There are hundreds of
commentaries from different authors on the Bhagavad Gita. Each one goes on
spinning yarns imagining as he likes what the meaning may be.
Bhagavad Gita has been interpreted
in a thousand ways, according to the author’s capacity to understand the test
of all these is the reason. Only a few understood Bhagavad Gita.
Bhagavad Gita is a hodgepodge containing
everything; hence it suits the populace because there is something in it for
every type of mindset. It is difficult to find any tradition whose voice is not
found in the Gita. It is difficult to find anyone who does not take solace from
the Bhagavad Gita. But for such people, the Advaitic path will prove very difficult.
Once you are Soul centric you will
know what Bhagavad Gita and other scriptures really meant, you will see that
there is only one possible interpretation, irrespective of diverse opinion or
imagination.
The Bhagavad Gita does not contain
higher wisdom. Bhagavad Gita is intended for those who are incapable of thinking
rationally.
People love Bhagavad Gita because
it is very easy to extract one's own meaning from it. Reading Bhagavad Gita a
religious believer extracts something of which he can make a belief because
Bhagavad Gita speaks on bhakti, devotion. The karma yogi extracts his belief
because Krishna has spoken on karma yoga, the Yoga of action. The believer in
knowledge finds what he wants because Bhagavad Gita has spoken on knowledge as
well. Somewhere Krishna calls bhakti the ultimate, somewhere else he calls knowledge
the ultimate, again elsewhere he calls karma yoga the ultimate.
Lord Krishna taught the Karma and Bhakti yogis their own paths only in order to
lead them up to the Gnana yoga path, which is the highest and the real object of
his teaching.
Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom
of India (our true Advaita philosophy) has been lost: people misinterpret and
falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth.
But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or
religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~ Chap ~IV~
v.2)
Why is the word Yoga used in so many
different senses in the Gita? Because there are grades and the highest demands
concentrated brains, not sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God.
In Gita Chap.IV where Lord Krishna
says: ~ “This yoga has been lost for
ages" the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out.
Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas
but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So one sees even in those
ancient days people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence Gnana
got lost. That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret." Krishna points out that yoga must-see "Brahman in action."
Gita Chap.IV: ~ “He who achieves perfection in
Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished,
he begins the inquiry into ultimate truth, and in due course, this inquiry
produces the realization of the universal spirit as the result.
Understanding what is God is not
so easy. Religious people can only imagine God based on their beliefs.
Remember: ~
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those
whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many God
s. (7- Verse -20)
Only the path of wisdom leads
the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true
nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the
form of consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita: 7:19:~"Such a man who has
attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, knowledge of Atman, worships
‘Self’ as~ Atman (God) alone exists~ everything is Atman there exists nothing
except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare"
Bhagavad Gita:~Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~
Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis
of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the
all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate
entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than
consciousness.
Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in
truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits,
but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the
truth about God.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant
populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there
is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Bhagavad Gita: 5: 19:~ "Those who have achieved
the true knowledge i.e. the 'Self-Knowledge' or the 'knowledge of Atman' and
see no difference, are free from conflicting dualities have merged in
Brahman"
Bhagavad Gita: 5: 20:~ "One who does not get excited out of
happiness on getting good and does not get depressed on getting bad is situated
in Brahman i.e. is merged in Brahman"
Bhagavad Gita: 6: 9:~ "The one who has equal
the vision for a Selfless do-gooder, a friend, a foe, an unbiased, a
well-wisher, a depressed and jealous man, relatives, a righteous and a sinner
is the best (as he sees no duality and differentiation but sees everything as Atman)"
Bhagavad Gita: 6: 32:~ “.....as one seeks and treats oneself with equal
vision, the same way one who has an equal vision for good and evil, for
everybody is the best of all".
Bhagvad Gita: 6: 8:~ "For whom soil, a pebble, and gold are
alike, he is merged in Brahman.
Bhagavad-Gita Gita: 7: 27:~ ".....people are getting entangled in the
primordial ignorance (Avidya) of the conflicting dualities like good and evil,
happiness and sorrow caused due to attachments, desires, and hatred....."
Bhagavad Gita: 6: 28:~ “.....who have cut-off conflicting dualities
(like good and evil)is determinedly in my service. ...."
Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has
attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, in the
last birth in the series of many births worships Me as~ Atman alone exists~
everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely
rare"
A Gnani sees no duality and
differentiation but sees everything as Atman. The knowledge of both matter and
spirit is True knowledge. The true knowledge is Self-knowledge or Brahma
Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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