The Bhagavad-Gita- Spoken Words of Bhagavan

  To date, there are almost 200 000 Commentaries on the Gita. These are presented by eminent scholars all over the Lord since the first print was available to them. However, what is surprising is that the focus of every Commentary is on one aspect or the other like sankhya, karma, jnyan, bhakti, dhyan, yoga or prapatti or total surrender. None has ever come closer to the last Chapter where liberation, mulkti or mokshagati is exemplified and the path to liberation is explained by the Lord. Eminent scholars like Arnold, Gandhi, Tilak, Swami Shivananda, Sri Krishnananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sai Baba, Sri Ramakrishna, La Prabhu Pada, or the famous Russian Commentator focus attention on selected aspects of the Gita and some of them come closer to the original version. The Gita is actually sum and substance of the Veda where it is explicitly stated that everything is 'Atman' (the Self) and Atman, the Self, is no different from paramatman, the Supreme Self! ayam Atmaa brahm | says the Veda. Veda that is 'vid' (jnyan) is the only entity that exists and all others are its manifest forms.It is brahmn. The core of the substance is the 'sat' from which manifests 'chit' (consciousness) that manifests as 'vid'. All that exists is nothing but manifest forms of 'vid'. There is nothing outside the chit, consciousness. This is what Bhagavan, who resides in the Lotus Heart (hrit-kamala) of the Jivatman means when He says that "nothing exists besides Me". Shree Krishna is the chit-shakti, prajnya, (Consciousnes) of all that exists! prajnyanan brahmaa |
    In the strict sense of the term, the words of Bhagavan Shree Krishna are  the 'unspoken words' that can be heard within one's Self.. When we talk of the Gita, definitely we do not know either Bhagavan or His spoken words. This is evident from the Commentaries of great scholars that are available all over the world in many languages.The very fact that they change the Title of the Chapters for fear of Copy Right infringement shows this. How can anybody change the words of Bhagavan? The most crucial part of this argument is whether we can understand what the supreme lord says: "Look Arjuna, I shall reveal you the most secret of the secrets" - SruNOmi arjunaa, guhyatama guhyamam pravashyami | If what the Lord reveals is a secret (to Lord Shree Krishna Himself), how can ordinary mortals understand it? After all, what is that secret? Is it a anymore a secret once it is revealed? Every chapter ends with these secret words and nobody has noticed it? Further, nobody can ever understand this secret since it is an eternal secret! The secret is very simple. It is brahmaviya yogashastra. Nobody knows this brahmavidya or yogashastra, since it is simple not possible to know this!If anything is 'other than the Self' it is possible to know, understand. But is is the Self by itself! How can the one know oneself, one;s Self that is one and one only, nothing besides it? This is the utmost secret ever uttered by the Lord. The Supreme Lord says, "Arjuna, you and I are one, and  in fact, neither you nor I exist. What all exists is the maya, the magical forms that manifest from Me. I only exist and nothing exists besides Me. Ekam adviteeyam | The most intriguing part of this is found in the statement: "nothing exists besides Me". Then what is it we all see, hear, touch, feel, taste and smell? These are illusory in the sense 'that which is transient, ever-changing, that is not true!" Whatever that did not exist earlier and would exist later is not true! Then what all we call the phenomenal objective world is a transient one that is not true. In a sense, that which comes within the grip of time, space, and causality is not true since neither time nor space is real and how can that which is found in unreal time and space be ever real? Thus, the Gita removes our ignorance and presents the reality of our transient existence in time and space. This enlightenment brings in eternal bliss to the suffering jivas!   

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