Talking about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Khattar said, “Due to Covid-19 situation, this year International Gita Mahotsav is being organised through digital medium so that we could achieve the objective of disseminating the teachings of Bhagavad Gita in every corner of the world.”. [190] Theologian Catherine Cornille writes, "The text [of the Gita] offers a survey of the different possible disciplines for attaining liberation through knowledge (Jnana), action (karma), and loving devotion to God (bhakti), focusing on the latter as both the easiest and the highest path to salvation. For example, state Galvin Flood and Charles Martin, these interpretations have been used to support "pacifism to aggressive nationalism" in politics, from "monism to theism" in philosophy. [97], The Gita is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna right before the start of the climactic Kurukshetra War in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. [222], The first reference to dharma in the Bhagavad Gita occurs in its first verse, where Dhritarashtra refers to the Kurukshetra, the location of the battlefield, as the Field of Dharma, "The Field of Righteousness or Truth". Bhagavad Gita is not a holy or religious book to be kept in shelf for worshiping. Preface. [162], The Gita adopts the Upanishadic concept of Absolute Reality (Brahman), a shift from the earlier ritual-driven Vedic religion to one abstracting and internalizing spiritual experiences. It equates self-knowledge and the union with Purusha (Krishna) as the Self to be the highest goal of any spiritual pursuit. Krishna discusses the nature of God, according to Easwaran, wherein Krishna not only transcends impermanent body (matter), he also transcends the atman (soul) in every being. This is how the flower of devotion evolves into the fruit of knowledge. [web 1][3][note 1] The Krishna–Arjuna dialogues cover a broad range of spiritual topics, touching upon ethical dilemmas and philosophical issues that go far beyond the war Arjuna faces. [18][112][113] The chapter starts by presenting the tension in the Indian tradition between the life of sannyasa (monks who have renounced their household and worldly attachments) and the life of grihastha (householder). [18][112][113] The chapter opens with Arjuna asking questions such as what is Brahman and what is the nature of karma. The Gita disapproves of these, stating that not only is it against the tradition but against Krishna himself, because "Krishna dwells within all beings, in torturing the body the ascetic would be torturing him", states Flood. [372] According to Paul Schaffel the influential Hindu nationalist V.D. "[358] To him, svadeshi was "sva-dharma applied to one's immediate environment. [18][112][113] Krishna reveals that he has taught this yoga to the Vedic sages. Of these, the various editions of the Bhagavad Gita alone total up to nearly 12 crores. [143][144] Chapter 11, states Eknath Eswaran, describes Arjuna entering first into savikalpa samadhi (a particular), and then nirvikalpa samadhi (a universal) as he gets an understanding of Krishna. [63][64][65], The Bhagavad Gita is the sealing achievement of Hindu Synthesis, incorporating its various religious traditions. [151] These are listed as sattva, rajas and tamas. [24] Another Hindu legend states that Vyasa narrated it while the elephant-headed deity Ganesha broke one of his tusks and wrote down the Mahabharata along with the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna describes the process of devotional service (Bhakti yoga). [32][33] Some infer, states Vivekananda, that "Shankaracharya was the author of Gita, and that it was he who foisted it into the body of the Mahabharata. It weighs 800 kg and measures over 2.8 metres. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. The fact remains that Mahabharata as found today with 100,000 verses was completed several centuries later by addition of many stories told by sages to their disciples. The Teachings of Bhagavad Gita are non-sectarian and do not belong to any particular creed, cult or county. [web 6], The 1993 Sanskrit film, Bhagavad Gita, directed by G. V. Iyer won the 1993 National Film Award for Best Film. [178] According to Raju, the Gita supports this identity and spiritual monism, but as a form of synthesis with a personal God. Here you will find the early Bhagavad Gita commentaries which Yogananda printed in his magazines. [2] He wonders if he should renounce and seeks Krishna's counsel, whose answers and discourse constitute the Bhagavad Gita. [49] The earliest "surviving" components therefore are believed to be no older than the earliest "external" references we have to the Mahabharata epic. Scholars accept dates from the fifth century to the second century BCE as the probable range, the latter likely. Those who act selfishly create the karmic cause and are thereby