The Essence of the Gospel of the Bhagavad Gita : 4. Swami Krishnananda
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26/10/2019
(Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.)
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This was Arjuna’s condition. His personality was torn to shreds by the psychological conflict that arose within himself. He did not know whether it was proper to be or not to be, as Shakespeare puts it in his Hamlet. You do not know whether it is proper to be or not to be. You do not know what to do and what not to do.
Karpanya-doshopahatasvabhavah
pucchami tvam dharmasammudhacetah (B.G. 2.7) was the query of Arjuna to Bhagavan Sri Krishna :
“Lord, I do not know. I am confused. What is proper for me in this condition? Please tell me. Am I to engage in this bloody deed called war and kill all my kith and kin in order to reign over this bloody kingdom? Or is it proper for me to retire and live a life of isolation, even of a mendicant? What is my duty at this moment, in this context?” was the question—and it is your question, it is my question, and it is everybody’s question.
What is your duty at a given moment of time?
Though ‘duty’ is a general term applicable to every obligation that you owe to the world outside, it changes its colours and contours at different times and under given conditions, like a medicine that is administered to a patient. Though it is true that every disease requires a medicine, different diseases require different types of medicine. In a similar manner, though duty is an obligation on everyone’s part, you owe a duty of different types.
It is difficult for you to judge what peculiar shade of difference influences that particular kind of duty that you are called upon to do at any given moment of time. This requires knowledge. This knowledge which is the background of the sense of duty at any given moment of time is called sankhya in the terminology of the Bhagavadgita.
Sri Krishna rebutted the arguments of Arjuna, dismissed all his cogent sayings with one sentence: “You speak words of wisdom, but you do not possess wisdom.”
Asocyan anvasocah tvam prajnavadan ca bhashase (B.G. 2.11):
You are weeping for that for which you should not grieve, and yet you speak of knowledge.
We many a time put on an air of understanding as if we are omniscient, and then under the pretext of this apparent knowledge of ours—which is another form of ignorance—we assume a sense of duty from the point of view of our own personal interpretation of it.
Even a devil can quote scripture, as they say, and the error of judgment in which we mostly get rooted in life becomes the guiding factor in the judgment of values, as it happened to Arjuna and happens to every person in the world.
To be continued ....
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NOTE : Recent media reports
1.Anna University to Teach Upanishadas and Gita to Engineering Students
Several political parties, academicians and students’ organisations have condemned the move by the university.
2.DMK chief MK Stalin slams 'mandatory' teaching of Hindu scriptures in Anna University, varsity denies move
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) staged a protest against the alleged imposition of Sanskrit in Anna University and other issues.
3.Earlier, DMK President MK Stalin had condemned Anna University over its decision to include Bhagwad Gita in the curriculum. Seeking governor's intervention, Stalin had tweeted, "It is condemnable to attempt imposition of Sanskrit by making philosophy compulsory in the syllabus of Anna University's CEG campus."
3. People can’t dictate religion: Kamal Haasan slams inclusion of Gita in Anna University syllabus
After Stalin, now Kamal Haasan has raised concerns about the inclusion of Bhagavad Gita in the Anna varsity curriculum saying that one can't dictate religion.
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OPINION :
1.THIS UNIVERSE RESPECTS OUR BHARATIYA HOLY SCRIPTURES THAN ANY THING;
2. NATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD INTRODUCED LEARNING OF SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA AND SANSKRIT;
3. WONDER ARE THESE TAMIL PEOPLE NOT AWARE OF THIS UNIVERSAL TRUTH?
4. ARE THESE TAMIL POLITICS SEPARATE FROM THIS HOLY NATION?
5. WHY TAMILNADU PEOPLE NOT PREPARED REJECT THIS RUBBISH ANTI NATIONAL POLITICS OF SEPARATISTS?
6. EVR ATROCITIES AGAINST TAMILNADU BRAHMINS AND HIS ACCUSAL THEORY OF ANTI RAMAYANAM BY WAY OF HIS DRAMA KEEMAYANAM; NO ONE PROTESTED THEN; WHY? ARE THE PEOPLE NOT AWARE OF THE HOLINESS OF GREAT EPIC RAMAYANAM. THEN?
