Chapter I – Vishad Yoga.
Shrimad Bhagvad Gitanupanishatsu Brahmavidyayam Yoga Shastre Shrikrisnarjunasamvade Arjuna…………………… Adhyayah.
Each chapter is ended with these words by almost every author, claiming that the Gita is recited by Lord Krisna (incarnation of Vedic God); that the Gita is an Upanishad, and is within Brahma Vidya of the Vedas.(Irony of fate is that the learned commentator who states that the Gita is the composition of fifth century B.C. and the author of the Gita is anonymous, he too ends the chapter with this verse).
Though the Gita proclaims, “Shabda Brahma Ativartate” – that the seekers of knowledge of Yoga should go beyond the Vedic and Upanishadic rule.” VI.44; Yet to attempt and to call the Gita an Upanishad or try to call it Brahma Vidya, what else it can be than buddhi – bheda - misleading and misguiding the people?
Brahma – is the world - Universe, to the Vedics. Shabda Brahma is the world of huge expanse of the words of the Vedas and Upanishadas. One, who becomes well versed with this world of words, reaches to the other world that is beyond and is Absolute, Shabda Brahma is said as the institutional guidance to reach unto Absolute. This is the Vedic Faith ; but to the Gita,
Brahma is prakriti – Nature and not Absolute as the Vedics claim. (XIV.3). Gita proclaims, “ Shruti Viprati Panna ”, that the intelligence was being bewildered by the Vedic Text…………….. II.53
Only because, Brahma – word is used in some verses of the Gita the sectarians have banged upon the claim that the Gita too is recited pertaining to Brahm Vidya – which is the science of Absolute, of the Vedics. To them the Brahma Vidya is an aid to logical investigation to attain spiritual wisdom.
The Gita rejects the spirit of the so-called spiritualists. Rather the result of their Adhyatma – spiritualism, the impact on Arjuna even according to the Vyas Gita is, utmost degradation and Klaibyam- unmanliness.
The Gita preaches to be free from the Vedic rituals and yadnyas, and path of sannyas too. ( II.. 47) It asks all to practice Karma- yoga alone – to work with intelligence and attain perfection. It asks us to abandon the religion of dualism (XVIII. 66).
Wisdom according to the Gita cannot be attained by any means advocated by the dualistic Faiths. It can be attained by inquiry, reasoning and knowledge alone (to which there is hardly any place in the Faiths of either the Sankhyas or of the Vedics). And yet to go on claiming that the Gita is within the rule of Shabda Bramha, can it be a reality?
The Gita urges to abandon the Vedas and be Nistraigunyo– abandon the very subject matter of the Vedic text of Trigunas – the three modes of life, as well as to be Nirdvando- abandon the dualism. (II.45 & 46.)
Shokam Savigna Manasa – Manas means mind. Arjuna was overwhelmed in spirit and mind by sorrow. “The distress of Arjuna is dramatization of a perpetually recurring predicament.” ( Dr,. R krisnan. P-95 of B.G.)
Enlightened Selfishness.
This chapter is named as Vishad - Yoga: that means to go in depression, dejection and sorrow. It is darkness of mind and spirit. The scholars defend that this darkness is an essential step in the progress to spiritual life.
Most humbly, I would like to point out that the Gita is recited to fight out this hypocrisy of darkness- ( ignorance ) of mind and spirit – the spitiual tension that was being provoked by the dualism of the Vedics and of the Sankhyas and had resulted in causing, dharma sammudha chetah - sentimental pity, klaibyam – unmanliness and kshina hridaya daurbalyam - dejection and depression.
The Gita does preach Dharma- religion. But it is to enforce the practice of duties of civic and social life, and not to run away from them (from performance of legitimate duties) and indulge in nefarious activities or in inertia in the name of religion. Religion is to promote worldly prosperity and freedom to every individual. It is Freedom for every man and woman to act, to know and to think.
Because of the influence of the dualism of the Vedics (Vedas and Upanishadas) and the Sankhyas, result was Vishad – darkness of mind and spirit, - ignorance it was, leading the culture to the verge of perish.