bound to the effect which may be good or bad. A part of the verse from this chapter was recited by Robert Oppenheimer as he witnessed the first atomic bomb explosion. [229], Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, in his commentary on the Gita,[230] interprets the battle as "an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil". According to Fowler, the bhakti in the Gita does not imply renunciation of "action", but the bhakti effort is assisted with "right knowledge" and dedication to one's dharma. According to the Indologist Ananya Vajpeyi, the Gita does not elaborate on the means or stages of war, nor on ahimsa, except for stating that "ahimsa is virtuous and characterizes an awakened, steadfast, ethical man" in verses such as 13.7–10 and 16.1–5. [276][277] Many of these commentators state that the Gita is "meant to be a moksa-shastra (moksasatra), and not a dharmasastra, an arthasastra or a kamasastra", states Sharma. The Gita Press has published the Gita in multiple Indian languages. Also few inclusions like ‘description/creation of caste system’ , ‘women, sinners and lower castes’ being treated similarly etc were according to the society in those years. He wonders if fighting the war is "not so important after all" given Krishna's overview on the pursuit of spiritual wisdom. [99][note 11] Two massive armies have gathered to destroy the other. [18][note 12], Some translators have variously titled the first chapter as Arjuna vishada yoga, Prathama Adhyaya, The Distress of Arjuna, The War Within, or Arjuna's Sorrow. Eons end, everything dissolves and then he recreates another eon subjecting them to the laws of Prakriti (nature). However, it was also not re-written in a consistent form. Other parallelism include verse 10.21 of Gita replicating the structure of verse 1.2.5 of the Shatapatha Brahmana. [246]:514 According to Larson, there is "a massive translational tradition in English, pioneered by the British, solidly grounded philologically by the French and Germans, provided with its indigenous roots by a rich heritage of modern Indian comment and reflection, extended into various disciplinary areas by Americans, and having generated in our time a broadly based cross-cultural awareness of the importance of the Bhagavad Gita both as an expression of a specifically Indian spirituality and as one of the great religious "classics" of all time. Their happiness comes from within, and the external world does not bother them. [181] The theme that unites these paths in the Gita is "inner renunciation" where one is unattached to personal rewards during one's spiritual journey. [34] The Gita, states van Buitenen, was conceived and developed by the Mahabharata authors to "bring to a climax and solution the dharmic dilemma of a war". In the first chapter, Arjuna feels that he is getting exactly the opposite of what he wanted out of life. The final verses of the chapter state that the self-aware who have reached self-realization live without fear, anger, or desire. Arjuna is distressed and in sorrow. John C. Plott et al. [239] He places the Pancaratra Agama in the last three or four centuries of 1st-millennium BCE, and proposes that both the tantric and vedic, the Agama and the Gita share the same Vasudeva-Krishna roots. [257] A translation "can never fully reproduce an original and no translation is transparent", states Richard Davis, but in the case of Gita the linguistic and cultural distance for many translators is large and steep which adds to the challenge and affects the translation. Dear devotee, Welcome. PREFACE The Bhagavad Gita, the greatest devotional book of Hinduism, has long been recognized as one of the world’s spiritual classics and a guide to all on the path of Truth. [246]:525–530, According to the exegesis scholar Robert Minor, the Gita is "probably the most translated of any Asian text", but many modern versions heavily reflect the views of the organization or person who does the translating and distribution. Bhagavad Gita Teachings. It encapsulates the essence of profound philosophies of Hinduism … [116][117][118] Mahatma Gandhi memorized the last 19 verses of the second chapter, considering them as his companion in his non-violent movement for social justice during the colonial rule. [264] Swami Rambhadracharya released the first Braille version of the scripture, with the original Sanskrit text and a Hindi commentary, on 30 November 2007. [31], Swami Vivekananda, the 19th-century Hindu monk and Vedantist, stated that the Bhagavad Gita may be old but it was mostly unknown in the Indian history till early 8th century when Adi Shankara (Shankaracharya) made it famous by writing his much-followed commentary on it. visit. Krishna says he is the atman in all beings, Arjuna's innermost Self, also compassionate Vishnu, the Surya (sun god), Indra, Shiva-Rudra, Ananta, Yama, as well as the Om, Vedic sages, time, Gayatri