Gita is not a book of philosophy, it is a book of yoga. Gita synthesizes many individual paths that merge into the Gita as rivers pour into the sea. It accepts human life and work but shows a new way to deal with it. Our life and work are path towards freedom and ananda, but now they are governed by ignorance. Gita expounds us to establish wisdom in the place of ignorance. Gita explains what Dharma is. Dharma is not just a term here; It is subtle as well as practical. It is progressive as it reveals and establishes higher truths successively. It is a vision of the great unfolding of life with the immanent Divine as the charioteer and pilot of our works and life.
We want things for the sake of ego. When instead of ego we offer all the work and ourselves to the Divine, then it...
Our lives seen through the distorting lens of our present state of ego and ignorance is different than when we see it from the...
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Savitri Readers Bhavan, Bhubaneswar, on April 6, 2018.