Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 17
INTRODUCTION
The Lord, in the twenty-third verse of the sixteenth chapter, declared that he, who having cast aside the ordinances of scriptures, acts in an arbitrary way, according to his sweet will, attains neither perfection nor happiness, nor the Supreme Goal. Listening to the Lord's statement, Arjuna thinks that only a few people know those ordinances. A majority of people do not know these ordinances, but they worship the gods according to their caste, social order (asrama), family tradition and innate faith. Due to their disregard for the ordinances of the scriptures, they should be regarded as demoniac, but due to their faith, they could be considered men of divine traits. So Arjuna wants to know, where such people stand. Therefore, he puts a question to Lord Krsna, in the first verse.[1] |
References
- ↑ To treat this (seventeenth) chapter s an explanation of the twenty-seventh verse of the ninth chapter (Whatever you do and whatever you offer, do that an offering to Me) is not reasonable because the twenty-seventh verse of the ninth chapter is included in the topic 'offerings to God' which begins from the twenty-sixth verse and is concluded in the twenty-eighth verse with the result of these offerings But here is the topic of faith.
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