Bhagavat Gita is a treatise of both spiritual and practical life of all beings living in this great world. It shows not only the practical application of spiritual principles but also shows the path how deeply to realize not only for YOGIS but also to us.
The great Bhagavat Gita not only represents the great battle of Mahabharata, but also several battles to be fought by the beings between good and bad, or evils, spirit and matters, soul and body, life and death, knowledge and ignorance, health and deceases, self control and temptations so on and so forth.
When Bhagavat Gita read as an Algorithm, the great sage Vedavyasa introduces in his famous work, the great epic Mahabharata, the basic principles of science of yoga and describes how the yogi suffers for his spiritual attainment to lead a path to KAIVALYA oneness with God.
The sages emphasizes that the key of Bhgavat Gita is to open any chapter with calm inner perception, unbiased, read any passage, understand both is substance and essence.
The great Bhgavat Gita starts with a question WHAT DID THEY DO? Please understand the question. The first stanza reads as
“The blind king Dhritarashtra enquires Sanjaya “WHAT DID THEY” when Kurus and Pandavas assembled on the great battle field of Kurukshetra, eager to fight and what is the out come?
The blind king Dhritarashtra (who is the symbol of blind mind) enquires the honest Sanjaya, that what his own sons, the Kurus (Wicked in nature, having all sense tendencies, indiscriminate) and the sons of his brother Pandu (pure discriminate tendency) assembled on the plains of Kurukshetra (The bodily field) who are eager to fight, gain supremacy over the other, WHAT WAS THE OUT COME?
Metaphorically the same question is to be asked by every one self and review his daily activity, how he fought his righteous battle and how much he is succeeded to get self realization. How fairly he fought his good with bad, self control over sense indulgence, self discrimination on events, self resolution on meditation, resistance offered by mental and physical activity, deriving consciousness against ignorance, and the magnetic attraction of the lower ego-nature.
The great plains of Kurukshetra symbolizes the battle field of action in the human body both physical and mental on which all his activities take place.
The word Dharmakshetra (refers to the righteous holiness) (Thus the body, the holy field or plane is the field engaged for the battle) was the battle field arranged for the battle between the sons of Pandu who have the virtues of soul discriminative intelligence and the sons of his own (blind king) who have uncontrolled wicked activities.
Thus Dharmakshetre Kurukshetre refers to an activity of religious and spiritual duties to be attended with responsibilities and respects. Hence signifies the inner bodily field on which the spiritual action of yoga meditation taken place to attain self realization on the plane of cerebrospinal axis and its seven subtle centers of life and Divine consciousness. The war is between Buddhi (discriminative intelligence allegorically represented as Pandu, the husband of Kunti (the mother of Pandavas, having righteous principles of Nivritti, renunciation of worldly activity) and the sense conscious mind (manasa)
Metaphorically Pandu means white symbolizes for clarity on intellectual discrimination.
Manasa is allegorically represents the sensory impressions and inclinations (Dhritarashtra) which bent outwards, i.e. towards pravritti worldly enjoyment.
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Manasa the sense mind is a subtle magnetic pole which turned outward, i.e. toward the world of matter which is constantly engaged with psychological activity which is coordinated with sensory organs.
Buddhi represents the great seat of consciousness in the spiritual cerebrospinal centers. Also conscious about truth or eternal realities. Soul consciousness or self realization.
Manasa the sense mind repels the conscious truth and engages it in the external sensory activities of the body and thus always attached with Maya.
Manasa (mind) gives coordination to the sense organs, keeps the reins of several horses of a chariot (body) which is intelligent but also blind. Because it cannot see without the help of sense organs. It receive and relay the impulses from the steeds (a high spirited riding horse)
Similarly the blind man (mind) can neither notice nor extend guidance. But merely receives the impressions from sense organs and relay the conclusions.
But if the intelligence guided and governed by Buddhi, the senses are controlled. If the same intelligence ruled by material desires the senses are wild and unruly.
Sanjaya means the one who has concurred himself. He is impartial, and unbiased. He represents the power of impartial intuitive self analysis discerning introspection. Introspection is the power of intuition by which the consciousness can watch its thoughts. It does not reason but feels, not with biased emotion but with clear, calm intuition.
Bhgavat Gita is only a part of Mahabharata. The great sage Veda Vyasa selected Sanjaya who is impartial, unbiased to narrate what is happening in the great battle field of Kurukshetra.
Here on would expect the blind king’s enquiry in the first verse, to be in the present tense. The author Vyasa purposefully had Sanjaya to narrate the Bhgavat Gita dialogue retrospectively and used past tense of the verb what DID they:? It is to be understood here that the sage Veda Vyasa wanted the students of Gita to understand that the teaching of Lord Krishna not only refer to the past history of the battle between Kurus and Pandus on the plains of Kurukshetra but the stress is on universal battles that rage in the daily mans’ life.
The timeless message of Bhgavat Gita refers to the cosmic conflict between good and evil, life a series of battles between spirit and matter, soul and body , life and death, knowledge and ignorance, death and decease, changelessness and transitoriness. Self control and temptations, discriminations and blind sense mind
The sage Veda Vyasa introduced Bhgavat Gita in his first verse with a past tense very reasonably so that ones’ introspection is being invoked to review the conflicts of the day in ones mind in order to determine the favorable or unfavorable out come.
DEEKSHITULU.
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