Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 26

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

PREFACE Helplessly driven by the three propertiessattwa, rajas, and tamas-man is compelled to act. He cannot survive for even a moment without undertaking action. Kurukshetr is the sphere where, since times immemorial, we have been undergoing repeated birth, repeated death, and repeated conception in the mother’s womb. When, through the agency of a noble teacher-preceptor, the seeker embarks on the true way of worship and meditation and begins gradually to make his way towards the Supreme Being-embodiment of the most sublime dharm, Kurukrhetr (sphere of action) is transformed into Dharmkshetr (sphere of righteousness). Within this human body, in its mind and heart-the innermost seats of thought and feeling-there have always dwelt the two distinct, primordial tendencies-the divine and the devilish. Pandu, the image of virtue, and Kunti, the type of dutiful conduct, are parts of the treasure of divinity. Before the awakening of righteousness in a man’s heart, with his deficient understanding he regards whatever he does as an obligation. But, in truth, he is incapable of doing what is worthwhile because there cannot be an awareness of proper duty without the advent of moral virtue and goodness. Karn, who spends all his life fighting the Pandav, is the only acquisition of Kunti before she is wedded to Pandu. And the most formidable enemy of her other sons-the Pandav-is this Karn.