Presentation at Vision Center--Geeta study group. Organised by Chinmaya Mission By Veerbala DT, 17th November 2019 CH. 1. Shlokas, 32 33 34 35 .
Thanks for giving me this opportunity again . In these shlokas, basically we come to know about the mental condition &grief of Arjun. The dilemma between duty and feelings for relatives. We are discussing all these here, but today I want to share with you, which is going on in my mind.I don't know whether you will like it or not ;but it says that we should not keep our ideas or thoughts in our mind. We have to share it, so that we can understand better by discussing and get clearance about our thinking. First of all ,why the book named Geeta ? In my mind the meaning of this word is --Awakening by geet .i.e. shlokas; which are recitable .We can not simply readout the Geeta. We have to read it in rhythm; which creates feeling of geet- song- . So it it is named as Geeta. Again,I see poetic sense of author . He could have given name like "Krishnaarjun samvaad ",or "Jeevn rahasya " or Teachings of Krishna ". But no. He wanted that reader should not have any clue ,idea, or prejudice about what he\she is going to read. Some may not even start reading thinking ẗhe book may be boring " Geeta word inspires to read. Here we see that chapters start from bottom level of philosophy and goes up to the highest level;in same way of Music ! Music starts with lower scale - Kharaj SAptak-and ends with upper scale -Taar Saptak -Geta starts from VISHAAD YOG i.e. aaskti- lower state of mind ,which is darkness of ignorance ; and then slowly & steadily it goes up, with Saankhy, Karm , Bhakti, Trigunaas, etc. up to Moksh yog ; the highest state of mind.Just as music, these are also SUR of book.Lower SAA,i.e. Vishaad ,to upper SAA i.e. Moksh yog. So I think Geeta is THE proper name of book. Now , every chapter is joined by word YOG. Yog word comes from YUJYA means, to join-unite. Every chapter is united with some subject. 2ndly, after reading or reciting the chapter, one has to unite with those learning by CHINTAN i.e. thinking over it AND then by Manan, i.e. reflecting those learning in life . This is one type of Yog. Because of This, the author has joined Yog word with the name of chapter. Krishna was saarathi. SA-Arth or SAAA-Arth means who explains the meaning-- meaning of life ! Saarathi also means;who drives vehical on CORRECT path. Krishna does the same, but when He became saarathi ? ; When Arjun asked Him to be with him on the battle field .I think , inner of his mind,or heart Arjun was knowing that Krishna CAN & WILL be his best saarathi. And Krishna proved the MYSTIC meaning of saarathi on the battle field ; at the time of Arjun's dilemma between sorrow & duty of feeling for fight ing for Truthful Rights. The 1st chapter is Üttthanika" -means ; getting up or raising up- Awakening of book. If you want to understand the ending of Geeta , you must read 1st ch. . It is the base of other chapters. If Arjun, because of vishaad , did not ask to leave the battle field; how Krishna would have given him all these knowledge ? ! Arjun's vishaad is The base of Geeta. Without understanding it, one will not be able to understand other chapters. The vishaad means "visad" critical situation, creates dilemma. Arjun here knows that He HAS to fight , it is Karm & dharm -duty; but at the same time he is bounded with feelings for relatives, guru , friends ,elders , so he says he can leave Tri lok but can't fight . This manh sthti - mental condition - and 'santaap" is vishaad. He is doomed ! He is tumbling between duty and feelings ! He is united with both ,so this ch. is named vishaad Yog ! .The veils of all these are affecting his "buddhi ",so stepby step Krishna removes the veils in one after other chapters. Last time we discussed that we try to find out the inner meaning--'guddhaarth" -every time. But There IS inner meaning of each word. Every time we read, and every one who read can find some new meaning ; and so we have so many books regarding it or version of Geeta. ! The root, or cause or seed of vishaad is "MOH" aasakti .Whole universe is divided in 2 parts."Maamkaahaa" and "P andvaaha ". I would like to give an example .One person was watching he\ she on T.V. the battle of 2 countries. On one side is own warriors and other side enemy.. Whenever own side were killing other side warrior this person was happy and stars cheering up" bravo" some that of words ! After some time the table turned and the enemy people started killing these warriors ! the person started giving bad words to them and cursing them . At some distance one stranger was watching this person, he came near and asked , why you have change your opinion an cursing these people ? ! The person told, earlier my country men were killing enemy so I was happy by thought that my country will win, but now they are killing ours . So i am cursing them.HERE "maamkaaha" and Pandvaahaa " comes in picture .! The person had lost humanity . For him there was no value of human being.! he had connection with only " maamkaahaa" i.e. his warriors and not with other warriors 'Pandvaahaa" ! He had become DHRUTRAASHTRA . Dhrutraashtraa means he who has body as country, who is blind in MAYA-aasakti- and who has differences " BHED BUDDHI " of mine and others is Dhrutraashtra Same way dharm kshetre -kurukshtre- kshetr is field. This body is field. We will learn this in ch. 13 . This body has Dharm and Karm . both are in ourselves. The battle in between the two is Anant. So in dharm and karm we should not become dhrutraashtr ; but try to come out from that battle with the help of Gnaan, Bhakti and Sharan . If we want to understand whole Geeta 1st ch. is very important. Geeta teaches how to live with pleasure of music. Our life is musical and all strings of our life-instrument should be tied or tuned properly otherwise the music will not sound "karn-priy"-sweet sounding. Tunning should be perfect. . We see some families do not live happily, because of loose strings. Geeta by recitable shlokaas teaches us how to tune our strings of Dharm and Karm for good "jeeavn sangeet " Arjun's vishaad is 1st sur of it .Moksh yog is the last sur. Coming to these shlokas, Arjun addresses Krishna as Govind , because Krishna is the object of all pleasures of cows AND Senses. Arjun knows that Krishna is able to UNDERSTANED his grief "santaap"and IS able to clear his state of mind . In M arrathi we say , "manaalaa lai santaap hoto " In gujraati we say ," manmaa bahu j du:kh thayu "
I think the English word for this may be ," turmoil ? or torment ? or anguish ? I do not know . Anyways. I can write about the feelings we had at the time of attacks on Mumbai on 26\11 or at the time of Pulwama . We felt bad and we thought what's the meaning of such attacks and kill the innocent people ? ! After Pulwama the URI had happened. Both country killed Human beings just for land ? ! or for revenge ? ! or for just "paishachik aanand " why ? Now this feeling is "santaap" . Same question is here ;in Arjun's mind . All these thoughts and dilemma described in these shlokas. Arjun got this santaap before the battle while Ashoka the great king had after the battle of Kalinga , But he could leave the kingdom for up gradation of his life . Here Arjun does not had that choice. So his vishaad -santaap -is bigger and painful . so this it. for today. Thank you.
Thanks for giving me this opportunity again . In these shlokas, basically we come to know about the mental condition &grief of Arjun. The dilemma between duty and feelings for relatives. We are discussing all these here, but today I want to share with you, which is going on in my mind.I don't know whether you will like it or not ;but it says that we should not keep our ideas or thoughts in our mind. We have to share it, so that we can understand better by discussing and get clearance about our thinking. First of all ,why the book named Geeta ? In my mind the meaning of this word is --Awakening by geet .i.e. shlokas; which are recitable .We can not simply readout the Geeta. We have to read it in rhythm; which creates feeling of geet- song- . So it it is named as Geeta. Again,I see poetic sense of author . He could have given name like "Krishnaarjun samvaad ",or "Jeevn rahasya " or Teachings of Krishna ". But no. He wanted that reader should not have any clue ,idea, or prejudice about what he\she is going to read. Some may not even start reading thinking ẗhe book may be boring " Geeta word inspires to read. Here we see that chapters start from bottom level of philosophy and goes up to the highest level;in same way of Music ! Music starts with lower scale - Kharaj SAptak-and ends with upper scale -Taar Saptak -Geta starts from VISHAAD YOG i.e. aaskti- lower state of mind ,which is darkness of ignorance ; and then slowly & steadily it goes up, with Saankhy, Karm , Bhakti, Trigunaas, etc. up to Moksh yog ; the highest state of mind.Just as music, these are also SUR of book.Lower SAA,i.e. Vishaad ,to upper SAA i.e. Moksh yog. So I think Geeta is THE proper name of book. Now , every chapter is joined by word YOG. Yog word comes from YUJYA means, to join-unite. Every chapter is united with some subject. 