7. THE FUNNIEST PART OF THIS STORY THAT WHEN AP NAGARAJAN PRODUCED SAMPURNA RAMAYANAM WITH THEN SUPER STARS TAMIL PEOPLE MADE A HEAVY RUSH TO THEATRES? WHY THIS ATTITUDE? CINEMA IS DIVINE NOT RAMAYANAM IS IT SO?
8. PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE DECISION MAKERS AND FREEDOM CHOOSE THE SPIRITUAL SUBJECTS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS;
9. IF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED THIS, IT IS A FACT THAT THE PEOPLE OF BHARATHAM REQUESTED PM MODIJI THROUGH MAN KI BAAT AND OTHER CHANNELS BY WAY PEOPLE CONTACTS WITH PM AND TEAM INDIA.
10. TAMIL POLITICS HAS NO ROLE HERE, WHERE THE PEOPLE IS IN THE CENTRE-POINT, DIRECT WITH PM MODI JI LEAD TEAM INDIA, SO KEEP AWAY IT IS BHARATHAM.
11. DMK LIKE TAMIL POLITICAL PARTIES, PLAY ANTI HINDUS, ANTI NATIONAL POLITICS AND SPREAD VENOM OF HATRED TO GET MINORIOTY VOTE BANK, A FUTILE IDEA, WILL BE BROKEN SOON, FOOLS;
12. THIS FUNNY TRICK AIADMK WHO IS THE PARTNER TO BJP IN TAMILNADU POLITICS, DID NOT RAISED VOICE AGAINST THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE SPIRITUAL LEARNING WITH SANSKRIT, BEWARE THESE TYPES OF WOLVES.
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26/10/2019
(Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.)
4.
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This was Arjuna’s condition. His personality was torn to shreds by the psychological conflict that arose within himself. He did not know whether it was proper to be or not to be, as Shakespeare puts it in his Hamlet. You do not know whether it is proper to be or not to be. You do not know what to do and what not to do.
Karpanya-doshopahatasvabhavah
pucchami tvam dharmasammudhacetah (B.G. 2.7) was the query of Arjuna to Bhagavan Sri Krishna :
“Lord, I do not know. I am confused. What is proper for me in this condition? Please tell me. Am I to engage in this bloody deed called war and kill all my kith and kin in order to reign over this bloody kingdom? Or is it proper for me to retire and live a life of isolation, even of a mendicant? What is my duty at this moment, in this context?” was the question—and it is your question, it is my question, and it is everybody’s question.
What is your duty at a given moment of time?
Though ‘duty’ is a general term applicable to every obligation that you owe to the world outside, it changes its colours and contours at different times and under given conditions, like a medicine that is administered to a patient. Though it is true that every disease requires a medicine, different diseases require different types of medicine. In a similar manner, though duty is an obligation on everyone’s part, you owe a duty of different types.
It is difficult for you to judge what peculiar shade of difference influences that particular kind of duty that you are called upon to do at any given moment of time. This requires knowledge. This knowledge which is the background of the sense of duty at any given moment of time is called sankhya in the terminology of the Bhagavadgita.
Sri Krishna rebutted the arguments of Arjuna, dismissed all his cogent sayings with one sentence: “You speak words of wisdom, but you do not possess wisdom.”
Asocyan anvasocah tvam prajnavadan ca bhashase (B.G. 2.11):
You are weeping for that for which you should not grieve, and yet you speak of knowledge.
We many a time put on an air of understanding as if we are omniscient, and then under the pretext of this apparent knowledge of ours—which is another form of ignorance—we assume a sense of duty from the point of view of our own personal interpretation of it.