mantra, and the science of Self-knowledge. [18][112][113] The chapter 7 once again opens with Krishna continuing his discourse. Because of differences in recensions, the verses of the Gita may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25–42 or as chapters 6.23–40. Krishna states that his own highest nature is the imperishable Brahman, and that he lives in every creature as the adhyatman. [223], "The Field of Dharma" is also called the "Field of action" by Sri Aurobindo, a freedom fighter and philosopher. [note 16] Nikhilananda's allegorical interpretation is shared by Huston Smith. The Gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide and charioteer Krishna, an avatar of Lord Vishnu. [116] Krishna answers. With Arjuna is Krishna, not as a participant in the war, but only as his charioteer and counsel. The first Humboldt lecture on the Bhagavad Gita caught the attention of George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. [207][208], According to Edwin Bryant, the Indologist with publications on Krishna-related Hindu traditions, the Gita rejects "actionless behavior" found in some Indic monastic traditions. What had previously been known of Indian literature in Germany had been translated from the English. [114] The issue is, states Arvind Sharma, "is it morally proper to kill? [182] However, this action should "not simply follow spiritual injunctions", without any attachment to personal rewards or because of craving for fruits. I find a verse here and a verse there and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies – and my life has been full of external tragedies – and if they have left no visible, no indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teaching of Bhagavadgītā.[330][331]. "[32] This attribution to Adi Shankara is unlikely in part because Shankara himself refers to the earlier commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, and because other Hindu texts and traditions that compete with the ideas of Shankara refer to much older literature referencing the Bhagavad Gita, though much of this ancient secondary literature has not survived into the modern era. According to some, Bhagavad Gita is written by Lord Ganesha which was told to him by Vyasa. [68] Aurobindo described the text as a synthesis of various Yogas. Rosen, Steven; Krishna's Song: A New Look at the Bhagavad Gita, p. 22. Action leads to knowledge, while selfless action leads to spiritual awareness, state the last verses of this chapter. Be Yourself. Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion of the Trinity nuclear test, he thought of verses from the Bhagavad Gita (XI,12): दिवि सूर्यसहस्रस्य भवेद्युगपदुत्थिता यदि भाः सदृशी सा स्याद्भासस्तस्य महात्मनः ॥११- १२॥ [360] Hindus have their own understanding of dharma that goes much beyond the Gita or any particular Hindu text. [267][268][note 20] Vinoba Bhave has written the Geeta in Marathi language as Geetai i.e. [32], According to J. [236], Liberation or moksha in Vedanta philosophy is not something that can be acquired. [231], In Aurobindo's view, Krishna was a historical figure, but his significance in the Gita is as a "symbol of the divine dealings with humanity",[232] while Arjuna typifies a "struggling human soul". The Mahabharata – the world's longest poem – is itself a text that was likely written and compiled over several hundred years, one dated between "400 BCE or little earlier, and 2nd century CE, though some claim a few parts can be put as late as 400 CE", states Fowler. The Pandava prince Arjuna asks his charioteer Krishna to drive to the center of the battlefield so that he can get a good look at both the armies and all those "so eager for war". [172][173][174][note 15] In the Upanishads that preceded the Gita such as the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the salvific goal is to know and realize this Self, a knowledge that is devoid of the delusions of instinctive "I, mine, egoistic" typically connected with the body, material life processes that are impermanent and transient. Bhagavad Gita became popular after Adi Sankaracharya wrote commentaries on them. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us. Vallabha the proponent of "Suddhadvaita" or pure non-dualism, wrote a commentary on the Gita, the "Sattvadipika". [149] According to Miller, this is the chapter which "redefines the battlefield as the human body, the material realm in which one struggles to know oneself" where human dilemmas are presented as a "symbolic field of interior warfare". The, An alternate way to describe the poetic structure of. [189], In the Bhagavad Gita, bhakti is characterized as the "loving devotion, a longing, surrender, trust and adoration" of the divine Krishna as the ishta-devata. Every man is in difficulty in so ma… Its overall thesis is, states Edgerton, more complex however, because other verses teach the Upanishadic doctrines and "thru its God the Gita seems after all to arrive at an ultimate monism; the essential part, the fundamental element, in every thing, is after all One — is God. Author (here, Krishna) himself claims that the original science was not carried forward as it is by successive kings. Theirs is true renunciation. However, states Fowler, it "does not raise any of these to a status that excludes the others". Importance of the last thought before death, differences between material and spiritual worlds, and light and dark paths that a soul takes after death are described.