Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 24

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

PREFACE It will be clearly understood from Chapter 4 and then from Chapter 13 that perception is given the name of knowledge (gyan). The significance of yog is distinctly seen by Chapter 6, although delineation of the several aspects of the question again runs through the whole composition. The Way of Knowledge will be clearly known from Chapters 3 to 6 and there is hardly any need of going to any later chapters for it. Introduced in Chapter 2, the Way of Selfless Action is explained and dwelt upon right till the end. The meaning of yagya will be quite distinct from a reading of Chapters 3 and 4. Action (karm) is first mentioned in the thirty-ninth verse of Chapter 2. Beginning with this, if we read upto Chapter 4, we will clearly understand why “action” is worship and meditation. Chapters 16 and 17 argue convincingly that this is truth. Whereas the problem of varnsankar is dealt with in Chapter 3, incarnation (avatar) is illumined in Chapter 4. Although the fourfold varn classification is hinted at in Chapters 3 and 4, for a more elaborate treatment of the subject we have to look carefully at Chapter 18. Chapter 16 accounts for the division of men into the two categories of the godly and the demoniacal. Chapters 10 and 11 reveal the omnipresent, cosmic form of God, but the subject is also taken up in Chapters 7, 9, and 15. That the other gods and goddesses are only hollow myths is established in Chapters 7, 9, and 17. Chapters 3,4, 6, and 18 show beyond any doubt that, rather than any external place like a temple with its idols, the proper seat for worship of God is the realm of the devotes’s heart within which the exercise of contemplation of the incoming and outgoing breath is taken up in seclusion. In case a reader is hard-pressed for time, he will grasp the core of the Geeta by studying only the first six Chapters