The Importance of the Bhagavadgita-5 : Swami Krishnananda

15/05/2019
(Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.)
5.

Thus, the Bhagavadgita, in the language it is written today, is not merely an instrument of communicating divine knowledge to us, but it is divine grace descending upon us. It is holy, supremely sanctified. The vibrations that the Bhagavadgita recitations set up are said to be in tune with, en rapport with, the vibrations which emanated from the mind of Vyasa himself, or perhaps the vibrations of the Supreme Being, the Viratsvarupa, God Himself, when he dictated this great gospel to Lord Ganesha. Sarva sastra mayi gita: All the sciences of human life are explained in some way, in some verse, in some place or some context or the other of the Bhagavadgita. All the shastras are there; you need not read any other book. This one book is sufficient to unravel the mystery of the human predicament.

You would have yourself observed that when you glance through any page, any verse, any word of the Bhagavadgita text, you would have received some inspiration when your spirits are drooping. When you are agony-ridden and distressed, and you see no meaning in things due to your sorrow, at that time when you open the Bhagavadgita you would have seen something scintillating, piercing, and projecting itself as a solution of your problem in a motherly, kindly affection. This is what I found, and everybody would have found it.

The Bhagavadgita is principally God speaking to man, and when God speaks, you know what He will say. Everything is spoken when God speaks because God is all things, the supreme be-all and end-all. Arjuna’s multi-formed vision as recorded in the Eleventh Chapter cannot be called Sri Krishna, the son of Devaki, Vasudeva, a Yadava prince, a friend of Arjuna.

You can imagine what sort of thing it could have been that this poor Arjuna visualised. "Vrishninam vasudevo 'smi (Gita Chapter-10.Slokam-37) : I am Vasudeva among the Vrishnis."

Who speaks this?

Vasudeva himself will not say that. There is somebody else speaking behind the screen and saying, “I am Krishna among the Yadavs, as I am many other things.”

To be continued ..