[137]. [370], In the Gita, Krishna persuades Arjuna to wage war where the enemy includes some of his own relatives and friends. However, the texts he quotes have not survived into the modern era. [145][146], Some translators title this chapter as Ksetra–Ksetrajna Vibhaga yoga, Religion by Separation of Matter and Spirit, The Field and the Knower, or The Yoga of Difference between the Field and Field-Knower. [339][note 24], Ralph Waldo Emerson, remarked the following after his first study of the Gita, and thereafter frequently quoted the text in his journals and letters, particularly the "work with inner renunciation" idea in his writings on man's quest for spiritual energy:[342], I owed – my friend and I owed – a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Geeta. At last, an edition of the Bhagavad Gita that speaks with unprecedented fidelity and clarity, letting the profound beauty and depth of this classic shine through. [63][91], According to Gambhirananda, the old manuscripts may have had 745 verses, though he agrees that 700 verses is the generally accepted historic standard. Even a monk should strive for the "inner renunciation", rather than external pretensions. Each shloka line has two quarter verses with exactly eight syllables. The text explores the "paradoxical interconnectedness of disciplined action and freedom". [246]:524, The Gita has also been translated into European languages other than English. [378], "Gita" redirects here. "[217] The Udyoga Parva presents many views about the nature of a warrior, his duty and what calls for heroic action. [11] According to Edgerton, the author(s) of the Gita rely on their concept of personalized God (Krishna) to ultimately arrive at an ultimate monism, where the devotee ultimately realizes that Krishna is the essential part, the Real, the fundamental element in him, everyone and everything. [40] According to the Indologist Arvind Sharma, the Gita is generally accepted to be a 2nd-century-BCE text. [47] This suggests that the text was composed after the Pāṇini era, but before the long compounds of classical Sanskrit became the norm. He calls the Gita as "an epitome of the essentials of the whole Vedic teaching". [160], Some translators title the chapter as Moksha–Sanyasa yoga, Religion by Deliverance and Renunciation, Freedom and Renunciation, or The Yoga of Liberation and Renunciation. It also "relegates the sacrificial system of the early Vedic literature to a path that goes nowhere because it is based on desires", states Bryant. [227], Swami Nikhilananda, takes Arjuna as an allegory of Ātman, Krishna as an allegory of Brahman, Arjuna's chariot as the body, and Dhritarashtra as the ignorance filled mind. [141], Some translators title the chapter as Vishvarupa–Darshana yoga, The Manifesting of the One and Manifold, The Cosmic Vision, or The Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic Form. The gunas affect the ego, but not the soul, according to the text. [44][note 7], According to Arthur Basham, the context of the Bhagavad Gita suggests that it was composed in an era when the ethics of war were being questioned and renunciation to monastic life was becoming popular. [web 4]. [286][287], Madhva, a commentator of the Dvaita Vedanta school,[280] wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, which exemplifies the thinking of the "dualist" school (Dvaita Vedanta). [18][112][113] On Arjuna's request, Krishna displays his "universal form" (Viśvarūpa). Whatever the result, it does not affect them. Of the 18 chapters of the Gita, the first chapter is the only one where Shri Krishna does not utter a single word. [178] This equation is, however, interpreted in a number of ways by different sub-schools of Vedanta. iksvakuna ca kathito vyapya lokan avasthitah. [188] According to Jonardon Ganeri, the premise of "disinterested action" is one of the important ethical concepts in the Gita. [115] The war feels evil to Arjuna and he questions the morality of war. This would date the text as transmitted by the oral tradition to the later centuries of the 1st-millennium BCE, and the first written version probably to the 2nd or 3rd century CE. [95][note 10] The metered verse does not rhyme. [11], The Bhagavad Gita manuscript is found in the sixth book of the Mahabharata manuscripts – the Bhisma-parvan. Keep