Krisnarjuna Samvada : Vyas Gita is nothing but “the dramatic expression to the felt presence of God, in man” ( Dr. Radhakrishnan ). What else it can be than the faith of the author Vyasa and others in the illusion of imagery of God- Brahma – Absolute that is dramatized ?
We have already seen above, Dr. Radhakrishnan’s Findings,
(i) that the Gita is the work of the era after Buddha- 500 B.C. As such it is completely unconcerned with Maha-Bharat War.
(ii) that the author of the Gita is not known. He is anonymous. He is not Lord Krishna.
(iii) Original Gita is not available. It was unsectarian and compact.
What is being read as the Gita today is Bhasya only - commentary maligned with sectarian views by Vyas and others (Vyasadikanche unmekha Rahatati sashanka) : and given secterian cult (Sampradayik white-wash) with its huge expanse.
According to the Gita, The Supreme to which the Vedics call Divine Principle is not at a distance but is close to us. God is not a detached spectator seating in the sky, or a distant judge of the issue, but a friend who is within us at all times and illumines us to differentiate right from wrong or evil. As such,
To call the Gita as Brahmavidya or an Upanishad or Krisnarjun dialogue is far from truth. It is corruption, perversion and distortion of Truth.
The Gita uses traditional terms no doubt. But the meanings behind are altogether changed. Only because the word Brahma comes in few verses, to make it sectarian and call it an Upanishad or within the Vedic concept of Brahma Vidya is nothing but maligning the reality. The Gita asks us all, “Shabda Brama ati vartate” (VI.. 44) to cast away the rule of the Vedas and Upanishadas and go beyond. It calls the Vedic knowledge as a pond of stale and stagnant knowledge and asks the Brahmins not to return to the Vedas again. ( II.46).
The Message of the Gita, is not to Arjuna only. It is for all, and for all the times to come. It is new and independent universal religion. The description of the battlefield etc. of first chapter is unnecessary to be accounted for. Superstition and dark of ignorance was there in Pre- Gita Era also and to fight the battle even for right cause was considered as mahat-papa- most sinful. The whole society had gone unmanly and dejected, because of the influence of the then religious impact. (Vedic and Sankhyas). Even the brave warriors shirked from their duties and went after the spiritualism like that of Arjuna. The result was utmost degradation, degeneration and slavery.
Within the Brahma Vidya, even Great commentators had proclaimed the Gita as Sannyas margi, (Follower of the path of renunciation.) After centuries, Lokamanya Tilak came forward and within the same framework of Brahma Vidya proclaimed that the Gita does not preach Sannyas, but advocates the path of Karma- Yoga alone. What is the reality of Brahma Vidya ?
(Degradation: first to go in Vishad- in depression, dejection and sorrow, that is darkness of mind and spirit, call it Yoga and call it essential to attain the spiritual life, roaming unrestrained. What a marvel! Will it not be irrational and illogical? This hypocrisy alone was the cause of our slavery, utmost degradation of centuries leading to degeneration.
Dharma kshetre kurukshetre – samveta yuyutsavah
Mamakah pandvas chai eva kim akurvata Samjay 1. 1.
Dharma- Religion, should it be to flee away from doing duty, or in fleeing away from the battle field and renounce the world and work and be sluggish and sloth or indulge in rites, rituals and yadnyas?
“ What distinguishes men from animals is the Knowledge of right and wrong.”( Dr. R. K.) Dharma of man should be to decide what is right .
Kurukshtra – is the field near Delhi. In the beginning it was just a farm of cultivation of Kurus. (Kuru means to work). The king of heavens, Indra snatched away the farm from Kurus- shramiks, by force and declared that who so ever died on that field while meditating, or while fighting would go to Heavens. Therefore this land was called as Dharmabhu.
Mahabharat war was fought on this land. It is also said that sage Parshuram too fought here twenty two times to wipe out the warrior race, in memory of his father in offerane of gratitude (tarpan). (So were the Spiritual Sages, impulsive, wrathful, hateful, revengeful and cruel).
Whether this land is called Dharmabhu (Field of righteousness) because of the above reasons or because of the Message of Non-Violence, and Truth, Restraint, Equality, Kshama, Humility etc. was given by the Gita on this field 2500 years before, I leave it to the wise readers to decide.
