GITOPADESHA IN THE BATTLEFIELD OF KURU KSHETRA

   

  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 it came into existence, and, in whom it finally merges  is That (‘tat’) the Brahman; ‘That’ is to be known”.  (Taittiriya Upanishad).

                          THE ESSENCE OF THE MUKTIYOGA RAHASYA

[Selected verses that give an idea about the spiritual essence of the Gita. Please keep a Sanskrit text and refer to it].

Yatra Yogeeshvara Krishno yatra paartho dhanurdharah

 Tatrashree vijayorbhootirdhruvaaneetirmatirmama|| 18-68

 This is considered to a single verse Gita (eka shloki gita)

Karmanyevadhikaaraste maa phaleshu kadaacanaa|| 2-47

This is the essence of Karma yoga; Yogasu karma koushalah||

sangatsanjaayate kaamah  kaamaatkrodhobhijaayate

Krodadbhavatisammohah sammohaah Smrutivibhramah

Smrutibrahmshaahtbuddhinaashah buddhinaashaatpranashyati|| 2.62-63

This is how the jiva gets lost in sensuous life. 

sthitaprajnyasya kaabhaashaa… … sthithadheermuniruchyate||

manmanaabhavamadbhakto madhyaajeemaamnamaskuru||  18-65

This gives the nature of a person established in his self,

yateenaam Brahmaabhavati saarathi” (Rk Veda)  1-158.6

Trust in God; He takes care! One who is in His care need not worry.

 Vishnu Bhaktaanaam na bhayam kvacit ||

tapasvibhyodhikoyogih…tasmaat yogirbhavaarjunaa|| 6-46

traigunyavishayaavedaa nistraigunyobhavaarjunaa” 2-45

tasmaadyogaayayujyasva yogah karmasu koushalam|| 2-50

labhante brahmanirvaanam rushayaksheenakalmashaah

chhinnadvaidhaayataatmaanasarvabhooterataahitaah||5-25
kaamakrodhavimuktaanaam yateenaam yatacetasaam

abhito brahmanioraanam vartate viditaatmanaam|| 5-26

uddharedaatmanaatmaanam naatmaanamavasaadayet

aatmaievahyaatmanobandhuraatmaiva ripuraatmanah|| 6-5

ye tu sarvaani karmaani mayisanyasta matparaah

ananyeaiva yogena maamdhyaayamta upaasate

teshaamaham samuddhartaa mrutyusamsaarasaagaraat

bhavaami na ciraat paartha mayyaaveshitacetasaam|| 12- 6.7

sarvakarmaanyapi sadaa kurvaano madyupaashrayah

matprasaadaadavaapnotishaashvatampadamaavyayam||18-56

 sarvadharmaan parityajya maamekam sharanam vraja

ahamtvaamsarvapaapebhyomokshayishyaamimaashucah||18-66   

Note this carefully. He assures complete moksha, mukti, to all those who surrender to him absolutely,