Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 20

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

PREFACE On the contrary, each verse of the Geeta demands of its disciples that they equip themselves and get ready for the inner war-the discipline of worship and meditation. Instead of embroiling us, like other sacred books, in the irreconcilable contradictions of heaven and hell, it is concerned exclusively with demonstrating the way by which the Soul may attain to the immortal state after which there are no shackles of birth and death. Every sage-teacher-like a writer-has his own style and certain favourite expressions. Besides choosing a poetic medium, Yogeshwar Krishn has also repeatedly employed and stressed terms such as action (karm), yagya, varn, varnsankar, war, sphere (kshetr), and knowledge or discrimination (gyan) in the Geeta. These words are invested with unique meanings in the context and are certainly not divested of charm by frequent repetition. In both the original Hindi version and its English rendering, the peculiar meanings of these expressions have been strictly adhered to and there are explanations wherever required. These words and their unique meanings which have been almost completely lost today constitute the main attraction of the Geeta. Since readers will meet them again and again in Yatharth Geeta, brief definitions of these terms are given below: KRISHN? ... He was a Yogeshwar, an adept in yog, an accomplished teacher. TRUTH? ... The Self or Soul alone is true. SANATAN? ... The word means “eternal.” The Soul is eternal; God is eternal.