The Bhagavad-Gits is published in many languages and there are almost 165000 commentaries have been published so far. No body has ever expressed any doubt or refuted the sayings of the Bhagavan Shree Krishna in the Gita. However, it is still difficult to understand and realize what the Lord says here. For example, he Blessed Lord says, "I imparted this to Vivasvan, the Sun-God". The Sun is 4.56 billion years old and may last another 7. 46 Billion years! Again, the Lord says, I am beyond all Time, Space, Causality, qualities, and such other limitations. I am Unborn, Eternal, and the 'sat'. Further, He, the Lord, says, "I am nirakara parabrahmn, and all that exist are just my manifestations. I can project and withdraw them at My Will!". The Bhagavad-Gita is all about the doctrines of 'Existence, Sustenance of what exists, and the final dissolution and merger. The supreme Lord is speaking here but the question is can we hear Him? Surprisingly enough, He makes it amply clear that He is nowhere else but within us! He is the Atman! His divine plan and the true nature of our existence. But, limited in our abilities, we are not capable of the reality of the phenomenal transient objective world. We fail to see through with our inner eye and thereby live in ignorance. It never occurs to us that what we see, touch, hear, or experience is the effect of the senses and mind and, these are ever-changing according to the moods, attitude, and interests! We eagerly desire and get disillusioned at the end. Has the science and technological advancements helped us in any way in understand the reality of our existence? It is the Mind and the senses, the intellect, and the ego that investigate the Nature and thus fail us? If one sees through the inner eye, (antar-drushti), the soul's eye, the reality becomes clear! Science does not deal with such investigations for it cannot reach there. There are gadgets to see the stars like the telescope and microscope to see the minute cells, but no such thing to see the soul. There is no way of knowing its true nature since it(the soul) is the soul who is the seer and experiencer. One has to take recourse to the scriptures like the Veda, the Upanishads, and Brahma sutras, and the Bhagavad-Gita. But, all these are only means of knowing, a guide to understand, but will not reveal it. Nobody can know Him since He is not another, an object to know! He is the Only One, and nothing exists beside Him. His presence can, however, be experienced every moment since it is He Who breathes within us! Only a deeply involved mind, tad gatena manasa, (the still mind, a state of transcendental meditative trance with focused attention on Atman), will reveal it!
Who understands or even knows about the vast universe and its Creator? Who can tells us "Who the Lord is", and "What the Lord says in the Gita"? Only an attained person, a person of Realization of the Self, Atma-sakshatkara, a yogi, can help us if we ever drop our ego and fall at his feet! But, first there must be an ardent desire to look for enlightenment?
Why is it science and technology cannot help us in Realization of the Self, 'Atma-sakshatkara'? The subject matter of science is 'Matter'. Scientists deal with 'Matter' starting from the sub-atomic particles, the fermions and bosons and the majora bosons, the neutrons, protons, the electrons, etc. Matter is the manifest aspect of the Unmanifest 'brahmn' and, as such, it is the object, the phenomenal external world. The Mind and the out-going senses have to be turned inward. One has to revert, reverse the journey towards the inner-most precincts of the self and establish there in order to realize the true nature of existence. Thus, the Spiritual world is distinct and different from the material world. The material world is ever-changing and, as such, not the 'truth'! Once we realize the 'truth' through yogabhyasa we shall be spiritually charged and will be able to realize 'IT', the 'sat'. The spiritual attainment gives absolute peace, joy and happiness.
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