice to get releif from this by relenquishing ego of doing actions yourself and by rejecting fruits of actions wheather good or bad  and thus doing actions without attachment and reaping award of fruits of his action doing work in the name of GOD and serving humanity by doing work according to norms, he can rid himself of all fruits of actionsby sacrifing them toAll mighty GOD ,he gets salvation from this and gets extreme satisfaction in himself leading to Nirvan (salvation). He should therefore do porntah samarparh   toGOD iehe should totally give himself to care of GOD and then he will enjoy everlasting pleasure and anand ecstasy in this very life.  and would also help others to follow suite. By this process he gets rid of illusion   by crossing barriors of the three qualities of Maya (ilusion) and become Jeevan Mukta     (Realised person) in this    life  and either preach and enlighten other persons or    by    going in Nirvikala samadhi and not coming out of it realise GOD and merge with him.

The war between pure mind and the evil mind whichi going in our intellect  is     described   as Mahabharat and the above teachings are the teachings of Gita as I have understood and I am sharing this with you for benifit of humanity  .

OM Shanti-shanti- shanti

Avdhesh Mathur ,Senior Citizen  of ICC Cuprtino and Milpitas   .