The Bhagwad Gita As A Scientific Handbook
Jaya Row
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The Bhagwad Gita is a scientific handbook that takes you from spiritual infancy to heights of perfection. It resonates with everyone, because of its mind-stretching quality . If you think that to be assertive is the way to go, the Gita speaks of softness. If non-action seems to be the option, the Gita prescribes action. If grasping will help you acquire more of the world, it counsels you to let go lose it, to gain it.The Gita's first lesson is on impor tance of the intellect. You have two gifts choice of action and intellect. Choice is a given. Intellect has to be developed.Nobody understands the importance of the intellect and the need to strengthen it. Hence people are making choices with a weak intellect. The mind is the seat of emotion, impulse, like and dislike. Intellect discriminates, judges, discerns, weighs the pros and cons and arrives at a decision. Mind is irrational, intellect is rational. The purpose of life is to make the mind work for you and no against you. A mind not governed by the intellect is dangerous. It distracts, tricks and misleads you. The Gita helps you use your existing intellect and gives knowledge to fortify it.
The Gita bestows serenity, tranquillity and contentment. When the mind is calm, the intellect is sharp and you achieve success effortlessly . Across the world people are in varying degrees of agitation. The cause is unbridled desire. Ride on desire and you will be agitated.Rise above desire and you will be content. Shift from the attitude of grabbing to that of giving, sharing and contributing; from profiteering to offering. And you will be showered with prosperity. Grab and you lose; give and you gain. Think of yourself only and you will be discontent. Focus on others, you will be happy.
The Gita speaks of excellence in the world and beyond. It inspires you with a higher ideal. Move from mere physical delights to emotional motivation, intellectual stimulation and the highest the lure of the Infinite.With a higher ideal you tap into your potential, become creative and energetic, and transform from an ordinary mortal to an extraordinary immortal. The world does not need more brilliant or talented people. It needs ordinary people with extraordinary motivation. Chapter 3 of the Gita gives the ingredients of perfect action that help you gain the world and take you to the Transcendental.
The Gita extols the virtue of oneness vasudhaiva kutumbakam, the entire universe is one. Just as the one ray of white light refracts into seven distinct and different colours when passed through a prism, the one Brahmn is seen as the pluralistic, diverse world when seen through the prism of the body, mind and intellect. You are strongly entrenched in feelings of otherness. You imagine adversaries where there are benefactors. You see opponents, not partners.You create a hell for yourself. When you see yourself in others, you revel in their victory. Then you never encounter failure. Drudgery becomes revelry and you gain power. The sixth chapter of the Gita gives oneness as the test of spiritual development. Spiritual growth is not measured by the number of scriptures mastered or pilgrimages undertaken. It is measured by the extent of oneness you experience and live.
The Gita offers many more valuable principles of life that you can use to achieve success and happiness in the world. And it takes you to enlightenment.
The Gita bestows serenity, tranquillity and contentment. When the mind is calm, the intellect is sharp and you achieve success effortlessly . Across the world people are in varying degrees of agitation. The cause is unbridled desire. Ride on desire and you will be agitated.Rise above desire and you will be content. Shift from the attitude of grabbing to that of giving, sharing and contributing; from profiteering to offering. And you will be showered with prosperity. Grab and you lose; give and you gain. Think of yourself only and you will be discontent. Focus on others, you will be happy.
The Gita speaks of excellence in the world and beyond. It inspires you with a higher ideal. Move from mere physical delights to emotional motivation, intellectual stimulation and the highest the lure of the Infinite.With a higher ideal you tap into your potential, become creative and energetic, and transform from an ordinary mortal to an extraordinary immortal. The world does not need more brilliant or talented people. It needs ordinary people with extraordinary motivation. Chapter 3 of the Gita gives the ingredients of perfect action that help you gain the world and take you to the Transcendental.
The Gita extols the virtue of oneness vasudhaiva kutumbakam, the entire universe is one. Just as the one ray of white light refracts into seven distinct and different colours when passed through a prism, the one Brahmn is seen as the pluralistic, diverse world when seen through the prism of the body, mind and intellect. You are strongly entrenched in feelings of otherness. You imagine adversaries where there are benefactors. You see opponents, not partners.You create a hell for yourself. When you see yourself in others, you revel in their victory. Then you never encounter failure. Drudgery becomes revelry and you gain power. The sixth chapter of the Gita gives oneness as the test of spiritual development. Spiritual growth is not measured by the number of scriptures mastered or pilgrimages undertaken. It is measured by the extent of oneness you experience and live.
The Gita offers many more valuable principles of life that you can use to achieve success and happiness in the world. And it takes you to enlightenment.
