My own exposure to great epic, the manual on art of living " Shrimad Bhagwad Gita" was initiated by "Kalyan", a Hindi spiritual magazine from Geeta Press Gorakhpur through a pocket size booklet "The Bhagwad Gita" in my school days, which still I carry. The habit was carried forward to college when I made a habit to read it's few pages before sitting for long hours of studies in nights. Thereafter, I came across many versions of Gita, by Tilak, Sant Dhyaneshwar, Bhagwad Gita by Swami Ranganathananda, published by Advaita Ashram, ISCON etc, but the most remarkable version to which I was introduced by a friend was the "Song Divine, God Talks with Arjuna, the Royal Science of God Realization, the Bhagwad Gita" by Paramhans Yogananda. I believe this is the ultimate interpretation, a key to realisation of God within and outside and a true guide in the journey of life. It has become a life companion for me and the force within make me to read it again & again. It's interpretation is so deep that every time I read it, I get into more & more depth leading to a deeper & deeper meaning. I realised that the good, bad & ugly are within me and is nothing but accumulation, the sum total of my past karmas. My today is the product of yesterday and my tomorrow will be the product of today. Therefore, I have realised that I have to be conscious enough to live in today, in this very moment, the present, take a pause and ask the consciousness within what is right & what is wrong. I have to be conscious enough to be aware what I am thinking, what I am doing and why I am doing. I have to be conscious enough to be aware that the same force, the same power & the same energy is at work within me, you, he/she and everybody & everything & everywhere. This lead to the truth that, you, me & he/she are "ONE" and no different. The oneness leads me to transact any thing with anybody in the same way as if I am transecting with self. The oneness leads me to the unity of all religions, all sects and all animate & inanimated beings. We all have come from the Same source and it is certain that all we will merge into the same source.
I am also lead by the Gita to unconditionally believe that the life and death, the physical phenomenon does not travel on a straight line, with a start and end but revolve around a continuous circle with no start and end. We are just oscillating on this circle, without any beginning at birth and end at death, like the waves, an energy form, of vast sea, rising from the sea at birth and falling back to the sea at the death. And the vast sea is the "God" itself whom we, the human being give many name but in essence is the sea only. This philosophy even stands the test of science which establishes that the energy, neither can be destroyed nor created but can change the form. Accordingly, today we have this body as uniform and tomorrow we may have or not have another uniform, the soul remaining in essence, the same .
I admire the statement made by our Present PM, Shri Narendra Modi when he gifted a Gita to Mr. Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan during his last visit that he is gifting the Gita to his highness as he does not have anything better than this to gift. It is true, there is no better gift than Gita given to mankind which is the essence of all the Vedas & Upanishads. When you have this, you don't need any other life guide.
I am also lead by the Gita to unconditionally believe that the life and death, the physical phenomenon does not travel on a straight line, with a start and end but revolve around a continuous circle with no start and end. We are just oscillating on this circle, without any beginning at birth and end at death, like the waves, an energy form, of vast sea, rising from the sea at birth and falling back to the sea at the death. And the vast sea is the "God" itself whom we, the human being give many name but in essence is the sea only. This philosophy even stands the test of science which establishes that the energy, neither can be destroyed nor created but can change the form. Accordingly, today we have this body as uniform and tomorrow we may have or not have another uniform, the soul remaining in essence, the same .
I admire the statement made by our Present PM, Shri Narendra Modi when he gifted a Gita to Mr. Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan during his last visit that he is gifting the Gita to his highness as he does not have anything better than this to gift. It is true, there is no better gift than Gita given to mankind which is the essence of all the Vedas & Upanishads. When you have this, you don't need any other life guide.
