Guest guest Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Hari OMThere are eighteen chapters(Adhyayas) in the Gita and seven hundred slokas in all. Not all the 700 verses need indepth study to get a good grasp of the Bhagawad Gita .. A study of say, even a third of the total verses on a selected basis is enough to give a fairly good grasp of the Gita. The Bhagawad Gita does not professes to give anything new beyond what has been previously taught by the Upanishads. The Gita contends itself with a synthesis of the older teachings. The ultimate goal in religion is the realization of the existence of an entity i.e. the Soul behind the apparent body. The visible body is not the whole reality. There is in it an unseen but ever-active master of the house,the Dehi, the possessor of the body, whose existence we should realize before can live the true life. This entity,the Self(ATMA) is not to be confused with the intangible functions of the brain. That entity is not mere Thought, Perception, Emotion, Will or Discriminative Intelligence etc. etc. which are all only the functions of the body. The Soul is an entity apart from and behind all these functions. It is not seated in any particular part of the body but pervades the whole of it and all the senses,unaffected by the law of "extension" even as ether was taken by the physicists to pervade the whole of space and matter. Not only man, but every animal and plant, every living thing,has a Soul. The body is just the field of action, the Kshetra, in which resides the Soul, who is the Kshetri, or Kshetrajna. (to be continued)G.Balasubramanian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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