SRI KRISHNA AND THE GITA - by SRI SWAMI RAJESWARANANDA

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SRI KRISHNA AND THE GITA

BY

SRI SWAMI RAJESWARANANDA

FOUNDER-PRESIDENT, UPANISAD VIHAR, KAILASAGIRI, KALAHASTI.

 

Bhagavan Sri Krishna gave His Gita the Song Celestial to Arjuna on the

battlefield of Kurukshetra in India and through Arjuna to the world.

Mahabharata is he source of the Gita. It is the greatest scripture. It is as

epitome of the universe.

 

Gita is the crest-jewel of Mahabharata. Krishna Himself is the key to the

Gita. And the Gita is the key to the world-culture. It is the Bible of

humanity. It is an Upanishad, the light of wisdom. It is Brahma-Vidya, the

science of the Self Supreme. It is Yoga-sastra, the gospel of spiritual

life. It is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna (Narayana and Nara). It

reveals God to man and makes life sweet and simple. Break the finite

structure of individual consciousness of Arjuna, there is Krishna Himself.

Bhagavan Sri Krishna is the common center of all radii of the individual

souls. Sri Krishna is the common Heaven on earth and the Kingdom of God in

the soul of man, irrespective of caste, color, community, country and sex.

Gita is all-round in its teachings as a beacon light to lift man from his

lower levels in all walks of life. Sri Krishna is a world-teacher (jagad

guru). He is the soul of the universe, the source of divine inspiration and

spiritual illumination.

 

Though Gita speaks of loksangraha as a gospel of selfless service with the

welfare of the world in his its head realisation of Godhead is in its heart.

Hence it does not place humanity above divinity, nor any substitute.

Manavaseva is not Madhavaseva in the Gita whereas the very reserve is its

theme. It is the divine man who can do solid service to human beings.

Realisation and expression of the Divine is the goal of life, the

destination in the pilgrimage of the soul.

Duty for duty’s sake, mere social service, philanthropic activities, lip,

sympathy and the like crib and circumscribe the universal Gospel of the Gita

Manifestation of Selfhood and not worship of society is its watchword.

 

The Gita-gospel man to order his life practicality and discover his

svadharma to develop along his own lines best suited to his soil and thus

discharge it accordingly. Svadharma is svabhava in being true to one’s

True Self and sahaja in expressing one’s own True self. It has royal

divinity and divine royalty, embodying eternal perfection (sasvatha-dharma).

It fulfils the mission of life, , playing in true with the divine Flute and

thus transforms the mortal mystical music of the Divine, since the soul of

the whole is in every one, black or brown, white or yellow.

 

 

(Adopted from Sai Sudha Jan 1945, This magazine can be read at the

magazines section of www.saileelas.org)