THE SONG OF GOD – J K SIVAN

I have great pleasure in sharing with you a few of my thoughts  for improving  our level of understanding certain basic facts of life.
It may not be what you have so far not learnt or thought about,but to dwell on it and think more about it.
Repeated thinking of good facts of life enunciaed by our great rishis and saints after years of meditation and self analysis  heps us.
In fact every Hindu, if not every Indian, atleast knows the name of Bhagavat Gita.  It is part of the great immortal epic Mahabharatha, in which Lord Krishna educates us the way of life, as taught to Arjuna.
Gita contains 700 sanskrit verses, existing for over 5000 years, as His sermon. In brief  Krishna’s teachings dwell on how one should perform one’s duty with righteousness all throughout.
Gita verses are in the form of a dialogue, conversation between Pandava prince  Arjuna and Lord Krishna, during the Kurukshethra war, wellknown as Mahabharath war.
Gita is what Krishna taught Arjuna before the commencement of the war.  It is known as the Song of God, and unravels the life’s philosophy and spiritual wisdom.
Swami Vivekananda used to often say if there is anything in the Gita that I like, it is these verses, coming out strong as the very gist, the very essence, of Krishna’s teaching —
“He who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling alike in all beings, the Imperishable in things that perish, he sees indeed. For seeing the Lord as the same, everywhere present, he does not destroy the Self by the Self, and thus he goes to the highest goal.”
The essence of the Shrutis, or of the Upanishads, is hard to be understood, seeing that there are so many commentators, each one trying to interpret in his own way. In Gita, the Lord Himself comes, He who is the inspirer of the Shrutis, to show us the meaning of them.Today our India wants nothing better, the world wants nothing better than that method of interpretation.