Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 35

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 1 The Yog of Irresolution and Grief Kuru means ‘do’; the word is an imperative. As Krishn has said, “Driven by the three properties born out of prakriti (nature) man is compelled to act; without action he cannot even live for a moment.” These properties, virtue,ignorance, and passion, compel him to act. Even in sleep action does not cease, for it is the necessary sustenance for the body. The three properties bind men, from the level of gods to that of the lowest creatures such as worms. So long as the material world and its properties are, kuru must be. Therefore, the sphere of birth and death, of that which is evolved from a previous source or prakriti (nature) is Kurukshetr, whereas the sphere of righteous impulses which guide the Self to God, the highest spiritual reality, is Dharmkshetr. Archaeologists are engaged in research in Punjab, Kashi, and Prayag to locate Kurukshetr. But the poet of the Geeta has himself suggested, through Krishn, where the war of his sacred poem was fought. “This body is itself, O Arjun, a battlefield, and one who conquers it grows spiritually dexterous by perceiving its essence.”