Dharma kshetra – Field of righteousness.
Whether a man should behave like an animal, or should he behave like a human being? What distinguishes him from animal is restraint-(Samyam) that comes only by using intelligence and knowledge that makes him to differentiate right from evil and behave- act rightly.
To be sluggish and sloth- to sit at one place doing nothing like helpless, and hopeless animals, and become impulsive or indulge in non productive activities of rites, rituals and yadnyas, preserve egos, be cruel and selfish, exploit the masses, deny them any and every right to know or think and act- (this was the slavery of multitudes at the hands of few custodians), to discriminate and hate others, call them untouchables and their work low, all this was opaque to reason.
To be sluggish and sloth- to sit at one place doing nothing like helpless, and hopeless animals, and become impulsive or indulge in non productive activities of rites, rituals and yadnyas, preserve egos, be cruel and selfish, exploit the masses, deny them any and every right to know or think and act- (this was the slavery of multitudes at the hands of few custodians), to discriminate and hate others, call them untouchables and their work low, all this was opaque to reason.
Mysticism is fraud
“The Gita does not teach mysticism that concerns itself with man’s inner being alone.” ( Dr. R. Krishnan – p. 80 of his B.G.)
Draupadi was provided saris by Lord Krisna from space while Kauravas were trying to make her naked in the very court and in the broad daylight. This mystery is believed till to day as a reality.
My humble submission is, people of Hastinapur must have flocked in the court of Kauravas to see the tamasha that was going on. A man must have come forward with courage and said,
“ Husbands may have the right to treat their wives as playthings and the kings may be entitled to insult the lady as they wish- in a most ugly way. But as a Bharatiya, it does not fit in my moral and ethic to see a lady in naked form. Therefore, herewith I put my angavastra- loincloth upon her to protect. Another man came forward and the whole of Hastinapur followed the example one after another. To see the tremendous awakening of the praja, Kaurvas started perspiring. This was the spirit and awakening of the public infused by Lord Krishna.
Question naturally arises in my mind, what is righteousness? Is it in marrying a single lady by five brothers and they in turn use her merely as a plaything? And also those brave Pandavas- husbands sit calmly and quietly and see their wife being shamelessly insulted and molested in a most ugly way? How the power then was corrupted is evident.
To flee away from the duties of life is illusion out of ignorance.
Imperfection, irrationality, total dependence, these evils are to be conquered by Right- ( Samyak ) knowledge, Rightful thinking – Vision and Rightful Action. This should be the Dharma of every human being. This alone can convert the past that was opaque to reason to transparency of thoughts.
Duty alone should be counted far more superior than the individual conviction or Faith.
Draupadi was provided saris by Lord Krisna from space while Kauravas were trying to make her naked in the very court and in the broad daylight. This mystery is believed till to day as a reality.
My humble submission is, people of Hastinapur must have flocked in the court of Kauravas to see the tamasha that was going on. A man must have come forward with courage and said,
“ Husbands may have the right to treat their wives as playthings and the kings may be entitled to insult the lady as they wish- in a most ugly way. But as a Bharatiya, it does not fit in my moral and ethic to see a lady in naked form. Therefore, herewith I put my angavastra- loincloth upon her to protect. Another man came forward and the whole of Hastinapur followed the example one after another. To see the tremendous awakening of the praja, Kaurvas started perspiring. This was the spirit and awakening of the public infused by Lord Krishna.
Question naturally arises in my mind, what is righteousness? Is it in marrying a single lady by five brothers and they in turn use her merely as a plaything? And also those brave Pandavas- husbands sit calmly and quietly and see their wife being shamelessly insulted and molested in a most ugly way? How the power then was corrupted is evident.
To flee away from the duties of life is illusion out of ignorance.
Imperfection, irrationality, total dependence, these evils are to be conquered by Right- ( Samyak ) knowledge, Rightful thinking – Vision and Rightful Action. This should be the Dharma of every human being. This alone can convert the past that was opaque to reason to transparency of thoughts.
Duty alone should be counted far more superior than the individual conviction or Faith.
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