The
Bhagavad Gita is the most beloved scripture of India, a scripture of
scriptures. It is the one book that all masters depend upon as supreme
source of scriptural authority. Bhagavad Gita means “Songs of Spirit,”
the divine communion of truth-realization between man and his Creator,
the teachings of Spirit through the soul, that should be sung
unceasingly.
The pantheistic doctrine of Gita is that God is
everything. Its verses celebrate the discovery of the Absolute, Spirit
beyond creation, as being also the hidden Essence of all manifestation.
Nature, with her infinite variety and inexorable laws, is an evolute of
the Singular Reality through a cosmic delusion: maya, the “Magical
Measurer” that makes the One appear as many embracing their own
individuality—forms and intelligences existing in apparent separation
from their Creator. Just as a dreamer differentiates his one
consciousness into many dream beings in a dream world, so God, the
Cosmic Dreamer, has separated His consciousness into all the Cosmic
Manifestations, with souls individualized from His own One Being endowed
with egoity to dream their personalized existences within the
Nature-ordained drama of the Universal Dream.
The main theme
throughout the Gita is that one should be an adherent of sanyasa, a
renouncer of this egoity ingrained through avidya, ignorance, within the
physical self of man. By renunciation of all desires springing from the
ego and its environments, which cause separateness between ego and
Spirit; and by reunion with the Cosmic Dreamer through ecstatic yoga
meditation, Samadhi, man detaches himself from and ultimately dissolves
the compellent forces of Nature that perpetuate the delusive dichotomy
of the Self and Spirit. In Samadhi, the Cosmic dream delusion terminates
and the ecstatic dream being awakens in oneness with the pure cosmic
consciousness of the Supreme Being- ever existing-ever-existing,
ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss.
This God-realization cannot be
attained merely by reading a book, but only by dwelling every day on the
above truth that life is a variety entertainment of dream movies full
of hazards of duality—villains of evil and heroic adventures with
goodness; and by deep yoga meditation, uniting human consciousness with
God’s cosmic consciousness. Thus does the Gita exhort the seeker to
right action— physical, mental, and spiritual— toward this goal. We came
from God and our ultimate destiny is to return to Him. The end and the
means to the end is yoga, the timeless science of God-union.
So
comprehensive as a spiritual guide is the Gita that it is declared to
be the essence of the ponderous four Vedas, 108 Upanishads, and the six
system of Hindu philosophy. Only by study and understanding of these
tomes, or else by contacting Cosmic Consciousness, can one fully
comprehend the Bhagavad Gita. Indeed, the underlying essential truths of
all great world scriptures can find common amity in the infinite wisdom
of the Gita’s mere 700 verses.
The entire knowledge of the
cosmos is packed into the Gita. Supremely profound, yet couched in
revelatory language of solacing beauty and simplicity, the Gita has
been understood and applied on all levels of human endeavour and
spiritual striving—sheltering a vast spectrum of human beings with their
disparate natures and needs. Wherever one is on the way back to God,
the Gita will its light on that segment of the journey.
--- Shri Chandan Priyadarshi
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