Methodology

The study of Bhagavad-Gita is not merely meant for achievements of success and happiness in worldly life, material progress, and a life of profit and pleasure of the flesh, but mukti or liberation from bondage, as well. In fact it is beyond all that. It aims at the one eternal happiness, supreme Bliss that brings in its wake an aversion to worldly life- Renunciation /‘vairagya’, and the seeker will have no more of hankerings for the leftovers, hash and trash, of the world. We find King Janaka who is a ‘Videhamukta’, relieved from bondage of the physical restraints, performs Yajnya / Action for the sake of the Adhi Devatas or Demigods and their elemental counterparts- ‘adhibhutas’. King Jayadeva says that he cannot enjoy pleasures of life, even smell attached to nose forms of sight attached to the eyes, etc. In that sense, he has conquered the principle / tattvas of elements, such as the Agni tattva, Jala Tatva and the Pruthvi Tatva. It is transcending the ‘bhu, bhuvar and svah’ realms / ‘vyahrutis’. It refreshes one to the core of his soul’s contentment and leaves him or her totally happy and blissful.  It is total emancipation, emancipation or mukti, at that!

      Just like the human body that has three distinct layers- one made of the physical elements, second astral body, and the third divine soul, called the adhi-bhuta, the adhidaivika, and the adhyatmika, respectively. The sayings of the Bhagavad-Gita can also be interpreted appealing to each one according to one’s level of intelligence, level of Consciousness and the level of spiritual experience, capacity to understand, previous knowledge and experience, etc. Ultimately, only the spiritual aspects of the Bhagavad-Gita are to be experienced within in order to get the benefit of the Lord’s sayings. An attempt is made here to present the spiritually experienced version of the Bhagavad-Gita and this experience can vary from person to person according to his spiritual attainments. It is hoped here that the readers would try to get into trance and experience the doctrines themselves; the ‘mahat tattvas’ / basic principles enunciated in the Bhagavad-Gita are elaborately described here. The ultimate joy and the Bliss lies in total emancipation, ‘freedom of the Soul’.