Life is very complex in these days. The struggle for existence is very keen. Man finds no time to study big philosophical and religious books, so I feel like posting GITA in brief and crux of BHAGAVAD GITA.
The Bhagavad Gita (Sanscrit भगवद्गीता, Bhagavad Gītā, "Song of God"), also more simply known as Gita, is sacred Hindu scripture, considered among the most important texts in the history of literature and philosophy. The Bhagavad Gita comprises roughly 700 verses and is a part of the Mahabharata. The teacher of the Bhagavad Gita is Krishna, who is revered by Hindus as a manifestation of God himself and is referred to within as Bhagavan, the Divine One. BHAGWAT GITA was told by Lord Krishna himself. And it is documented by Veda Vyasa Muni.
The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th through 42nd and consists of 700 verses
The Mahabharata centers on the exploits of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, two families of royal cousins descended from two brothers, Pandu and Dhritarashtra, respectively. Because Dhritarashtra was born blind, Pandu inherited the ancestral kingdom, comprising a part of northern India around modern Delhi. The Pandava brothers were Yudhishthira the eldest, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. The Kaurava brothers were one hundred in number, Duryodhana being the eldest. When Pandu died at an early age, his young children were placed under the care of their uncle Dhritarashtra who usurped the throne.
The Pandavas and the Kauravas were brought up together in the same household and had the same teachers, the most notable of whom were Bhishma and Dronacharya. Bhishma, the wise grandsire, acted as their chief guardian, and the brahmin Drona was their military instructor. The Pandavas were endowed with righteousness, self-control, nobility, and many other knightly traits. On the other hand, a hundred sons of Dhritarashtra, especially Duryodhana, were endowed with negative qualities and were cruel, unrighteous, unscrupulous, greedy, and lustful. Duryodhana, jealous of his five cousins, contrived various means to destroy them.
When the time came to crown Yudhisthira, eldest of the Pandavas, as a prince, Duryodhana, through a fixed game of dice, exiled the Pandavas into the forest. On their return from banishment, the Pandavas demanded the return of their legitimate kingdom. Duryodhana, who had consolidated his power by many alliances, refused to restore their legal and moral rights. Attempts by elders and Krishna who was a friend of the Pandavas and also a well-wisher of the Kauravas, to resolve the issue failed. Nothing would satisfy Duryodhana's inordinate greed.
War became inevitable. Both Duryodhana and Arjuna requested Krishna to support them in the war, since he possessed the strongest army, and was revered as the wisest teacher and the greatest yogi. Krishna offered to give his vast army to one of them and to become a charioteer and counselor for the other, but he would not touch any weapon nor participate in the battle in any manner. While Duryodhana chose Krishna's vast army, Arjuna preferred to have Krishna as his charioteer. The whole realm responded to the call of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. The kings, princes, and knights of India with their armies assembled on the sacred plain of Kurukshetra. The blind king Dhritarashtra wished to follow the progress of the battle. The sage Vyasa offered to endow him with supernatural sight, but the king refused the boon, for he felt that the sight of the destruction of those near and dear to him would be too much to bear. Thereupon Vyasa bestowed supernatural sight on Sanjaya, who was to act as a reporter to Dhritarashtra. The Gita opens with the question of the blind king to Sanjaya regarding what happened on the battlefield when the two armies faced each other in battle array.
The Bhagavad Gita begins before the start of the climactic battle at Kurukshetra, with the Pandava prince Arjuna becoming filled with doubt on the battlefield. Realizing that his enemies are his own relatives, beloved friends, and revered teachers, he turns to his charioteer and guide, Krishna, for advice.
Krishna counsels Arjuna on the greater idea of dharma, or universal harmony and duty
The crux of The Bhagwat Gita
Why do you worry unnecessarily?
Who do you fear needlessly?
Who can kill you - none surely,
The Atma never dies - certainly.
Whatever happened was but good,
Whatever happens, will be good,
Whatever be happening is but good,
The past, present, future be good.
For what is past - do not regret,
The future should not worry beget,
The present is passing - no regrets,
Be not lost in emotion or body quest.
What have you lost for which you cry,
What had you brought whose loss you fry,
You created nothing that was destroyed,
You lost nothing but just earthly toys.
To this world, you had brought nothing,
From this world, you will take nothing,
Whatever you have got be from here,
Whatever you give will be from here.
Whatever you give or take - be from Him,
Empty-handed you came and return to Him,
What be yours today was else's yesterday,
And be of others but the following day.
Your basic thought of happiness be -
Its possession as though it be Divinity,
And this happiness will be but surely,
The cause of your sorrow unfailingly.
The cause of sorrows be thought only,
Thought of proclaiming it yours truly,
Its loss, ownership causes sorrow, joy,
In these material thoughts you fry.
Change be but the Nature's rule,
Let death not make you a fool,
In death but life does ever be,
But Man sees this not clearly.
In a second the master you are,
But the very next a slave surely,
Big or small, yours or mine,
Remove from thought and mind.
Then but yours be all beings,
And you of all the living beings,
No sorrow or joy you be seeing,
Sublime songs forever singing.
Even not yours does be the body,
Neither you belong to this body,
It but be from fire, water, and air,
Earth and sky - created and cared.
Surrender to Lord and then pose,
For that be your sum best repose,
Those who know this support - surely,
Be free from fear, worry, melancholy.
Body will return to its elements surely,
Cry not when this happens inevitably,
Only the `Atma’ does live infinitely,
Ponder but then who do you be?
Before the Lord surrender fully,
This the best rapport be undoubted,
You came from Him most certainly,
And return to Him you must surely.
All acts that you do - ever remember,
Be but by His will - else you slumber,
Dedicate wholly your acts to Him,
And free yourself from rebirth and sin.
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