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Articles: Philosophy | Why We Should Study `GEETA'
- Mr. Bhuvanendra Bhupala
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In our daily lives, very often, grave problems confront us. Confused, we lose our heart more often than not. Only at such moments of crisis do we experience the dire need of the Bhagawad Geeta.
Here is an analogy much akin to the Mahabharat war and Geeta Scenario in our lives. This mind is a battlefield where the good and evil forces fight for supremacy. Unable to face the realities of life and its problems, we are prone to run away from our duties and responsibilities out of sheer cowardice. To such cowards, the Gita offers hope and encouragement. It prompts them into rightful action. The Gita which was preached to Arjuna in the context of Kurukshetra war has wider application to the war that is going on constantly within our mind between the good and the evil forces.
Mahabharata has not only a historical but also a metaphysical interpretation. One may wonder whether this teaching given in the bygone days of the Dwapara Yuga (thousands of years ago) will ever be applicable to the modern atomic age?
But in fact, the teachings of the Gita are perennial in nature and contain elements of truth applicable to all ages. Let me clarify here what I mean by the term ‘TRUTH’ (In Sanskrit this is termed as ‘SATHYA’) Truth is such a truth which is unaffected by circumstances, that remains untampered, untwisted, unaltered, unvanquished with respect to time. We can say that the Truth is beyond the time dimension.
Therefore, the teachings of Gita have been evergreen till date and would continue to be so for future, endlessly. It would always be in vogue. God-realized saints and sages gave an example to us to explain what Gita is like as follows:
Upanishads are called a Cow (In this context it is sufficient to know that Upanishads are Spiritual Texts). Sri Krishna is the Milkman, Arjuna is the Calf, which induces the Cow to yield Milk and Gita is that milk. Just as the milk is not for the Calf alone, so also the Gita which contains the quintessence of all the Upanishadic thought is not for Arjuna alone but for the whole of mankind.
While giving this discourse, Sri Krishna is described to have held his fingers in the form of ‘Jnaana Mudra’ which is also symbolic of milking and what has flown out in the form of the Gita in the divine nectar (Amruth) itself.
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