2ndly, after reading or reciting the chapter, one has to unite with those learning by CHINTAN i.e. thinking over it AND then by Manan, i.e. reflecting those learning in life . This is one type of Yog. Because of This, the author has joined Yog word with the name of chapter. Krishna was saarathi. SA-Arth or SAAA-Arth means who explains the meaning-- meaning of life ! Saarathi also means;who drives vehical on CORRECT path. Krishna does the same, but when He became saarathi ? ; When Arjun asked Him to be with him on the battle field .I think , inner of his mind,or heart Arjun was knowing that Krishna CAN & WILL be his best saarathi. And Krishna proved the MYSTIC meaning of saarathi on the battle field ; at the time of Arjun's dilemma between sorrow & duty of feeling for fight ing for Truthful Rights. The 1st chapter is Üttthanika" -means ; getting up or raising up- Awakening of book. If you want to understand the ending of Geeta , you must read 1st ch. . It is the base of other chapters. If Arjun, because of vishaad , did not ask to leave the battle field; how Krishna would have given him all these knowledge ? ! Arjun's vishaad is The base of Geeta. Without understanding it, one will not be able to understand other chapters. The vishaad means "visad" critical situation, creates dilemma. Arjun here knows that He HAS to fight , it is Karm & dharm -duty; but at the same time he is bounded with feelings for relatives, guru , friends ,elders , so he says he can leave Tri lok but can't fight . This manh sthti - mental condition - and 'santaap" is vishaad. He is doomed ! He is tumbling between duty and feelings ! He is united with both ,so this ch. is named vishaad Yog ! .The veils of all these are affecting his "buddhi ",so stepby step Krishna removes the veils in one after other chapters. Last time we discussed that we try to find out the inner meaning--'guddhaarth" -every time. But There IS inner meaning of each word. Every time we read, and every one who read can find some new meaning ; and so we have so many books regarding it or version of Geeta. ! The root, or cause or seed of vishaad is "MOH" aasakti .Whole universe is divided in 2 parts."Maamkaahaa" and "P andvaaha ". I would like to give an example .One person was watching he\ she on T.V. the battle of 2 countries. On one side is own warriors and other side enemy.. Whenever own side were killing other side warrior this person was happy and stars cheering up" bravo" some that of words ! After some time the table turned and the enemy people started killing these warriors ! the person started giving bad words to them and cursing them . At some distance one stranger was watching this person, he came near and asked , why you have change your opinion an cursing these people ? ! The person told, earlier my country men were killing enemy so I was happy by thought that my country will win, but now they are killing ours . So i am cursing them.HERE "maamkaaha" and Pandvaahaa " comes in picture .! The person had lost humanity . For him there was no value of human being.! he had connection with only " maamkaahaa" i.e. his warriors and not with other warriors 'Pandvaahaa" ! He had become DHRUTRAASHTRA . Dhrutraashtraa means he who has body as country, who is blind in MAYA-aasakti- and who has differences " BHED BUDDHI " of mine and others is Dhrutraashtra Same way dharm kshetre -kurukshtre- kshetr is field. This body is field. We will learn this in ch. 13 . This body has Dharm and Karm . both are in ourselves. The battle in between the two is Anant. So in dharm and karm we should not become dhrutraashtr ; but try to come out from that battle with the help of Gnaan, Bhakti and Sharan . If we want to understand whole Geeta 1st ch. is very important. Geeta teaches how to live with pleasure of music. Our life is musical and all strings of our life-instrument should be tied or tuned properly otherwise the music will not sound "karn-priy"-sweet sounding. Tunning should be perfect. . We see some families do not live happily, because of loose strings. Geeta by recitable shlokaas teaches us how to tune our strings of Dharm and Karm for good "jeeavn sangeet " Arjun's vishaad is 1st sur of it .Moksh yog is the last sur. Coming to these shlokas, Arjun addresses Krishna as Govind , because Krishna is the object of all pleasures of cows AND Senses. Arjun knows that Krishna is able to UNDERSTANED his grief "santaap"and IS able to clear his state of mind . In M arrathi we say , "manaalaa lai santaap hoto " In gujraati we say ," manmaa bahu j du:kh thayu "
I think the English word for this may be ," turmoil ? or torment ? or anguish ? I do not know . Anyways. I can write about the feelings we had at the time of attacks on Mumbai on 26\11 or at the time of Pulwama . We felt bad and we thought what's the meaning of such attacks and kill the innocent people ? ! After Pulwama the URI had happened. Both country killed Human beings just for land ? ! or for revenge ? ! or for just "paishachik aanand " why ? Now this feeling is "santaap" . Same question is here ;in Arjun's mind . All these thoughts and dilemma described in these shlokas. Arjun got this santaap before the battle while Ashoka the great king had after the battle of Kalinga , But he could leave the kingdom for up gradation of his life . Here Arjun does not had that choice. So his vishaad -santaap -is bigger and painful . so this it. for today. Thank you.
