What is the Bhagavad Gita ?

Mahabhaarata is one of the greatest Indian epics . It was written by sage Vyasa . It contains Bhagavad Gita, the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna, in the battlefield wherein Krishna helps to resolve Arjuna’s mental conflicts and urges him to fight the war. This is narrated by Sanjaya to the blind king Dhritarashtra and begins with a question by Dhritarashtra seeking to know how Arjuna who had laid down his arms, was convinced to fight.

Arjuna’s doubts are doubts that face every generation and so the lessons of the Gita are as applicable in this day and age as they were centuries ago. The Gita unfolds a way of life that helps us to be socially more productive and individually more balanced and tranquil and following which we can pursue life at peace with ourselves. It is a scriptural guide that can give direction to our lives irrespective of us whoever we are and whatever our problem is and transcends the man made, self imposed boundaries of caste, creed and religion.

Bal Gangadhar (Lokamanya) Tilak said “The Gita was not preached either as a pastime for persons tired out after living a worldly life in the pursuit of selfish motives, nor as a preparatory lesson for living such worldly life, but in order to give philosophical advice as to how one should live one’s worldly life with an eye to Release, moksha, and as to the true duty of human beings in worldly life. My last prayer to everyone, therefore, is that one should not fail to thoroughly understand this ancient science of the life of a householder, or of worldly life, as early as possible in one’s life.”

According to Aldous Huxley “The Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the Perennial Philosophy ever to have been done. Hence its enduring value, not only for Indians, but for all mankind. The Bhagavadgeeta is perhaps the most systematic spiritual statement of the Perennial Philosophy.’

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