Essence of the Gita

The Battlefield is the symbolic Land of Dualism, the ‘Kshetra’ of Human Existence (the body, the world, the Field of Knowledge) and the ‘Kshetrajnya’ (Knower of the Field) is the Lord of the Universe, Shree Krishna, Supreme Consciousness. The person seated in the carriage is the embodied soul, Arjuna, driven by the Charioteer, Krishna- ‘The Supreme Soul’. The horses are the five out-going senses. The strings of hope and fear tie the horses to the carriage. The elements of Karma and desire are the unseen reins.

  The essence of the ‘mukti yoga’ or ‘emancipation of the embodied soul’, liberation of the jiva is explained by the Lord in the Bhagavad-Gita. A person who wants liberation, eternal happiness, unending Bliss shall not treat this sensate objective world as real and get too much involved in it. A wise man will realize the true nature of his Soul i.e., “self-Realization ’through ‘atma Jnyan’, knowledge of the Self. The easiest way is to take to yoga with a purpose to reach ‘nirvikalpa samadhi’ and have ‘God Realization’. This goal of life has to be realized if one wants liberation from metempsychosis, cycle of repeated births and deaths on this Mrutyu Lok-.Planet Earth.

  “From whom this universe emanates, by whom it is sustained after itcame into existence, and, in whom it finally merges  is That (‘tat’)the Brahman; ‘That’ is to be known”. (Taitt. Upa.).