Even a devil can quote scripture, as they say, and the error of judgment in which we mostly get rooted in life becomes the guiding factor in the judgment of values, as it happened to Arjuna and happens to every person in the world.
To be continued ....
NOTE : Recent media reports
1.Anna University to Teach Upanishadas and Gita to Engineering Students
Several political parties, academicians and students’ organisations have condemned the move by the university.
2.DMK chief MK Stalin slams 'mandatory' teaching of Hindu scriptures in Anna University, varsity denies move
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) staged a protest against the alleged imposition of Sanskrit in Anna University and other issues.
3.Earlier, DMK President MK Stalin had condemned Anna University over its decision to include Bhagwad Gita in the curriculum. Seeking governor's intervention, Stalin had tweeted, "It is condemnable to attempt imposition of Sanskrit by making philosophy compulsory in the syllabus of Anna University's CEG campus."
3. People can’t dictate religion: Kamal Haasan slams inclusion of Gita in Anna University syllabus
After Stalin, now Kamal Haasan has raised concerns about the inclusion of Bhagavad Gita in the Anna varsity curriculum saying that one can't dictate religion.
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OPINION :
1.THIS UNIVERSE RESPECTS OUR BHARATIYA HOLY SCRIPTURES THAN ANY THING;
2. NATIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD INTRODUCED LEARNING OF SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA AND SANSKRIT;
3. WONDER ARE THESE TAMIL PEOPLE NOT AWARE OF THIS UNIVERSAL TRUTH?
4. ARE THESE TAMIL POLITICS SEPARATE FROM THIS HOLY NATION?
5. WHY TAMILNADU PEOPLE NOT PREPARED REJECT THIS RUBBISH ANTI NATIONAL POLITICS OF SEPARATISTS?
6. EVR ATROCITIES AGAINST TAMILNADU BRAHMINS AND HIS ACCUSAL THEORY OF ANTI RAMAYANAM BY WAY OF HIS DRAMA KEEMAYANAM; NO ONE PROTESTED THEN; WHY? ARE THE PEOPLE NOT AWARE OF THE HOLINESS OF GREAT EPIC RAMAYANAM. THEN?
7. THE FUNNIEST PART OF THIS STORY THAT WHEN AP NAGARAJAN PRODUCED SAMPURNA RAMAYANAM WITH THEN SUPER STARS TAMIL PEOPLE MADE A HEAVY RUSH TO THEATRES? WHY THIS ATTITUDE? CINEMA IS DIVINE NOT RAMAYANAM IS IT SO?
8. PARENTS AND CHILDREN ARE DECISION MAKERS AND FREEDOM CHOOSE THE SPIRITUAL SUBJECTS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS;
9. IF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED THIS, IT IS A FACT THAT THE PEOPLE OF BHARATHAM REQUESTED PM MODIJI THROUGH MAN KI BAAT AND OTHER CHANNELS BY WAY PEOPLE CONTACTS WITH PM AND TEAM INDIA.
10. TAMIL POLITICS HAS NO ROLE HERE, WHERE THE PEOPLE IS IN THE CENTRE-POINT, DIRECT WITH PM MODI JI LEAD TEAM INDIA, SO KEEP AWAY IT IS BHARATHAM.
11. DMK LIKE TAMIL POLITICAL PARTIES, PLAY ANTI HINDUS, ANTI NATIONAL POLITICS AND SPREAD VENOM OF HATRED TO GET MINORIOTY VOTE BANK, A FUTILE IDEA, WILL BE BROKEN SOON, FOOLS;
12. THIS FUNNY TRICK AIADMK WHO IS THE PARTNER TO BJP IN TAMILNADU POLITICS, DID NOT RAISED VOICE AGAINST THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE SPIRITUAL LEARNING WITH SANSKRIT, BEWARE THESE TYPES OF WOLVES.
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