Reasonable expectations from your Partner by Nitaisevini Mataji. [179], The Upanishads developed the equation "Atman = Brahman", states Fowler, and this belief is central to the Gita. [271], Bhagavad Gita integrates various schools of thought, notably Vedanta, Samkhya and Yoga, and other theistic ideas. The verses 6.10 and after proceed to summarize the principles of Yoga and meditation in the format similar to but simpler than Patanjali's Yogasutra. This legend is depicted with Ganesha (Vinayaka) iconography in Hindu temples where he is shown with a broken right tusk and his right arm holds the broken tusk as if it was a stylus. These are the most ancient religious texts which define truth for Hindus. [321] Modi gave a copy of it to the then President of the United States of America, Barack Obama in 2014 during his U.S. [183][184], The concept of such detached action is also called Nishkam Karma, a term not used in the Gita but equivalent to other terms such as karma-phala-tyaga. This is evidenced by the discontinuous intermixing of philosophical verses with theistic or passionately theistic verses, according to Basham. [266] The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust associated with ISKCON has re-translated and published A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's 1972 English translation of the Gita in 56 non-Indian languages. Click Here for Your Bhagavad Gita Starter Kit! Krishna is all and One. [50], The Bhagavad Gita is the best known,[51] and most famous of Hindu scriptures. 14th Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi called the Bhagavad Gita "India's biggest gift to the world". Originally I wrote Bhagavad-gita As It Is in the form in which it is presented now. [42] On the basis of the estimated dates of Mahabharata as evidenced by exact quotes of it in the Buddhist literature by Asvaghosa (c. 100 CE), Upadhyaya states that the Mahabharata, and therefore Gita, must have been well known by then for a Buddhist to be quoting it. [web 1][note 2], The Bhagavad Gita is the best known and most famous of Hindu texts,[13] with a unique pan-Hindu influence. sri-bhagavan uvaca Further, states Basham, the verses that discuss, According to the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar, They state that the authors of the Bhagavad Gita must have seen the appeal of the soteriologies found in "the heterodox traditions of Buddhism and Jainism" as well as those found in " the orthodox Hindu traditions of Samkhya and Yoga". Present Kali Yuga is 5100+ years old and before that Dwapara Yuga lasted for 864,000 years. [203][83][84] Others consider it as a progressive stage or a combination of Karma yoga and Bhakti yoga. [58], Some Hindus give it the status of an Upanishad, and some consider it to be a "revealed text". Arjuna requests Krishna to move the chariot between the two armies so he can see those "eager for this war". So, Krishna did not do any trick or magic and time did not freeze. Bhagavad Gita acts like a Guru and provides the guidance to a happy life. [283], Abhinavagupta was a theologian and philosopher of the Kashmir Shaivism (Shiva) tradition. [93] Adi Shankara, in his 8th-century commentary, explicitly states that the Gita has 700 verses, which was likely a deliberate declaration to prevent further insertions and changes to the Gita. [54] Swami Vivekananda interprets the first discourse in the Gita as well as the "Kurushetra war" allegorically. Accordingly, the title has been interpreted as "the word of God" by the theistic schools,[17] "the words of the Lord",[18] "the Divine Song",[19][20] and "Celestial Song" by others. [18][112][113] The Bhagavad Gita opens by setting the stage of the Kurukshetra battlefield. The Gita is a cohesively knit pedagogic text, not a list of norms. [178][179] To build its theological framework about the world, the text relies on the theories found in Samkhya and Vedanta schools of Hinduism. [67] According to the Gita translator Radhakrishnan, quoted in a review by Robinson, Krishna's discourse is a "comprehensive synthesis" that inclusively unifies the competing strands of Hindu thought such as "Vedic ritual, Upanishadic wisdom, devotional theism and philosophical insight". The only edge human beings have over other life creatures is the ability of awareness to choose consciousness over ignorance. I first heard of the Bhagavad Gita as kid in the quote attributed to Robert Oppenheimer, when he witnessed the first atomic explosion. [210] Contexually, it also means the essence of "duty, law, class, social norms, ritual and cosmos itself" in the text, in the sense "the way things should be in all these different dimensions", states Fowler. [374] For Gandhi, states Vajpeyi, ahimsa is the "relationship between self and other" while he and his fellow Indians battled against the colonial rule. 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